Galactic campaign

[Spyrogaux]

I was thinking of a Battlefleet Gothic/ Warhammer 40k campaign,

basically, you start out with a set number of points, and travel across the galaxy. you map a course, and when you reach your destination system, you go down to battlefleet gothic.

you try and capture ( or devour ) the main imperial planet/s in the system.

each fleet has several transport ships, each carrying 300 points. when you have fought through the defenders in space, then you move you transport ships, and deposit your units.

lets say that you have a hive ship, several cruisers, and 6 transport ships, and the enemy has some # as well. you assault their fleet, while your transport ships slip by them. 3 of them die, but out of they're 4, 2 die.

you are assaulting a hive world, so the garrison is 300 points.

in the 40,000 battle, you each have 900 points, and so on.

chapter planet- 1000 Pt's garrison
mining planet- 100 point garrison
forge world- 300 point garrison
holy Terra- 15,000 point garrison.

and so on in the value of importance.

, but this would require a huge map, any ideas?

[Jason]

What I'm seeing is pretty small scale stuff. Unless you are scaling it to the thousands of points, than this calls for pretty small games. Mapping courses through the galaxy would only take the size of what some of the codexes have.

The big thing is all the different campaigns required for each system. Each system has a certain amount of planets, and those planets can vary wildly in nature. Each planet does not consist of only one city or habitat. There are usually provinces or continents that would be needed to be taken out before the planet is finished.

A chapter planet itself has a fortress (IA apoc), at least a few companies for protection, not to mention their own fleet, air support and civilization that they recruit from. Be more like a minimum of 10,000 points for that.

A mining planet may be a few thousand points because of the PDF guard. Not including AA guns, anti ship guns, and other thngs.

A Forge world would have more than a chapter planet. At least 20,000 points. All the titans they have, and entire regiments of skitarii and tech guard. All with supporting artillery and flyers. Plus fortresses.

Terra itself? Don't even try it. The system alone has a sector fleet for itself. Companies of marines are stationed there. Also the Grey knights HOME world is in system also. There is also Mars and Luna to help defend. They also have the adeptus custodes and imperator titans guarding the palace. And several regiments of guard garrisoning there. Plus, there is the ordo psykana and the inquisitors stationed there as well. Minimum points for land fall, not even close to the palace, would be around 50,000 points. The palace could sport a good 100,000 points, definately more.

If BFG is fighting system wide, then yes big board. 40k stuff, you'd need boards that out range basilisks.

[zzapper]

You'd need something along the scale of football fields for a single battlefield, probably get away with using a basketball court for half a continent if you used Epic models

[Jason]

One continent would not be done in one game. Each continent would have its own campaign, in those would be city or provincial campaigns, done at different points values. The planetary campaigns would be exactly like how GW did Medusa V and their other nation-wide campaigns.

[CylonDorado]

Feb 15, 2009 9:42:37 GMT Jason said:

What I'm seeing is pretty small scale stuff. Unless you are scaling it to the thousands of points, than this calls for pretty small games. Mapping courses through the galaxy would only take the size of what some of the codexes have.

The big thing is all the different campaigns required for each system. Each system has a certain amount of planets, and those planets can vary wildly in nature. Each planet does not consist of only one city or habitat. There are usually provinces or continents that would be needed to be taken out before the planet is finished.

A chapter planet itself has a fortress (IA apoc), at least a few companies for protection, not to mention their own fleet, air support and civilization that they recruit from. Be more like a minimum of 10,000 points for that.

A mining planet may be a few thousand points because of the PDF guard. Not including AA guns, anti ship guns, and other thngs.

A Forge world would have more than a chapter planet. At least 20,000 points. All the titans they have, and entire regiments of skitarii and tech guard. All with supporting artillery and flyers. Plus fortresses.

Terra itself? Don't even try it. The system alone has a sector fleet for itself. Companies of marines are stationed there. Also the Grey knights HOME world is in system also. There is also Mars and Luna to help defend. They also have the adeptus custodes and imperator titans guarding the palace. And several regiments of guard garrisoning there. Plus, there is the ordo psykana and the inquisitors stationed there as well. Minimum points for land fall, not even close to the palace, would be around 50,000 points. The palace could sport a good 100,000 points, definately more.

If BFG is fighting system wide, then yes big board. 40k stuff, you'd need boards that out range basilisks.

Ahhh. It's times like this when I really think they should make a 40k movie....

[Jason]

Ya... Just pick a book or a little snipet in the timeline and expand on it. Gigantic battles, space battles, additional fluff. A recipe for a grade A++ action movie.

[Spyrogaux]

I believe I left that out...

the battles would represent large battles, but smaller.


I have also been thinking of 4 different organized campaigns,

to the galactic core
to the holy Terra
to ultramar
and to some other hated species

[Jason]

You should do smaler campaign first to get a feel of the organization it take to do them first. Then think about a multi-campaign campaign. Do a planetary one first which may take a few months, then a the ones that your a thinking about doing.