Warhammer 40,000 Campaign

[squidy]

I've come up with rules for a campaign I'm going to run. I have a "planet", which will be painted and stuff. Here are the rules:


Starting Out

Deploying:
Everyone starts with one territory on the planet. Territories should be marked with lines discriminating where a territory is. Numbers need to be placed in the territory for terrain set up. In order to see who chooses the first territory, roll a D6 and whoever gets highest gets to choose first. Then second highest, third highest and so on. This roll will also show who gets first turn. Also, in choosing you first territory, you must remain 2 territories away from another player’s first territory.
Spending First Turn’s points:
Everyone starts with 1,.000 points that they may spend on anything while it is their turn. What players buy must start in any territories owned by that player spending (which, on the first turn there is only one territory).

The Rules for every turn

Phases in a Turn
There are three phases in each turn and must be done in the order listed:
Purchasing:
This phase is where players buy anything the game rules allow. Players are granted 100 Points per beginning of each turn for every territory. This may be improved. Here are is the list of items you may purchase:
Units: the points you spend for a unit to move from territory to territory capturing and attacking territories. Price listings in player’s, faction’s codex.
Buildings: Buildings are placed in territories and grant more resources per turn. They cost 50 points and grant 10 point for every beginning of each turn to the player owning the territory the building is located (which means players can capture each others’ buildings so watch out!). The amount of buildings a player may own is the amount of terrain pieces in the territory where the buildings are being placed. In addition, players must replace each terrain piece for each building being placed and the building must be placed in the exact spot as the terrain piece was placed.
Boats: This is only useful if there are bodies of water separating landmasses. With boats you may move units across water from one territory to another where marked. Marks should be made with dotted line. Boats cost 20 points.
Movement:
In this phase players move units from one territory to another. Unforce organized armies may not move onto an enemy territory, unless armies combine to make a fore organized army. A player can only move a unit from one territory to another once. A player can’t move a unit to more than two territories in one turn.
Combat phase:
This phase only take place if one or more units move to a territory owned by a different player. If there are no force organization armies on the territory, the territory becomes the attacker’s territory. If the different player being attacked has a force organized army placed on the attacked territory, a standard Warhammer 40,000 battle starts on a 6’ by 4’ table with the territory’s terrain setup as the terrain for the battle. If the attacker has more points than the defender, the attacker must bump down points to the defender’s army’s point value. Whoever wins game wins the territory.
Special Rules:
Reinforcements:
If a player has two or more squads on a territory next to a territory being attacked, the defender may move units over to the territory being attacked to make it force organized. The units being moved over come in reserves.
Boat movement:
If a player attacks by moving units from one territory to another by water, half the attackers army comes in reserves.

Does this sound reasonable and is it understandable (like no confusion)?

[Elaitor]

It would have to be played for a few sessions, before it is possible to tell if it actually works or not. But for now, it looks good.

[Assimilator]

Certainly looks fun i like the whole idea of galactic conquest! My planet would Flat 5a prime!

[ryshi]

Few questions, is there a point limit on a banner?(provided it keeps up a force org). There are pro's and con's to this. A) a lot of people will try to max a banner before they do ANYTHING which sucks. B) it stops games from getting to ridiculous sized and postponing the campaign so these people can play a game that will take forever.

Are there retreat rules for battles?

When an army is defeated or even wins in combat, is there an army recovery chart?
When i played in a campaign the army recovery chart worked like this, loser gets a -1 to their rolls, winner gets a +1 to their rolls. 1-2 squad totally destroyed, 3-4 squad at 50%, 5 squad at 75% , and 6 squad recovers and immobilized vehicles/vehicles with destroyed weapons are repaired successfully(otherwise we didn't allow destroyed vehicles to be repaired). For armies that were defeated we had them re-appear at their nearest building in D3 turns as if they were running and trying to return to base but have been scattered. This chart helps account for the fact that not everyone in battle that is wounded dies. Also we had it so that any army that fell below force org(and won) would have to return to a building of their control(we made it so armies had to have 2 inch range on one of their structures to buy anything for them) as soon as possible(aka they still had to run back) and once there were unable to act until they had restored force org.

Will you use a supply train system for armies? Aka they are given a "supply train" loaded with resources enough to last them X turns where X is decided by how much they spend. This is normally done by points intervals, such as for every 1k points in an army banner you need X points to keep them supplied a turn.

Are you going to include a random events chart? Like every player rolls on the chart and something happens depending on that. Like perhaps one of their armies supplies run short and is halved(oh we also had a foraging chart for armies with depleted supplies). Or maybe their harvesting resources was particularly bad this turn and it's reduced. Or maybe they had a particularly great turn and they'll get extra? I would suggest a 2d6 system where a roll of 1 wipes out your stored resources and a roll of 2 halves them. This encourages people to spend their points rather than risk losing them.

We also had rules for capturing independent characters/special characters and the captor would roll a D6 to see if they killed him outright, tried to trade him for something, kept him alive for the turn, or did something grotesque to demoralize their enemies if they happen to come back into contact with that enemy(penalty was your army got +1 LD for all battles and the specific enemy to which the captured unit belonged to got a -1 to LD in all fights against your armies). We did however allow the special characters to be "remade" once killed. Aka typhas being a special character you couldn't have more than 1 on the battlefield ever, but if he was killed we allowed him to be re-bought as if he was never fielded.

Oh also a suggestion, one because it's more of a hassle and two because it tends to end badly. Don't make special rules for each different army. For example if you make rules that an entirely mechanized force/all non mechs have a transport can move farther than an army on foot, Nid players will complain.
If you make it so nid players can cannibalize their own to avoid the foraging chart(this is provided you would use a supply/foraging system) other players will complain. If you don't allow nid/necron players to hold a prisoner(special character) based on fluff, they will complain. You get the idea.

We borrowed most of these rules from a campaign in a mad old white dwarf, though that was for a fantasy campaign.

[squidy]

Well first off, I will probably have a point limit for a battle on each territories. If you limit the number of points to use in the campaign at any given time, it might make games too small.

I forgot to add when a squad dies its gone for good. I think rolling for the squad dead is a great idea! It will be for when its still in existence, but at 50% or less. The roll would look more like this: 1-2 Destroyed, 3-4 pay 30 points to get the squad back up to full strength or the squad is destroyed and 5-6 the squad is at full strength for free.

I don't think I'll use a supply train.

Random events would change the tide of the game a little too much in my opinion.

I don't know what I'll do about special characters.

I'm didn't and I'm not going to use special rules for each army, but thanks for the suggestion.

[ryshi]

happy to help, i'd love to hear how this turns out/see the final rules setup!

[Facade [TVTP]]

Alright Max (Squidy), I'll bite. But we're going to have to run a practice campaign battle this Saturday......Also.....is it THIS Saturday at our GW or the next...Because I'm still figuring out my plans for tomorrow.....
Keep in touch

-Facade

[squidy]

Well, I need to paint the planet before the campaign starts, so it will probably start after this Saturday. It might start even after that.

[Facade [TVTP]]

Alright sounds good. I'm going to go see The Dark Knight....now I just need $5 and some time.