Purpose: This thread will lay out the "business rules" for the conduct of the 2016 BFG campaign, in order to make the experience of participating in the campaign as fun and easy as possible for all involved.
Campaign Rules: The full rules from the BFG Rule Book PDF will be employed. Faction-specific refit and appeal tables from the Armada book and various PDFs will be employed as applicable. Games will be played in accordance with the 2010 FAQ and the most recent edition of the rules in the BFG Rules Repository.
Fleet Tracking: Each player will make a thread in the BFG Campaign forum for their fleet. The first post will have the commander's information and the player's complete fleet list. This post will be edited by the player to reflect a ship's leadership, ship damage, refits, appeal results, reinforcements, and any other changes. Each time a player updates their fleet list, they will also make a new post in their thread that will state what the changes were.
Games: Players will issue challenges using any convenient means (text, PM, post in their fleet thread, backhand to the face, etc). The games can be played either in person or online using Vassal. Once the game is complete, the results shall be reported using the Game Reporting thread. Only one player needs to post; if their opponent does not issue any corrections to that post, it will be assumed to be correct. The impact of the game (renown, damage, system control, etc) will be reflected in the Campaign Dashboard within one week of the game being played. Players should update their fleet list threads as soon as possible, however.
Public Rolls: A sub-forum for conducting public rolls has been provided. Players are required to use this forum and the dice roller installed on the MBS forums to determine the starting leadership for their fleet. Player are encouraged, but not required, to do their rolls for appeals and other such public rolls in this forum as well. If a player elects not to use the forum for this (rolling instead In Real Life or in the Vassal client) at least one other participant must witness the roll. Rolls for individual game (such as for scenario) should be rolled inside of the Vassal client or in real life.
Campaign Length: The campaign will run for 6 months, ending on 1 October 2016. At that point, the player with the highest Renown will be declared the winner (ties are allowed!).
Participation Requirement: Players are required to complete at least one game per month. Players that fail to complete one game per month will be assessed a penalty of -2 to their Renown score, to a minimum of 1.
