Space Hulk 3d board, for space hulk and boarding missions.

One of the coolest things  about the campaign is the special missions ands the inclusion of spacehuk and boarding action games. What is even cooler is that we can play these games on David's awesome 3D space hulk which gives an amazing feeling to the game.  Amazing stuff, some more pictures and comments from David him self comming soon. Aren't we very lucky?

Show us you chapter.

Forces are gathering and chapters prepare for war. The manifactoriums are working at full power.
The progress of our army's are all in many diffrent stages:

• Some people are still thinking if they want to take part or not,
• deciding which chapter to select,
• creating 400,1000,1500 army lists.
• trying to nail the colour sceme,
• assembling their models
• and others painting.

Display your chapter on the blog

The blog need some photos of your work. Get your chapter on the blog for the world to admire!
Be it  assembly or painting or army list we want to see it. You can send pictures of your progress along with some comments about it: why did you chose your chapter? What are you putting in it? How are you going to paint and base it? What parts did you use to make, etc.
My email is dkiourtsoglou@hotmail.com.
I will also try and bring my camera on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; starting from tomorrow.


Display your chapter in the store

Andy liked the idea of each of us painting one marine of our chapter and display them in the store cabinet. I think he will be more than happy to have a part of a shelf for the chapters in the campaign on display.
Its also good advertising for the campaign.

Loyal to the story Bonus / Painted Forces

Loyal to the story Bonus

After releasing the campaign to all the space marine factions I have been thinking of a way to reward players that are using a marine chapter loyal to the story*. I am thinking to give a percentage of points to the players when playing against a non loyal to the story chapter. I am considering a 10% point bonus.

Here is an example. A Marine errants army faces a space wolf army in a 1000 point game.

The marine Errant chapter is loyal to the story while the space wolfs are not. The Marine Errants gets a 10% bonus points of there force which in 1000p is 100 points, about 6 marines or 2 terminators.

The bonus is only applied when playing a loyal to the story army against a non loyal army.

With the allowance of chapters that did not take part in the Badab war and the Loyal to the story Bonus; players are free to use and build on their coexisting armies and those to decide to do or have a chapter loyal to the story get a small bonus for their effort.

*Loyal to the story= Space marine chapters that took part in the Badab war listed in the Imperial armor book. Ultramarines, Space wolfs , Black Templars and Dark angels are not loyal to the story, IG are on both sides.

Painted Forces

To award players with painted armies, at the end of each phase you will be awarded with campaign point if you have painted the following.

Phase 1: you gain 1 campaign point if you have 1000p painted

Phase 2 :you gain 1 campaign point if you have 1500p painted

Phase 4: you gain 1 campaign point if you have 2000p painted.

Also I will try to take photos of all armies during games when present. I can post photos we take on the blog. Photos of battles with fully painted armies I will send to “Whats new today” and see if we can get mentioned.

Nothing of the above is finalized, tell me if you think its fair, unfair or the percentage is too much, on facebook, the blog or in store.

Ultramarines, Black Templars, Dark angels, Space wolfs added to the campaign.

Even though Ultramarines are fighting Tyrranids durring the war, I think I should include them to make it easier for new players and people with an already Ultramarine army to play, You could play them as nova marines or errant marines too. For the same reason I have added Black Templars and Dark angels.
Black templars did participate just before everything went wrong in the Badab sector.
Dark angels a bit confiused and also to bulk up the enemy numbers.
Space wolfs also added because I know about 5 -6 space wolf players and its harsh asking them to make another Marine force. They might have a force in the badab sector and not so happy when Fire hawks bomb their homeworld. Better have painted armies of non participating chapters than unpainted marine forces that are supposed to be some chapter in the Badab war.
I hope there are no objections.

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.

So now there are 5 major chapters included (Ultramarines, Black Templars, Darkangels , Salamanders, Space Wolfs)
I believe that now covers all the marine codex's.
I would still like if players played with chapters in the story, lets not turn it into a ultra -Space wolf war.

If there are any objections let me know.
 I am trying to make it open and easier for everyone to take part.
If you want to change you army now with the new additions let me know, either here or facebook.

Chapter Review: Lamenters

The Lamenters are one of the 4 Secessionist Chapters.  
The Lamenters are belived to come from the blood angel chapter even though they have not shown signs of the red thurst.

