NEW! DFA Campaign System Rules

[@mrc8308]

Started playing CBT recently. Excited to try these rules out!

[@grspencer]

I love this campaign system! Thanks for making your campaign and missions public. Our group has adopted similar set up but I like yours better and we'll be converting over. Thanks again and keep up the great work!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Enjoy! Let us know how it works out for you!

[@fargoretro]

This is a really neat concept. I can't wait to try it out after I get a few more missions under my belt.

[@Dmorris556]

Thanks for this guys. Great contribution to the community.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

You’re welcome! Enjoy.

[@BazztheBazz]

While I haven't had the opportunity to do a full-fledged campaign yet, I finally got to try out your house rules for group fire, as well as the Recon mission scenario, and I loved it! The game itself was an absolute nail-biter, with the attacker very nearly escaping with the scanned data before being taken down just a hex away from the board edge. Not only do your house-rules really ramp up the carnage (especially when you have pilots with Gunnery 2 or 3), but it tremendously speeds up the game-- we were able to get in a 15 round game in just under 3 hours! I'm going to put up a full batrep on my channel soon, and hopefully the meager handful of followers I have will check you guys out.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

That’s great to hear! Always loving hearing that our rules have added a little more excitement!! Recon is a great mission, and has that good old BattleTech feel to it - always reminds me of the intro sequence in MW2: Mercenaries. 😆 If you do get a batrep up, shoot me an email! Would love to watch!

[@andymansgamingchannel3356]

Great stuff fellas! Thanks for taking the time to put this campaign together!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Our pleasure. We’ll continue to refine and add new missions as we go, but let us know if you run a campaign with these rules, and how it pans out!

[@andymansgamingchannel3356]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming will do!! Our gaming groups here in Omaha are all about WH40K... I'm getting a small group together (still hammering out date/location) I'll snap a few pics when we play. Thanks again!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Love it!

[@dickjensenusn]

I love you guys. What an amazing group of fans.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Haha we love you too ❤️

[@redcorsair14]

When you guys go through the what we are bringing process, how do you account for vehicles and infantry. What I mean is, you agree to a 4 mech per side battle. One player wants to have a mix of mechs and vehicles or throw in a karnov with a couple infantry stands. How many mechs do you drop to make room for vehicles or infantry or just go straight BV and not worry about making things even numbers-wise?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I think what you are looking for is Alpha Strike 😉 but jokes aside, just balance by BV in that case.

[@ArchangelMiniatureGaming]

These rules sound awesome. Is there a campaign you guys have filmed, where we can see what this looks like in practise? Thatd be a super sweet series!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Just check out our Battle Reports playlist... the most recent “Awaking the Dragon” uses these rules.

[@Grizaptimus]

Rock on guys! Hope to put these rules to use soon.

[@Bafimar01]

Love your videos. I would love to see some lvl 2 rules aka 3050 and Clans. I really love the setting . And you guys do an Awsome 8-Q job (No pun intended)

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Lol thanks man! Definitely keep your eyes open for some of the LosTech and Clan action!

[@99zxk]

Some might argue that not enough Capellans were lost.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

lol some might argue this indeed.

[@allenflud]

An interesting change to your skill rule. If your leader(2/3) gets killed someone gets promoted after assuming the roll with no change for one engagement. This promoted character, makes one shift up in tier. I say one shift in tier, because it could be possible that you only have greens left. However if all you have is greens, perhaps the "new green commander" gains tactical advantages initiatives. To try and maintain some power offset for the entire campaign cycle. I do like what you guys do with your maps. I would like to see, perhaps, a game that includes all of the calculations to show my son. That said I love the way you calculate off camera and feed us the meat and potatoes of the match.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

We do have an intro/ how to play series that walks through some of that - maybe that will hit the mark? Let me know!

[@allenflud]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming i guess I missed it thanks I will go take a look.

[@allenflud]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming i saw guess I saw alpha strike in the thumbnail and skip over it. You have so much content, its hard to get through it all. That is an awesome problem to have. Great channel.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@TC-Apoc]

This is great! Are you looking for any feedback from those of us who run the rules for a campaign or two?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Absolutely! Feel free to post them up here or (probably preferable) email us over at our gmail account 👍

[@bruced648]

when you are playing small battles (company or smaller), bv is a solid tool for unit construction. when you are playing battalion and larger, the better system is c-bills. any good campaign will never have balanced battles. each objective should be broken down into the following steps. 1. Mechwarrior: gather Intel about the objective. (forces, defenses, special details) 2. determine the forces you are committing to the mission. (this has nothing to do with bv, but your allocation of troops) 3. assign any special roll units (artillery, aero, reinforcements) 4. conduct mission 5. outcome (success or failure) 6. repairs, reloads and salvage next mission!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Love the comment! I think balanced battles are a necessity for some gaming styles… but I agree there is a cinematic appeal to imbalanced games!

