Re: Space Crusade: The Rise of Chaos

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jan 20, 2011; 10:56pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Space-Crusade-The-Rise-of-Chaos-tp5934242p5945762.html

Cool stuff!

I've had a read through of it and I'm going to try out some of your Chaos Space Marine rules in my games.

Mezillious wrote

- Some kind of knockback effect when two commanders attack each other. When one meets another they generally hack away at each other until one is dead, which practically ends the game for that player. Thinking of an effect where if a commander injures another commander they are wounded and teleported a distance away - maybe 1 or 2 rooms, allowing a regroup.

I'm not sure about the knock-back effect being required. I don't think we've ever had this problem in our games, yes Commanders have met in battle (we've even run Marines Vs Marines Deathmatch games of Space Crusade). I think the problem might lie with player tactics; in my experience; since in SC you have the option to 'walk out' of close-combat commanders (or any other models) are not locked into a shin-kicking match like in 40k. This means players (and the GM) have the option to use tactics along the lines of supporting your command in close combat by keeping you marines in close formation, avoiding hand to hand between commanders through careful maneuvering of your troops or trying to avoid directly engaging an opposing commander by keeping the monsters between you and them.

Mezillious wrote

- Also, extra alien event cards are needed to accommodate the larger board. Thinking of using some Eldar attack cards to use.

Future plans:
- Replace Alien Chaos Marine with a squad of Orc Shootas or something similar. Also, replace dreadnought with Killer Kan or something similar

I've got some ideas for extra event cards I'll be posting soon and if you'd like I could do up some blips for an Space Ork Dreadnought and other creatures