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Hey Dakka,

I was wondering late one morning, if it would be possible for Dakka Dakka to run a world wide campaign (like Eye of Terror style)??

What do you guys( and girls) think??

The Organisational/Logistics Team so far:
-redkommando
-Lt.Soundwave
-Bongfu(Departmentum Fluffius) AWOL
- Motyak

I would like it.

It may be possible, but I think it would be a doomed campaign. Due to the fact that there is no way to control the results each player submits

Trondheim wrote:It may be possible, but I think it would be a doomed campaign. Due to the fact that there is no way to control the results each player submits

That hasn't really been a problem in worldwide campaigns before, that I know of.

pretre wrote:

Trondheim wrote:It may be possible, but I think it would be a doomed campaign. Due to the fact that there is no way to control the results each player submits

That hasn't really been a problem in worldwide campaigns before, that I know of.

There is no reason to believe player will and can submit false results, its incredible how far some will go even when regarding our hobby.

Trondheim wrote:

pretre wrote:

Trondheim wrote:It may be possible, but I think it would be a doomed campaign. Due to the fact that there is no way to control the results each player submits

That hasn't really been a problem in worldwide campaigns before, that I know of.

There is no reason to believe player will and can submit false results, its incredible how far some will go even when regarding our hobby.

Wait, so you're saying there's no reason to believe people will do it, but we should still not do a campaign? Or did you just botch up that reply?

GW has done player submitted global campaigns before and it was fine. What reason do people have to 'cheat'? It's not like you get a free puppy or a bj or something if your race wins.

Yes I do believe such a campaign will have a high chance of many players submitting results that favors whatever faction they play for, no mater the actual outcome of fought battles.

And if you had seen the former gaming group I had to endure you would see why I am rather skeptical to such things.

Trondheim wrote:Yes I do believe such a campaign will have a high chance of many players submitting results that favors whatever faction they play for, no mater the actual outcome of fought battles.

And if you had seen the former gaming group I had to endure you would see why I am rather skeptical to such things.

Not to drag this off topic, but ... Who cares? Will it really chap you that bad if a couple people submit some bad info? It's just a campaign. It is for fun. Your previous group should be tied down and flogged for turning you into a wet blanket.

If it were to be done, could each person be limited to posting an outcome every two hours or so, to cut down on people spamming results?

I like the idea of a Dakka-wide campaign, it is sad that it is held back by the possibility that some people will cheat.

The cheating could be gotten around in some groups if the players posted the results too for the group (kinda like questioning 2 suspects separately ...i think)...or i may have bodged this up..

pretre wrote:

Trondheim wrote:Yes I do believe such a campaign will have a high chance of many players submitting results that favors whatever faction they play for, no mater the actual outcome of fought battles.

And if you had seen the former gaming group I had to endure you would see why I am rather skeptical to such things.

Not to drag this off topic, but ... Who cares? Will it really chap you that bad if a couple people submit some bad info? It's just a campaign. It is for fun. Your previous group should be tied down and flogged for turning you into a wet blanket.

I care acctualy, I would waste my time on playing a campagin that could be unhinged by cheating, and next time you feel the need to insult me do it by PM

It was a joke. Geeze.

The idea is that it is unlikely that people are going to cheat if there is nothing to gain. Your experience notwithstanding.

doc1234 wrote:The cheating could be gotten around in some groups if the players posted the results too for the group (kinda like questioning 2 suspects separately ...i think)...or i may have bodged this up..

That could work. something like this:

1. On a special campaign page, a player registers a game with another Dakka Dakka member and gets a code for it.
2. The players play the game.
3. They each log into Dakka Dakka after the game, put in the game code and register the results.
If they agree-------->result recorded
If they don't agree->result dismissed

Would certainly be fun, our group here in montana would be all for it!

Global campaigns have been done before, and worked, so I don't see why a Dakka-wide campaign would fail.

pretre wrote:
GW has done player submitted global campaigns before and it was fine. What reason do people have to 'cheat'? It's not like you get a free puppy or a bj or something if your race wins.

