[Chaos] CitOW Game 22 - Round 3. Braining peasants for fun and points.

Nought

Welcome to Chaos in the Old World, Fantasy Flight Games' boardgame take at Games Workshop's famous fantasy IP. In this game, players take the role of one of the four Ruinous Powers of the universe. Speaking of which, I believe this calls for some introductions.

Variable as Khorne
Khorne loves long walks on the battlefield and nights alone with the recently deceased. He enjoys handywork, and has even so constructed a throne for himself from nothing but the skulls of the living. He's always on the lookout for new blood - in the most literal sense possible - earning him the title of "The Blood God." If Khorne were a flavor of ice cream, he would be Berserk Banana.

El Skid as Nurgle
The other white meat! Or in this case, possibly white pus. Nurgle, now with 300% more pestilence! This is Great Unclean One with the new Nurgle Treatment, and you won't believe it! Have you ever been traveling around, and all of a sudden you wish you had brought your horrific ailments with you? But how are you going to fit it all in your bags? Well that's easy with the new Nurgle (or as we should say, the Old Nurgle)! Watch as it spreads the epidemic over the entire countryside as you pass. And if you order now, we'll throw in this free plaguebearer. Call now!

Rius as Tzeentch

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lodwilk as Slaanesh
"Working for Khorne? It's ok, I guess, but I worry about my future prospects. You know how I'm probably going to die? Not enough blood left in my neck. You know how those Slaanesh dudes over there are probably going to die? Too many orgasms.
You can see my consternation." - Khorne Thrall
As the Prince of Pain and Pleasure, some might say that Slaanesh 'goes both ways.' His followers don't quite have a 'lust for battle,' but enjoy the 'corruption' of the aristocracy. He finds subtle usurping 'invigorating,' and sometimes even so much that he just has to release his 'keeper of secrets.'

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This will be a Play-By-Post game of Chaos in the Old World.

Sign ups are being taken from the discussion/general sign up thread. Spots will be offered to the top three players on the main list there, along with the top host.


[RULES]
[FAQ]

OP stolen shamelessly from Rend; board graphics courtesy of MrBlarney

Previous games, aka recommended reading before playing, are linked from the CF Boardgame Index

General discussion thread for Chaos in the Old World is available here

Nought

From Rend: A QUICK TUTORIAL ON CHAOS IN THE OLD WORLD

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-The Turn Phases-

The Old World Phase

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This phase is much like the crisis phase in BSG, the infection phase in Pandemic, or the "Bad Stuff" phase in any cooperative board game. Except this game isn't so much "cooperative" as it is "petty". Each turn, events will take place in the old world, and this is when they happen.

Every turn one old world card will be drawn, and its effects will be resolved. If there are any choices to be made, the power with the least threat will make those choices. (Threat is determined by who has advanced their victory dial the farthest)

Note: There are only 7 cards in the Old World deck. If the cards have been exhausted, the game ends at the end of the turn. If nobody has achieved a victory condition, the Old World has won- and all players lose.

The Draw Phase

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During this phase, each power draws 2 cards, except Tzeentch. Tzeentch draws his hand up to 5. Also, this is when each player refreshes their Power Points to however many applicable.

The Summoning Phase

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This phase always starts with Khorne, and goes:
Khorne
Nurgle
Tzeentch
Slaanesh

Starting with Khorne, each player may either summon 1 figure or play 1 chaos card. In order to do so, you spend Power Points. The cost for figures is the circled value on your power's card. Then there are also attack and defend stats, which will be explained in further detail in The Battle Phase.

Chaos Cards each have a cost directly following their name in your Google Doc. Additionally, if the cost of your card is followed by M, that means there is a magic symbol on it. If you play that card onto a region, that region gains 1 magic symbol.

Chaos cards are played directly onto one of the nine regions. Each region only has room for 2 cards, but they are cleared at the end phase after all effects are resolved.

If a player chooses neither to summon nor play a card, he passes and his power points go to 0. He may not play again this phase.
Additionally, if a player reaches 0 power points for ANY REASON, they may not play again this phase, EVEN IF THAT PLAYER HAS 0-cost cards or effects. Once you reach 0 power points, you are out of the turn phase, and are skipped until the next turn.

If you have no figures on the board, figures may be summoned to any region. If you have at least one figure on the board, you must summon to that region or an adjacent region. Figures may be summoned either from your reinforcements, OR from the board itself. There is no discount for summoning figures from the board, it simply allows you to move figures instead of summoning new ones if you wish. You may summon a figure from a region in order to place him in an adjacent region even if none of your other figures are adjacent to that region (ie, a single figure can "walk" across the entire map alone).

