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Low Dough Warhammer

This is the first event of its kind for gaming club on Stony Brook campus. The main idea is to create an ongoing and inexpensive game that can involve many players. In this case the name of the game is Warhammer.

What is Warhammer?

Well the best place to learn about the game is from the people that make warhammer -- games workshop.
Here is a brief summary and an explanation of why this game was selected:

Warhammer is a game played with miniatures that combines strategy, psychology, and aesthetics.
Warhammer provides a perfect setting for both new players and more experienced gamers by setting a point scale for the overall power of armies.
Warhammer can be played with over 10 different types of armies providing a variety of flavor and atmosphere.
Players become more involved in the game because they put together and paint the models themselves.
Endless amount of details and scenarios can be generated with this system. Warhammer can become as complex or as simple as you wish.

A Campaign to conquer the world before the semester is over!!!

In a grim world of perilous adventure where ancient dragons darken the sky and the hordes of chaos scour the land you must take charge of your fate. It is your manifest destiny to gain control in these troubled times and mold the world into its proper form.
Choose your army:

Bretonnia - Noble knights, chivalry, a land protected by the lady of the lake.
Empire - Largest and most powerful land of humans. The Emperor can call upon engineers for an advantage in battle -- cannons, tanks, war waggons, and rows of soldiers armed with guns rather than bows.
Lizardmen - Cold blooded, possesses the greatest magic, and the most ancient of all the armies.
Orcs and Goblins - Aggressive, strong, and bloodthirsty. Orcs and goblins are numerous, and can live in harsh conditions where most humans cannot.
High Elves - Second only to the lizardmen army in magic. Highly skilled warriors who live hundreds of years and have mastered the martial arts.
Dark Elves - Witches, dark magic, assassins, and a hatred so strong they will fight to the death against the high elves.
Dwarfs - Masters at engineering and creating magical weapons. Dwarfs are tough, stubborn, and never forget a grudge.
Chaos - From the world of shadow and magic comes the greatest threat to mortal kind. Chaos can create horrible mutations that make the champions of this army into juggernauts lead by even more powerful demons.
Wood Elves - Defenders of nature, masters of the forest and all of its might. The wood elves have powerful dryads, forest dragons, and treemen to help them.
Undead - skeletons, zombies, vampires, liches. How can you kill that which is already dead?
Chaos Dwarfs - twisted by the magic of chaos into a powerhungry dwarven army set on enslaving the world
Skaven - assassins, corrupting magic, powerful warmachines, and a society that purges itself of the weak. The skaven desire nothing less than the fall of all civilization so they can enslave and control everything.

Guidelines

For those of you familiar with Warhammer here is the overall structure for this campaign

This is low dough warhammer, which means you can play with proxy pieces to represent your army (you could even play with cardboard cutouts).
All magic items are allowed. However, you may only start with magic items of 50pts or less. Anything more powerful must be earned by conquering territories
All special characters are allowed (magic items they possess may be restricted to 50pts or substituted with a magic item of lesser value and exchanged the difference in points)
Effects carry over from previous battles. Special characters that are wounded in previous battles will need to heal. For every battle fought in a special characters absence they heal 2 wounds. For every battle a special character participates in and survives they may heal 1 wound.
Special characters cannot be killed. Instead they need time to recover. If a special character is "killed" then it is treated as if the character has an additional wound to recover and cannot fight again until they have regained 50% of their wounds.
Permenant effects last d3 battles instead of forever.
Allies are allowed. You may gain allies by negotiating with another player or gaining access to allies by controlling the correct territory.

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