Totengräber's Workpläce

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.

I finally finished lots of figures this week. Namely, from Pulp City: Six Feet Under, Mourn, Red Riding Hoodoo and Solar. This brings my “need to paint before Gen Con” list up to 50% done. Since I had the camera and lights out, I decided to take pics of some old Confrontation stuff, some WIP Space Marines and Lizardmen, and an almost-finished Apebot (just the base left!) that I started work on today.

Go check out the Gallery here.