In past campaigns, especially the ones hosted by Games Workshop, players were usually required to play a battle on the tabletop each turn in order to report. While this system definitely has the benefit of promoting more games to be played, I've decided not to require battles during this campaign.

To be absolutely clear; you may report once per turn, regardless of whether you've played a tabletop battle or not.

My main reason for this is that some players simply won't have the time to play a game each turn, and I don't want to penalize them for it!

That being said, if the majority of the players feels like we should have a system in which you need to play a battle to report (or even one where victory, defeat and draw results matter), then I'd be happy to implement it for the next campaign! We're writing these stories together, after all, and any and all input is appreciated.

I like it as a bonus system maybe, but for online games I really don't think playing a battle should be mandatory. Like you say, people just don't have the time always.