Space Crusade 'Points match'

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on
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So here's an idea I've had for a while and only just got round to sitting down and doing the maths (well getting a spreadsheet to do the maths for me really).

The idea goes something like this; each blip in Space Crusade has a points value on it (infrequently referred to as C.E.R. Value in the rulebooks) and each mission lists the blips it uses - therefore you can work out the total points value of all the blips used in a particular mission. The upshot of all this is that first of all you now have a rough way of rating the difficulty of a mission based on the blips used and secondly if you have a set of custom blips to represent new enemy types you can swap them out for the same points value worth of the standard blips. To put it another way; if you know the points value of a mission the Alien Player can 'spend' that points value on the creatures he wants to inhabit the hulk in the same way a 40k player 'spends' points on an army list.

Ok if can get the HTML to behave now, lets look at an example ... ok screw that ... I'll use a screenshot JPG instead



 ^the above chart shows the total points value for all the standard blips you get in the basic Space Crusade game box

So a mission that uses all the standard blips (such as Mission 7 - 'Clear Loading Bay') uses 152 points worth of blips. therefore using 152 as a target I can now re-work the same mission with a custom set of blips.


 ^so here's the points value for the same mission worked out using only my custom Tyranid Blips (See Here for my custom blips and Tyranid Rules)

A further and at the time of writing unexplored branch of this thinking is that the same principles could be applied to SpaceMarine Squads ...

 ^yes I do know the chapter names, but I didn't have room to fit them into my chart

Now if points values could be assigned to Order and Equipment Cards, Marine players could choose their squads based on a points value .... and as a campaign progresses earn more points to buy in new troops and replace dead ones in a similar way to a Necromunda campaign

As you can see this opens up all kinds of possibilities for expanding your Space Crusade games ...