More info about them can be found here:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Lamenters

Building an army of Lamenters

First of all this is the only marine chapter in the campaign that uses the blood angel codex so already they are quite unique.

The special character Chaplain Athaloc and the cursed knights veteran squad seem very nice.

Some other advantages the blood angels have against normal marines is that they do more accurate deep strikes (with jet packs), their troops have 1/6 chance to gane red fury, their vehicles are fast , they have priests (FNP) and baal predators.

There is also Malakim Phoros to consider.

Tactics

As I have said before, I think one of the best units in this campaign will be  sternguard vets. But if charged in combat they have no great defensive abilities.

It seems the Lamenters have a good way around this. Their Sternguard  (the cursed Knights) force you the attacker to take  a ld test at -2, if failed they don’t assault, that’s about 50% chance to fail. Even if your enemies do manage to pass the test Athaloc has equipped everyone with defensive grenades.

Priest are another great addition to the army, feel no pain will help you against the opponents vengeance bullets and win you the attrition war.

Every thing is nice in the army, in some cases a bit more expensive than vanilla marines but quite worth it.

Why do Lamenters?

• They are the only chapter that uses the blood angel codex
• You get to help the Tyrant!
• Rewrite the history and repel the savage Minotaurs!

The only true drawback I could find was there chapter symbol and colour scheme but that could also be considered as a challenge.

Campaign Phases and game phase one "Shadows of war".

Campaign Phases

Now that the forces are starting to build it time to make some plans.

As menntioned before the campaign will  be divided in 5 phases, read "About the campaign" post and IA9 for more info.

Talking with  "Wookie"  we though to make phase one last 1 month. 1st of March is a Tuesday so the whole month of March will give us 10 gaming nights (Tuesday and Wednesday) in GW.

We thought the next 3 campaigns to last 2 months since more points are involved.
And hopefully if everyone wants we do the last phase of the campaing (a mega apocalypse battle) in GW HQ.

Phase 1 'Shadows of War'

"Storms clouds gather in the maelstrom Zone as the hubris of  Lugft Huron and the greed of the Karthan Administration light the kindling war. Soon Imperial shipping is attacked and Space marines turn their hands against Space mariens and a bloody legend is writ across the stars..." (IA 9)

Here is a guidling to games/game sizes/ campaing points given for Shadows of  War.


Boarding action/ +1000/3CP Taken from IA9
Battle fleet gothic/500p/2CP
The Massacre at Bellerophon's Fall/2000p/4CP (can be played as doubles with 2x1000p) taken from IA9
Boarder patrols(40kin 40m)/400p/1CP
Space hulk/350p/1CP  - taken from BOLS

* Some Clarification
You dont need to play all the types of games, you dont need to play for the campaign every week.
You dont need to play in the store, it could be at a home or another gaming club. You just need to arrange it with a player from the opposite side, the facebook group (Badab War in Cambridge)
 will be helpful to arrange games.
eg. March has five Tuesdays-Wednesdays say you can only attend 3 Tuesdays and get 2 games per night (400 or 1000p games) thats 6 games, a respectable number of games. We are not going to be " twisting" any ones arm to play toy soldiers!
It would be ideal if players had 1000p of their force made/painted up.

The other missions in BOLS will be used in phase 2.

Please feel free to comment here of on the facebook group about the duration of the campain, the games and more ideas.

Chapter Review Mantis Warriors

The Mantis Warriors were one of the three chapters that fought on the astral claws side. More info can be found here:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mantis_Legion

 

Tactics

The special unit replaces the vanguard vets with a better one.

They have an aditional type of ammo, infiltrate and with MasterMantodea  Scout too. It could create a nice themed sniper army.

Why do Mantis warriors?

This chapter does not come with many selling points, though one player with scout marines and infiltrating scout veterans could be a usefull tool in the war.

• No one has them in Cambridge or at least I have not that I have seen.
• Create a themed scout -sniper army.
• Nice choice if you dont want many vehicles.
• They will probably benefit from IA10 release.

Info taken from:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mantis_Legion
http://www.lski.org/pictures/TableTopGaming/GW/40k/BellofLostSouls/badab-war-v1-0.pdf
Image taken from bell of souls Badab war pdf.