Monday, September 7, 2009

Follow Up: The Optimal Game Size

So I discussed with the guys about getting a 1000 point leader board going, and Ansel (who should be posting at some point....) put forth the idea to make the leader board into a campaign. We decided to use planetary empires as our "bigger picture" map.

The problem we ran into is that we only want to paint 1000 points per person of their respective armies. So how do we play a campaign with only 1000 points of models per person? Is it possible? I don't plan to answer these questions in this post, I am literally asking you 40k players who see this post to help me out and try to help come up with a way of playing an entire campaign with just 1000 points of models. 

We were thinking that a planet strike-esque first battle would be cool, with the objective to be for the attacker to destroy things like AA batteries (represented by the d3 + 2 objectives mission), and it would be a 500 point battle, then to have an even battle at 1000 points each where the attacker needs to try to control the city he is attacking and the defender needs to try to wipe out the attacker's presence on his territory (the bases mission) and then a final kill points mission where the defender has whatever survived the last battle (to a minimum of 500 points) and the attacker has a full 1000 point army, and the attacker needs to take at more than half of the enemy kill points. If the attacker completes these 3 missions (at 1 large game turn per mission mind you) then he has successfully taken a city.

We were thinking that we should say that each city has a full 1000 point garrison at all times (so every city can defend) but your "general" (which is not an hq choice on the board but an imaginary figure who controls EVERYTHING) can only be in 1 city at a time, and only when he is in a city can it attack a neighboring city.

We were also thinking that dawn of war-ish rules like the space station (so that if your general is in a city with a space station you can attack any enemy city) would be cool, to add flavor to the game.

Anyway, this is just a start and much c&c is needed! 

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