Variants on a Theme

Its blue moon time people!

Thats right, Edchopp is writing a blog post, like the occasional unwelcome fart in a space suit it is time for me to contribute what I can to this blog.


Just a quick one from me, I would like to introduce you to some scenario ideas I had while recording the last podcast. Realistically these are just variations on Take and Extract but my main thought was to take away the idea of 'home' objectives. Which hopefully would force players to come out of their deployment zones in order to fight over the delicious sweet objective meat sat in the centre of the field.

Bare with me on the diagrams, they aren't massively accurate so you'll need to apply a bit of logic to your set up and work around my idiocy.

So without further ado, I present to you two variants of my scenario idea.

Rolling Strike:

Number of Players: 2
Army Roster: Standard
Deployment: All Battle groups begin the game in readiness. Fast Mover Squads start in Reserve.
Duration: 6 turns
Victory Conditions: The player with the highest number of Victory points at the end of the game is the winner. The player with the highest Kill points is the winner in the event of a Tie.

Special Rules: All buildings are hardened.

Set Up:

•  Three large buildings spaced evenly along the centre line each with an objective inside.
• Any number of small to medium buildings elsewhere.
• A Focal point 12" on from each players deployment edge and 24"away from either flank (Green circles) and outside buildings.

The idea of this  scenario is for the players to fight over the central objectives rather than giving up on their opponents 'home' objective and just demoing it. The focal points adds that end game tension I really like when your trying to work out just how your gonna win! Plus if your unlucky on the objective rolls then you still have a shot at clawing back some points.

Also all the buildings in this scenario are hardened to ensure that unintentional demo units don't spoil the fun and to push players to dedicate proper firepower in order to bring down buildings. Although feel free to play without hardened buildings.

Rolling Strike Variant:

Number of Players: 2
Army Roster: Standard
Deployment: Direct Deployment up to 6" onto the table no further than 12" away from the players corner. Units in Aerial Transports begin the game in readiness. Fast Mover Squads start in Reserve.
Duration: 6 turns
Victory Conditions: The player with the highest number of Victory points at the end of the game is the winner. The player with the highest Kill points is the winner in the event of a Tie.

Special Rules: All buildings are hardened.

Set Up:

•  Three large buildings one at the central point and another two in the centre of the empty quarters, each with an objective inside.(Orange Circles)
• Any number of small to medium buildings elsewhere.
• A Focal point in the centre of each players quarter and outside buildings. (Green Circles)

I added Direct deployment to this scenario to help out those units which are a bit slower than most so that they would at least have the option of maybe going for the opposing players focal point.  The diagonal direction of this scenario will lend an interesting dynamic to the deployment and hopefully you'll still fight over those central objectives.


Anyway I've really enjoyed fiddling about with these scenario maps and I shall probably come up with a few more in the near future. Please let me know in the comments if you play either of these scenarios and if you have any feedback about them. Also if you have any other ideas for generic scenarios go ahead and let us know. I'm always looking to spice up my games.

Happy Hunting peeps.