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Alright, Thanks for letting me know.

@BloodAngels Brother

1) No it doesn't have to be at a FLCS, it can be anywhere, from your local club, your kitchen table or in the middle of a paddock.

2) Just paly when ever you can and post the results. I'm in the Military, but that won't stop me. Basicly what DemetriDominov said.

3) It doesn't have to be against a dakka dakka member as the only oone I know of in NZ is over 5 hours away.

@The Shadow

1) If you had Orks (for example) and you played a game with someone, then you give your results in.

2) as point 3) above




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Good to know. Let me know when this thing kicks off.
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Ok, so we'd try to get permission from an opponent we play at say, your FLGS, to take pics/make a battle report and then post the results?

The Shadow wrote:Ok, so we'd try to get permission from an opponent we play at say, your FLGS, to take pics/make a battle report and then post the results?

Yes, if you want to make a Narrative battle report that would be awesome, but other wise you don't have to. Just record how many VPs you win or lose by and what palnet they are for, then pass them on to your system warlord

Would a battle report not have to be necessary though? Otherwise you could just make up the results.

The Shadow wrote:Would a battle report not have to be necessary though? Otherwise you could just make up the results.

Are you going to forge results??

I wasn't planning to, no. But other people could. I just thought it would be safer if we had to post a battle report (or at least pictures of the battle) so it's far harder for people to cheat and ruin the campaign for others.

Yes I do see your point. But would you like to sift through 1000 battle reports??

And if the results are forged, they wont make to much of an impact

There will be a limit on posts over periods of time, which should help cut down on spamming forged results

motyak wrote:There will be a limit on posts over periods of time, which should help cut down on spamming forged results

This

redkommando wrote:

motyak wrote:There will be a limit on posts over periods of time, which should help cut down on spamming forged results

This

And there are a couple of people who'll be going over the results (the sector commander/warzone commander and the general commander) so if user BOB has submitted a result every 3 hours saying his army has won, pretty much without sleep, it'll be damn suspect. In my eyes anyway.

 redkommando wrote:
Yes I do see your point. But would you like to sift through 1000 battle reports??

And if the results are forged, they wont make to much of an impact

I think this a bit of an exaggeration.

Basically, you do your battle, make the report, post the results along with a report then a campaign organiser (yes, there could be more than 1), sifts through to see if it seems legit, i.e. is there pictures which clearly show a battle has been taken place? Shouldn't take long, unless you are planning for 1000 people to do battles on the same day...?

Still, if you don't want to include them, that's fine by me.

While it would be nice for every battle report to be written up fully with pictures and what not, it isn't feasible for everyone to do. Sure, some people enjoy doing that, but others would rather play and just record the key moments, or they don't have access to a digital camera to upload pictures for a battle report. It would be unfair to penalize these guys, who could be fair minded and love their warhams, because they don't enjoy writing up batreps, or they had a game on the spur of the moment and didn't bring a pen and paper, or any other reason that they don't record details and pictures.

So in summary, while it would be nice, it probably won't be the criteria for a battle to be accepted. And besides, its a campaign for fun, it isn't going to drastically change the 40k universe, discussions in the 40k background forum are not going to be influenced in the least by the results of this, and a clear understanding of that should help cut down on some of the cheating, as should the limits in posts, and the fact people are only bringing one army (I'm pretty sure they are anyway) to the campaign. And even if they bring more, it'll still be a minority of people who would cheat, rather than a majority (I hope).

Did that help?

We'll have to open it up to non-Dakkanaughts, probably.

 DOOMBREAD wrote:
We'll have to open it up to non-Dakkanaughts, probably.

They'll already be having a word in through clubs and groups who play together, so long as one of the group is a member they'll be able to report all results for their club (and if they have multiple members they'll delegate between themselves who will submit results).

 motyak wrote:
While it would be nice for every battle report to be written up fully with pictures and what not, it isn't feasible for everyone to do. Sure, some people enjoy doing that, but others would rather play and just record the key moments, or they don't have access to a digital camera to upload pictures for a battle report. It would be unfair to penalize these guys, who could be fair minded and love their warhams, because they don't enjoy writing up batreps, or they had a game on the spur of the moment and didn't bring a pen and paper, or any other reason that they don't record details and pictures.

