I am going to release a the racial build rules for The Genesys Project in a couple of days, and figured it was a great time to post up on a sample race created by it. This will give you an idea on just how varied and fun the building your own race in Genesys can be.
If you are new to the game concept, The Genesys Project allows you to create and advance your own faction. Its a new game system that I have been a part of for a couple years, and the push is to get the game released to everyone soon. The first release will be the racial build docs.
1. Sample Race Build, and we will go into more details about how this is done later. For now though, the selection of traits is what defines the abilities of our race. Our base racial build grants the abilities to all models in our faction.
We want our Mountain Orcs to be Feral savage beasts
led by a powerful God King. Trolls and Giants would be wonderful as well to be
part of our elite forces.
Mountain Orc Warriors
Pt Cost 15pts per model
Base Attack 1 Wounds 1
Strength: 3 Toughness: 2 Movement 4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 2 Willpower: 2 Command: 2
Orc Warriors are our base for our race. These are a standard unit class, so will be available with all the traits we choose for race. Here is our list of traits we choose to make our race.
Feral
4pts: Racial Variation, Increase
Strength 1, Decrease Command 1
Bestial Attributes 6pts: Increase Movement 1 or Increase Toughness 1, Decrease
Discipline 1
Slave Population 2pts: Slave Population
God Kings 3pts: Bonus Traits 2 (Unique)
Advanced
Mail -/5pts (Armory): Special Equipment: Advanced Mail
2. Now that we have our base race, we will build some new classes that will fill out our Standard Classes, as well as our Elite Classes, Leaders and Uniques. When you create new classes, you get to select additional traits that apply only to the the specific class you are building. The class still retains all the abilities that you choose before, in addition to the class specific traits.
Our first class will be the standard Mountain Orc Warrior we made for our base race. This will keep basic warriors with a low point cost.
Our Second standard class will be Beast Packs, an Orc Warrior that runs into battle with his wolves.
Beast Pack
Pt Cost
17pts per model
Base Attack
1 Wounds 1
Strength: 3 Toughness: 2 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged:
2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 2 Willpower:
2 Command: 2
War Dogs
War Dogs 2pts: War Dogs
Wolves
S:2 T:3 Mvmt:4 // M:2 R:1 Def:3 // Dsc 2 W:1 CMD:1 // M(tn) 5, R(tn) 7 Each animal is 10pts each.
S:2 T:3 Mvmt:4 // M:2 R:1 Def:3 // Dsc 2 W:1 CMD:1 // M(tn) 5, R(tn) 7 Each animal is 10pts each.
Our Third Class will be a Mountain Troll.
Mountain Troll
Pt cost 31pts
Base Attacks 1 Wounds 1
Strength: 3
(5) Toughness: 3 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 1 Willpower:
2 Command: 2
Regeneration
Aberration
6pts: Racial
Variation, Increase Characteristic 1
(choice, see abilities), Decrease Characteristic 1(opposite of Increase)
Regeneration
12pts:
Regeneration 1
We can't forget that we took slaves as well, This grants us an additional class that can only be fielded with primitive weapons, but at a reduced cost. Of course these must be puny orcs from other clans.
Orc Slaves
Pt Cost 8pts
per model
Base Attack
1 Wounds 1
Strength:
3 Toughness: 2 Movement
4
Martial: 2 Ranged: 2 Defense:
2
Discipline: 2 Willpower:
2 Command: 2
3. Elite Classes
These are built off of existing classes or the racial base.
The first one we will do of course will be Dire Wolf Riders.
Wolf Rider
Pt Cost
50pts per model
Base Attack
2 Wounds 1
Strength:
3 Toughness: 2 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 2 Willpower:
2 Command: 2
War Dogs 2pts: War Dogs
Monstrous Beast 8pts: Monstrous Beast
Feral Beasts 4pts: Feral Beasts 1
Dire Wolf
S:5 T:4 Mvmt:4 // M:3 R:1 Def:3 // Dsc 2 W:2 CMD:1
// M(tn) 6, R(tn) 7 with 2 attacks.
Each
animal is 45pts.
Our second we want some large brutes to control our slaves, so how about some Mountain Ogres.
Mountain Ogre
Pt Cost
52pts per model
Base Attack
2 Wounds 1
Strength:
5 Toughness: 3 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 2
Discipline: 1 Willpower:
2 Command: 1
Giantism 6pts: Racial Variant, Increase Toughness 1, Decrease
Discipline 1, Decrease Command 1, Model Size 1
Massive Strength 16pts: Increase Strength 2, Decrease Defense 1,
Last Elite Class. these guys will be elite orcs that have become one with their wolf packs. built off of the Beast Packs, these Orcs have the gift of Lycanthropy to transform into viscous creatures that still run with thier wolves.
Alpha Wolf Packs
Pt Cost 31
Base Attack
2 Wounds 1
Strength: 3 Toughness: 2 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged:
2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 2 Willpower:
2 Command: 2
War Dogs
War Dogs 2pts: War Dogs
Lycanthropy 10pts: Enhancement Strength 1, Lycanthropy 1, Unarmed Combat, Restriction Darkness
Predatory Attributes 2pts: Unarmed Combat
4. Now for the leaders of our motley crew. Lets get some Mountain Giants to spearhead our forces.
Mountain Giant
Pt Cost 180pts
per model
Base Attack
3 Wounds 4
Strength:
5 Toughness: 5 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 2
Discipline: 1 Willpower:
2 Command: 1
Giantism 6pts: Racial Variant, Increase Toughness 1, Decrease Discipline 1, Decrease Command 1, Model Size 1
Massive Strength 16pts: Increase Strength 2, Decrease Defense 1,
Titans: 24pts: Increase Toughness 1, Wound +1, Model Size 1
Our
bonus Characteristic increase for the class will go to toughness
Next up, a cheaper point cost Warrior tough enough to become Orc Warlords
Orc Warlord
Pt Cost 59pts
per model
Base Attack
3 Wounds 3
Strength: 3 Toughness: 2 Movement
4
Martial: 5 Ranged:
2 Defense: 3
Discipline: 2 Willpower:
2 Command: 3
Close Quarter Fighting 6pts: Increase Martial 1
Skilled
Commander 4pts: Increase Command 1
Our Bonus characteristic will be used for additional
Martial Skill.
5. Finally we are to our Unique Class. The God-King of the Orc Clans. A Mountain Giant who embodies the term Alpha to a new level. Their living God Encarnate, with the gift of Lycanthropy
The God King
Pt Cost 761 pts
per model
Base Attack 4 Wounds 4
Strength:
5 Toughness: 7 Movement
4
Martial: 3 Ranged: 2 Defense: 2
Discipline: 1 Willpower:
2 Command: 4
We will take the Unique bonus of +1 command for 15pts.
The
two unique characteristic points will into Toughness
Bonus
Traits + Class Traits
Giantism 6pts: Racial Variant, Increase Toughness 1, Decrease Discipline 1, Decrease Command 1, Model Size 1
Massive Strength 16pts: Increase Strength 2, Decrease Defense 1,
Titans: 24pts: Increase Toughness 1, Wound +1, Model Size 1
Our bonus Characteristic increase for the class will go to toughness
Lycanthropy 10pts: Enhancement Strength 1, Lycanthropy 1, Unarmed Combat, Restriction Darkness
Predatory Attributes 2pts: Unarmed Combat
Skilled
Commander 4pts: Increase Command 1
Command
of the Field 8pts: Increase Command 1