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Anyone with experience playing Planetary Empires, any feedback or advice would be awesome...

I was briefly in a GW store campaign using Planetary Empires. It is a good idea, but it does get imbalanced sometimes. I fought a guy who had some building (manufactorum maybe?) and I had none, so he ended up getting 150 more points in a battle. Despite putting up a good fight, I was rocked. Weird things like that happened often. Plus if you don't have a dedicated group, it falls apart. It would be cool to see it run weekend long event, 2-3 days 4-6 people playing, writing a story to go along with it.

Could be a really cool tool for making fantastic campaigns, but requires quite a bit of dedication.

On the other hand, you could probably just make a campaign map (2-d or modeled) and get much of the same effect, making up rules as you go.

I've always wondered about that. What's the planetary empires thing about, anyways? Could someone give me a brief rundown?

It is a set of plastic hexagonal tiles which interlock and can be rearranged nearly endlessly to create a 3D map for a strategic campaign.

The rules included are very skimpy. It basically says, fight a battle of 40K and if you win, you can roll a die to try and take over someone else's tile. What I mean is there is no attempt to locate the tactical forces in the campaign setting.

It is not hard to write expanded rules for a campaign. I got half-way through writing a set myself before I got distracted.

The tiles themselves are fun and paint up nicely.

The Hive City tiles are extra -- a pair costs about £6. It's worth having one Hive City set as a major objective if you are playing a 'real' campaign.