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Giving lots of advanced notice for this, so people to plan/build an appropriate force.

The Galaxy Burns - A Horus Heresy Narrative Campaign

January 13th 2015 though Feb 16th 2015. With results announced on Feb 17th.

Games start at 2000 points

More information will be coming in the future.

This is going to be awesome!

Should be cool. Looking into how an army is constructed now ;p. Probably playing Sons of Horus or Thousand Sons.

Some more things on the rules:

- Modeling.
Basicly try and make the armies look like they are from the time of the heresy, and be consistent with weapons, nothing will be more confusing that "this Plasma Cannon is a Plasma Cannon, but this one over here is a Volkite Colverin.
- Painting
There are 18 legions, with established color schemes. But the legions are large enough that some companies/squads, etc may have their own variant color scheme..
So please try and make your army either one of the legion established schemes or a obvious variant of the established scheme for the legion. Remember sone legions had different colors than their 40k descendent.

-changing armies.
This is a narrative campaign, so changing sides or armies based on the scenario is perfectly fine.

Imperial Army:
that is expected in the next FW Horus Heresy book, so we'll see what they come up with.

Legions without rules yet: either use the default legion list, or 'counts as' one of the legions with rules, but the count's as has to be logical for the legion you are talking..

xenos
While the heresy is the imperial civil war, I'm not going to exclude players without a marine army.
We'll try and come up with some rules to make the xenos seem more 30k also.

I also have set up a sort of unofficial forum for people playing at The Whiz, and I've started to put info there also. so if you're interested in the campaign you may want to sign up there also: http://z13.invisionfree.com/OrdoScriptorum/index.php

I'm in the final stages of planning the campaign, I need anyone interested to let me know what army they will be playing so I can have appropriate missions ready.

Please either post here or go on the Ordi Scriptorum form at: http://z13.invisionfree.com/OrdoScriptorum/index.php and post what faction you are going to play.

The Horus Heresy is an Imperial Civil War; but xenos were still around, so it is acceptable to have some Xenos armies, but they will require more work in creating appropriate scenarios, so please let me know right away if you are planning on running xenos forces.

Also I would also like to know who has Ork and Eldar forces they could play if a specific scenario needs those factions

Just a reminder for anyone interested the campaign starts this coming Tuesday (1/13).
If you are planning on being involved and can't make it this week, please let me know what army you're going to be playing, and what side you would prefer to be on.

-frank

nice turnout for the first night we had 8 players this week.

Slight change in the scoring from the campaign book.
Rather than 1 point for a victory + soft score; each players score will be their total victory points + soft score points.

Game results:
Emperors Children (Sean) vs Solar Auxilia (Chuck)
- Chuck 5 (primary + 2 secondary)
- Sean 1 (1 secondary)

Word Bearers w/Deamons (Chris) vs Native Megafauna aka Tyranids (Bob)
- Bob 3 (primary)
- Chris 2 (2 secondary)

Mechanicum (Eric) vs Solar Auxilia (Joe)
- Eric 5 (primary + secondary + soft score) * took Spaceport
- Joe 1 (secondary)

Ork Raiders (Nick) vs Nightlords (Pedro)
- Nick 5 (Primary + 2 secondary)
- Pedro 2 (2 secondary)


Individual Score:
Chuck 5
Eric 5
NIck 5
Bob 3
Chris 2
Pedro 2
Sean 1
Joe 1

Team Score:
Traitors: 1
Loyalists: 1

Strategic Objectives:
Fortified Bastion Complex Traitors:1 Loyalists:0
Planetary Spaceport Traitors:0 Loyalists:1


I'll upload pictures tonight.












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Some photos from the first night

Eric and Joe have both submitted Narrative Battle Reports on the campaigns forum (http://z13.invisionfree.com/OrdoScriptorum/index.php?act=idx) , moving them up,

Eric 6
Chuck 5
NIck 5
Bob 3
Chris 2
Pedro 2
Joe 2
Sean 1

Hoping to get down for a game this Tuesday. Is everyone using 30k rules? Without any experience with the 30k rules, would it be easier to just use 40k list rules?

 InquisitorMack wrote:
Hoping to get down for a game this Tuesday. Is everyone using 30k rules? Without any experience with the 30k rules, would it be easier to just use 40k list rules?

Most of the players were using the 30k rules. but in reality the core rules are basically the same, its the new units, wargear, and special characters that are the biggest difference.
From what I saw walking around, the players who were using a lot of 30k rules had to spend a lot of time looking stuff up, so working out the rules it's really a problem.
Personally I'd just make an index card for each unit with it's special rules and page references.

fyi, FW put out an 7th edition errata: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/H/Horus_Heresy_7th_Ed_FAQ_Dec_2014.pdf

-frank

This week; the defending forces were all able to prevent the attackers from achiving thier strategic objectives. Keeping the Team score at 1-1.


