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Hi,
I have just came to realize that I had never played a narrative game of 8th, whereas I used to play some in previous editons.
I will soon fix that, and I will buy the open war cards deck latter on.
In addition, as a 30k players I have the 30k missions available, and I may try some in 40k.
So, even if for the time being I haven't diversified my game, I will soon.
What about you ?

Matched play missions from either BRB or CA are most common in my group. A few of us have dabbled in narrative missions but its hard to switch off the Matched play attitude sometimes, so they don't always work.

For big Apoc style games, its usually just kill each other for 6 turns.

Never got around to adopting the popular tournament format rules in 7th, but introducing them to my group is my next goal for 8th edition.

The Open War cards are great. Though they will occasionally create some pretty unusual situations. We also find it fun to give out some extra twist/surprise type cards even if power levels are even.

Open War cards.

Eternal War.

I'll typically offer my opponent the choice between Maelstrom and Eternal. If they have no preference, I roll on the Eternal War table.

Custom scenarios with custom forces designed with scenario in mind.

Eternal War and occasionaly the cards.

Preferably Open War cards, sometimes ITC missions and lately some Eternal War missions to prep for an upcoming tourney that will be using them.

I have a document with all the maelstrom of war, narrative and eternal war mission from both rulebook and CA 2017 list, and with each battlezone. Each week when I challenge an opponent I ask them to pick something from the list. Once played it gets crossed out. I my life goal is to play every single mission from that document before I die.

Missions from Chapter Approved, they're a lot of fun and without doubt the best thing about that book.

Chapter approved and open war are very good, the rest are meh....

Almost exclusively the ITC Champions Pack

ITC or Maelstrom preferably

The Open War cards. You get a nice variety, and they make you end up doing something you wouldn't have thought of otherwise.

Tried a few different eternal war/maelstrom missions but every game of 8th for me has always resolved by tabling or surrendering in the face of impending tabling.

In 7th I play the same variety of eternal war/maelstrom missions and they usually result in objectives mattering.

 Vankraken wrote:
Tried a few different eternal war/maelstrom missions but every game of 8th for me has always resolved by tabling or surrendering in the face of impending tabling.

In 7th I play the same variety of eternal war/maelstrom missions and they usually result in objectives mattering.

Yep, I think the biggest culprit here for me has been variable game length. Games of 8th should be capped at turn 5, no exception. Since I started capping at 5 and playing progressive scoring missions only (the kind that make you deprioritize just murdering your opponent to score points, because you should never play any other kind otherwise what's the point of having a mission) I have never failed to have a mission go to objectives, and often the side that's losing the actual casualty fight wins the mission because they were playing for it.