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EDIT:
WH40K server with campaign on virtual tabletop.

So far we have made all normal units from:
Space marines, orks, tau, eldar, dark eldar, necrons, tyranids, imperial guard, chaos space marines, chaos daemons.
Well basically the base races (no SM chapter specific<- under progress of completion).
And a few apocalypse units, we will be adding more as needed, and as soon as we figure out their size.
We have been playing for a while now inviting people we know, and we finally decided to make a post.

Rules are these:
You start your army with 500 points of "exp", this is to replace the cash system of actually buying the models.
When deciding what models to buy, only take into account the base model price, and the character upgrade in the codex.

When deciding the point size of the battle, thats when you add the cost of any options and upgrades.

After the end of the battle, the winner gets an ammount of exp equal to half the battle size per side, so a lets say 500 point battle, will award the winner 250 exp, then the loser gets half of that, 125.

Apocalypse games do not award exp points, the ammounts would just be too large, but certain events or missions canstill award some.

Theres also a war campaign being made for players with high ammount of points, requirements to enter this are 20k of exp points and having played 10 apocalypse games, you are then awarded 4 planets to defend, and to capture more planets from.

whats made for the campaign so far:
1) on 20k points of owned models, you can begin a war campaign of territory conquering
2) before that there will be storyline as a "rise to the throne" kind of campaign, starting time still unknown
3) special missions with diferent dificulties to be played anytime for special point rewards

http://rptools.net/ <- maptool

We use maptool 1.3.b87.
Server name: WarHammer40K
Password: wag

Happy Wargaming!

images:
my chaos owned models:


fight in progress (mine are dark eldar, chaos are from loafer):


several automated rolls:


macros (scripted buttons):


Admins:
Head Admin:
Pheonix1405
Host/Mapper/Admin:
DrakDarkstar
Friendly Admin:
Zerathshadow
Admin too busy to show up:
casper

I'm not familiar with maptool, but the title of your post makes me wonder... Are you familiar with Vassal 40k?

yes, maptool has more room for progression and campaign style games, so i use that, i guess ill just link the post i made over their forums

http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=18747

So, yesterday i had a battle with my necrons vs imperial guard, didnt get time for a full battle report but did take some screens.

How do you figure LoS for shooting and such?

The forest is area terrain that gives cover, if you mean height, we have a stat sheet in every miniature, one of wich stats is height.

We can also just draw lines and easily meassure distances.

Ahk interesting.

well, im still battling right now, probably gonna finish soon, but you can come in anytime

so, one of my players was giving me ideas, wich ended in me making a 3 player map, so ill have to give you whats probably WH40K's first ever round battlefield

well here goes...

So instead of joining the Vassal40k team, that has done all this work already and has much better looking units and boards you are doing your own software with best possbile resulte, that the player base is splitted and makes it more difficult to find opponents and games?

You need to sort your textures out son. My eyes bleed looking at that grass.

First of all, maptool is not my program, and it has a real good player base, not to mention, even if the models arent so good looking, vassal is based on battle and battle only, theres no more room for improvement nor diferent kinds of gameplay.

Second, its not that texture is bad, its just too zoomed out, probably...