When making a play during the summoning phase, your entire post should be colored properly. All summoning phase plays should include the PP (power points) remaining, and you should fully quote the text of any Chaos cards played.

The Battle Phase

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In this phase, dice are rolled. All combat is considered simultaneous, however, hits are chosen in the Order of Play (Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaanesh). Each figure with at least 1 attack power rolls a number of dice equal to that attack power. Any dice of 4 or better are hits. The player then designates those hits among any enemy figures in the region.

You may not allocate more hits than necessary to kill an opponent.
You must allocate all hits.

Any figures which are killed will die at the end of the phase. However, unless the hits which killed it happened before normal dice are rolled, they may still return fire.

The Corruption Phase

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The Corruption Phase takes place in 2 steps. Domination, and Ruination

In the Domination step, each player's domination value is calculated for each region. This value is equal to the PP cost of any chaos cards that player has played on the region, plus the number of figures (number, not attack power) that player has in the region. If this number exceeds the region's resistance (which is the number by the region's name), and that player has the highest domination score, that player dominates the region and gains Victory Points equal to the region's number.
If two players are tied for first, or if the top player is tied with the region's resistance, no VPs are awarded. Additionally, no VPs are awarded for ruined regions.

In the Ruination step, each cultist a player has in a region adds one Corruption Counter to that region. If a region should reach 12 or more corruption counters, it then becomes ruined.
When a region becomes ruined, it indicates that the Chaos has taken it over so completely that it is no longer even recognizable. It is now a hellish, daemonic wasteland. First, one of the 5 ruination cards is flipped (the cards go in order, so the values are the same from game to game). Each player who put a corruption counter on the region THE TURN IT WAS RUINED gains a small amount of VPs instantaneously, decided by the card. Then, the player with the most and the second most Corruption in the area gain a large lump sum of VPs as well. After the region is ruined, NO VPs will EVER come of the region again.
If two players are tied for first, they add the first and second place values together and split them. If two players are tied for second, they split second place. If there is no second place, and only one player has counters, the second place VPs are wasted.

If, at the end of the turn, all 5 Ruination cards have been flipped, the game ends and the player with the most VPs wins the game.

The End Phase

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During the end phase:
1. Remove Chaos Cards from the Board
2. Hero Tokens are resolved - meaning that in any region with a hero token, the daemon with the highest threat in that region must sacrifice one figure, as the hero kills it.
3. Resolve Old World cards - If a card on the Old World track asks for a resolution during the end phase, this is when it happens.
4. Score Ruined Regions - this is the step when ruination is scored, as opposed to the corruption phase.
5. Advance Threat Dials - If you have fulfilled your victory dial condition at least once, you turn your dial one click. If you have fulfilled your condition more times this turn than any other player, you turn your dial two clicks. This dial gives various rewards, including Upgrades, VPs, and control of the tokens on the board.
6. Check for Game end
The game end conditions are checked one at a time, in this order:

Dial Victory
Victory Point Victory
All 5 ruination cards drawn (most VPs wins)
No cards in the Old World deck (All players lose)

In the case of a dial victory tie, the player with most VPs wins. If they are tied, the victory is shared.
In the case of a VP victory tie, the player with the highest threat wins.

How do I gain victory points?

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Gain victory points in 4 ways:
1. Dominating regions at the end of the battle phase
2. Helping to ruin regions by placing corruption counters on them
3. Ruining regions and having most or second most counters on the region
4. Sometimes, by advancing your victory dial

The most reliable points come from Domination, while the quickest points come from ruining regions.

How do I advance my dial?

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KHORNE: Gain 1 advancement token for each region in which you kill an opposing player's model this turn
NURGLE: Gain 1 advancement token each time you place 2 or more corruption counters in a populous region in a single phase
TZEENTCH: Gain 1 advancement token for each region with 2 or more magic and/or warpstone tokens in which you placed 2 corruption counters with cultists this turn.
SLAANESH: Gain 1 advancement token for each region with at least 1 hero or noble in which you placed 2 corruption counters with cultists this turn.

Every player with at least 1 token gains 1 click on the victory dial. Each turn the player who gained the most tokens this turn gains an additional click on the victory dial. In the case of a tie, neither player gets 2 clicks.

Useful information:

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STANDARD REGION ORDER

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1. Norsca
2. Troll Country
3. Kislev
4. The Empire
5. Bretonnia
6. Estalia
7. Tilea
8. The Border Princes
9. The Badlands

PLAYER MATS:
Khorne

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Nurgle

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Tzeentch

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Slaanesh

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Errata: Dial advancement for two corruption, not one.

