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Here is the thesis of my force: “Of Fetid Tongue” Chaos Space Marines (Creations of Bile) & Chaos Daemons (Nurgle) Bile has made a deal with the putrid Prince of Nurgle, Gorbulix, The Grand Tender of Grandfather’s garden. What foul rewards Bile hopes to gain from the maggot kin is known only to him but he has sent a small force of his most dependable marines, The Scourged, to assist the daemons in befouling the planet and summoning an “Exalted One” from his prison deep within the planet.

I will be there to get the "official restart" of the Crusade on the way. Here is a link to the nitty gritty house rules and such: https://www.ordofanaticus.com/topic/217073-40k-crusade-the-unofficial-thursday-night-crusade-starting-september-22nd/page/3/#comment-2457738 Also feel free to post a brief (or not so brief) outline of your army (who you are running and a quick reason for being there) on the main crusade thread This is completely optional but fun narrative kinda stuff for those who want it. Here is the thesis of my force: “Of Fetid Tongue” Chaos Space Marines (Creations of Bile) & Chaos Daemons (Nurgle) Bile has made a deal with the putrid Prince of Nurgle, Gorbulix, The Grand Tender of Grandfather’s garden. What foul rewards Bile hopes to gain from the maggot kin is known only to him but he has sent a small force of his most dependable marines, The Scourged, to assist the daemons in befouling the planet and summoning an “Exalted One” from his prison deep within the planet.

So here is the official outline and base rule set. If anyone has any amendments or questions please let us know. We will be running a escalation style crusade. We will be using the Tempest of War card set to determine game missions. We will be starting at 500pt games then ascending by 250pts every 2 weeks for the 500 & 750 point games we can have up to 2 games a week. I will post the weeks points and game info on the game night forum. We are using the standard crusade rules amended with the following house rules: 1- We are using points in stead of power level. each roster starts with 1000pts and if you use RP to increase your point pool it will be adding 100pts 2- Every time we advance a game point tier you will receive a free 250pts of points you can add to your roster. This is meant to balance out the bonuses we miss out on with not using the standard crusade missions. 3- Command points be as the standard 2021 rules: 500pt games: 3 CP start with 1 added at the start of your command phase 750pt @ 1000pt games: 6 CP start with 1 added at the start of your command phase 1250pt and up games: 12 CP start with 1 added at the start of your command phase 4- Agenda's can be chosen before the Primary Mission card is drawn. 5 - Table size is to be agreed upon by the players before the deployment card is drawn. You can choose to use the standard size recommendations in the rule book or you can do what ever size both opponents agree upon. *Optional narrative fluff. I will be attempting to do a little fluff stitching to help give the games more of the campaign feel. This is not necessary for play but if anyone wants to participate it this please send me a quick idea of the force your running and why your here. Setting is below: Setting is an imperial mining planet Taros 781, the lone planet in a far off system on the edges of the known universe. The system, Taros Prime, consists of a modest size sun, ringed by an asteroid belt, followed by Taros 781 & its moon, then another wider Asteroid belt. These belts, known as “the problems”, causes much grief for the imperial settlements on the planet, small asteroid strikes are common, though the larger ones can be spotted and dealt with easy enough. On top of the errant blast of stone the rare minerals of both rings cause many communication problems. The locals are forced to communicate with a Dark Angels cruiser outside of the furthest ring of asteroids which is then relayed out. The planet is the base for mining of the asteroid fields as well as mining on the planet itself. The local bureaucrats are quite secretive about what it is exactly they are mining. Most of the on planet work is done by the prisoners of the local penal colony on the planet and a small contingent of skilled civilians. The population of the planet is small by most Imperial standards, civilian populations are scattered number only several million. Next to a small regiment of conscripts of the local imperial bureaucrats, the military forces tend to shift dependent on the needs of neighboring systems. The system’s remoteness has kept many “outside” problems away. In fact it has been quite a safe haven in a troubled universe, but something stirs in the dark. Rumors abound of cults amongst the prison population. Strange sightings of objects in the asteroids or the occasional unknown craft noted in the outer reaches of the system and yesterday all communication with the Dark Angels cruiser has been lost. Scanners that work show the ship is still on patrol but all attempts to reach it has failed as of late. Perhaps it’s nothing…"

