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I had a game on Tuesday the 6th against Dave B. I won for 2 points and Dave got 1 for playing. Pretty lousy game for Dave, except the part where Yarrick sucker-punched my Lord off his bike.

I grabbed one of Dave's Tiles on the first planet, but the secondary board wasn't there, so I still need to take a second empty one.

Sean here-i played chuck and lost-1 point for playing-and got 5 from my warlord trait-and im down to one tile.

im down to start the 2nd part of the campaign any day that works for you guys

Spreadsheet updated. Still no new tiles for second map.

Played igdave and won. Didn't take a tile.

Total week 6
10 - warlord
6 - tiles
2 - win
18 - total

One more week to get games in. We will announce winners and prizes next Tuesday night. We will also be awarding prizes for Best Sportsmanship so if you can't make it Tuesday night, call the store or PM me here.

Bob Gise is also looking for games this Sunday. If no one can make it, I'll be down, but if anyone else is going to the store on Sunday, that'll save me a trip.

I played Sean and his Eldar tonight and won the game 4-3. It came down to the last turn and was so close that it was my favorite game so far this campaign and the closest.
We played for his spaceport
So I got +2 for winning
I gained a tile and his spaceport bringing me up to 3 tiles with 1 objective
I also get +5 if my faction is in the lead thanks to my warlord trait

I played an extremely close game with nick's tau, and ended up winning i got 2 for winning and 5 for my warlord trait, we agreed no tiles would be taken.

Chuck here, I won against Bob's Tyranids yesterday and got 2 points for winning and 5 for blood of the martyrs. I haven't gotten to put a new tile marker up yet

I played an extra game today against Chuck and his guard and lost in the end.
So I got 1 point
He got 2 points for winning and for his Warlord trait he lost half of his army and I lost half of mine so he got 10 points for a total of 12 for the game.
No tiles were played for

I played Eric on Tuesday and won. I got 2 points for the win and 7 for tiles

I played a very close game with Deadshotjoker and lost-im officially out of tiles so its just +1 for the game

I played another game with Eric D today and it was the closest and most heart pounding game yet.
It went for 6 turns and in the end it came down to First blood which did not happen until turn 2 which ended in a score of 9-8.
He challenged me for my spaceport and in the end he won.
I get +1 for playing and he gets +2 for winning and he got my Spaceport
I am now back down to 2 tiles

spreadsheet as of Saturday night 9pm.

Spread sheet #2 has the total points for the entire campaign up to Saturday night.

PLEASE check my math because we have a tie! Xenos faction has scored at least 397 points, but I am waiting to hear from Alejandro and Chris Bradley for the results of their games. Imperial faction has scored 467 points and the top players of Eric & Chuck are tied at 87! Only Sunday, Monday and Tuesday til 5:30pm left to score points!

Anyone going to the store to play today?

Chuck here, Eric and I played a nail-biter of a game today, I won by only one point. I didn't kill enough for my warlord trait so I got 2 point for winning and Eric got 1 for playing. A hell of a game, I can't wait for the rematch. I also put my marker on the map from my game on tues so I now have 9 tiles

For week 6 i played a game vs Mike B, I lost losing one tile

i played an additional game vs Joe, i won and took his spaceport

i played an additional game vs chuck, i lost

We used no special rules

my grand warlord trait is master of the crusade giving me
+5 for holding the spaceport
+5 for the spaceport i took from Joe
+2 for holding a bastion

i hold 8 territories

me and chuck have made a gentlemen's agreement that the game we played was the last one we would count for the campaign so we should be able to compute a winner.

If my math is right the top 3 in order of just points(winning side aside) are

me and chuck have made a gentlemen's agreement that the game we played was the last one we would count for the campaign so we should be able to compute a winner.

Color me impressed.

If anyone is not coming out to play Tuesday night, please call Chris at the Whiz or PM me here who your vote for sportsmanship award is.

I think your math is off a bit, Eric and I were both at 87 points for this week before our game today. I think I'm at 89 and hes at 88. I could be wrong though

Mantank303 wrote:
I think your math is off a bit, Eric and I were both at 87 points for this week before our game today. I think I'm at 89 and hes at 88. I could be wrong though

It is what it is, check the spreadsheet. I don't know what Gil was talking about because if you add the points my math is right. I added up the first 5 weeks then used your last weeks posts to make the 6th weeks points. Don't get me wrong I'm hoping your scores are accurate because then I came out on top points wise ;p

Sorry for the delay, I get distracted.

