Tank aces campaign March 2014

I am onboard too doing tank aces. We can always change venues when it is not feasible for the current venue.

Will

Everyone,
I would like to participate, but I think this week may be a problem. If it's not too late, I may come by Thursday... we'll see.

FM Von Jeff

Does anyone else at all have a copy of Blood, Guts & Glory that can be used for Tank Aces play?

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CAMPANHA "TANK ACES" - V3 rules
« on: April 16, 2012, 12:59:32 PM »
Campanha “Tank Aces”

Part I – The Campaign

The Campaign Map
The campaign map shows the area where players will fight the battles over Nancy. It has three Axes of Attack through which players will fight toward victory.

The Routes
The battles for Nancy were essentially fought over three major routes: Combat Command A’s Route, Combat Command B’s Route, Combat Command R’s Route.

The Areas
Each Route has three Areas, one for each Campaign Turn.

The Campaign
The Tank Aces campaign is played over three Campaign Turns.
Players may play any number of games with their Tank Ace during a Campaign Turn.
Players cannot play in Areas that do not match the current turn.
Players record the results of each game they play and report them to the campaign Organizer.
Once a Campaign Turn is complete, all of the Areas associated with that Campaign Turn are locked down and no further games can be played in those Areas.
The Campaign now moves on to the next turn and players may now play games in any Area associated with the new turn.
The campaign concludes at the end of third Campaign Turn.

Playing the Campaign

Step 1 – Choose a Route
There are three Routes to choose from. The first is Combat Command A’s Route north of Nancy.
The second is Combat Command B’s Route around the city.
The third is Combat Command R’s Route south of Nancy.
Step 2 – Play a Tank Aces Battle
Once the Route has been selected, both players play the Scrapyard Mission starting on page 106 (BGG book).
Step 3 – Record Results
When you have completed your game, fill out a result sheet ant turn it into the campaign Organizer “Tank Aces Results Sheet”

Winning an Area

At the end of each Campaign Turn, the Campaign Organizer totals up all of the Allied and Axis victories in each Area. The side with the most number of victories in each Area wins that Area.

Campaign Points
When a side wins an Area they area awarded Campaign Points. These are added to their side’s Campaign Points grand total.
Each Area is worth a certain amount of Campaign Points. During the first turn, each Area is worth ONE Point, in the second turn they are worth TWO points each, and in the third turn they are worth THREE points each.

Ending the Campaign
At the conclusion of the third campaign turn total up how many Campaign Points each side won.
If players would like to fight a grand finale battle, play the “Out of the Fog” Mission.
The side that wins the Out of the Fog mission adds the VP they have won to their overall total.
The side with the highest number of Campaign Points wins the Tank Aces Campaign.

Part II – The Tank Ace
The most exciting aspect of Tank Aces is creating your own FoW Warrior, called a Tank Ace. During the campaign, you follow your warrior’s story as he fights his way through the twisted metal of the Arracourt battlefields.
When the Campaign begins, your Tank Ace and his crew have been cut off from their comrades during a great tank battle. Your Ace gathers the few tanks he can find in the dense fog and muddy terrain of the battlefield and takes command of the motley collection of vehicles to complete the mission.
As the campaign progresses, your Tank Ace gathers more tanks and equipment from the chaos of the battlefield and adds them to his force.

Characteristics
If your force has a Company Command team, then, that team becomes your Tank Ace, replacing the normal Company, Command team.
If your force does not have a Company Command team, choose one of your Combat Platoon’ Command team to became your Tank Ace, replacing the platoon’s normal Command team.
In both cases, the Ace retains the ratings and vehicle of the vehicle it replaced. A Tank Ace is a Warrior and follows all the normal rules about warriors found on page 68 in the rulebook.

No Warrior or Tiger Ace Skills
In Tank Aces you cannot take normal FoW warrior teams. Similarly, Tank Aces ignores German Tiger Ace Skills. Instead you will create your own warrior called a Tank Ace.

Earning Medals and Experience
Your Tank Ace fights alongside your company earning medals, getting promotions, and gaining abilities.
In Turn I, your Tank Ace must fight with what he can muster. It’s not much, but it’s enough to get the job done.As he continues through the campaign he will earn experience points, which you can use to award him medals. Medals will give him special abilities.
Keep track of these points on your Tank Aces Company Sheet. When your Ace fills all the boxes leading up to a medal he may select a skill from the Tank Aces Abilities (p.96-103 BGG)
After each game, use the table to see how many points your Ace has earned

Playing the Game 1 point
Have more tanks left 2 point
Ace survives 1 point
Highest Kill Count 2 points

Kill Rings
Each time your Ace Destroys an enemy Tank team, add one Kill Ring to your Tank barrel. For every five Kill Rings scored, your Ace receives a bonus three Experience Points after deciding who won the game.

