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Just curious as what you guys would want in a narrative campaign
It's 4 factions 2v2 style.
What factions would you have work together against the other 2 factions, vice versa?

Would you start with one and then add the other for escalation? Or would you go full force?

What would be the fluff for the allied factions?

How would you progress the story along?

would you have a set plot line? Or would you "buterfly effect" it?

I'll be writing a narrative campaign, (thats hopefully ALOT better than my TauCronNid idea), soon and would like to see who dakka wants to pair up and fight who?

I would like to have a set plot line, after a fashion, I would want each battle to have it's own narrative, but have the overall narrative of the campaign be determined by the outcomes of each battle. As for what factions work together, it would honestly depend on the factions. Many factions would find cause to work together, but in some cases I would refuse to believe that they would work together. I would just go full force with them (as I'm assuming it's teams of 2 people going against each other)

I see what you mean. What factions would YOU choose though

I mean, like I said, if I had to choose factions the easiest would be 2 Imperial factions vs 2 Chaos/Xenos factions. But that probably isn't what you're looking for. You could do an Eldar/DE alliance fighting to save an Exodite world from an Ork WAAAGH. Or maybe an Ork invasion of a CSM world. It honestly depends on what the people involved in said campaign would want to play. I currently play mostly Imperial factions (starting DE soon), so I would like to see maybe Xenos/Non-Imperial factions fight.

Hmm, a chaos ork combo could be possible. An interesting team up would be tau and IG. Maybe chaos persuades orks to attack a planet they want something from, who cut off the IG on the planet off from reinforcements. Tau see the situation, and see that maybe they can get the IG to join if they shoot the orks too. Chaos sees their ork fodder isn't faring too well and chips in their forces.

Or maybe chaos sees a nice planet that Tau are fighting IG for. They decide to fight for it as well, and soon some orks see the nice scrap going on. Chaos persuades that they could do a better job together, and the IG and Tau have no choice but to buddy up to face this new overwhelming threat.

In going to mix things up. 2v2v2

IG/eldar v chaos/orks v necrons/tau

Does this sound good?

Works for me.

As far as the planning goes, I would design a branching tree campaign. So who wins mission 1 decides whether to play mission 2a or mission 2b, and so on.

You can go further by designing 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d depending on if the win was marginal or significant, or even add a 2e in case of a draw.

Ill get started on it, I'll make custom names and stuff, Itll take a while so bear with me. But please, keep posting ideas and what not and I'll try and incorporate them in

At the end of the campaign you could have it culminating in a massive Appoc battle at one team's headquarters to determine who is the ultimate winner. Oh, and maybe one of the initial games can be a planetstrike game to represent one team invading the planet

Ill have it where one team is eliminated half way through

A thought, instead of having 2 v 2 where there are allies on both sides you can throw out the Allies chart if you want. This is your narrative.

Chaos could be on the planet because there's some artifact of significance to corrupt or whatnot. There are Imperial Garrisons on the planet to defend the artifiact.

Orks could be there because, WAAGH! and that just happens to be a good cover for Chaos to attempt to grab the artifact while IoM are dealing with Orks.

Eldar could be there for some etheral destiny reason. Dark Eldar are there to capture slaves and having a good 'ol time at it.

Maybe Tau have decided the Greater Good is served by having this planet in their fold.

I would give each side their own objective and narrative and weave all of them together

What disdamn said is perfect. For the sake of the campaign throw out the allies chart, or set everyone to the same level for convenience, otherwise everyone barring IOM factions is screwed over by the funky rules. Then give each faction their own objectives (known only to them, not even by their teammate). Then laugh at the hilarity that ensues.

That is a beautiful idea, I'm still writing it up so stay tuned, (tomorrow or Wednesday I will post.
Where should I post it?

Proposed Rules or Fiction, depending on whether it's more campaign crunch (rules for missions etc) or more fluff (why the battles etc)

So fiction then, got it