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Campaign and Terminology Tweaks
● A Gang is now known as a Cohort.
● A Turf War is now known as an Investigation.
● A Cohort’s Turf is now known as its Influence.
● Special Territories are now known as Special
Assets. Each individual Special Asset may be
re-themed by the Arbitrator to better fit the
Investigation and Cohort that controls it.
● Reputation is now known as Evidence, which
represents progress towards your Cohort’s goal in
the Investigation. Evidence resets after each
Investigation.
● An Investigation focuses on a single event, mystery,
or mcguffin. All parties involved have some stake
in the outcome of the Investigation. The Showdown
reward of maintaining a Cohort Rating up to 3000
and losing less Influence between Investigations is
the default setting. The Arbitrator should alter this
in some way for each Investigation. Perhaps the
winner gains the favor of a planetary governor and
can call upon them for aid, but their Influence will
be reduced as any other Cohort. Or maybe a
powerful artifact is recovered and is available to
the winner in the next Investigation, but they are
limited to a Cohort rating of 2000 as they need to
divert resources to research and repair the artifact.
Whatever the case, the rewards should be detailed
by the Arbitrator at the beginning of the
Investigation, or at an appropriate plot point.
● Gangers are now known as Acolytes.
● Juves are now known as Initiates.
Rules Tweaks
● Acolytes start off as Specialists.
● Any fighter other than a Leader may be hired as a
Minion, which replaces their previous rank.
Minions advance randomly like Gangers.
● When an Initiate becomes a Champion their
advancement total is reset to zero, the same applies
to Minions becoming Specialists.
● Any fighter may have additional equipment sets.
Equipment may be moved from fighter cards to the
stash during the 5d: Distribute Equipment step of
the post-battle sequence; simply remove it from all
of a fighter’s equipment sets and add it to the
Cohort’s stash. A card with no equipment may be
deleted so long as it is not that fighter’s last card.
● There are no equipment restrictions on any type of
fighter, Initiates do not need to limit themselves to
weapons which cost 20 credits or less.
● Add the following to the trading post:
○ Power Armor: 150 cr. Rare 15 (3+ save)
● You may recruit from any “gang”, which represent
different archetypes. A fighter’s archetype needs to
be recorded on recruitment, it is used for skill
selection and characteristic maximums.
Characteristic maximums are based on the adjusted
values of that archetype’s leader.
○ Cawdor = Devotee
○ Delaque = Spy
○ Escher = Acrobat
○ Goliath = Bruiser
○ Orlock = Worker
○ Van Saar = Techno
○ Chaos Cult = Zealot
○ Genestealer Cult = Mutant
○ Venator = Mercenary
Alternatively, use the Chaos Cult, Genestealer Cult,
or Venator rules. This is the only way to use their
campaign rules, all other Cohorts are treated as
House Gangs in a campaign. Venators are the best
choice for representing outsiders and Xenos who
don’t operate like Imperials.
● When outfitting your Cohort, fighters may be
equipped with common items from the Trading Post.
In addition, items on House Equipment Lists, which
are not also in the Trading Post, may be purchased
with a rarity of 7 at Cohort founding or in the
post-battle sequence.
● Rare items may be purchased when founding a
Cohort. The total rarity of all rare items purchased at
this time must not exceed 50. If you purchase the
same item more than once, its rarity will increase by
+2 for each additional item after the first. For
example: 3 identical items of rarity 7 would cost a
total of 27 rarity (7+9+11). After a Cohort is founded
you must search for rare items as usual (even
Venators).
● Cohorts will construct a tactics card deck during the
1: Buy Advancements and Recruit Hired Guns step of
the pre-battle sequence. Each Cohort’s deck must
contain at least 10 non-gang exclusive cards,
although they may contain any card regardless of
faction. No card may be duplicated. Gang exclusive
cards may be played on any fighter.
● Optional: The number of gang exclusive tactics cards
available when constructing a deck is limited to the
number of fighters from that archetype in a Cohort.
In order to encourage variety, tactics cards which
were drawn in the previous battle may not be added
to a deck. Cohorts may wish to spend Investigation
points on planning for a battle; when receiving
tactics cards for a game, freely choose one more
card from the dack for each Investigation spent.
Version 1.6, 5/31/18
By: Jacob Dryearth