Promotions
As the campaign rages on, your Tank Ace has demonstrated his combat and leadership skills. This has been recognized by headquarters, which has promoted your Ace and given him more resources. At the start of each Campaign Turn all Tank Aces are promoted to the next rank. As a result, they immediately earn two bonus experience points towards their next medal.

Selecting Abilities
When your Tank Ace earns a medal, you can select an Ability from the Tank Aces Abilities List. These abilities give your Ace special rules to use in the game.
Abilities are split into three different categories: Command, Support, and Specialist.
Once you have selected your Ability, you cannot change it. Abilities stay with your Ace throughout the Campaign and cannot be lost or taken away.
Your Tank Ace may have up to four regular abilities during the Campaign. He will also earn a fifth Ace of Aces ability that he can use in the final battle of the Campaign.


Part III – The Force

Building your Force
At the beginning of the Campaign, each player must choose a Tank Company to play during the whole course of the Campaign. Players cannot use Mechanized, Infantry, or Fortified companies in Tank Aces. The one exception is that a player may field a Tank Destroyer Company found on page 32 (BGG) in Tank Aces, even though it is a Mechanized Company.

When building your force, you do not have to purchase compulsory platoons. Treat all black boxes in the Company Diagram as grey boxes instead. However, you must always choose at least one platoon from your HQ, Combat, or Weapons platoons.
When the Campaign starts you will have access to HQ, Combat, or Weapons platoons. As the Campaign progresses, you will gain access to the rest of your Company Diagram.

Stand by your men
Once the Campaign has begun, you are free to change the composition of your force, however you cannot change your Tank Company.
If your Company Diagram has variants, you must chose one and stay with that through the Campaign.
You may, however, change what platoons you take in your company. Your force must also contain your Tank Ace.

Your Force in Campaign
For the most part, Tank Aces forces during the first two Campaign Turns operate as normal FoW forces with the following exceptions:
Turn 1
You may spend up to 500pts on your company with Company HQ, Combat, and Weapons Platoons.
You can take any Platoon listed as Company HQ, Combat or Weapons Platoons. However, you cannot take Support Platoons at this stage in the Campaign

Turn 2
You may spend up to 700pts on your company with Company HQ, Combat, Weapons, and Support Platoons.

Turn 3
You may spend up to 900pts on your company with Company HQ, Combat, Weapons, and Support Platoons.

Independent Operations
In Tank Aces, all Tank Teams become Warrior teams. This means that your Tank teams operate independently from each other and do not have to remain in command.
Like normal Warrior teams, Tank teams use the joining Platoons rules (p.68 rulebook)to form temporary platoons. This can be useful in the case of Stormtroopers, or speeding up the Shooting Step, etc. Also like normal Warrior team, Tank teams join each other when targeted by enemy shooting (p.74 rulebook)

Tank Team Only
All teams that are not Tank Teams (i.e. Infantry, Gun or Transport teams) are removed from your force before the game begin, leaving only Tank Teams.

Firing Mixed Bombardments
When Artillery teams with a combination of different Artillery weapons join up to fire a bombardment, remember to use the Mixed Bombardments rule (p.131 of the rulebook).

No Morale Checks
No player will be required to take Company or Platoon Morale Checks in the first two Campaign turns of Tank Aces.

Your Tank Ace
Choose one tank from your HQ or Combat Platoon to be your Tank Ace. Feel free to change your Ace’s tank from game to game so long as it remains one from your HQ or Combat platoons.
Company Command teams become normal tanks and may not do anything Company Command teams ca normally do. Instead your Tank Ace and whatever tank he is commanding becomes yours force Company Command team and may offer re-rolls as normal.


Part IV – Playing Games


Games in Turn I and II

In the first two campaign turns of Tank Aces you will play the Scrapyard Mission for all of your games. This Mission is a straight-up tank brawl where your objective isn’t about capturing ground, but rather to be the last man standing.
To keep things fresh from game to game, there are several factors that change things up. The first random factor is Tactical Edges. These are special objectives markers that give the player that capture them special rerolls that they can use at any point. The second random factor is the game’s deployment areas. There are three different deployment arrangements, each offering players a challenge to overcome.