Also at low levels knights can be problematic…some people might not bow out against knights at 500pts but I’m sure they will be plenty of people who will take you on (I fear no one, cus I lose more than I win anyway;) )@Brother Glacius if anyone else has any input in knights let us know 🙂

Crusade is meant to be different from competive and the tempest of war plays different from tournament stuff that said if you bring knights expect that people will bring “the heat” cuz knights can get pretty brutal if one isn’t ready i know I’ll re-think things a bit if knights are on the board 😉

thAT is correct sir

Great questions …we will be working on Rule set along with some house rule stuff to clear up using the ToW cards i will hopefully have it posted by Sunday and obviously we can abridge anything we miss also since we are going to be doing an escalation type crusade we are going to hit the “reset button “ and start fresh this Thursday last night was awesome but I think we can get a little better organized in the future keep any other questions coming, I know my wife thinks I’m perfect but I’m just a humble pirate and need as much as you peeps will give. 🏴‍☠️

@Brother Glacius combat is one of the more nuanced parts of the game good news is that we will be starting next week as an escalation style crusade and playing a bunch of low level games is a good way to get a hand on the rules without it getting too overwhelming we will be starting from scratch as well just to flatten the curve so if you want to tweak your crusade lists feel free

Great open tonight! The turn out was awesome and it was great meet up with everyone next week we will officially start. We will post the layout soon and begin the Madness!

I have a necron codex you can use for strats and such I think it helps having a book, as i am old. 😉 Ill bring it tonight

come on down, this is not just a crusade night

bad ass!

Awesome!

you can always come and game when you can, we can just mark it up to The Chaos side of the Dark Angels mucking them up 😉

CRUSADE IS ON BABY!!!! here is the official, unofficial page for it: https://www.ordofanaticus.com/topic/217073-40k-crusade-the-unofficial-thursday-night-crusade-starting-september-22nd/page/2/#comment-2457579 We are going to work out all the details on Thursday and hopefully get the first round of games in. if you like you can rough out a 1000pt crusade roster but it may change depending on what we decide on Thursday

Also if we need some imperial influences I can rough up a Guard force…the 138th Penal legion is a bit scattered but I can pull it together

Play what ya like, I’m sure your CSM and mine will be quite different that said I do have a lady est edition Necron codex you can use if you need one

yep and possibly a Squat army as well (yes they are still squats and always will be 😉 )

Cool @BigMick37 looking forward to seeing some pirate ork madness on the field! For anyone else planning on coming please post on the Thursday night gaming page https://www.ordofanaticus.com/topic/217298-922-ordo-fanaticus-game-night-at-wow thursday 4pm-9pm/P We are looking to start with teh nonsense around 5pm, if thats not good let us know...

I’ll be there to kick off the Crusade! I’ll be there 4ish but thinking whoever is in for the crusade we can aim for 5 to get plans made and maybe even a game if 5 doesn’t work let us know and we can adjust!

Try not frustrated, the whole idea is for this to be fun (my intention at least) This Thursday is just a leaping off point no pressure intended and i hope that after we get things together it will be less stressful and more fun

In wouldn’t look at it as ‘need to’ but ‘can do’ you can just have a concept and some minis. And touch it up once we get in. Also I’m planning on be there early as possible on Thursday, 4ish and I can help you get you up to speed in 9th if you’re free also There is a number of command point options that we as a group will discuss on Thursday which we want to do

Typically standard battle forge rules apply, for example; you would have to take separate detachments of imperial army’s but there is no penalty for doing so outside of the CP cost Outside of that maybe just bring a small amount of various armies your interested ( you seem to have a bunch of options) in playing see what others are bringing and decide from there. I’m bring my chaos marines but I might be open to other options in case a good story line pops up

That is correct!