Has anyone ever combined systems (Standard 28mm, Epic, Planetary Empires & Battlefleet Gothic) to generate a massive narrative campaign?
This is still in the idea phase but the vision is to create a massive narrative campaign across a star system in the WH40k/HH universe. Players would enter the system with their BFG ship with paper army lists embarked. They would be able to engage each other in BFG and deploy assets onto the planet surface around key points (PE) and then fight it out in those key areas at an epic/legions and HH/40k 28mm scale.
You are Bran Redmaw, leading the Bloodmaws to defend the Fenris System which is under siege. You are Mordokh/Typhus, plundering and spreading plague throughout that entire system. You are a Warboss, a Farseer, the Hive Mind…
In order to keep things on course there would need to be a Dungeon Master equivalent. This could take many forms, a Tyranid hive fleet invasion under command of the DM could serve as a backdrop for the whole campaign, with Tyranid attacks flaring up to balance out the skirmishes between players, or when otherwise necessary to keep things moving along. Or players could unite against the DM—Tyranid/Ork/Chaos hoards—it would all be highly dependent and tailored to the models each players has available. The DM would be instrumental in whittling down numbers so that the later stage 2k and 3k point games work.
Legions obviously doesn’t crossover to 40K but as BFG and Planetary Empires are OOP the idea would be to fill up the gaps with 3D printing.
It’s a massive undertaking so just thought I would throw it out there and see if anyone has contemplated this or—Emperor willing—have done this before that I could use as a launch point.
Disclaimer/Clarity: I’m not reinventing the rules, the existing rules/edition would govern their individual sectors of play. What I’m most concerned with is rules for how those systems interact (how many turns to deploy assets on a planet from BFG to PE, can a ship use surface orbital strikes, points conversions across the systems, etc.). This is huge, something that a core group of close players would engage in over months—time and model costs even with printing are significant, I’m aware of all of that.
Appreciate any thoughts