40k Campaign Ideas/Interest/Suggestions 2015

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Originally Posted by CRP

It would motivate me to paint these Korne Berzerkers.

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Would you be motivated if I offered a $50 DL gift card as a prize for first?

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Originally Posted by RealGenius

Would you be motivated if I offered a $50 DL gift card as a prize for first?

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LOL.......maaaayyyybbe.

Money is always a good way to jumpstart involvement :)

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Originally Posted by RealGenius

I was thinking a pyramid league and I'd be happy to organize it.

A pyramid league runs for a fixed amount of time-- I was thinking six weeks. Every player that registers for the league is shuffled into a pyramid formation. Each week you can challenge someone on a tier higher than you. If you win, you switch spots. At the end of the six weeks, person on top is the winner and we start over.

What would the rules be?

I was thinking 1500 points, Eternal War missions, roll randomly from the book (unless you both can agree on which one to play).

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I like this, simple & straightforward, and having a list to pick names from (essentially) makes an easy inroad for newer people. I assume if someone does not respond to a challenge, the positions are swapped by default?

As an alternative to just randomly assigning positions from the beginning, could maybe do a night of 500 pt games to establish initial ordering.

Is there any reason it would be best to maintain the same points level instead of letting players agree per game? (Just thinking of tying in a build/grow avenue is all)

Eternal War sounds fine, but people seriously need to stop being scared of Maelstrom and random objectives.

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Originally Posted by ViscountAlexandru

An escalation league would interest me, but more than the pyramid thing, what I would find really interesting and I think would be good for us, would be doing an old school style map campaign, with character progression and all of that good stuff. That was what drove a lot of play and built some great friendships when I first got involved in the hobby nearly 20 years ago back in Houston.

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I think that is a great idea, but Jim's right about needing to get more organized for that sort of thing to work best. Don't want to try something so grand it never gets off the ground (see 2014, 2013,..)

However, if you have ideas for developing that style of campaign, definitely bring them forth. Those are a lot of work, way too much for one person to do on their own, so should be a group effort to create.

I'd probably be interested... well, I'm interested, but time and all that. I'd try to commit to it, though.

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Originally Posted by morella888

Eternal War sounds fine, but people seriously need to stop being scared of Maelstrom and random objectives.

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This. Just coming back to 40k from fantasy and many years away I don't know if it is an accurate description of the local meta, but I know that in talking to a great many people I know and respect across the country that the maelstrom missions seem to be one of the best things in 7th, and a really great step in the right direction. Annecdotally it also seems confirmed in the countless bat-reps I have been watching, it seems to make for very fun games and i don't see anyone b*tching about it, to the contrary they seem to love it.

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Originally Posted by morella888

I think that is a great idea, but Jim's right about needing to get more organized for that sort of thing to work best. Don't want to try something so grand it never gets off the ground (see 2014, 2013,..)

However, if you have ideas for developing that style of campaign, definitely bring them forth. Those are a lot of work, way too much for one person to do on their own, so should be a group effort to create.

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Well, I've been away from 40k for well over a decade, so I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough about the current state of the game to run such an endeavor, but I am more than happy to be part of a team and put alot of time into helping record-keep and oversee such an effort, and my job generally allows me alot of flexibility and ability to spend some extra time on things like this.

If we need to walk before we run with a bigger effort like that though, I certainly understand that, especially as I would hate to start something with alot of promise only for it to sputter and die.

Most campaigns sputter and die once one side starts to really pull ahead. Short campaigns are best in these ADHD times.

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Originally Posted by ViscountAlexandru

Well, I've been away from 40k for well over a decade, so I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough about the current state of the game to run such an endeavor, but I am more than happy to be part of a team and put alot of time into helping record-keep and oversee such an effort, and my job generally allows me alot of flexibility and ability to spend some extra time on things like this.

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It's the spirit that's most needed. Especially since it would basically be building something from scratch. Let's see who else has some interest in something like this and we can put together a subforum to plan.

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Originally Posted by ViscountAlexandru

If we need to walk before we run

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We really do. Campaign talk starts happening once or twice a year, but the last one to really go anywhere was right after 6th came out. But we can make it happen again!