DIAL ADVANCEMENT BONUSES:

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Khorne: 9 clicks
Nurgle: 10 clicks
Tzeentch: 8 clicks
Slaanesh: 7 clicks

AVAILABLE UPGRADES:
Khorne Upgrades:

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Upgrades:
Power of Blood - +1 PP per turn
Deluge of Ferocity - Draw 3 cards instead of 2 each turn
Bloodsworn - Stats: (1/1/1)
Bloodletters - Bloodletters strike first and inflict casualties before opponents return fire
Bloodthirster - Counts as 3 figures for domination value

Nurgle Upgrades:

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Power of Pestilence - +1 PP per turn
Provender of Ruin - Score 3 VP each time a region is ruined
Lepers - A Leper's cost is 0 if placed in a region where you have no other figures. A given leper may only be summoned for free once per round.
Plaguebearers - When an opponent kills one of your plaguebearers in battle, inflict one hit on any figure in the same region belonging to that opponent
Great Unclean One - Immediately place two corruption tokens in a region when you summon a Great Unclean One there

Tzeentch Upgrades:

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Power of Magic - +1 PP per turn
Deluge of Magic - Draw to 6 cards per turn instead of 5
Acolytes - When summoned from the board instead of your stockpile, an Acolyte may bring a Warpstone token if present from its origin to its destination
Horrors - When you summon a horror, you may place it on an empty card slot in that region. Only you may play cards to that slot while the horror remains.
Lord of Change - A Lord of Change has 2 magic symbols.

Slaanesh Upgrades:

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Power of Pain - +1 PP per turn. If you have power of pain and power of pleasure, total +3
Power of Pleasure - +1 PP per turn. If you have power of pain and power of pleasure, total +3
Seductress - New stats (1/0/2)
Daemonettes - In battle, Daemonettes can only be hit on a die result of 6
Keeper of Secrets - At the beginning of the battle phase, choose any cultist or warrior in this region. Control it until the end of the round or until your keeper of secrets is killed, whichever comes first.

HOW TO MAKE A BATTLE ROLL:

Delmain wrote: »

Hey guys, helpful IC tidbit here.
Roll Xd6.hitsopen(4,6). It'll reroll 6s and then count all the dice 4 and above and give you a convenient number of hits.

Alternatively, you can make battle rolls via orokos (thanks, Infidel!)

Delmain wrote: »

Use Xd6o6h4.

o is for Open, it rolls them over and over until you get a not-6. e6 just rerolls 6s once, even if another 6 comes up.

Battle dice probabilities:

MrBlarney wrote: »

I made a table for expected results up to 6 battle dice. Cells without values have probabilities below 0.1%. There is some rounding, so the values won't be exact, but they'll be close enough for most purposes.

TheLawinator

So, are players already determined for this?

Variable

Hey, I get to play this game.

I was told to mention my God preference so

1 - tzeench
2 - slaanesh
3 - nurgle
4 - khorne

Rius

Yahoo!

I'd like to play as... Tzeentch or Slaanesh, please.

Nought

TheLawinator wrote: »

So, are players already determined for this?

Yep. We use the general CitOW thread signup lists now.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=120597

El Skid

Woo! In a new game the day the old one ends. Eeeexcellent

Nurgle > Slaanesh > Khorne > Tzeentch

lodwilk

Time to kill some siblings.

Slaanesh>>>Nurgle>>>Khorne>>>Tzeentch

El Skid

Looks like the gang's all here!

Darian

Hmm... no Khorne fans in the bunch, and Slaanesh is in everyone's top two.

lodwilk

Clearly we all are opium and orgy addicts.

3clipse

Darian wrote: »

Hmm... no Khorne fans in the bunch, and Slaanesh is in everyone's top two.

what is happening

El Skid

I've never played Nurgle or Slaanesh, so I'm just going for the novelty factor.

Nought

Taking my que from the forums mods I'm going to be harsh and unfair.

There is a clear preference for Nurgle and Slaanesh. Tzeentch is tied.

Since Rius was Khorne in the first/last game I ran, he gets to be Tzeentch. I'm sorry that this means you get your lowest priority Variable. Sucks to be the new guy

So:

Variable: Khorne <colour=red>
El Skid: Nurgle <colour=limegreen>
Rius: Tzeentch <colour=cyan>
lodwilk: Slaanesh <colour=darkorchid or orchid> I like darkorchid, more sensual somehow, but you can use orchid if you prefer that.

Nought

Round 1, Old World phase

Plunged into Chaos

Each player immediately scores 1 VP for each Peasant token he has claimed. The player who has claimed the most Peasant tokens scores 3 additional VP.

Discard this card instead of adding it to the Old World track.

<No effect since no one have had a chance to bash in some heads.




Tzeentch to choose to discard or not.

Nought

Round 1, Summoning phase



Khorne is up.

