Designer Challenge: Renegades Edition
Hi everybody,
It’s time to reveal the next big campaign book headed your way. The Badab War is looking like it will be a whole lot of fun and we have just “broken ground” on it. It is still a ways off, but I would like your input on a couple of points while we are still at a formative stage.
First, it is my intention to do this campaign book a little differently. BoLS is firstly a community of enthusiast gamers, and I want this next effort to reflect that. Expect to see many more design challenges regarding the Badab War book as the Fly Lords “widen the circle” and bring you all inside the design group. You guys really helped keep me on my toes with the Arbites Minidex, and I hope to expand on the dialogue with Badab.
Now onto the actual design challenge. The Badab War is a setting of rebellion, misplaced honor and tragic mistakes. The chapters involved range from the loyal, to the duped, to the truly treasonous.
GW has given us 2 codices to fill this wide spectrum, the Space Marine and CSM codices. We are told that if you love the Emperor you use codex A, and when you renounce him, you use codex B. Badab however gives us a concrete example of chapters at the knife edge of decision. To me, it seems odd that on Monday your chapter is loading up the droppods, and polishing the Thunderfire Cannons, yet on Tuesday is summoning daemons and unchaining the Defilers.
My question to you our readers is what is the ideal framework to build armies for this campaign. With the extreme cases such as the Astral Claws and Salamanders the codex choice is clear, but what of the “mushy middle” chapters? Also take into account the timeline; Badab is pre-13th black crusade and defilers had not been sighted yet. Remember too that all the armies need to be balanced and fun. No one paints up an army and signs up for a campaign just to get slammed against a wall for seveal weeks in a row.
~Welcome to the exciting world of campaign design, its gonna be a fun ride! Let’s hear your thoughts. May the best ideas win.
