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Hello Dakka,

I'm a hobby enthusiast that moved into an area a few years ago and the local gaming scene has been dwindling over time since I started playing there. I was able to get my hands on the Planetary empires set and started a short duration based campaign to get players out of their basements and it seemed to work. We went from the same 2-3 regular players + random 2 to a consistent 10-12 people becoming regularly.

Now I've assumed the organizer role for this group and I'm currently looking to figure out the next event(s) that I could look at organizing. I could go with another map campaign, or a narrative node campaign like forge world releases in their books but I thought I would as around to see what works in other communities and groups. I've asked my group and they seem to all be open to any suggestions.

I've also looked in Zone Mortalis or Kill Teams (The Heralds of Ruin adaptation looks exceptional)

Thanks.

A few suggestions:

A narrative campaign, map-based or otherwise, in which the results matter for your next game. For example, introduce a running rule that grants a buff based on the severity of the victory in your last game (at the end of each game, get both players to record the score and sign and date it, to prevent abuse of the system). Something like this:

Minor Victory: You win the game- In your next game you may re-roll a single die at any point before or during the game.
Victory: You win the game, and with double the VPs your opponent had- Your Warlord gains +1 wound for the next game
Major Victory: You win the game, and with triple the VPs your opponent had- You may bring an add 5% to the point total of your army for the next game.

And there's plenty of scope there for other benefits, even for the losing side if you like (they are forced back to their defences, so get an extra ADL free in their next game, they take a beating so get reinforced with an extra 5% points ect). On top of that, you could split the campaign into 2 teams, with the final game at the end being an Apocalypse game with points for each side determined by their wins/losses through the campaign.



If that's not your cup of tea, how about an Escalation Campaign. Start off with something small like 400 or even 250 points, build up the forces over a few months and you could even have hobby points for adding/painting a new unit each month ect. This also makes it easier for newer players to get involved.

I usually take part in two escalation league style campaigns a year. They have a few great advantages.

-Easy to set up. They can be used as filler between more complex and time consuming campaigns to give you time to set them up.
-The steady increase in points give people the perfect opportunity/incentive to start or expand an army.
-It's fun to experience the game at different point levels.
-It relaxing for the players between larger narrative campaigns where each game has major outcomes. You can add more spice to them, but then it defeats a lot of the above points.

We usually start with around 200-250 point kill team and build from there

All of those ideas sound fantastic. I've found a bunch of sources in the past but I'm interested if anyone has some example rule sets that have worked in your area? Like any restrictions/benefits people usually use for running an escalation, for example.