2011 Fall Narrative Campaign - Imperials v. Tyranids

[rtmaitreya]

Hi BoLS lookie-loos,

The So Cal league just kicked off our fall campaign for 2011. The rules are pretty tight, and good for people with a wide variety of attendance availability. I thought it was interesting enough to share with y'all.

Goals were to keep the concept simple, use the "new" planetfall and spearhead rules (which haven't been used much around here yet), and grow the size of the games so people can concentrate on painting and modeling up to size.

Let me know if anyone has trouble with the linkie, and I'll mail you the copy of the 1-pager.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8chvzDFVuL4NjY1M2MzMWMtNzQ1Mi00ZGI0LTg5MTM tMGJjYWFlNmVmNDRh&hl=en_US

RTM

[JohnHwangBoLS]

Comendably, it fits on ONE PAGE - bravo!

Personally, I'd make the following suggestions:
1. distinguish between heavy Tanks and Transports
2. set game sizes clearly as small or large, by month
3. play a month of "regular" 40k battles before moving to Planetfall / Spearhead.
4. smaller advantages / disadvantages (Dec is way unbalanced - spearhead with someone hamstrung on Monsters / Vehicles just doesn't seem fun) - prefer to hand out some number of re-rolls / Mulligans / die "fixers", or option to raise / lower Battle Point stakes by +/-1.

Sep = 250 / 400 pt squad-based Kill Team:
1-2 Troops;
0-1 Elite / Fast; 0-1 Transport
NO HQ, NO Heavies, NO Monsters!

Oct = 500 / 750 pt small, limited 40k battles:
1 HQ, 2-4 Troops;
0-2 Elite, 0-2 Fast, 0-2 Heavy

Nov = 1000 / 1500 pt regular 40k battles:
1-2 HQ, 0-3 Elite, 2+ Troops, 0-3 Fast, 0-3 Heavy
(standard FOC, no limits on Monsters / Vehicles)

Dec = 1500 pt 40k / 2000 pt Planetstrike / Spearhead games
per 40k / Planetstrike / Spearhead

Jan = 2000 / 2500 pt Apocalypse battle
0-2 Apocalypse Formations
"winners" allow 1 extra formations

Something like this.

[JohnHwangBoLS]

LIKE
- campaign fits on 1 page of paper!

SUGGESTION

This is not a bad campaign, but I'd suggest the following tweaks:

Sep - 250 / 400 pts Kill Team
1-2 Troops, 0-1 Fast, 0-1 Elite, 0-1 Transport; NO HQ & NO Heavy

Oct - 500 / 750 pts limited 40k
1 HQ, 2-4 Troops, 0-2 Fast, 0-2 Elite; 0-2 Heavy

Nov - 1000 / 1500 pts regular 40k
standard 40k FOC; no special restrictions

Dec - 1500 regular / 2000 pts Planetstrike 40k
per 40k / Planetstrike

Jan - 1500 regular / 2000 pts Spearhead 40k
per 40k / Spearhead

Feb - 2000 / 2500 pts Apocalypse 40k (@ OrcCon)
0-2 Apocalypse Formations; 0-1 Superheavy / Gargantuan

comments

Why the changes?
1. like matched armies for games, because it feels "fair"
2. prefer to play 1500 pts of regular 40k (Nov) before moving to Planetstrike & Spearhead (Dec & Jan)
3. prefer to keep 1500 pts of regular 40k as a valid option (KISS)
4. prefer to move the big game to the Con (Feb)
5. prefer to see Mech as a valid army with Transports

[Lunar Camel]

Sounds good. When and where are they being played? Is the new So Cal website up yet? Would love to play in the league again.