War in Yrack

A War All The Time Campaign

Players Information

RULES

The idea of this campaign is to get WATT players to actually play.

Game Turns:

• Game turns will be of approximately two months duration, probably shorter for the first few turns as the territories are established.
• Games will be played at WATT organized game days when we can get together and individual games will need to be played as well.

Players:

• Players can choose to be a Primary or a Secondary, depending upon their time constraints.
• A Primary player will run their own army for as many turns as they are able, with the hope that they are available for a game every two months (one turn).
• A Secondary player will be called upon to play when a Primary player cannot make time available for their game this turn. At WATT game days Secondary players will be allocated games.

Yrack:

• The Campaign will be played across the Yrack sector of the galaxy. Within this sector there is two types of territory, empty space (may not be that empty) and planetary systems.
• Planetary systems are known by their single, inhabitable, conquestable planet, there are over 50 planets in the system. All beautifully detailed by head scribe, Kano.
• Each planet has several qualities; Name and History, Type, Terrain, Population, Reinforcements, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Occupied by.
• Planets are worth Campaign points.

Your Army:

There are two army lists per player, a Master list and a Game list.

• To begin the Campaign players choose an army of 4000 points, this is known as your Master List, when you are writing your Game list you must choose characters/units/vehicles from your Master list.
• The Master list does not have to conform to any mission/detachment format BUT you will be playing games with armies that will have to fit normal detachment rules.
• You will not need the 4000pts of miniatures, only the miniatures for the army you field.

e.g. Your Master list can have three Whirlwinds but if you only own one you can only field that one.

• Units and vehicles are counted at base cost value in your Master List, but upgrades must be counted in your Game list. The exception is skills and Chaos Marks, if you want a squad with skills or marks you must pay for it on the Master list.

e.g. Master List – 10 Blood Claws @ 14pts ea = 140 points, Game List - 10 Blood Claws @ 14pts ea = 140 points plus two powerfists @ 12pts ea, ten meltabombs @ 4pts ea = Total squad cost 204 points.

• Characters must include upgrades and wargear on the Master List, this is considered their personal equipment, not from the armoury. This does not stop them getting more equipment as the campaign continues, up to the maximum allowed by the army list.
• In the Master list transport vehicles are purchased separately from squads. They must be assigned to a squad as normal in your Game List.

e.g. My Khorne Berserker army Master list may have 10 Rhinos and a Land Raider in the garage, to be assigned as necessary (can you visualize the quartermaster trying to get a Berserker to sign for receiving a Rhino).

• When a unit is damaged or destroyed in a game models and points must be removed from your Master list.
• Unit/Vehicle destruction follows standard Victory point conditions.

If you lose less than 50% of a squad, or a vehicle is mobile and has weapons intact, it is considered unharmed at the end of the game.

50% casualties or damaged vehicle (immobile or weapon destroyed) you have lost half the points value of that squad/vehicle.

100% casualties, falling back at end of game or destroyed (immobile and no weapons) you have lost the total points value of that squad/vehicle.

e.g. For a ten man squad, you lose four in the game, less than 50%, their mates patch them up with band-aids and they all walk away fine, no change to your Master list. If you lose six, 50% or more but less than 100%, then only one survives the band-aid treatment and five (50%) walk away, If you lose the lot, 100%, then no-one can apply the band-aids and they all die.

• If a squad is reduced to less than the minimum number of models, as noted in their Codex, it remains on the Master List, but that squad cannot be fielded in a Game list.

e.g. A six-man squad of NoiseMarines loses 50% in a game, that squad is now a three-man squad, it cannot be fielded as it is below 5 models.

• The Master list can be built back up to a maximum of 4000pts by using reinforcements from the planets you control.

• Planetary populations will reinforce specific sections of the army list

e.g. Forge Worlds reinforce Heavy Support, Hive Cities reinforce Troops.

• Planetary populations will reinforce only a certain number of points.
• The average reinforcement points across the 50 planets of the Yrack sector:

38% of points are allocated to Troops with an average per planet of 200pts.

24% of points are allocated to Heavy with an average per planet of 140pts.

22% of points are allocated to F.Att with an average per planet of 130pts.

16% of points are allocated to Elite with an average per planet of 100pts.

HQ can be reinforced from any category at twice normal points cost, i.e. 200pts of Troops gets you 100pts of HQ.

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WoMD):

• Spread across the Yrack system are several WoMD.
• When you claim a planet that holds a WoMD you will be given the description of that WoMD and can use it in games.
• WoMD are worth Campaign Points.

