Capture the flag?

[bigdave]

Was thinking about making a Capture the flag rules for Halo Clix

Proposed Rules for halo clix

Capture the flag
Object of the game is to score points by grabbing the oppositions flag from there base and taking it to your flag in your base
• Game will require a referee to adjudicate and keep track of player turns
• 1 to 3 man teams per player ( Only Spartans or elites)
• Team identified by colored stickers on model bases
• Player need a minimum of 6 model of the same type (with different weapons of course)
• All players divided into teams to make even teams with predetermined weapon sets (the same for each team)
• Bases to be set up on edges of maps as far apart from each other as is practical
• Bases to be as identical as possible with the flag located in the same area of each base
• Weapon cashes randomly located on map ( gives players the ability to swap out models to suit picked up weapons)
• Map to have the same amount of spawn/re-spawn points as the game has players
• Re-spawning is to be assigned randomly by dice roll
• Game is divided into player turns that are randomly determined by dice roll off at the start of each fresh turn ( when using multiple models per player each model has to roll it’s own dice to get a position in the que)
• Standard moving & shooting rules
• Game is decided by reaching a preagread points score
• Kill =1 point
• Flag Grab from base =3 points
• Flag taken to your bases flag =6 points
• Player with flag may not use carried weapons but can still melee attack if within leaping range( 2 squares) from another model and has the weapon profile of causing 3 wounds except on a Double 6 attack roll result in witch case it causes an instant kill



Feel free to post any ideas, complaints or even wild rants as to what you all think about the proposed rules as i need all the feed back to try to make it work, (have fun with it but do try to be constructive in your comments or at the very least funny.)

[ash]

How many maps will be used in a typical game?
I reckon 6 in a 2x3 formation....

But guys we will be playtesting Daves set of rules in order to get it working (it looks good on paper)

[gaara]

i was playing capture the flag with cory 1ns with halo we were playing it with inturs and all that sort of stuff

[bigdave]

We (by we I actually mean Ash, Meg, Kruger, Jacob & myself,Thanks people had a trial game of the suggested rules on Thursday evening and discovered that while the game was fun and pretty free flowing a couple of the rules needed a bit of a tweak.

We used the red & blue Spartans in the test games, limiting the starting weapon choices to 75 point models. These were able to be upgrade at weapon spawn points on the maps by standing next to the marker and rolling 2d6 (results of 1to7 =players choose of any 75 point weapon that they had a model of, 8to11=100 point weapon of choose & 12= 125 point weapons.)Doing this used up your attack for that turn.

Initiative was rolled on 1d6 for all models to be used with the dice placed on the model stat card to display number. Models that got the same result performed there actions at the same time. A rules variant that we stumbled on game was the any model that made a kill in a round had the option of taking a +1 on initiative in it next round. Other kill results that were discussed were the options of looting your kill but that meant that you had to be in an adjacent square to the fallen model. Alternatively you could chose to take a 25point token to be used at the players choosing ( it was even talked about using club made tokens that could be stored to be used at any future point in the game or even in a completely different game if playing in a set of matches or even a tournament.)

Any model that is unfortunate enough to suffer a Kill loses its next turn (be that in this round if before your turn or in the next.) Initiative is then rolled as normal & the model is respawned at there teams flag point (this makes for some interesting games as it means that someone going for a flag grab may find himself suddenly surrounded by angry members of the opposing team that view him as a very convenient target/stress reliever.)Any respawning model may chose to spend any tokens that it has at this time. Respawned model act as normal.

The scoring of points for flag grabs, flag capturing & kills was dropped in favor of a preset number of flag captures. It was also decided that the game reset back to base after a successful flag capture with the flags reset as well as all the model. It was also discussed if the game should use a single center flag in stead of individual flag for each team as in blister ball paintball( if you do not know what that is this is a great site but you do need a reasonable download speed
< link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid348382059/bclid352433101/bctid1274013726 >.
Actually most of the proposed rules are similar to this style of game.

This was our first play testing session & I am sure that the rules will evolve further with more play testing & discussions.

Please post any ideas you have as this will help greatly.