Campaign Overview - Battles 1 -3

After the initial successful planetfall by the Orks, they quickly overran the northern half of the planet. The only resistance left in the 3 planets of the system was due to an heroic effort of Imperial Guard forces lead by the local garrison of Ultramarine 8th reserve Company.

Calgar promptly sent a relief force which he personally lead and brought the entire 4th Company with him. Calgar initially gave command to a respective Librarian.

Calgars initial plans to launch a counter attack utterly failed with the Orks destroying the counter attacking force, forcing the Ultramarines to play by Ferotous cunnin' plan.

Ferotous took the battle to the front lines and whilst he won a tactical victory, he was seriously wounded in a challenge between the two leaders in single combat. Calgar in his attempt to salvage the defenses, left Ferotous, who was rescued by his lucky mascot and banna waver Thesaurus MA.

To prepare for his next encounter with Calgar, Theasaurus has done extensive cyborknetic work on Ferotous. A few centimeters under his skin Ferotous now has enfused with his flesh scrap metal that makes his skin as tough as Mega Armour and had to replace a large chunk of his jaw with a metal one. Ferotous has been made considerably tougher by this surgery.

Calgar then took the battle to Ferotous. Knowing this was a Ork leader he had bested before, he vowed to finish the job and leave the Orks leaderless. He lead a ambush attack on Ferotous who escaped with his life - however the Orks paid a heavy cost in terms of deaths.
The Waaagh! was in trouble. Ferotous had been shown wanting twice at the hands of Calgar, and the other orks had noticed. Ferotous had to leave the front line and restore order in his Waaagh! This meant Ferotous was not able to lead his armies personally and had to allow the attack to be led by Komminzar UnTrogg and Admiral Grabba, Bosses of the Blood Axes.

In terms of the game, the scores are 2-1 to the Orks in overall victories. We both have one campaign card. The Orks get to pick the next mission.

The Campaign System

We have decided  to play a system Edd devised. Its broken into 2 turns.

There is a Campaign turn (lasts about 5 minutes!) and a Mission turn which is a full battle.

We agree on a points list (say 1750) and then prepare an army list each. Before the battle we play a campaign turn.

To start we have a deck of cards with missions on (a pool of approx 9 cards each) which we shuffle and draw 3 from. Each card has one of three mission types (Logistical, Strategic and Tactical). The players who campaign turn it is then selects a mission from his deck and we play the mission as detailed on the card.

Just a few of the examples of missions we have created:

Last stand mission - one side is outnumbered but must defend as long as possible.
Danger Ground - the battlefield is struck by bombardments during the battle.

Convoy - escort a vehicle through checkpoints.

City fighting - based on cities of death.

Whoever wins that battle earns the card which will contain a very small reward of some form for the major battle at the end.

Next time we play the other player has his campaign turn and gets to choose a mission from his deck.

The major battle is triggered by one of 3 events.
1) As soon as a player has 3 cards of the same mission type
2) We run out of missions

3) We get bored and both agree

The major battle will be some form or stronghold assault/Escalation super fight - ideally in the 3000-5000 points range. Hopefully there will be an ork stompa!

Finally after the Major battle there is a showdown battle. A small skirmish battle of super bad ass kill teams fighting in an heroic style. Ideally with the two warlords getting their hands dirty in hand to hand! This is inspired by the climax of the original Black Reach, where Captain Cato Sicarius and Zanzag met in combat to decide the outcome of the whole battle.

There is ultimately 4 results possible - 

Ultramarine major win - Ultramarines win the Major battle and also the showdown!

Ultramarine minor win - Ultramarines win the Major battle but lose the showdown!

Ork minor win - Orks win the Major battle but lose the showdown!

Ork major win - Orks win the Major battle and also the showdown!