Hahahahahahahaha, I'll just fast mail a free puppy to every member on the winning side.

So anyway back on topic, should we try this?? I mean I'm game for it, as is my gaming group.

If so, any suggestions on how this would work i.e fluff, style and/or other stuff, would be greatly appreciated.

And if we are going to do this, we should probably have a Managment/planning/organising team of Dakkites.


As an aside, I realise the capacity for cheating, and that saddens me greatly, but life will go on.

Im willing to volunteer time and effort to help plan/organize. Perhaps a good first step might be a poll creation about said concept and gathering a list of folks able to lend time to the effort.

Lt.Soundwave wrote:Im willing to volunteer time and effort to help plan/organize. Perhaps a good first step might be a poll creation about said concept and gathering a list of folks able to lend time to the effort.

I posted a poll about a WWDC (World Wide Dakka Campaign, I like this), in General Disscussion a while ago, and this many people answered: 0

Well have a new one made now that there is interest.

There is now a poll in General Discussion

WHFB or 40k?


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Wait, got it. 40k.

thenoobbomb wrote:WHFB or 40k?


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Wait, got it. 40k.

Yes 40k.

Okay so I am I need of a good writer to join the. . . Departmentum Fluffius. . . . to help with writing background and such

World wide campaign?

That sounds pretty cool... This may sound extremley noobish (and it is) but how would that work? Anyone care to explain?

If it's a world-wide 40k campaign, I'm sure my local gaming club would be up for it. I'm totally willing to help plan/organize but we don't have very many gamers in the Modesto area. :\

Im pleased to announce that the Campaign Mechanics are basicly finished, and the fluff is almost done

I'll be sending mine in soon.

I've tried to get the idea going in my two threads, i.e one to see how many points Dakka Dakka has: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/451180.page
and a system wide campaign narrative in the event of everyone wanting to play:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/451931.page

Solving the idea of cheating could simply have a battle report with pictures, if it involves a whole club, simply have the bat rep of what they think is the most important battle. The bat reps would be archived in the bat rep section of Dakka Dakka and the results posted in the campaign thread. No pics = no proof, and if clubs really go so far as to fabricating a bat rep with pics to influence an online campaign for such arbitrary gains then I'm not sure if I really want to play Warhammer 40k anymore.

The thread on points that Demetri posted led me to here

I have a few questions I'd need clearing up.

So, basically, I presume that, say the Orks need to battle some Space Marines, a member of Dakka would do that battle, post the report and the outcome would effect the campaign.

Secondly and finally, do the games have to be Dakka Member vs Dakka Member?

Thanks in advance, and I do hope this goes ahead

I have a few Questions.

1. Does it have to be at a FLGS?
Reason Im currently living in RoK and the only one in country is over an hour away, and we have a gamming area on base that we use.

2. What about the Military Menbers that will be moving thrue the campain. Will they get lost in transit or unable to play or how will that work?

3. How are you going to have Dakka Dakka members play each outher From around the world?
I know in my area theres 1 Person (Posibly more but there may be more you show me) if not is it just going to be me Vs him and bam we are done?

@ BloodAngels Brother

3. Unless we open it up to the DoW series and or SM, i'm pretty sure that head to head rounds between opponents over the internet hundreds of miles apart will be next to impossible to sanction for this campaign. It's just too difficult and complicated to run a game where two players cannot play each other in person. I see no reason why you can't play against your buddy repeatedly if there's no alternative and you still want in on the campaign. Your narrative may not be clashes of titans (though you have 20k points of BA's maybe that's not out of the question either), but rather a protracted campaign between a blood feud.

2. Can't answer that, I'm not running the campaign, but if I was I'd just say that you could pick up where you left off and join the war effort whenever for a multitude of "fluff" reasons: You could be cut off from reinforcements and put into a siege. Your force is lost in the warp in transit, and returns months later finding they must fight their way towards their own faction or another "behind enemy lines" scenario, ect.

1. I can't answer that, sry.