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Warhammer 40,000 Campaign
Spring/Summer 2009

Location Ideas

1) Based in a single system bordering the Eastern Fringe.
2) Starts as a one planet campaign, escalating to three planets, a whole system and eventually an entire sector of space. Somewhere in the Segmentum Solar?
3) A continent on a war ravaged planet. Small strike forces from each faction strive to control key locations and objectives in the cities (which will be highly detailed. I.e. cities are fully mapped and laid out, plains/grassland/jungle etc mapped as per engagements)

Plot/Storyline

1) Following from current timeline, the campaign is set in the dying embers of .999 M41. Depending on which location is chosen, a number of factions are planet side fighting over key objectives as the war progresses.
Player narrative will drive the story forward and some hints given as to the start of the war and its impact on the wider conflict raging across the planet/system/sector.

2) A Hive Fleet is fast approaching the target (planet/system/sector) and all forces are fighting over material/relics/VIPs etc before the evacuation/pull out begins.
3) The Factions involved are set upon a path to war due to some behind the scenes act (assassination/deployment/recon etc). Skirmishes become gruelling battles, lines are drawn as battles erupt into total war.


Factions

All Possible: The Speartip Alliance, The Crusade of the Saint Carmine, The Serpents Lair, Confederation of Angels, (Nec’s Necron forum?), others yet to be contacted.


Objectives

Enemy Faction’s HQ, Power Plants, Hives, Townships, Starports, Military Compounds, Mountain passes

Campaign System (Or how it all works)

Map’s created as per previous campaigns, with additional detailed mapped cities and hives providing new detail not yet seen in campaigns. Every faction member has one army that can post one battle report a day. Narrative is not restricted but must either expand or follow the storyline given. Members from opposing factions may involve themselves in each others narratives if permission is given.

Movement of armies tracked if factions gain control of certain locations (comms towers, special recon units?) on the main map? If Possible this would give additional new feature to the campaign.
Movement ruled by ‘tiling’ system on the map. Each army moves one tile per week, this can be increased if certain objectives are met or location captured.
Battles occur if armies move onto the same tile. Battle report written by owning players and posted. Votes declare the winner of the battle, obviously means a well constructed bat rep will win more votes than a short one.

Special Units/Characters

Imperial Guard Recon Team: Has gained important information on enemy movements and army size. Grants the owner the ability to track enemy army movements. May be recaptured.
Chaos Renegade Unit: Ogryn unit/Psyker Choir/Sorceror/Traitor Governor?
Necrons: Tomb Complex/Buried Monolith structure/Teleportation system?
Tau: Air caste relay station/Fire caste command bunker/water caste
Tyranid: Spore Chimenys/New Organism (Foetal stage/spore/in Imperial Lab)
Eldar/Dark Eldar: Webway gates/Relics of ancient elder empire
Orks: Imperial tech/industrial sectors/warboss leading waagh

Planets

Saxony System? New System with named planets contributed by members of all factions

TO DO:

Declare Campaign Idea
Set up Forum for the Campaign:
- Thread for Planet names
- Vote on Campaign Name and Location
- Factions/ players declaring interest and involvement
- Draw up maps of planets and cities and release pre-campaign for players to familiarise themselves with layout.
- Come up with basic campaign rules
- Battle report scoring system to be set up
- Come up with story and open narrative for players