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Hi.

We are going to start a lotr campaign at our local gaming club using the battle companies rules. We have tried them out already and they add an experience element to the game.

The problem we have is how to find a winner for the campaign. Do we use the rating of the warbands to determine a winner or the wins/draws/losses of each company or a mix of these. We are trying to keep it fair as possible because many of us at the club cannot get to every game night due to work and other commitments.

Has anyone else played a battle company campaign? or something similar that can help with this matter.

thanks

I have run a campaign, but it was more of a story based campaign, not really a "league" type thing with a "winner"... rather it was simply a series of connected battles, that eventually led to a large scale battle involving all warbands for the finale...

I think a points system is the way to go but, since not everyone is going to be able to make it every night, an average score system should be used. We did a similar thing in a 40k campaign, and it worked fairly well. We did it to 3 decimal places, which was helpful. We'd have one guy on like, 2.375 and another on 2.137 or something.

We also had additional rules: you had to play at least 6 matches for your score to count and you got a bonus for every 3 matches you won.

Thanks for the reply guys.

We are considering a points based system that only counts for specific games in the campaign. warbands will be paired off during the campaign based on their points cost for these battles so stronger warbands won't pound on weaker ones. If anyone misses these battle they can make it up later on in the campaign.

Then at the end of the campaign we will do a playoff series of battles to determine the winner.

How did you do the average system shadow? points value/games played?