The Fate of Konor: GW summer campaign

[Seahawk]

The worshippers of Chaos seek to smash a path through the Imperial battle line to Macragge, home world of the Ultramarines. Should they succeed, the greatest Imperial stronghold in the sector will be gravely threatened, and Guilliman’s forces will be cut off and surrounded.

 

To achieve this end, the forces of Chaos must conquer the powerful, well-located Konor System. The Konor System embodies the glorious dream of Ultramar. Crucially, it also guards one of the few stable warp transit routes to the Macragge System. If the Chaos advance is not halted, Konor will soon fall, and a path to the heartland of Ultramar will be laid bare.

 

WHAT IS THE FATE OF KONOR CAMPAIGN?

 

Through July, August and September all of our customers will fight to decide the fate of the Konor System to see if it fallsinto the hands of Chaos. All armies can get involved and the final results will be written into Warhammer 40,000 lore! Customers will fight for six planets over six weeks. Each planet will have a specific story, mission, weekly special rules and gaming theme, and will be affected by the results of the previous planet(s). Customers will be able to post results by logging ‘games won’ or newly painted datasheets in your store.

 

There are 3 stages to the campaign:

Promotion – between 17th June and the 1st July.

Army Muster – between 1st July and 27th July

Campaign – between 27th July and the 10th September

 

PROMOTION, MUSTER AND CAMPAIGN

 

From the launch of all of our new Warhammer 40,000 products we will be promoting the fact that we are running a Global Online Campaign from the 27th July.

 

Promotion: Talk to all of your customers about the upcoming campaign both in your store and on your storeFacebook page – get them excited.

 

Muster: This is the time for customers to choose which faction they will fight with and to build and paint their forces ready for the battles ahead. Additionally each week of the campaign will have a ‘theme’ with a selection of products that will count for double points during the campaign (see below) and the muster gives them an opportunity to buy, build and paint these units in advance!

 

Campaign: Customers can post results in your store by playing and winning games or by painting a new datasheet's worth of troops. They can post a win for Chaos, a win for the Imperium or in the case of all other forces remove a win from either the Imperium or Chaos!

 

 

WEEKLY THEMES

 

On each of the six planets some units feature more prominently than others.

 

Customers will get double points in the campaign for using a force that contains one or more of these units OR paints a datasheet that contains this unit type. We are going to let our customers know these themes right from the beginning:

 

Week 1: Space Marines and Start Collecting! sets

 

Week 2: Elites

 

Week 3: Tanks

 

Week 4: Psykers

 

Week 5: Fast Attack/Flyers

 

Week 6: Lords of War/Scenery

 

A STUNNING CAMPAIGN WEBSITE

We learnt a lot from our Season of War Online Campaign… The interactive website for The Fate of Konor is going to be amazing and will let your customers know the impact of their battles in your store and how the campaign is going globally. It will include downloads, countdowns, videos and much, much more…

 

CAMPAIGN PACK

 

We have put together a cool campaign pack to help you have a fantastic time in your store over the period of the campaign. It will include:

 

Astaramis Mission/Stratagem envelope: Astaramis is the first planet to be fought over in the campaign and has a Unique Mission and weekly special rules – open this envelope on the 27th July and use it for your gaming activities in week one.

 

Please note: each week's new Missions and weekly special rules will be emailed to you and will also be available on the campaign website.

 

Army Roster Sheets: This is a pad of 50 roster sheets. Give them to customers so they can write out an army list and record their Command Points etc. – feel free to

photocopy them if you need more!

 

Window Poster: Put this up in your store window to show customers that you are running Fate of Konor activities.

 

Campaign Map and Map Stickers: This massive campaign map will show off all the planets in the Konor System and will look great in your store. Use the campaign map stickers to show which force controls each planet at the end of each week of the campaign.

 

Mod note:

Support your boys in blue so that our beloved Ultramar doesn't die because little Timmy's rich parents bought him all of the chaos!

Edited May 31, 2017 by Seahawk

[Brother Captain Arkley]

What a silly place for a campaign :(

[Captain Idaho]

I hate these sorts of Campaigns. They're skewed and as an example, if a Necrons player beats and Ork player, they can take away a win away from the Imperium.

 

And just about every player other than Imperial players will do that because ULTRAMARINES ARE THE WORSTEST.

[Sugarlessllama]

I love this! I am really looking forward to participating. :D

[Prot]

Yea I love this stuff personally... I'll never forget the old one for Medusa. 

[Seahawk]

I very much expect Ultramar to be obliterated for the very reasons Idaho gives.

 

Stupid, stupid campaign nonsense.

[DogWelder]

I prefer to take the optimistic view on this, lore-wise. This is the first time the Primaris Marines are going to see battle and one of, if not the first, battle of the Indomitus Crusade. This is probably going to end in a canonical victory for the Imperium and Ultramar.

 

Plus we get lots of cool artwork and additional lore about Ultramar as well.

[Sugarlessllama]

I prefer to take the optimistic view on this, lore-wise. This is the first time the Primaris Marines are going to see battle and one of, if not the first, battle of the Indomitus Crusade. This is probably going to end in a canonical victory for the Imperium and Ultramar.

 

Plus we get lots of cool artwork and additional lore about Ultramar as well.

 

I couldn't agree more. I know a ton of people in my area at least are coming back into the hobby because of 8th. And I am sure that more than a few of them are going to be buying Primaris Marines. With the kind of enthusiasm we are seeing on the internet, I expect good things. 

 

How do I know?

 

Because I have been seeing a lot of positive things being posted about the new edition on the internet.

 

Yeah, you read that right. People are saying good things online. I'm pretty sure that means a few circles of hell have just frozen over.

[DogWelder]

Besides, come on, this is Ultramar we're talking about here!

 

 

It has so far survived:

 

A full on invasion by 2 full Legions (shadow crusade), 2 entire Hive Fleets (Behemoth and Kraken), an invasion by the largest Iron Warrior force assembled since the heresy (Honsou's little shindig), a full 13th Black Crusade army (Abaddon's attempt).

 

It can sure as hell withstand anything that self-hating loser Mortarian can throw at it!

 

PS: I got a look at some fluff spoilers in one of the Unboxing Videos on Youtube. Initially the Death Guard and Mortarian make gains, but Roboute Guilliman returns and quickly stops the Pladue Lord's forces in its tracks. There's a final battle that takes place on Iax with the two Primarchs fighting each other to a standstill before the Death Guard finally withdraw.

[Captain Idaho]

I have been thinking about the Cataphractii Captain I just finished painting...

 

Do we know if this campaign will see a book release? If so I wonder if we'll get the Tetarch of Konor as a miniature.