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I tried it for that once. Failed horribly. Anyway, BOT:

If there's to be a major event in sixth ed, would that mean all the codices would be released before it?

I would love to see an event with last effects on the game, now it's not that I dont enjoy the campaigns that used to be ... they just .. never made a difference that I could see.

That's because they're too hard to predict. For the thirteenth black crusade, GW assumed the Imperium would win, and planned accordingly. In reality, they didn't do very well at all, but GW simply forced their plan anyway by awarding a victory to the Imperium for killing a Chaos character when the Eldar were the ones that did it.

No, because I and my friends can run our own campaigns without GW to hold our hands and tell us how to do so.

Durza wrote:That's because they're too hard to predict. For the thirteenth black crusade, GW assumed the Imperium would win, and planned accordingly. In reality, they didn't do very well at all, but GW simply forced their plan anyway by awarding a victory to the Imperium for killing a Chaos character when the Eldar were the ones that did it.

It would have worked better if they took the results of the campaign and then wrote the fluff, rather than writing the fluff before the campaign

"assumption is the mother of all fethups"


They did the same thing in Fantasy IIRC.


A more dynamic setting would be one in which the yearly campaign established the fluff for the codex books released that year, and over several years the change in the state of the campaign universe. Fudging the results because you don't like them in order to fanwank the IOM doesn't really cut it.

If the IOM wins the campaign by dint of awesome playing, i'm good with an IOM victory Having it handed out free, regardless, is an insult to both IOM and non-IOM players.

I think that the storyline needs to progress, but I am not convinced that an event would be the way to make this happen.

They could always pull an Exalted..

The Emperor vanishes from the Golden Throne.

The Astronomican continues to function, as it's not actually powered by Big E, just guided by him, but becomes erratic without someone aiming it.

Much hilarity ensues..

Is he dead, gone, reborn? No-one knows..

Plot advances with options for loyalists, neo-imperialism, civil war, a new Emperor as a standin/replacement...

Ascalam wrote:If the IOM wins the campaign by dint of awesome playing, i'm good with an IOM victory Having it handed out free, regardless, is an insult to both IOM and non-IOM players.

I agree.

Ascalam wrote:




A more dynamic setting would be one in which the yearly campaign established the fluff for the codex books released that year, and over several years the change in the state of the campaign universe. Fudging the results because you don't like them in order to fanwank the IOM doesn't really cut it.

If the IOM wins the campaign by dint of awesome playing, i'm good with an IOM victory Having it handed out free, regardless, is an insult to both IOM and non-IOM players.

A yearly campaign would influence codices afterwards, not instantly. Codices are released 2 or 3 times per year, so one of them may contain fluff influenced by your yearly campaign. One or two others are too recent to include the changes. When a codex gets to integrate that fluff, new fluff is already formed in the actual campaign....so who makes sure the fluff didn't change again before a codex is back from the printers?
GW?

The last event was not a surprise if you think about what was laid out as "prize".

fine, so have it's results included in the next years's codexes then

As to (certain feth-awful writer) sneaking in to 'adjust' the fluff after-event , w\there's not much we can do about that