I played against Chris Botril(I hope I'm not mangling that name). He's not in the campaign, but Gil was willing to allow me to count it.

It was well-played, but I managed to climb to an objective on turn 7 and clinch it. We had a chance to talk about his scenario too(in between my shouting )

That's 2 points for winning, but I'm not sure how you want to work out the tiles- I'll get an empty one for my warlord trait, but Chris doesn't really have any to take. Either way's fine.

Chancetragedy wrote:

Mantank303 wrote:
I think your math is off a bit, Eric and I were both at 87 points for this week before our game today. I think I'm at 89 and hes at 88. I could be wrong though

It is what it is, check the spreadsheet. I don't know what Gil was talking about because if you add the points my math is right. I added up the first 5 weeks then used your last weeks posts to make the 6th weeks points. Don't get me wrong I'm hoping your scores are accurate because then I came out on top points wise ;p

We'll find out on tuesday, either way we're all crazy close on points which is pretty awesome. It's gonna be a photo finish

Double check my math:
EricD had 76 points plus
L vs MikeB +1=77
W vs Joe +2=79
L vs Chuck +1=80
Tiles +8=88
2 spaceports, Warlord trait +10=98
Bastion +2=100

Chuck had 60 points plus
W vs Joe +2=62
W vs BobR +2=64
W vs EricD +2=66
Warlord +15=81
Tiles +9=90

SteveB=96

Imperium = 483
Xenos=399

Prizes given out last night. Thanks to everyone for a great campaign. We will begin another round using the Crusade of Fire book July 1st thru August 5th with prizes distributed August 12th. Some have asked to move the points up to 1750 while some like the 1500 point limit. The purpose of these campaigns is to encourage new folks to play so no power lists or list tailoring. I'll make more planets this time. Keep making cool tokens, but add your name somehow so it is obvious who is who.

We were discussing some ways of dealing with the unbalanced Grand Warlord traits in the Crusade of Fire book. Ideas so far are: (1) don't bother using them, (2) let players choose them instead of rolling randomly and (3) come up with our own. We have one month to come up with our own so post any ideas you have here.

I have thought at length about how to redesign the system to better fin our groups needs I will post my ideas below. I am including minimal expansion at this time because I'm typing this on a cell phone but I am happy to explain my reasoning.

Personal points and team points are split up and come from different sourses.

First personal points, each game you play gives you points for the following things

2 points for playing
2 more points for wining
1 point for special missions as per the last campaign
1 point for your oponant being from a different team than you are


Next you get extra points from your first game each week. At the beginning of the campaign each player declares themselves as normal or veteran

Normal players gain
2 points for playing during there first game of the week


Veteran players gain
3 points for winning there first game of the week
However if that lose there oponant gains 1 point



Campaign points determine the wining team you can gain one each game by completing your grand warlord trait. Each player selects a grand warlord trait at the start of the campaign.

Exicutiner - at the start of the game your oponant chosses one of there units. You gain a campaign point if you destroy that unit

Archeotech - at at the start of the game your oponant places one objecive outside both players deployment zones. You gain a campaign point if you control that objective. The objectiv dose not give victory points for that game

Bucher - You gain a campaign point if you destroy half your opponent's units


Please post ideas for other grand warlord traits and also try these out for fun over the next month to see if any are too week or too powerful.

I like this idea. It makes sure to have a separation of personal and team. Also these traits and having the ability to not score 10+ points for your team every game keeps it more level and closer. It will actually pay off to win games
I vote yes on the above

Does anyone know of any smartphone apps that we could use to track campaign progress?

Google docs works pretty well. We just make a document for the campaign and then share it with everyone in the campaign

Any other thoughts on Grand Warlord traits?

If the warlord is killed during gameplay, his body then becomes a "relic" and both sides must fight to control the body only the owner of the warlord trait can gain the point for this. Determined by end of game

Get a point if you kill 3 or more units in a single player turn.

Get a point if your warlord kills your opponents warlord _or_ ends the game within 12 inches of him.