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This is just an idea I had that I thought I'd share here. Me and my friends are thinking of trying it out. Like the title says, just imagine that age of Sigmar started using 40k style stratagems paid for by command points. But the amount of command points you had depended upon the size of your game. In matched play you could have 3 CPs as standard, plus an additional 3 if you're playing a vanguard sized game, an additional 6 if it's a battle host sized game, and an additional 9 if it's a war host sized game.

And the stratagems would be the type of abilities you'd get via battalions. Plus some generic grand alliance ones too. But how would you figure battalions into this? Me, I'd reinvent them as stratagems for deploying units. Like, the Overlords could have the "Grand Armada" stratagem. After deploying an Ironclad, you can immediately deploy any number of other Sky vessels, thus retaining that single drop advantage. But it requires you to deploy at least five other ships, and would cost a lot of CPs. So it's only viable in big games.

Think this whole stratagem idea could work?

I'm implementing it in Azyr Empires.

Strategems are also in the new Firestorm.

So they've already done it then?

Sounds like a great idea Future War Cultist. I say try it out with your friends. Anything that adds fun to the game is all that matters. I say try it out, and tweak it till it works.

Then please let us know how it goes and what you guys have done.

Davor wrote:
Sounds like a great idea Future War Cultist. I say try it out with your friends. Anything that adds fun to the game is all that matters. I say try it out, and tweak it till it works.

Then please let us know how it goes and what you guys have done.

Thank you! I'll do just that.

For stratagems I was looking at both the formation and path to glory abilities. For example, for the overlords, they could have the Close Order Drill. Costs 1 CP, used at the start of the shooting phase, pick one skyfarerer unit and add 1 to their hit rolls against enemy units within 3". Just like the path to glory skill.

If anyone has any other suggestions for stratagems I'd love to hear them.

Well this may not be a stragem (still don't know 8th 40K) but in Lord of the Rings, leaders or main characters I should say could have abilities called Heroic Intervention.

That would mean say it's your turn, if it's the movement phase, I could roll a leadership test on the person who has the Heroic Intervention rule and can move first or the unit he is in first.

If it's the shooting phase he can do the same. So maybe have something like that as stragems, or Leaders have that ability. It can be a one time use, two time use or even a three time use if really exceptional leader.

Just an idea. I loved it in Lord of the Rings when I use to play.