Something Different: Rules

For a change, I've had a go at writing some rules, to be used in recreated battles in the Webway, meant for a campaign between the Inquisition and Harlequins that will probably never actually happen.

Fighting in the Webway

Portals

In the Webway, time and space are mutable, one step can take you to a place many metres away, some of these spaces are stable and almost fixed in entrance and exit, , gateways built around them to stabilise them further, but other times the eddies of the Webway, where the warp brushes against it, can cause people to shift around quickly but seemingly at random.

To represent this, first, when you’re setting up terrain, you can set up D3 pairs of Portal markers, the Harlequin player gets to place the first pair or markers, then the opponent. 

Each portal marker is treated as adjacent to its paired marker, so you can move up to one and finish your movement from the second, however, due to the shifting and swirling patterns in the stable portals, they cannot be fired or charged though. Consider them only active while you are moving model, either in the movement phase or while Consolidating after combat.

Flowing Power and Ebbing Luck

For this effect you will need a deck of regular Playing Cards. 

At the start of each player turn, shuffle the deck and draw D3 cards, consulting the chart below. Each Card must be given to a unit that fits its Suit and will grant the effect mentioned in the second chart, if you can't give a Card to a unit, then it must be discarded. At the end of a player turn, remove all Playing Cards and put them into a discard pile. 

Suit	Unit Type (Troops can use all suits)
Heart	HQ
Club	Fast Attack
Spade	Heavy Support
Diamond	Elite

Face	Name	Effect
2	A place in the Dance	The unit can move an extra 1” in the Movement phase
3	Death Abounds	The unit gains the Split Fire rule
4	A Tumble of Fools	The unit can roll and extra d6 when rolling a random distance to move through cover, run or charge, discarding the lowest
5	The Surprising Resurrection	The Unit leaves the board and be placed into Ongoing Reserves and then can Deep Strike next turn
6	Fury of the Rilletann	The unit gains Rage Special Rule for this turn
7	Focus of Cegorach	The Unit gains +2 I
8	Stare Down the Face of Death	Take a leadership test, if passed, the unit gains Fearless for the rest of the game, if they fail, they fall back immediately
9	The Race Against the Fall	If this unit moves more that 12” in this Player turn, including running or charging, then you gain 1 Victory Point
10	Hidden Amongst The Tides	This unit gains the Stealth Special Rule
Jack	Avatar of the Dance	The unit gains the Counter Attack special rule
Queen	Esdainn's Control	The Unit can place a Portal marker in contact with it and place its twined Portal Marker anywhere within 2D6+6” then discard this card
King	Luck of the Laughing God	The unit can choose to reroll any one dice roll this turn, once you've rerolled a dice, discard the card
Ace	Arebennian Incarnate	The Unit can reroll all misses in the Shooting and Combat phases this turn

The Campaign will also let your Characters gain power and have ongoing wounds. As this is for smaller games, there shouldn't be many to keep track of.

Gaining Experience 

Keep a log of every time a model with the Character subtype kills enemy models. Enemy Characters killed count as 5 models, 10 if killed in a Challenge. Every time you reach a threshold, you can roll 1D6 on the Experience Bonus chart below to receive an upgrade.

Thresholds: When kill count reaches one of the following numbers - 5,10,20,35,50,70,100

Roll	Name	Effect
1	Webway Channeler	The Character can sommon forth a blade of force while in the Webway, while fighting in the webway, they may, at the start of their combat phase, swap any weapon they are holding for a Power Weapon of any type
2	Portal Dampener	The Character can concentrate their mind on an active Portal and force this to close, in their Shooting Phase, instead of making a shooting attack, the Charcter can remove a twinned pair of Portal Markers
3	Wayward Projection	Subconsiously, the Character uses the Webway to create an image of themselves that is several inches from where they truly are, this makes them difficult to hit and gives him a 6+ cover save at all times, this can be improved in the normal way by Stealth or Shrouded or any other effect that improves cover saves
6	Empowered By The Webway	Being this close to the Webway and outside of the normal rules of the Universe has empowered the Character, boosting them physically , roll a D3, 1 = +1 S, 2 = +1 T, 3 = +1 W
7	Enhanced By The Webway	Being this close to the Webway and outside of the normal rules of the Universe has empowered the Character, making them more skilled , roll a D3, 1 = +1 WS, 2 = +1 BS, 3 = +1 LD

If you roll a duplicate of a power 1 or 2, you can reroll, all other effects can stack, if you get multiple Wayward Projection then your cover save improves by 1.

Casualties of War

If a character is removed as a Casualty in a Game, then at the end of the game roll on the table below.

Roll	Name	Effect
1	Dead	This Character is dead, you must promote a replacement, create a new Character to use in their place, this new Character had none of the previous Experience Bonuses and kill count is rest
2	Weakened	Remove one random bonus power gained from the Experience Bonus table, if the Character had no bonuses, then treat as Dead and they loses the few kills they had, if any.
3	Injured	In the next battle this Character takes part in, they are at -1 W, after that battler, the effect is gone. If this would take him to 0 then treat this as Weakened, this may still kill any unpowered Characters
4	Shamed	Demolized by their defeat, the Character is at -1 Ld for the next battle they are in, after that battle, this effect is gone
5	Hideous Scars	The injuries sustained have scarred the Character beyond recognition, but they wear the scars as a badge of pride, this Character leads from the front and their troops have their confidence boosted by their presence, the character gains +1 Ld permenantly
6	Near Death Experience	The Character awakens from their injured state determined to prove themselves, taking the lessons learnt and turning them into opputunities to improve, the Character can immediately roll on the Experience Bonus table, regardless of kill count