Mission Fabricator Cogitator – MFC.v0.3
Planet Axor-V: DESERT WORLD
MAP: Spearhead Assault
Mission: Clandestine Operations
Battle plans must be carried out with the utmost of secrecy, ensuring the enemy aren't aware of your true intentions.
Players should set up the objective markers as shown on the map, randomly numbering each objective marker from 1 up to 6.
Hidden Orders: Before deployment, each player should secretly note down one of the following primary objectives to achieve. Keep this hidden until the end of the game.
End of Game Objective
1: Defensive Deployment. If, at the end of the game, you have more units in your deployment zone than your opponent has in theirs, then you score 3 victory points.
2: Aggressive Assault. If, at the end of the game, you have more units in your opponents territory than your opponent has in your territory, then you score 3 victory points.
3: Jam Beacon. After selecting this objective, secretly note down 1 objective marker in your opponents deployment zone. If you control this objective at the end of the game you score 3 victory points.
4: Synchronise Beacons. After selecting this objective, secretly note down 2 objective markers outside of your deployment zone. If you control both these objectives at the end of the game you score 3 victory points.
Progressive Objective
Active Beacon: At the start of each battle round, the player going second rolls one D6, this is the active beacon. If the mission is using less than 6 objective markers re-roll any results which don't correspond to a beacon.
Beacons: At the end of each player's turn, that player scores 1 victory point for each objective they control, scoring 1 additional victory point if they control the active objective marker.
Environmental Hazard: Psychic Buoy
With warp tides surging all around, psykers feed off empyric energy, harnessing this great power.
- Add 1 to Psychic and Deny the Witch tests.
- Add 1 to the number of mortal wounds that a model suffers from Perils of the warp.
How to use
The MFC expands upon the Open War/Crusade gameplay for Warhammer 40k. Allowing you to randomly generate a mission for you to play. Each time the page loads or refreshes you’ll get a new planet, deployment zone, mission and environmental hazard.
Things to note
- I would class this as still in beta, and would love feedback to help improve the MFC.
- Designed for Strike Force sized missions, though could be tweaked for different scales.
- Not designed to work in conjunction with GT Mission Pack style secondaries for scoring, though some missions will certainly be compatible.
- Some mission have random objective placments, you might not always get a favourable combination of deployment zone and objective placement.
- There’s no way to currently save your randomly generated mission.
- This project is created by myself and is unofficial fan work.
Future Plans
In addition to adding more missions. I’d like to add three extra randomly generated elements:
- Warzones, which give you a suggested terrain / theme for the table.
- Battle Readiness, which are bonus rules for each army, these might be specific to Attacker/Defender for more asymmetrical missions.
- Secondaries, like the classic first blood and slay the warlord.
Currently the planets are all bespoke, there’s around 12 so far. I might look at how to randomly generate the planet images too for infinite combinations.
Other ideas include faction specific missions, First Strike/Onslaught missions, ways to customise/save settings, and campaign features.
Feedback
I would love to know what you think, whether it’s feedback on the missions and special rules, or what direction you’d like to see going forwards, i.e more planet stats/narrative background or more mission and gameplay elements.
Please leave all feedback in the comments below.
Changelog
v0.3 13/01/2022
- Adjusted victory points to Clandestine Operations mission.
- 3 new deployment zone layouts: Front-line Assault, Divided Lines, and Forward Rush.
- 2 new objective layouts.
- 1 new mission: Black Mass.
v0.2 21/12/2021
- Updated all planet graphics to new style
v0.1 24/11/2021
- Launch
Also I don’t know how you have this thing coded but have you considered using url parameters for the random parts? That way you can save your place and share the link to others of your results. Thanks!
That’s something i’ve thought about doing and really want to implement. It’s a little tricky to code based on how the elements are randomly generated but it’s something I’ll look into adding soon.
Love what you are doing! In the text you call it “MFG” but the title is MFC. Keep up the good work!
Glad you’re enjoying it. Good spot on the typo, I’ll get that fixed right away, thanks!
Brilliant stuff, shall test some of these out at our shop with the customers, try and steer them away from all of that competititive nonsense
This looks amazing! I’ve bookmarked this and will be using it in our next campaign season. Looks ace!
Loving the system so far!! Think we chatted about it breifly in the past but did you ever look at some of the old campaign books/ HH game conditions for inspiration on the environmental hazards??
Glad you’re liking it! I’ve been through some of the more recent books such as Vigilus for ideas. I’ve yet to go through my FW collection but I’m sure I will at some point.