Variable

Khorne opens with a bloodletter in Bretonnia

Nought

Variable wrote: »

Khorne opens with a bloodletter in Bretonnia

5/7 PP

Including your remaining PP helps everyone. Also, everyone forgets at some point

Variable

yeah my bad!

Nought

OMG, it's like this is your first time. Harden the fuck up

Rius

Sorry folks, fell asleep early. Planning the entire game out in advance is hard work.

I'd like to discard this card;

The Meddling of Skaven - 1 - When you play this card, choose an opponent with figures in this region. That player must discard two Chaos cards from their hand.

Nought

Rius wrote: »

Sorry folks, fell asleep early. Planning the entire game out in advance is hard work.

I'd like to discard this card;

The Meddling of Skaven - 1 - When you play this card, choose an opponent with figures in this region. That player must discard two Chaos cards from their hand.

Hand updated.

Nurgle is up.

El Skid

Leper to Kislev

5/6 PP

Rius

I'd like some time to collect my thoughts uninterrupted, if you all don't mind. Brother Khorne, I'm not purposefully separating you from your prey; "Temporarily" might be a better word to use in this case.

(M) Temporal Stasis - 1 - The cost for your opponents to summon figures to this region, and play Chaos cards in this region, is increased by two.

Cast into The Empire; Tzeentch @ 5/6 PP Remaining.

El Skid

My name is Nurgle, and I approve of the above action.

lodwilk

I must say brother Tzeentch that was a rather well done move. I'd applaud you but this noble in Estalia seems oh so bored.

Seductresses to Estalia

Slaanesh @ 5/6 PP

Variable

Khorne sends a bloodletter to Estalia

3/7 PP

Rius

Right now I'm hoping El Skid is on, just hidden =)

El Skid

Not hidden, but I check in frequently

Leper to Kislev

4/6 PP

Rius

Summon a Cultist to the Empire!

Tzeentch @ 4/6 PP Remaining.

Variable

I'm heading home from work, I'll be back in a half hour.

I know it's not necessarily pressing but I thought I'd let you all know hopefully slanny has gone by then

lodwilk

Seductresses to Estalia

Slaanesh @ 4/6 PP

Variable

Khorn plays Blood Frenzy in Kislev

Blood Frenzy - 0 - At the beginning of battle in this region, you roll two battle dice here and apply any resulting hits before regular battle dice are rolled

3/7 PP

Nought

Round 1, Summoning phase



Khorne(5/7) Bloodletter to Bretonnia
Nurgle(5/6) Leper to Kislev
Tzeentch(5/6) Temporal Stasis to The Empire (+2 PP for other gods to act in region)
Slaanesh(5/6) Seductress to Estalia

Khorne(3/7) Bloodletter to Estalia
Nurgle(4/6) Leper to Kislev
Tzeentch(4/6) Acolyte to The Empire
Slaanesh(4/6) Seductress to Estalia

Khorne(3/7) Blood Frenzy to Kislev (two battledice before battle)

El Skid

It's a good thing there's a bit of rain coming down in Kislev- should keep the locals inside where they belong... all cooped up and coughing on each other.

Cast Rain of Pus in Kislev

Rain of Pus - 1 - The defense value of each of your figures in this region is increased by one

3/6 PP

Rius

Another Acolyte to the Empire!

Tzeentch @ 3/6 PP Remaining.

lodwilk

(M) Abyssal Pact - 0 - Enemy figures contribute nothing to your opponents' domination values here.

Casting in Estalia

Slaanesh @ 4/6 PP

Variable

Khorne has decided to place a bloodletter in Tilea, all by its lonesome.

1/7 PP

El Skid

Overrunning Kislev with Lepers...

2/6 PP

Rius

Summon yet another Acolyte to the Empire.

Tzeentch @ 2/6 PP Remaining.

Nought

Round 1, Summoning phase

Spoiler:

Khorne(5/7) Bloodletter to Bretonnia
Nurgle(5/6) Leper to Kislev
Tzeentch(5/6) Temporal Stasis to The Empire (+2 PP for other gods to act in region)
Slaanesh(5/6) Seductress to Estalia

Khorne(3/7) Bloodletter to Estalia
Nurgle(4/6) Leper to Kislev
Tzeentch(4/6) Acolyte to The Empire
Slaanesh(4/6) Seductress to Estalia

Khorne(3/7) Blood Frenzy to Kislev (two battledice before battle)

Nurgle(3/6) Rain of Pus to Kislev (+1 def to Nurgles figures)
Tzeentch(3/6) Acolyte to The Empire
Slaanesh(4/6) Abyssal Pact to Estalia (enemy figures don't contribute domination)

Khorne(1/7) Bloodletter to Tilea
Nurgle(2/6) Leper to Kislev
Tzeentch(2/6) Acolyte to The Empire