Start of the Game:

• Each Primary player will be allocated a random Territory to start from.
• These Territories will be known as the Home Territory for that player.
• Home Territories will be specific distances from each other to ensure a reasonable “Territory grab” before hostilities commence.
• Each Primary player will receive a portion of the map of the Yrack system detailing the territories adjacent to their home territory.

Turn Sequence:

Each turn a player may:

• Scan an adjacent territory for information on one of its qualities, your choice of which one - Name and History, Type, Terrain, Population, Reinforcements, WoMD, and Occupied by.

Inquisitor Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: A territory can only be scanned once by a player, so an individual can only find out one quality of a planet by scanning.

• Move one Territory. This Territory must be adjacent to a currently owned territory. If the Territory moved to is currently occupied by another player, or there is a planetary defense force, a game of 40K ensues.

EXCEPTION – Empty space - the attacker always wins, but no points are lost from either side.

• Calculate losses from game and remove from list.

e.g. So maybe I lose one Rhino, damage another, lose a full squad of Berserkers and half a squad of Possessed, take them off the list.

• Add up reinforcement points from occupied territories, use reinforcement points to repair vehicles, add to damaged units, get new units.

e.g. In the above example to replace these losses I need 50 points for the destroyed Rhino and 25 points for the damaged one which can come from any section (Elites, Troops, etc), 176 points to replace the Berserkers (8x14+8x5 Mark of Khorne+8x3 Furious charge = 176) from Troops, 128 points to replace the possessed (8x22+8x5 Mark+8x5 Talons= 256/2 for 50% casualties = 128) from Elite.

If you have two 10-man squads of the same type (incl. Skills + Marks) reduced to 50% then the remainder may combine to form a single, new 10-man squad.

• Reinforcement points can be used to buy new characters/units/vehicles not listed in your original Master list.
• The minimum squad size that can be purchased is the minimum number of models that can be fielded as per appropriate Codex.
• Any reinforcement points left over are lost, so it is worth buying a squad with minimum number of models and adding to it later to use up points.

Games:

• Points values of games will be determined by the players involved but may be limited by points available to players from their Master list.

e.g. If you’ve been on a losing streak and your Master list is down to 1100 points then you can only field 1100 points in your next Game list.

• Each planet has unique terrain, the Campaign Gods will advise you of the terrain to fight over.
• The Mission will be determined by the Campaign Gods, choose your Master List wisely as we will attempt to play as varied missions as possible.
• The terrain of the Planet will determine the board set-up and the rules used. The rules variants are: Standard, Jungle, and CityFight.
• Game Lists must be drawn from available units in the Players Master list.
• Each Army gets a Free-of-Charge Army Banner (could everyone please model a banner for their army). The banner cannot be carried by an independent character, though it may be in their retinue. Other types that can carry the banner are Elites, and Troops.
• The banner is assigned to a unit at the start of the battle.
• Army Banners confer +1 to resolution of Hand to Hand combats.
• An opposing force can take the Army Banner if they destroy the squad holding it in HtH. If the squad is destroyed by any other means the banner is lost.
• Units winning a Banner must hold it for the rest of the battle, but they may lose it in HtH as well, a Banner may pass back and forth several times.
• If you have the enemies Banner at the end of the game it is placed back at your home territory as a symbol of your victories, Players must keep track of Army banners won and lost. You don’t bring Banners won to the next game, but you do bring your own even if you lost it last game (someone sewed a new one for you).
• Army banners are worth Campaign points.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction are treated like Army Banners but they can not be destroyed (exceptions may occur). If a model with a WoMD is killed, place the model on its side. Any model may move to the prostrate figure and take the WoMD by spending the Assault phase next to the figure and not engaged in HtH. If the model taking the WoMD is a character then that character may be able to use the WoMD immediately, as long as they fulfill the requirements of the WoMD use. If the model taking the WoMD is a grunt then they may pass the WoMD to a character if in base contact for an assault phase and not in HtH combat.

Extra Stuff:

Alliances:

• Only players with compatible forces can form alliances.
• Reinforcement points may be exchanged between allies at double normal costs.
• Allies may share map information.

Bonuses:

• Not all Planets have WoMD, but they may have other bonuses.

Lines of Supply:

• If a player has a long chain of territories and that chain is broken then if his army last fought past the break in the chain (away from Home Territory) then the player has only what is left after the last battle and any reinforcements available from Planets also in the isolated territories (past the break in the chain).