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One of my friends is about to get into 40k and he's going for a Raven Wing army. With all those bikes and speeds, and with all my bikers and trukks, I got to think how neat it would be to have a mission type where the teams fight while racing down a high-way, or some other similar scenario.
It's just an idea I had, so there are certain a TON of kinks to work out, so if you guys could help me work it out, that' be great!

My thought would to take a standard gaming table and split it down along the length. each player deploys on their side the board 12' or more away from the center. At the start of a game turn, the "table" will move 12' or so in a pre-determined direction, moving all the terrain in the opposite direction creating the illusion of movement on a battlefield. Units with 12' movement would stay still (or be able to move backwards up to 24') and units with 6' movement would be moved back 6'-18'. If a unit was unable to keep up with the fight, and reached the end of the table with this involuntary movement, it'd be removed from the board, being left behind in a cloud of dust! On issue I can think of is bike-type units probably should be treated more like vehicles for purposes of movement and firing (shooting forward if weapons are mounted on the front). That would make maneuvering around the board, trying to line up shots while not getting left behind interesting. After a certain number of turns, the two armies will arrive at one objective (maybe more) and fight over it for one final turn.

What do you guys think?

An interesting Idea. Sounds like a nightmare to move so much terrain though.

You haven't played as a massed infantry orks, have you? I can't imagine moving infantry would be worse than moving 100+ orks EVERY TURN. And you would have two people doing it, so it would, theoretically, go pretty quickly.

There is a mission which is exactly this in Imperial Armour 8. In that case it's Ork Speed Freaks versus Imperial Guard Taros Assault vehicles, but it has all the moving terrain etc you're looking for. It's a pretty detailed mission - new foc, rules for generating new terrain, for how everything moves etc. The book also has some Ork fluff and while most of the rules in it have been superceded, not all of them have. Absolutely worth getting access to if you want to run this type of mission.

I think the idea is brilliant. In the second post in the link below Ive made some alterations myself to the "pursuit of daggerforce" from IA8

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/533148.page

The rolling terrain does require some work, but I do believe it it would work perfectly with a 3rd person as the terrain master.

They had a similar mission in WD but it was eldar versus dark eldar

thisisnotaseriousaccount wrote:
There is a mission which is exactly this in Imperial Armour 8. In that case it's Ork Speed Freaks versus Imperial Guard Taros Assault vehicles, but it has all the moving terrain etc you're looking for. It's a pretty detailed mission - new foc, rules for generating new terrain, for how everything moves etc. The book also has some Ork fluff and while most of the rules in it have been superceded, not all of them have. Absolutely worth getting access to if you want to run this type of mission.

I read through that mission, and while I would say it's quite similar, it's definitely not "exactly" that. I do like some of the ideas presented in that mission and several other of the ideas. I've owned the book for a while and didn't even know that was back there. Silly, silly me.