planet conquest games?

[orkblasta]

I have a question, 'pause for effect'

has anyone written up custom rules for a planet conquest game?

some people may go by a different name and some may not have heard of it before so a brief description. A risk board and when you invade each location instead of rolling the dice to see who wins like in a regular game of risk you do a battle against that person with your 40k army creating a kinda campaign like game.

so has anyone written up rules for such a thing or am I preaching to the wrong crowd?

cheers.

[kenji10000]

I would love to play something like that!! I had the same idea when playing DoW, I'm definitely hoping someone has some rules for something like this ^_^

[logic79]

Isn't that what the Planetary Empires expansion set is for?

[maugrim]

Although it isn't just rolling for it, like Risk, ironically I'm working up a map based campaign system based on a Risk map board right now... Planetary empires is somewhat for that, with additional rules for owning certain types of hexes, etc. But you do battles for each hex with your opponents. Not sure, but I think they're evenly sized battles too.

My main issue with that is: When in a war do you and your opponent sit down and agree to attack and defend with exactly the same amount of forces??

I'm just editting my rules out a little bit more, then I was going to post them on here to get some feedback.

[coredump]

I guy I know hosted a game based on Diplomacy, which might work for you. I will try and track down the rules.

If I don't get it in a few days, feel free to PM me.

[CptDutchie]

I hosted a campaign like that once, I stopped it soon after because of lets say technical difficulties.

[dbgoldberg323]

While Planetary Empires is a great campaign map, it also adds a bit more than "you are here". You have multiple types of structures that you can capture that add a benefit to your army, and if you have more than one of a given structure, you get a bonus.

However, that alone will not be enough to simulate a "planet conquest" game. What my club did was made a rule that the first round games would have to use the Planet Strike mission(s). We had people choose who would be the attacker and who would be the defender, and after that, all battles were normal 40k games with the bonuses granted by the Planetary Empires rules.

Now that's not how you have to run your games, but we all had a blast. I also found that taking a reference picture of the tiles, then putting icons on them with Microsoft Office Publisher (a very easy-to-use program) allowed for keeping people updated on forums.

Here's a picture I used a year or two ago in our campaign:



I was the black dots (using my Orks) and this specific picture is what was shown to people at the start of the week. They would nominate which tile they were attacking from where, and I would add an arrow to the diagram. At the end of the week I would post the picture showing the actions that took place.

KEY:
DIF - Difficult tile, per the Planetary Empires rules
MF - Manufactorum
CB - Command Bastion
SG - Shield Generator
PS - Power Station
SP - Spaceport
HC - Hive City