Our local store, Games To Die For, is running a Warhammer 40,000 (40K) campaign called “Spoils of War”. We’re using a hex map to determine territories and there’s no real “end to the campaign. We have to play our games in a two week period and could have to play several games based on who attacks who.
Chris and I had scheduled our game for this Thursday due to the fact I had attacked one of his territories. I am familiar with Chris and I wanted to get in a game. I had no real visions of winning, I just wanted to expand my list of opponents. Chirs had canceled our game on Wednesday, but ended up calling me at about 5:30pm yesterday to say he was at the store and ready to play. Normally, I work on a list and read up on my special rules during the day before each game I play. In this case, I didn’t have that opportunity and as a result made some tactical errors. I’m not saying Chris wouldn’t have won anyway, I’m just saying the game might have been a little less one-sided and more fun.
Here’s the list I used:
- Captain Kayvaan Shrike
- Scouts x5 w/Telion upgrade (sniper rifles, cloaks, missile launcher)
- Tactical Marines x10 (missile launcher, meltagun, power weapon, rhino)
- Assault Marines x10 (flamer, power fist, power weapon)
- Terminators x5 (storm bolters, power fists, power weapon)
Chris’ list (from memory):
- Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor (daemon weapon)
- Khorne Berserkers x10 (rhino w/havoc launcher, power weapon)
- Chaos Space Marines x9 (power weapon, meltagun, mark of Nurgle)
- Chaos Space Marines x5 (power weapon)
- Land Raider (lascannon, heavy bolter, havoc launcher)
Mission: Annihilation
Deployment: Dawn of War
We set up terrain and deployed our first units, which according to Chris’ description of the deployment, led me to believe I had to deploy Shrike and two Troop choices. Of course, this was a silly assumption as he didn’t deploy his own HQ.
Basically, it came down to his units assaulting and killing my units. He ended up with 4 Kill Points to my 1. No big deal, he gets to keep his territory, I learn some mistakes I made, and we had a good game. I look forward to playing more 40K games against some new opponents.
Fred acquired a bunch of Necrons from a friend and has been wanting to learn the game. He asked me on Saturday to teach him. Well, having not played in a long time myself, we got a lot of help from folks in the store last night. Dave, Mike and Jeff were quite helpful with many of the rules I’d forgotten and didn’t want to take the time to look up, which kept the game going and hopefully, Fred learning.
