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Good stuff.

 Illumini wrote:
Really cool and chaotic game. Love to see space marines used like one would expect, drop podding directly into the enemy strong point.

Thank you.

The dynamics of space marines vs. regular humans get really interesting in this kind of game, I've found. The marines can usually break apart whatever individual target they wish to hit whenever they want to do so and with their speeders and sturdy space ships can risk agressive recon unlike most other forces, take a breather and quickly reposition for another push with their Thunderhawks, but they can also manage to squander their expensive forces in hopeless, unsupported piecemeal attacks against many times larger formations like unattrited guard companies (that are often also dug in some sort of fortifications). It's particularly cool to see the organic development of co-ordinated manoeuvres in multiplayer games as marine shock troops smash in, force a breach and hold it open until larger IG formations come to hold the behind them and so forth.

Cheers as well, Easy E

This is great stuff! Well laid out as well!

konst80hummel wrote:
This is great stuff! Well laid out as well!

Glad you liked it

The form keeps evolving, hopefully towards a more readable piece even though the number of things going on keeps increasing as well. Do tell if there are some aspects you'd like to read more about in the future.

Wow lots of cool stuff in this thread, looks like I have some catching up to do!

 Kroem wrote:
Wow lots of cool stuff in this thread, looks like I have some catching up to do!

Hope you have a good time with it, next chapter might take its time to come out

Very cool stuff. Have you considered writing some practical guide how you do this?

dyndraig wrote:
Very cool stuff. Have you considered writing some practical guide how you do this?

Cheers dyndraig.

I haven't really considered doing that in particular, given that the principles do not meaningfully diverge from the fundaments of various blinded wargames developed during the two hundred years or so we've had after Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel applied to any system one feels suits the purpose. This project is pretty well set for now, though I do of course tweak my approach on every iteration. I guess it could be interesting to write the process out for any curious cats out there as a readily reproducible version. We'll see.

Long time no report, time to rectify that!

The campaign has ground on at full steam, having rolled on for three further battles and many recon missions on the RPG side. I am also in the slow process of writing a practical guidebook for those interested in organising something similiar.

But! Today we're here with our largest report yet, pushing 80+ pages in glorious PDF form that you can find for your perusal here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gr3pvsrwv20hunql9hgkx/AAR-Taranus-Aegis.pdf?rlkey=b34y9dpu08qb9bet4yhueevb6&dl=0

Six players, two months of play, scheming, intrigue and very 40k madness up the wazoo with lots of burning tanks littering the fields as thousands of soldiers and civilians stomp the tortured grounds of Taranus Aegis.
The report contains some crude language, parody of current events and depictions of atrocities one would expect from the grim darkness of the far future. The document is intended to be read as two page spreads.