For those of you who attended either of the past two events in PA, you have heard the rumors...Joe and I are going to to run the Campaign weekend. On the ride home Sunday we hashed out the beginning details.

We want to run a true campaign weekend over a 2 or 2 1/2 day weekend. We are targeting a weekend in May 2012 and are looking to run the event in the Newark, Delaware area. It's centralized, has lodging close and has a club location that can accommodate our needs. The event will include some resource management, a "living" battle line that will ebb and flow, communication during game to a centralized command is utilized, etc. Best to think of the game as a massive table, say 3 tables x 3 tables where breaking through lines via marching, teleporting and dropping on any table is encouraged. Armies brought need to be thought of as resources in a resource pool and assigned where needed, offering a "real time" response to players actions on the tables. Each round or so, messages will be sent to a supreme commander for reinforcements, status of your part of the line, etc. These messages will be influenced/garbled by in game happenings and objectives lost or held.

There's more, but for now we are looking for players and what you can bring.

Some of the rules we are not bending on are:
1. This event will be based on the Third War of Armageddon. Therefore Orks and Imperial forces only (marines, imperial guard, sisters). Sorry, but the theme is important. Hopefully this will encourage people to dust off some minis or start a new project with some focus. We would like for players to keep to the actual armies present in the storyline, BUT it is not required. Marines are marines and Orks are Orks. For an idea of who/what showed up and in what quantities see the Epic Armageddon Rulebook page xxx or this website: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Third_W ... Armageddon
2. ALL models must be painted and based - no exceptions. We are planning to create all the terrain to be themed. We want this event to be something you will remember, will talk about for years and will want to participate in again. Non painted stuff ruins the experience.
3. This is a FUN experience! This is NOT a competitive event! Though smack talk is welcome :-) I don't think any of the Ork players, Bill or Dave could do without it!


Up for discussion/fact finding for now:
1. September/October 2012 - its 9 months out and give plenty of time to organize. A 3 day weekend would make a better experience.
2. Who wants in? What side do you want to play on?
3. How many points of Orks/Imperial do you have painted or can you have painted by May, not including titan class or air support?
4. How many points of Air Power or Titans do you have painted/can you have painted? We have something in mind here....
5. In order to pull this off the way we want, being comfortable with allowing use of / using other peoples models would help (a detachment here or there in support as needed). You will play your army, but as things die, they may get recycled as drop support, fill holes in lines, etc.
6. Team captains would be a HUGE help in herding the cats...err...players and keeping them on task. Joe and I will have our hands full with terrain, rules, special stuff, and some house armies to push the event over the top in terms of quality. Any volunteers for the Ork side or Imperial side?
7. Would anyone be interested in not actually playing epic, but actually being the Supreme Commander in his bunker processing data and plotting and planning your sides resources on a strategic level? Your battle plan could make/break your side winning or losing. think of the Supreme Commander playing more a complex board game.

If you can think of anyone who would be interested but was not emailed, please forward this to them. Let us know what you think.

We really look forward to hosting an event of "epic" proportions (excuse the pun, couldn't be helped) not like anything you have played in.

Wow I'm jealous, sounds cool.

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Sounds very good. Wish you all best for this!

I'm in. I have 4k point in scorpions and 11k in BA.

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Ok after some consideration and feedback, it appears next fall in the Sept/Oct time frame will be the event.

If interested let us know what side you prefer to participate on and what you have/will commit to have painted by then. Thanks and will be posting updates bi-monthly/weekly as we move forward.

thanks!

for anyone interested in playing Marines, here's a photo of the colors of the Chapters present. I tried to put chapter/squad marings where appropriate. I went with the information listed on this site:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Third_War_for_Armageddon#Space_Marine_Chapters

If you have questions on how they are painted, let me know!

In order front row, left side, then next base back, next base back, then front row front, etc:
Angels of Fire
Angels of Redemption
Angels of Vigilance
Angels Porphyr
Black Dragons
Black Templars
Blood Angels
Celebrants
Celestial Lions
Exorcists
Flesh Tearers
Howling Griffons
Iron Champions
Marines Malevolent
Minotaurs

FRONT ROW RIGHT:
Mortifactors
Omega Marines
Raptors - there are several color schemes i found. I went with the most interesting.
Red Scorpions
Relictors
Salamanders
Silver Skulls
Sons of Guilliman
Space Wolves
Storm Giants
Storm Lords
Subjugators
White Scars
Widowmakers - could not find anything "official" but found an army painted online by a hobbyist.

Sorry for the lack of news, but my professional and personal life dealt me a really bad hand and would not give me anything good for about 2 months. They say things happen in three's, but I am proof its more like 14's...LOL. I escaped bruised but not broken (yet at least).

