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Bottom Line Up Front: I've developed a campaign system that combines Shadow War: Armageddon and Warhammer 40,000. I'd like comments, criticism and feedback due to being unable to playtest it currently. I've attached the PDF. A brisk description of the rules is included below so you can quickly gauge how interested you are in the concept.

Games have a GM who creates random events throughout the matches. Players have a kill team and a 40k army. The kill team runs in accordance with the SW:A rules and provides buffs for your 40k army. Your 40k army is 1750 points and you have special formations similar to SW:A's special operatives. The player's warlord and units level up similar to SW:A. There are rules for generating relic weapons, and suggestions of how to set up the board for different locations.



The first time I played the Heralds of Ruin Kill Team campaign, I loved the leveling aspect of the game. The fact that your Kill Team gained and lost members, experience, look, territory and so on. It brought a level of attachment to my army that I think 40,000 can lack sometimes. So a few years ago I developed a campaign system to try and inject all those things into Warhammer 40k. Since it was my first time writing rules, it was an over complicated disaster. Each player controlled three armies and a single kill team, used a complicated system of maps and rules to capture territory across several planets. There was far more book keeping than dice rolling and it was a real problem. Either way, we got just over 20 players to join in at the high water mark and it ran for something like two months, so it was still fun, but I always felt like we could have done better.

I've recently moved and don't have a gaming group yet. I figured posting these here would be a reasonable way to work some of the kinks out for when I get back into a group. Please let me know if anything needs adjustment.

Really, really damn cool. I want to play this now.

Neat.

Thanks for the PDF.

I must have terrible timing. GW just put out emails stating that 8th edition is coming and all codexes will be scrapped. I suppose the moral of the story is that I'll have to rework the idea once 8th drops.

The concept of battle honours and the like is sound, but we'll have to wait and see.