[Chaos] CitOW Game 11 - Witch Hunters

Darian

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.

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.

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!

Tzeentch

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 open until I get up on Saturday; feel free to express your preference for gods.

[RULES]
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OP stolen shamelessly from Rend; board graphics courtesy of MrBlarney

Previous games, aka recommended reading before playing:
Game 1, hosted by Rend
Game 2, Slaanesh win
Game 3, Slaanesh win
Game 4, Khorne win
Game 5, Khorne win
Game 6, Nurgle win
Game 7, Tzeentch win
Game 8, Slaanesh win

Darian

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

-The Turn Phases-

The Old World Phase

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

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

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).

The Battle Phase

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

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

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?

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?

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.

Darian

Useful information:

STANDARD REGION ORDER

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

Nurgle

Tzeentch

Slaanesh

Errata: Dial advancement for two corruption, not one.

DIAL ADVANCEMENT BONUSES:

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

AVAILABLE UPGRADES:
Khorne Upgrades:

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:

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:

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:

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.

Wildcat

!Spooge for the spooge god!

Rius

Here we go again, hehe.

Nurgle is my first choice, but Khorne would also be peachy.

admanb

I'll throw my name in the random bucket...

Nurgle>Khorne=Tzeentch=Slaanesh

Eterenal

!Sign Up

Slaanesh is my preference, but the others will do just as well

Ryadic

Sign up.

Nurgle, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, Khorne.

Darian

admanb wrote: »

I'll throw my name in the random bucket...

I should point out - no reserved slots in this one and I'm going to refresh the player pool, so only people who sign up in this thread will be chosen.

Ryadic

You going to give priority to people that haven't been in a game?

/puppy dog eyes

Darian

Ryadic wrote: »

You going to give priority to people that haven't been in a game?

/puppy dog eyes

Maybe...

Are you going to take your turn on pr-game.com?

El Skid

Yes Please! Tzeentch > Nurgle > Slaanesh > Khorne-Lets try something new this time.

Ryadic

Shit, forgot all about the PR game. I didn't get an e-mail saying it was my turn... That's odd.

Shushnik

Oh, why not.

Slaanesh > Tzeentch > Khorne > Nurgle

For the geographically challenged, CST

Aegis

I'm getting my ass handed to me in the other game so...might as well see if the dice favour me in the selection department, rather than the not getting raped department.

Tzeentch or Khorne

SlickShughes

!sign up again. Khorne would be lovely in the spring time, but I'm not picky.

lodwilk

!Sign Up

Preferences: Slaneesh>>>Tzeenetch>>>Nurgle>>>Khorne

Cutfang

!sign up Don't really mind who I play as, although Tzeentch or Khorne would be cool.

Darian

How many of you are Euro-time?

El Skid

Darian wrote: »

How many of you are Euro-time?

Not me.

Edit- Eastern time here

SlickShughes

<---- Pacific standard / daylight.

lodwilk

I'm Eastern time.

Rius

Central time, all the time.

Ryadic

EST.

Wildcat

I'm GMT.

Cutfang

< I'm Euro time, GMT, Britisher time etc

Wildcat

What ho, old boy!

Eterenal

PST

admanb

Eterenal wrote: »

PST

Darian

Hmm... didn't get a full set of Euro signups, so I'll stick with the fully random. And our players will be:

Rius N>K
Ryadic N>S>T>K
lodwilk S>T>K>N
Aegis T>K

Going by the initial preferences, that gives us:
Rius as Nurgle
Ryadic as Slaanesh
lodwilk as Tzeentch
Aegis as Khorne

Please post your acceptance/introduction in the thread, and PM me an email address for the google doc. We'll get this started as soon as everyone checks in.

Aegis

Grandfather. Schemer. Sister-Brother, welcome. Now if you will please take your appointed places upon my throne then we can commence with the axing.

Rius

Have some respect for your elder, Khorne, or I'll set your insides running with such a fever that you would not dare sit your throne for fear of despoiling it.

This will be fun!

Ryadic

Time for the damnation of mortals. Prince of Pleasure is here to... do things.

Rius

Och, that's hard to read. You'll want to use the color DarkOrchid instead of Purple.

While I'm on the subject, is LimeGreen even in the color dropdown? I always have to enter it manually whenever I post in Nurgle's color.

admanb

Rius wrote: »

Och, that's hard to read. You'll want to use the color DarkOrchid instead of Purple.

While I'm on the subject, is LimeGreen even in the color dropdown? I always have to enter it manually whenever I post in Nurgle's color.

Nope.

Ryadic

I have it on my drop down. 4 over 4 down.

Darian

Ryadic wrote: »

I have it on my drop down. 4 over 4 down.

That's lime, not limegreen. Lime is reserved for Warpstones, heathen.

As for the rest of you, just be glad I don't make you use crimson and dodgerblue.

Rius

Oughta be a way to edit the colors in that dropdown, you'd think

lodwilk

Greetings my brothers. I'd wish you good luck, but I've already won the game. We are simply just going through the motions.

Darian

The gang's all here, so I'll go shuffle up some Old World cards for you.

Still need an email address from Slaanesh, though.

Aegis

lodwilk wrote: »

Greetings my brothers. I'd wish you good luck, but I've already won the game. We are simply just going through the motions.

This is true. I have heard that my fist impacting with your head produces quite a powerful motion.