Hi Guys, Last session, we tried something new with my local group. It's a campaign revolving around a world map. The plot is here for convenience, it's mostly about creating new game experiences / fun / giving stakes. So here it is, the world map : How to read this map ? Blue zones are called SECTORS. Yellow zones are called REGIONS Each sector has a CAPITAL, represented by either a point, an anchor (port) or a star (airport) A sector in contact with another sector means they share a frontier. Ports do share sea lanes (red dotted lines) that count as frontier to next port. Each airport share a frontier to every other airport (they are all connected). What happens here ? Well, this small planet already had a few colonies and cities (we don't even know if it's lore-wise lol) Recently, it becamed a really important place in it's solar system for travel reasons and opportunities on the planet (resources, no terraformation..etc) Of course, everyone was interested, from Nomads to PanOceanians. How do we play ? What are the rules ? End of the game: If one player is MASTER of the 3 REGIONS he is the winner. otherwise, we stop if it's getting boring. Bonus points : each SECTOR gives bonus points. If you control, as a faction, the more SECTORS of your REGION, you also gain bonus points. Some bonus can also be in swc rather than pts. We have an excel that specify the bonus points. You can use them for any battle in a SECTOR that shares a frontier with your faction. Special rules : Some SECTOR have special rules. As an example, any battle that happen in "NERONTHE" sector must use a TAG (or a 50+pts HI if you don't have any). Special Terrains: Each SECTOR has a Terrain 1 and a Terrain 2. It may be Jungle / Aquatic or Neutral / None. When a battle starts on a SECTOR, the attacker choose either terrain 1 or 2 : the whole table now counts as this terrain type. Random mission: the mission played is always random. You select a random mission then build 1 army list. (it means you know both who you fight and what is the mission) Playing the map : Each one of us, turns by turns, choose one of the following actions : - IMPLANT NEW FACTION : we take one of our vanilla OR sectorials and put them on a specific ZONE of the game. If there are free REGIONS, we must implant in a ZONE inside in a free REGION. This place become your CAPITAL. You gain +5pts on this unique SECTOR - TAKE FREE SECTOR : you can take a free sector that share a frontier with your SECTORS. Any other player can contest this. They contest turn by turn, and only one of them can contest. if no one contests : good, you got it for free ! if some one contests: you do a 100pts battle. If the attacker achieve at least minor victory, he takes the SECTOR ! - ATTACK SECTOR: attack an occupied SECTOR that share a frontier with you. The attacker and the defender do a 200pts battle. If the attacker has a minor victory, the SECTOR is now FREE If the attacker has major victory, he takes the SECTOR from the defender. - ATTACK CAPITAL: Attack a CAPITAL that share a frontier with you. The attacker and the defender do a 300pts battle. The defender auto-wins the LT roll at beginning of the game and he chooses the mission that is played. If the attacker has a minor victory, the SECTOR is now FREE If the attacker has major victory, he takes the SECTOR from the defender. "Oh no, I lost my Capital" : you can point one of your other SECTORS and design them as your CAPITAL. It does generate 5 more pts. "I have several factions" : You can attack yourself and choose to loose, but other players can contest with your defending faction. About region bonuses: your factions count as the same to MASTER a region BUT a faction get REGION points only if it MASTER the REGION alone. "I'm gonna help you": If a battle happens in a ZONE you share a frontier with, you can distribute all or a part of your bonuses to one or both of the players. "No army, No free sectors": you can perform a DEEP STRIKE if you have no more FACTION in play and if no SECTOR is free anymore. To do so, designate a non-capital SECTOR and do a battle of 200pts with opponant. You have a bonus of 50pts for this game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of rules ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How it went ? That was really nice. Most of the games were 100pts. But with sector an region bonuses, armies tend to go around 130pts and sometimes more swc. Each mission was quite unique and fast, and the feeling of seeing your faction extending over the map is awesome. The introduction of assymetric points/swc limit was a bit frightening, but in the end it's really funny and makes the rule "I'm gonna help you" quite political ^^ Overall, the experience is great and we didn't meet any issues. I'll do the campaign report on next post.
First session : We are 3 players : Tobi Cyp Gweg (me) This session was all about implantation. Here is the log of what happened : --------------------------------------------------- Tobi implants OSS in Garabie Cyp implants HAQQ in New Ankara Gweg implants IA in Belli Tobi attacks Néronthe with OSS, Cyp contests with Haqq. OSS minor victory ! Cyp attacks République du lac with Haqq, Gweg contests with IA. Haqq major victory ! Gweg attacks Casus with IA, Tobi contests with OSS. IA major victory ! Tobi attacks Coeur de pierre with OSS, Cyp contests with Haqq. IA gives his bonuses to Haqq. OSS minor victory ! Cyp attacks Désert des roturiers and is not contested. Gweg implants TAK in Tulie. Tobi implants MO in l'Île aux morses. Cyp attacks Jungle Rhénienne Ouest with Haqq, Gweg contests with TAK. TAK major victory ! Gwegimplants TJC in Wakanda. -----------------------------------------------