Step1: Deploy Tactical Edges
Step2: Roll for Deployment Areas
Step3: Play the Scrapyard Mission

Games in Turn III
In the third turn the size of your force will return you to playing normal FoW games with regular missions.

Table Size
Turn I: 120 x 120
Turn II: 180 x 120
Turn III: 180 x 120

Step 1 – Deploy Tactical Edges
Tactical Edges are special objectives thatr award players with small bonuses for whoever gets them first. There are six different Tactical Edges, each represented by a Tactical Edge token.

Deploying Tactical Edges
You and your opponent have no idea what Tactical Edges are out there! Take all six TE, places them face-down, and mix them up. Then randomly select four to be used in this game, but keep them face-down.
Before any dice are rolled to generate your Deployment Area, randomly assign two TE to each player. Without peeking at what they are, each player takes turns placing them face-down anywhere on the table. TE cannot be placed within 20cm from the table edges or other TE.
All of the TE stay face-down during the game. The two unused TE remaining are placed out of play.

Taking Tactical Edges
A player takes a Tactical Edge in the same way they take normal Objectives (p.258 rulebook). Only teams from the HQ and Combat Platoons can take TE.
When a player takes a TE, it is removed from the table and kept by that player. A player does not have to reveal what the TE is until they wish to spend it.

Using Tactical Edges
A player can spend the Tactical Edge at any point in the game to immediately gain its effect. The TE re-roll result is final and cannot be re-rolled. Once used, the TE is placed out of play.

Re-Rolling Re-Rolls
Tactical Edge are unique in that they can be used to re-roll a re-rolled result, but they cannot be used to re-roll a result due to another Tactical Edge.


Step 2 – Roll for Deployment Areas

Once you have deployed your Tactical Edges on the table, its time to roll for your Deployment Areas. Roll a die:

1-2 – Corners
3-4 – Halves
5-6 - Checkerboard

Step 3 – The Scrapyard Mission

The Scrapyard Mission is a straight-up tank brawl. It’s all about adding Kill Rings to your tank barrel.

Mission Special Rules
Meeting Engagement (p.264 rulebook)

Close Quarters: No team can be Gone to Ground during a Tank Aces game

Fast and Brutal: At the start of the attacker’s turn seven, before anything else, roll a die.
On a result of 4+ the battle continue,
Otherwise the battle ends.
If the battle continues, at the start of the attacker’s turn eight, before anything else, roll a die.
On a result of 5+ the battle continue,
Otherwise the battle ends.
If the battle continues, at the start of the attacker’s turn nine, before anything else, roll a die.
On a result of 6+ the battle continue,
Otherwise the battle ends.
At the start of the attacker’s turn ten the battle ends.

House Rules:

There can be only one
Cada jogador poderá ganhar apenas um Turno. Se o mesmo jogador ficar colocado na primeira posição, nos Turnos subsequente, o Prémio será atribuido ao jogador na posição imediatamente seguinte na Classificação.

I'm already an Ace
Antes do inicio da Campanha, o jogador, se quiser, poderá escolher um Skill da Tank Aces Abilities List.
Deverá incluir esse Skill quando preencher a sua Tank Aces Company Sheet.

One at a time
Um jogador apenas pode repetir o adversario depois de ter jogado contra todos os oponentes.
O resultado do jogo 'repetido' ficará na posse da Organização, que só o considerará, após a realização da condição anterior.
Se a condição não se verificar em tempo util, o resultado será anulado.

Man of Seven Trades
Um jogador apenas pode ter uma Ability de cada Categoria, por Turno.
P.ex., se um jogador tem a Ability "Prior Experience", não poderá escolher nenhuma das outras duas "Number Cruncher" ou "Make it Work".
Cada jogador não pode escolher mais do que um Skill por Turno/Dia, independentemente de ter XPs para isso.


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Thank you Will for the supply of the rules, and thank you in advance to Temis for a scanned copy of the book. I will still try and drop off a copied section of the book tomorrow night to Triple Play just for reference.

Indeed I will sir, that is what I meant when I said I will drop off a copied section of the book. I do not intend to write it by hand, and I will utilize the new fangled Xerox machine at work if the gods will it.