Anyway, Joe and I have been ironing out some basics and counting up what we have and such. One such idea is for us to have some "core" stuff for the supreme commander guy to dole out to the tables as added support. We wanted these things to be some armies players may not typically have in their collections, but were present at Armageddon and some may have been crucial to the war, such as the Blood Angels and Salamanders. There are many of chapters/units that no one ever thinks of making in 40k let alone epic. We wanted to represent those "forgotten" units as well.

We have gotten 5 Space Marine Battle companies built. They will be painted as Flesh Tearers, Angels Porphyr, Angels of Redemption, Relictors, and Storm Lords. Joe is working on the Howling Griffons and White Scars as well. Simple 100 marine companies, with some support. Nothing fancy. Should also add some color to the table too, huh? I also plan on building some Celestial Lions, Black Templars and Salamanders. We have a friend Chris who is all over the Blood Angels so we have them covered. If we have time and some extra minis, i will do up some other more obscure chapters present.

We also have gotten 10 Imperial Guard companies/regiments built. They will be painted as 3 Steel Legion, 1 Monglor Ogryn Auxilia, 2 Jopall Indentured Squadrons, 1 Arcadian Rifles, 1 Necomundan Spiders, 1 Polax 41st "Shock", and 1 more Death Korp of Kreig to add to my personal army. I have Death Korp and Savlar ChemDogs already done in epic scale to add as well. Also, I would like to get some Sisters of Battle, Cadians, Elysians, Catachans, Armageddon Militia, Armageddon Ork Hunters, Vahallans and maybe some Skittari done as well, but I need to get some forumware/DRM/more plastics in order to pull that off.

Orks have not been looked at to heavily yet, but they are on the to do list. We jumped to imperials first, well, because its what we own. Plus all the story is written from the imperial point of view and does not offer much as to what Ork Warlords did what. Research and creative license will fix that though.

So we are on our way and slowly working towards a nice finished project that everyone reading this is invited to in the fall of 2012. Right now it still appears to be in the Newark, Delaware area. We had an offer to run it at another location a little north of DE that we are entertaining, but the time line may not work...

Also, please keep on the look out in the trade section on the forums/Bartertown (I am farseer there as well). I am going to be purging the hoarded game stuff I just wont use to help support this endeavor, so i do have some trade bait odds and ends. We are looking for loads of extra "spare" minis for both orks and imperials. Infantry mounted on square bases will be removed and put onto strips so the look is consistent for all "house" armies". Painted is ok as long as I can strip it easily. Plastic vehicles are ok, as they are "spare" support stuff (though I would prefer all newest versions, i cant be picky on a project that's a hobby and no money to fund it). Anyone just throwing something you think is junk away, PLEASE contact me! I can make something out of it, even if its dead bodies and wrecks for the 9+ tables we are looking to build.

So consider that begging for extra stuff for free. If for some reason we don't use it, I WILL send it back to you...

Keep you up to date as we have more.
Patrick

pm sent dude :-)
Best of luck with this :-)

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Farseer, why are you painting up the armies when you can have the folks showing up just bring theirs? Personally, my Elysians are virtually done. It seems like the terrain would be a priority.

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I agree with Moscovian. I thought the idea was for us to bring our own minis.

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We absolutely want your armies to be present. The event could not be done without them! Your armies are the core of the game and are the full sized armies to be used.

What we are doing is painting up some basic, core infantry for some of the obscure chapters/regiments present and ones that had some impact on the story. Think of these as mini 1000 point "armies" of mostly infantry that the Supreme Commander guy can allocate as some support on the fly as the chapters show up to Armageddon. I also just want to be certain some factions are present to keep the look and feel like the Third War of Armageddon. Massed units of mixed chapters/regiments. Some of the story element we have going will require some chapters/regiments to be there and many of those chapters, no one has. I doubt anyone has a Celestial Lions army done....anyone?

These will be painted fast to ugly table top quality too. :-) Kidding! Besides, I have no other hobby projects to worry about this year! (except the recreation of the Battle of Hel Fenn in warmaster scale...right Joe? Any takers there?) And I NEED to get back into my hobby in 2012 so this Epic Campaign will keep me focused, allow me to paint up my personal collection for the greater good and most of all keep me out of Gamer A.D.D hell!

And by having all these extra chapters, we can plan for the next event we want to run And last, by committing to these, I can purchase them without remorse or grief...the wife fully endorses this project!


As for scenery, Joe has come up with a loose timeline and with the way he cranks out terrain when he has help (me and a couple of "volunteers), we should be fine time wise. right now we are looking at 9-12 tables worth based on responses of who raised hands initially to show up. Once we have a concrete date and get closer to the event we can get a better head count and requirements. Another reason to wait a little longer. Once Joe gets back in country (he's been gone over a month) he and I are scheduled for a get together and put the blade to the stone...

As always, thanks for the input and concerns! Please keep me focused and on target!
Patrick

thank you MoK! PM received and I pm you right back!

Fair enough. Just wanted to make sure.

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This sounds like a great idea, and it's pretty close to me.... I'm in northern va. I'll send you a pm!