[@sachad964]

another campaign way you could run would be start the campaign with 10 mechs and start on a large map and at the start place 4 mechs each and every 10 turns you each get 2 more mechs 40 turns or make the last section 15 turns long. if you have more then 2 players every set of 10 turns new players take over

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Would be cool! Maybe when I hit the lottery and retire early 😁

[@brianhenry152]

A quick question for clarification please? When repairing a destroyed location on a mech, does the cost of repairs to the internal structure also cover any actuator critical hits taken in that location previously? For instance, if an actuator in an arm is critically hit and then later that same arm is eventually destroyed, do I pay the cost of that actuator on top of the structure cost for repairs? Or does fully repairing the structure also repair any actuators housed within that arm? I understand why you'd have to pay extra for any weapons or heat sinks, but I'm not sure about the actuators. Thanks in advance!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hey man! So in the example where the arm is completely destroyed, you would need to pay for the internal structure, all actuators, any other critical components in the arm, and then armor. The exception here is when the arm is severed with a critical roll of “12” - then you would just pay for whatever was damaged prior to it being blown clean off. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!

[@brianhenry152]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming Hey, thanks for the quick reply! One follow up question, so if a weapon is critically hit once, you'd only need to pay the 20 SP right? But if it's in a destroyed section, then you'd have to pay 20 per slot total?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Exactly. So for example, if there is a PPC in the arm (3 slots) that was destroyed, you’d have to cover 60 SP for repairs. But if the PPC just takes one critical hit and the arm is intact, you’d only be on the hook for 20 SP.

[@nikmaza6515]

I was searching through the net for alternate CC systems. Yours seem very nice. I am reading as I write this, and the reason I came here, in the first place is because I found an inconsistency. Page. 1 states that a 4/5 pilot is green when in fact he is regular. Likewise a 3/4 is a veteran (and not regular as stated in the pdf).

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Thanks for checking it out and appreciate the feedback. At DFA we have some house rules and “upgun” the skill level of our pilots. Using RAW skill pilots can make for an abysmal game with a lot of missing... 😁

[@nikmaza6515]

Also you state that buying a Pilot costs 30 SP. I suppose you used the CC:SW pricing (which also includes that healing a would costs 100 SP). Keep in mind that this is a mix up. The corrected cost of buying a pilot is 100 SP (and healing one wound is 30 SP (as was printed in Campaign Operations). If you visit the original forums (errata section for CC:SW) you will see that they acknowledged the error. On the other hand, your 30 SP price might be a coincidence and it's just a number that is working for you, so just ignore my previous sentence :)

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I’ll double check - but take a look at the latest printing of the chaos campaign rules (its a standalone pdf that came out a couple months back, not the addendum in campaign ops).

[@nikmaza6515]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming I am specifically talking about the latest printing of the standalone Chaos Campaign rules (Chaos Campaign: Succession Wars) I even made a rules question about the situation two months ago bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=66271.msg1528782#msg1528782

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Yah not sure what to say - we are basing it on what is published. If CGL releases a revision we can incorporate - but hey - make it your own! 👍 I could see why hiring would be more expensive than healing.... but maybe medical insurance in the 31st Century is really expensive 😁

[@nathanburg]

question: do you usually play against each others campaign forces or against a generic opfor?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

We play against others. Check out website for the rules we use. There are a few different options to suit your style and system of choice.

[@barker262]

Dear DFA, I played Battletech in the '80 when it came out and loved it then. Glad to see someone with a fresh take on it. A couple of questions about the system: what are the mech warrior multipliers that you add? Where do I find those values? Secondly, do you think that your system has room for the mech 'Design quirks' and mech warrior 'quirks' www.scrapyardarmory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Mechwarrior-Quirks-ScrapYardArmory-.pdf Anyway good job fellas. Send a good quality t-shirt to Australia will ya, I hate ordering online.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hey - thanks for the comment. We looked at quirks, and while it’s really cool in concept, I think it sort of ends up being “just another rule” you’ve gotta remember... and many of them don’t have tangible in-game impacts (they don’t always apply, or maybe are geared towards the RPG). Maybe down the road we will take another look at it! As for the MechWarrior multipliers - what do you mean? Are you taking about the modifier for improvements to piloting and gunnery? If so, they are in the Tech Manual for sure, but also in Total Warfare I believe. In either case, we love using Solaris Skunkwerks. It has a force builder that’ll do all the math for you!

