A friend and I have decided to play through a version of the Paradiso Campaign, using the mission structures and XP system to forge a campaign of our own. Due to the difficulties of getting four regular players together we've decided to play through a chunk of the missions ourselves with a narrative link between them, rather than the branching campaign. As I'm fielding Tohaa, much of Paradiso would feel a bit odd if played 'as is', so I'm putting a different narrative spin on the missions to allow us to still play the missions as written.
Some changes will be made to how Paradiso runs to fit our armies and the type of games we enjoy. However over the course of the campaign it will be my own Tohaa army against a Haqqislam force, with a lot of emphasis on the spec ops units. We preloaded our Spec Ops with 3XP to make them a bit more interesting game one - I chose a Hacking Device to give my special operative a bit more usefulness in game one, and my opponent chose one also for his Hafza based spec ops character.Chapter One: Mission 101 - Cloak and Dagger
Tohaa and Haqqislam forces face off across a deserted urban area at the outskirts of Hadley's Hope City, in USAriadna territory, planet Dawn. Three data containers have been jettisoned by the Hassassin undercover vessel 'Rawdha' - unfortunately neither side knows what the data containers have been loaded with - navigational and operating data from the ships computer core are in two of the capsules, with the third containing as-yet unknown intelligence that both sides are keen to recover and analyse. Local emergency services have evacuated this part of the city to deal with the wreckage from the crashed ship, and it's into this vacuum the two aggressors deploy...
Read the prologue for the campaign here.
We are simply playing Mission 101: Data Recovery here across an urban board setup to look rundown and very much on the fringes of a major city.