Chuck vs Nick
Chuck 6 (Win + 3 secondary)
Nick 1

Joe vs Chris - Tie
Joe 2 (2 secondary)
Chris 2 (2 secondary)

Sean vs Eric
Sean 2 (2 secondary)
Eric 7 (Win + 1 secondary + 2 soft + narrative battle report)

This brings the individual scores to:

Eric 13
Chuck 11
Nick 6
Chris 4
Joe 4
Sean 3
Bob 3
Pedro 2

Don't forget the soft scores, those can be up to 3 points a week.

Notice: with the blizzard coming in this Tuesday (1/27) there will not be a campaign games this week. stay safe.

And some photos from this weeks games.

Week 3 - The fall of Solice XVI (Apoca-lite)

Dissatisfied with the state of the war, the Warmaster ordered an all-out assault on the agri-world of Solice XVI; a world with a previously un-identified Interplanetary Macro Weapons Battery.
Realizing the thread, the Fabricator Magos on Vandice Forge dispatched his most trusted advisor to lead the defence.

Battle results:
Traitor forces were victorious, and they captured the Interplanetary Macro Weapons Battery.

Team Score:
Traitors 2
Loyalists 1

Strategic Objectives:
Interplanetary Macro Weapons Battery
Fortified Bastion Complex Traitors:1 Loyalists:0
Planetary Spaceport Traitors:0 Loyalists:1


Individual results:

The traitor forces under the command of Joe, Nick, Chris, and Sean, all achived their personal objectives (1 point). Giving them each 4 points (Victory + Personal Objective).

Soft Scoring:
Fully Painted: Joe, Chuck, and Eric
Established HH Color Scheme: Eric

This puts the current individual standings at:
Eric 15
Chuck 12
Nick 10
Joe 9
Chris 8
Sean 7
Bob 3
Pedro 2

Week 4 results! (sorry for the delay).

No change in the team scores with week.

Strategic Objectives:
Interplatnetary Macro Weapons Battery...Traitors: 1 Loyalists 0
Fortified Bastion Complex...............Traitors: 1 Loyalists 0
Planetary Spaceport.....................Traitors: 0 Loyalists 1

Solar Aux (Chuck) vs Emperors Children (Sean)
Winner: Sean
Chuck - 2 points: Slay the Warlord, Line Breaker
Sean - 4 points: Win + First Blood

Orks (Nick) vs Mechanimum (Eric)
Winner: Eric
Nick - 0
Eric - 6 points : Win + Slay the Warlord, Line Breaker, First Blood

Word Bearers + Daemons (Chris B) vs Native Megafauna (aka Tyranids) (Bob)
Winner: Chris
Chris - 4: Win + Slay the Warlord
Bob - 1: First Blood


Soft Scoring:
Fully Painted: Joe, Chuck, and Eric
Established HH Color Scheme: Eric
Narrative Battle Report: Eric
(Eric also had one additional Soft point I missed last week)

This puts the current individual standings at:
Eric 23
Chuck 14
Chris 12
Sean 11
Nick 10
Joe 9
Bob 4
Pedro 2











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Week 5 results!

The loyalists struck another win this week, tieing the campaign back at 2-2
Strategic Objectives:
Interplatnetary Macro Weapons Battery...Traitors: 1 Loyalists 0
Fortified Bastion Complex...............Traitors: 1 Loyalists 0
Planetary Spaceport.....................Traitors: 0 Loyalists 1
Hidden Bunker Complex...................Traitors: 0 Loyalists 1

Solar Aux (Chuck) vs Orks (Nick)
Winner: Chuck
Chuck - 4 points: Win + Slay the Warlord
Nick - 1 point: First Blood
Challanger: Chuck
Strategic Objective Captured: Hidden Bunker Complex

Word Bearers + Daemons (Chris cool.gif vs Mechanimum (Eric)
Winner: Chris
Chris - 6 points: Win + Slay the Warlord, Line Breaker, First Blood
Eric - 1 point: Slay the Warlord
Strategic Objective Captures: None

Solar Aux (Joe) vs Native Megafauna (aka Tyranids) (Bob)
Winner: Bob
Bob - 4 points : Win + First Blood
Joe - 1 point : Slay the Warlord
Challenger: Joe
Strategic Objective Captures: None

Soft Scoring:
Fully Painted: Joe, Chuck, and Eric
Established HH Color Scheme: Eric
Narrative Battle Report: Eric

This puts the current individual standings at:

Eric 27
Chuck 19
Chris 18
Nick 11
Joe 11
Sean 11
Bob 8
Pedro 2

I won't be able to make it today, but I left you guys some presents to help with the APOC game. Enjoy.

The Vandice Cluste Stands!


The Mechanicum cleverly payed off the orks with [vat grown] teef

A Stompa, Two Stormlord, an Imperial Knight, and The Warmaster, and all manner of demons all made an appearance, but in the end the Vandice Forge stood against the forces of the Warmaster.

Wining Team: Loyalist
Best General Winning Team: Eric
Best General Defeated Team: Chris
Best Painted by player vote : Eric


I want to thank all the players, and InquisitorMac for the fantastic terrain he made for the store.
All the kit built terrain on this final game (except the light grey wall of maryters sections in the middle) were done by InquisitorMac.