LO Meet 2006 - Main weekend event.

Vote: 40k Campaign

Just with a little thinking about it this is what I came up with. Try doing a simple node campaign with about 4 missions for each player that is interested. Divide the players into two teams and give the campaign a common storyline. At each stage you have certain objectives that need to be fulfilled, but the teams can work out which player they want to tackle each objective giving a bit of strategy gaming.

Level 1 - The offensive forces land
Offensive Forces - Objective 1 - Secure the Spaceport Tower to allow reinforcements (Take and Hold)
Objective 2 - Conduct a Night Time Raid on the Facility from another angle to guarantee control
Defenders - Objective 1 - We have spotted a weakness in the enemy landing zone. Hit this spot and break through to assist our other forces (Offensive forces would defend on a rearguard mission)
Objective 2 - Seek and Destroy any landing forces.

So in this first part four battles would be fought (8 players over two teams), each team gets an equal opportunity to attack and defend and the players from each team can allocate who gets to take each role, eg they may send the Imperial Guard player with armor to defend the spaceport and the dark eldar player for the counter attack.

After this throw in some KillTeam, some Combat Patrol maybe to speed things up and work from there. This is just an idea though. A map could be drawn up to give the fluff/story background.

A campaign would be great, get some of the fluff-masters onto working out a background.

The campaign form being basically a more fluffy tournament, I'd prefer everyone to submit their say 1500pt army lists and then develop a nice story. Then we could post the results and what happened (and to who...) on here. The "LO" campaign.

We need to decide first - setting. I say Eastern Fringe simply because we might get Tau players popping up and that's the only place that makes sense for them.

We need to decide the campaign objective - a mighty Chaos Artefact? A lost Imperial Titan? Some ancient Eldar weapon from before the fall? (I particularly like this idea, as it would be a useful plot hook for the Necrons - think Winter Assault) Or alternatively some Necron installation?

For "sense" purposes, it would probably be best to explain the various Imperial Forces as part of a crusade, otherwise it is non-sensical that they would all happen to turn up at this same spot independantly.

Then we need to work out plot hooks for the various factions. Using the example of the "Eldar Weapon" (such as the Talismans of Vaul/Blackstone fortresses) e.g.:

Chaos presence: There to capture the artefact and corrupt it.
Imperial presence: There on crusade to destroy the gathering forces of Chaos.
Eldar: There to recapture their weapon against the Necrons.
Necrons: There to prevent the Eldar regaining their weapon.
Tau: Alarmed by the incursion of so many armies near their borders, and so investigating in force.
Tyranids: Splinter fleet attracted by the accumulation of biomatter.
Orks: They just like to fight

I'm sure one of the many worthy authors/fluff-meisters on the site will be able to write a narrative introduction, and then a narrative conclusion from the results.

Addoran - I like where you are going with this, sounds like it could be fun.

The main reason I suggested a structured campaign is due to the time constraints of playing battles. Even with the best will in the world and two full days in Warhammer World, things take time to set up, battles go on for a long while and people get the "OOO shiny" response to things in the GW store/miniature gallery :yes: .

By committing to a sort of structure before hand there is a good chance of getting some cool battles in. The only thing to watch out for then is when the structure starts impeding peoples ability to have fun, but if its kept short and sweet I hope that wont be a problem.

Maybe people try and bring
1) A Kill Team List
2) A Combat Patrol List
3) A 1,000 ish point force

This way there is potential for small games over quickly as well as large battles that won't go along too long unless we group people together (Megabattle!).