WHFB Campaign Rules

by Anvar

I recently ran a campaign in my games club for which I created a whole bunch of new rules. I thought I would share these with you for any comments and suggestions you may have.

My WHFB Campaign

Contents

• Expanded territory chart
• Armies with Mage leaders
• Random events
• Losing territory
• Popularity score
• Injury and death

New Territory Chart

Roll a D88

(Some of these were borrowed from other people but I am afraid I know not from who, if you recognise any of this please let me know).

Campaign Rules

All the rules for campaigns as described in the Battle Book, as well as WD 211 and 212, apply with the exceptions and additions noted below:

Armies with Mage Leaders

Skaven, Chaos Dwarfs and Chaos.

These races may only have a wizard as a general if they have the territory allowing them a wizard of that level. So a Chaos Dwarf army with a temple, could have either a CD lord, or a CD sorcerer lord as a general. If the CD had only a shrine, they could only use a CD lord.

Lizardmen

May take a Saurus lord as the general if desired. If a SMP is wanted he may only be of the max. level the territories possessed by the Lizzie player allow.

In the case of CD and Lizzies, the wizard general counts as both Mage and General and therefore takes two slots of characters allowed.

Undead

May use any of the 3 generals without restriction. But must stick to having the same general for the whole campaign. If a Necro lord is taken and he dies he is then immediately replaced with a Liche with the loss of all his experience. Your army may no longer have a Necromancer lord. A Liche or Vampire that is killed is presumed to resurrect themselves, but at the loss of all experience.

Landing Sites

Each army lands on a randomly determined bay.
Armies which can ally who are in adjacent landing sites may swap territories if both players agree.
If there are battles between adjacent bays, both sides have an extra 50 points, as it is easier to get troops to the battle.
If a battle is fought against someone who is more than 3 bays away, both sides have -50 points for the opposite reason.

Random Events

After every battle is fought roll a D6, on a 6 there is a chance that a random event has occurred, see WD 212.

If you lose 3 battles sequentially, you lose 1 territory. This applies to all games, they do not have to be against the same player. If this takes you below 3 territories, you must leave your bay, land somewhere else and generate 3 new territories.

Every general has a popularity rating from -5 to +5. This represents your troops loyalty, and how your subjects feel towards you. The exception to this is Undead. This is because they have no feelings.

If you win a game, you get +1 popularity score (PS). If you win by a margin of at least 6 VPs, you get +2 PS. If you lose a game, you suffer -1 PS. If you lose a game with no troops left on the board, you suffer -2 PS.

A scandal event gives a -1 PS, a rebellion event gives a -2 PS. When the event ends, so does the penalty.

The effects of PS are NOT cumulative, only 1 result applies.

5) They love you! Monthly "We Love Our Lord" days are planned. 50 pts of troops flock to your banner, +3" command radius.
4) Your troops have the utmost confidence in you. 40 pts of troops sign on for your army +2" command radius.
3) Your citizens really like you, an extra 30 pts of troops rush to join your army.
2) The Population like you and an extra 20 points of troops join your forces.
1) Your army is beginning to respect you as a commander.
0) Starting level, your troops and citizens are undecided.
-1) Your troops feel slightly discouragged.
-2) Your army is unhappy with you, a feew malcontents desert, -20 pts.
-3) The warriors of your army have onlyy a small degree of confidence in you, -30 pts due to desertion.
-4) Some of your warriors feel embarrasssed just to be seen with you, more desert, -40 pts.
-5) Your troops really hate your guts, and have no belief in you whatsoever. 50 pts desert, and all your troops have -2" command radius.

Injury and death

If a character is "slain" in battle he is not necessarily dead, roll on this table after the game.

In addition roll a D6, 1-4 nothing extra, 5- bitter hatred, hate the enemy model or unit that took you down, 6- horrible scars, cause fear.

Injury table

Experience

These rules effectively replace those given for elite bonuses for characters in campaigns. They also replace the rules for the Victorious General bonus. These rules allow your heroes to get better as the campaign progresses. As with the old rules you must name your characters if you wish to benefit from experience. The exception is that champions count as part of their units, if their unit rerolls their attacks so does the champion.

All characters start with a different level of experience representing the experience already gained to reach their level. This is different for the different types of characters.

If a character fits into two or more of these categories, always take the higher level of experience. These rules do not apply to Wights or Wraiths who are not able to learn from experience as they are not thinking creatures.

After a battle is fought work out experience for the characters who were not slain. These are worked out as follows:

• +1 for surviving the fight.
• +1 per wound caused by the character.
• +1 per character slain if it is not a heroic feat.
• +5 per heroic feat performed. ie something that would have got you an elite bonus.
• +2 for each spell successfully cast by a wizard that isn't supposed to cause wounds.
• +4 for the winning general.

These bonuses are cumulative, for example a High Elf Lord kills a Beastman lord in hand to hand combat. Beastman lords have 4 wounds, and are the same level as a High Elf Lord (so it is a heroic feat). The High Elf Lord gets 9 experience points. (4 wounds + 5 for Heroic feat).

If the experience points takes a warrior into a new bracket of experience points (see above), then you roll a D8 on the following table.

If a character does not use a missile weapon, count 1-2 as +1 WS.

Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Skaven, Orcs, Goblins, Lizardmen cannot have a strength or toughness of more than 6. Slann cannot have more than 7 in either.

Skills roll a D6 to determine from which table you must pick your skill. Note that you can choose which skill you want from within the table. You cannot get the same skill more than once.

Warriors

Miscellaneous skills:

Combat skills:

Shooting Skills:

Race Specific Skills

Wizards

Wizards roll a D6 on the following table. Re-roll duplicate skills except for skills 2 & 5 which can be gained many times.

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