So in summary, while it would be nice, it probably won't be the criteria for a battle to be accepted. And besides, its a campaign for fun, it isn't going to drastically change the 40k universe, discussions in the 40k background forum are not going to be influenced in the least by the results of this, and a clear understanding of that should help cut down on some of the cheating, as should the limits in posts, and the fact people are only bringing one army (I'm pretty sure they are anyway) to the campaign. And even if they bring more, it'll still be a minority of people who would cheat, rather than a majority (I hope).

Did that help?

It doesn't have to be a full-blown report tbh. But I see you have a point, so I'll gladly let this drop

Thanks for your input though man, I'm thinking a minimum does need to exist, probably who played, points limit, result, and a brace of highlights (1 for each turn the game went o perhaps, so a 7 turn game needs 7 highlights, not necessarily 1 per turn, but still enough to help us a) form a narrative and b) help weed out any 'my army, 10 vp victory, tgat is all' reports.

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I mean. . . er. . . You should get paid for your inputs. . .

And when ever I read your posts I imagine Nathan Fillion Typing away at a computer

Ha. I was thinking that when I get home from uni I might knock together a rough draft of a players and an admins briefing packet for the campaign, if you haven't already done similar?

 motyak wrote:
Ha. I was thinking that when I get home from uni I might knock together a rough draft of a players and an admins briefing packet for the campaign, if you haven't already done similar?

No I haven't yet, Iv'e been sick the last two days and I got a promo to Acting Sergeant whislt we find a replacement. But I would love to see what you have In mind

motyak wrote:Thanks for your input though man, I'm thinking a minimum does need to exist, probably who played, points limit, result, and a brace of highlights (1 for each turn the game went o perhaps, so a 7 turn game needs 7 highlights, not necessarily 1 per turn, but still enough to help us a) form a narrative and b) help weed out any 'my army, 10 vp victory, tgat is all' reports.

Yeah, this sounds like a good idea!

I think pictures and narrative batreps should simply score twice as many points than a report without those things.

For example:
Win= 5 point +3 points for Picture + 2 points for Narrative report of 300+ words.
Draw= 2 points +3 points for pictures, +2 points fro Narrative report of 300+ words
Loss= 1 point +3 points for pictures and +2 point for narrative report of 300+ words.

This creates incentive to do these things, but it is not required. Plus, people who are simply spamming results, will have less impact as they would need to spam double the results of the "picture/report" posters. Plus, even if you lose, you can still score 6 points with a bit of effort. That is more than a straight, unadorned win!

I have had good results with this system in the past.

1. Does it have to be at a FLGS?

Any games played with friends at any location are eligible simply record the results during the campaign and upload them.

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?

I am unsure what you mean.

3. How are you going to have Dakka Dakka members play each outher From around the world?

The world wide refers to dakkanauts all over the world playing the same campaign and their efforts directly influencing the resulting narrative. The idea here is to make it easier for people to contribute not harder

I figured out what I need to know, Thanks man lol

 Easy E wrote:
I think pictures and narrative batreps should simply score twice as many points than a report without those things.

For example:
Win= 5 point +3 points for Picture + 2 points for Narrative report of 300+ words.
Draw= 2 points +3 points for pictures, +2 points fro Narrative report of 300+ words
Loss= 1 point +3 points for pictures and +2 point for narrative report of 300+ words.

This creates incentive to do these things, but it is not required. Plus, people who are simply spamming results, will have less impact as they would need to spam double the results of the "picture/report" posters. Plus, even if you lose, you can still score 6 points with a bit of effort. That is more than a straight, unadorned win!

I have had good results with this system in the past.

This has my approval, I like this idea a lot The only thing is that I perhaps wouldn't quite make a 'shiny' loss have such an impact. Perhaps raise winning to 6 points and drawing to 3. This gives more credit for drawing too, which is good, since imo, it's worth more than a mere point more than a loss.

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