Horus Heresy Escalation Campaign

[Dave]

Interest in Horus Heresy seems to be quite high (especially as Gary and Mike have now joined the party).

Just enquiring as to the appetite for an escalation ā€œleagueā€ type thing (specifics to be worked out) to help those starting out to build and play their armies.

No pressure, as I know some people arenā€™t motivated by having to meet deadlines and such.

[ErebusMort]

Iā€™ve got decent sized legions, but Iā€™m happy to play smaller games and build up like weā€™ve been doing so far. Would mean I could use some of the more unusual units Iā€™ve got in the smaller games.

[Ray]

I would definitely join in with this

[Mike]

Sounds good.

What should i build first?

[Dave]

Sounds good.

What should i build first?

Cool, I need to have a think on how to make 500 point games viable. I reckon either use the allied detachment force organisation chart or reduce tactical squad min size to 5 (temporarily and only for the smaller games). Iā€™m leaning towards the latter so armies have more units = reactions being less obvious/no brainer decisions.

The rather basic and derivative idea is; we find a planet, it has loads of good stuff on it, we fight for it. The first, smaller games represent your forceā€™s advanced party making planetfall and setting up a beachhead.

With that in mind Iā€™d go for something like:
Centurion (using your praetor model).
2x 5 man tactical squads.
1x 5 man tactical support squad.
1x 5 man heavy support squad.

Which additional weapons do you have access to?

[Ray]

The zone mortalis rules have reduced reactions due to the smaller game size if we can find a copy

[Mike]

Sounds good.

What should i build first?

Cool, I need to have a think on how to make 500 point games viable. I reckon either use the allied detachment force organisation chart or reduce tactical squad min size to 5 (temporarily and only for the smaller games). Iā€™m leaning towards the latter so armies have more units = reactions being less obvious/no brainer decisions.

The rather basic and derivative idea is; we find a planet, it has loads of good stuff on it, we fight for it. The first, smaller games represent your forceā€™s advanced party making planetfall and setting up a beachhead.

With that in mind Iā€™d go for something like:
Centurion (using your praetor model).
2x 5 man tactical squads.
1x 5 man tactical support squad.
1x 5 man heavy support squad.

Which additional weapons do you have access to?

Gary and i have support and heavy (lascannon version)

[Dave]

Are you splitting it so you each have 5 of each weapon? If you are looking to lean in to the chemical flame thrower theme then youā€™ll want all 10 flamers.

Depends on what Legion Gary decides to go with I suppose.

Any of the heavy weapons are a good choice for Death Guard as you can move and shoot with any of them.

I think my list above is a good starter list, 21 models isnā€™t too arduous to get built and gives a solid core to expand upon.

[Dave]

The zone mortalis rules have reduced reactions due to the smaller game size if we can find a copy

Iā€™ve not yet been able to find a copy online but will keep looking.

[Dave]

Mike,

Ray managed to find the ZM pdf (available on the discord) and I think they can work for our smaller games.

The Org chart only requires 1 HQ and 1 Troop as mandatory choices. I think my list above still works but you just combine the two 5 man tactical squads into a single 10 man squad.