40k Campaign Ideas/Interest/Suggestions 2015

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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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I was dead set against Maelstrom, but all the tournaments and games I've played that combined Maelstrom with Eternal War were not only fun, but also helped balance a lot (you have a much harder time grabbing points with those swooping Flyrants and Adlance formation....). You can significantly improve the experience further by letting people discard cards that would have been impossible at any time during the game (i.e., opponent's list has no buildings or psykers). You can also leave off the Maelstrom missions that are a little tougher (like the one where you only draw as many cards as turns it is or as many objectives as you're holding).

There's also the brand new set of Maelstrom cards that Adepticon is releasing, which they claim they developed after a whole lot of playtesting new cards.

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Originally Posted by Nick

I was dead set against Maelstrom, but all the tournaments and games I've played that combined Maelstrom with Eternal War were not only fun, but also helped balance a lot (you have a much harder time grabbing points with those swooping Flyrants and Adlance formation....). You can significantly improve the experience further by letting people discard cards that would have been impossible at any time during the game (i.e., opponent's list has no buildings or psykers). You can also leave off the Maelstrom missions that are a little tougher (like the one where you only draw as many cards as turns it is or as many objectives as you're holding).

There's also the brand new set of Maelstrom cards that Adepticon is releasing, which they claim they developed after a whole lot of playtesting new cards.

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Pretty much everyone plays with discarding the impossible ones, the rules should have been written that way (but then we all know GW and their penchant for rules writting and playtesting ...), but from what I've seen it seems to as you said ballance things out well and make for fun games.

I love "modified" maelstrom. Simply because scoring objectives DURING the game is the best thing that could possibly happen to the game random or not.

Yea the reason a lot of people hate maelstrom missions, myself included is the random nature it provides for objectives you can't possibly get. I despise those so much! However, if there's an effort to correct that part of it, then it's not so bad.

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Originally Posted by Caldera02

Yea the reason a lot of people hate maelstrom missions, myself included is the random nature it provides for objectives you can't possibly get. I despise those so much! However, if there's an effort to correct that part of it, then it's not so bad.

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Yeah I felt the exact same when I first saw them. The discard rule helps a lot. Once you get rid of the stuff that would have been impossible at any point during the game, the cards encourage balance to a large extent - makes it harder to win with a list that doesn't invest in any cheap or mobile scoring units, or a list that goes all-in with just shooting or just assault or just spamming one very killy unit. It also allows some mandatory units (cultists, immortals) the opportunity to be useful with controlling and scoring parts of the board potentially each turn, rather than just sitting there most of the game as some force org tax without a lot of offensive power.

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Originally Posted by Caldera02

Yea the reason a lot of people hate maelstrom missions, myself included is the random nature it provides for objectives you can't possibly get. I despise those so much! However, if there's an effort to correct that part of it, then it's not so bad.

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I guess when I made my statement, I assumed the discard. Because that is such an easy fix and I can't see why anyone would argue with that change. If you get punished because of your list choices, then yeah, that's on you.

I dunno, impossible missions would be very grim dark. :)

"You can't possible get this objective-- welcome to the 41st millennium!

I think I would be interested. Not sure what kind of time committment is involved, but if it's just once a week, then I can probably do it.

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Originally Posted by RealGenius

I dunno, impossible missions would be very grim dark. :)

"You can't possible get this objective-- welcome to the 41st millennium!

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There's the theme for a campaign!

I would be down but I am playing Harlequins