Force Organization Charts

[kanageddaamen]

What exactly is the purpose of the Force organization Charts. I have not seen an instance where a different one from the standard one is used.

Has any one ever used a force organization chart other than the standard one?

[romorini]

I think I have once. For a campaign we used a few of the special scenarios, one of which was ambushing a convoy. I think I had required fast attack choices. There's a few specialized armies in the codeces that play around with the FOC chart, Dark Eldar Wytch Cult, the old Craftworld Codex, and the Farsight Enclave come to mind. That's all third and fourth edition, I haven't gotten a lot of time to spend with the 5th edition rulebook yet. I hope that trend continues, I get a kick out of armies with a lot of caracter like that.

[Psychichobo]

The general purpose of the force organisation chart is to stop people from doing things like taking lists full of heavy supports...

Chaos Space Marines mess with the FoC, they get those vanilla daemons not taking up FoC requirements. And Space Wolves get that strange HQ rule..

[kanageddaamen]

Right, I know why the standard one is there, but they reference it as "Force organization chart for that mission." Do they just have it like that to leave different army configurations for Missions published later? Do they publish new missions in places like White Dwarf?

[Hyper Kinetic]

In the old rule book, they had an Alternative Organisation Chart section whereby someone would be designated Attacker or Defender and they had different FOCs. For example, a "Battles" game would have the attacker with the standard chart but the defender had one less HQ and two less Fast slots.

[Aux]

Before I played 40k there was somthing called 3rd edition. They had some missions in there where you had to have certain FOC used up

[WestRider]

In 3rd Edition, the alternate Force Org Charts were much more commonly used. In 4th, they still got a little bit of use, but not much. Now, I think they're pretty much just a House Rule, for Scenarios you make up yourself or get from some other source.