[@barker262]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming The multiplier I'm on about is from your DFA campaign doc page 1, Force Battle Value: ABV can be determined for each unit modified by the average piloting and gunnery, times force size. Then it give an example: ...1000 BV then modifiy that by the average pilot for the campaign (gunner 3/4 piloting). This results in a modified average of 1380 BV (1000 x 1.2 x 1.15). How are those two multipliers derived, the 1.2 and the 1.15. I realise they are somehow related to the respective scores of gunnery/piloting, but are they listed anywhere for reference. Lets say you used green only pilots 4/5 what are their multipliers? Or the elites you mention, the 2/3 pilots. I can look it up myself of course, but where?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Tech Manual pg 314 under “BV Skill Multiplier Table”

[@barker262]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming Cheers, don't have it but I can look it up. One more unreated thing. I'm down here in Australia and getting mech minis is difficult. I keep seeing mini's that look inspired from MWO (which I don't play) have a bulky look to them like this www.deviantart.com/odanan/art/MWO-Steiner-Archer-repaint-583641020 or this www.deviantart.com/odanan/art/MWO-Javelin-repaint-699938005 or this actual mini, i.pinimg.com/originals/67/52/77/675277b0277be8bae809639ab4f61935.jpg Don't know where I can get these from, website, online store etc?

[@Aznboy1der]

barker262 This may be quite late, but search insane_kangaroo on ebay. He is based in Australia, so the shipping shouldn’t be too bad. He casts designs based on MWO and included lots of bits for customization.

[@UofTguy]

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. As a new player, what books or other information resources would be necessary to play a campaign using this ruleset?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

I would recommend grabbing the BattleTech Battlemech Manual... if you want to run vehicles, grab Total Warfare.

[@UofTguy]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming Oh, okay. That's easy enough. If you already have Total Warfare, is there any reason to purchase the Battlemech Manual?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

It’s a thinner book to carry around 😆 but seriously no, I don’t think so... everything in the BTBM is in TW I believe.

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

... of course you’ll also probably want to check out Solaris Skunk Werks or some other record sheet generation tool!

[@UofTguy]

@@DeathfromAboveWargaming Thanks for your help. Your channel has really inspired me to get back into Battletech. Cheers!

[@adamcondon5120]

I think the actual term could be logistical support

[@RevEricG]

Hi guys, so I’ve been looking over the campaign rule download and have a question. In determining the BV of a fielded mech it seems that there is a multiplier for both piloting and gunnery skill values that then gets applied to the base BV of the mech. Where would I find a chart or reference to know what the specific multipliers are based upon the skill levels involved? (It comes up in the campaign rules under determining the BV value for the campaign as a whole.... something like 1000 x 1.2 x 1.15 in the example.) Is this referenced in one of the sourcebooks or is it of your own creation?

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Hey Eric - this is in the tech manual. I am on my mobile device right now and don’t have the exact page handy, but scan the other comments on this vid - I think it may be here somewhere 😁 Also download Solaris Skunkwerks. A must-have tool imo for any Battletech player. It has a force balancer that will calc the BV based on mech, piloting and gunnery!

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Update: it was in my email. Page 314 of the Tech Manual! 👍

[@RevEricG]

Death from Above Wargaming thanks so much.... and it would of course be in the one book I don’t currently own. I will check out Solaris Skunkwerks though... I’ve be futzing around in Meklab but will take a peek at this other now

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Shoot me an email if you need the table.

[@RevEricG]

Death from Above Wargaming - got it, thanks so much

[@sachad964]

why not start with rookie pilots at start of campaign and if the get say 3 kills the go up a level

[@todd636]

I'm new to Battletech. Is there a book that is needed to play campaigns? Like how to use SP's? I am waiting for Total Warfare rules which I just ordered. Thanks

[@DeathfromAboveWargaming]

Total Warfare will be good enough! The rules we have posted for free download should give you everything else you need to get going!

[@kereminde]

Alternatively there is the Chaos Campaign: Succession Wars. For the "official brand". It's free, just hit up DriveThru RPG.

[@Schugger1]

todd636 you can also grab the Chaos Campaign rules mentioned in this video for free at the Catalyst Game Store.