Narrative Crusade for 2024
The Certus Crusade is our second Warhammer 40k Narrative Campaign hosted at the club, following the huge success of our previous Balecaster Crusade in 2023.
Players will have the option of using their crusade armies with the progression system in their own codex or using our own Certus system. This allows units to gain experience, skills and battle scars as the campaign progresses.
As previously, we will be encouraging folks to come up with narrative backgrounds for their forces and have a dedicated space on the Discord server to do so.
Taking Part
To take part, you will first need to sign up via the Discord Server and create an army roster to use for the duration of the campaign.
Army Construction
In a crusade, you will have a roster, effectively a pool of units that you can choose from between games. Each of these will gain experience, skills and battle scars over the course of the crusade, you will also be able to expand your roster.
- Starting roster of 1000 points
- Normal army construction rules apply
When picking your Crusade army you can select any units in your index with a couple of caveats:
- No Named Characters – epic heroes are still acceptable as long as they are generic – we want to see your characters develop over time
- No Allied Units – Your whole army must come from within your index, you cannot use allies in your lists including imperial agents – this is a rag tag force of survivors from their crashed vessel
- Imperial Armour Units are Allowed – As long as your faction can use them/they fit the narrative. If in doubt, ask Simon!
- No Starting Enhancements – You do not pick any enhancements for your starting crusade force. To unlock them you must spend additional points and RP once the campaign begins.
We will be using Goonhammer’s Administratum application, which you can upload your Battlescribe/Warhammer App Rosters to and keep track of unit progression.
Unit Progression
After playing your crusade missions:
- You will be expected to roll all of your out of action tests in front of your opponent
- Please do roll for any battle scars on your units after you have rolled for the out of action tests
- When choosing your upgrades please choose the most narratively appropriate upgrades for all your units
Battle Ready Armies
To be able to claim points for being Battle Ready within a game the following rules will apply:
- Month 1 – Every model on the battlefield must be at least undercoated
- Month 2 – Every model on the battlefield must have at least one additional colour
- Month 3 & Beyond – Every model on the battlefield must have at least 3 colours & be based
Campaign Map
This year we are doing something a little different, gone is the hex map from last year, as this time we are battling over an entire system.
In the campaign, alliances will battling for control of the five planets in the Certus system. Gaining more control of a planet will bolster your forces. Here’s the starting control levels, we will be updating results weekly via Discord.
Certus Prime | Prime Moon | Certus Minor | Secoundus | Tertius | |
| Renegade Imperials | 5 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 |
| Space Marine Liberators | 60 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Chaos Domination | 10 | 5 | 10 | 60 | 0 |
| The New Dawn Awakens | 15 | 60 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Cosmic Balance | 0 | 10 | 55 | 20 | 0 |
| The Hungry Void | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
