It has been a while since I last posted here. My marines
have slowly being expanding. Since the last time I have painted:
- Assault terminators (lightening claws)
- Void Shield generator (started)
- Tactical terminators (heavy flamer)
- 5 man close combat scout squad
- Played some games
- New kitchen
Now I am in the process of buying a house so more time being
used up doing no geekery stuff.
Anyway last weekend my local mates and i played a large game.
we had been discussing it for a while as with any large games things can get
complicated, time consuming, unbalanced and all of the above!
First of all to try and keep it simple we said the marines
would defend a fortress in the centre of the table. The nids would come in from
both sides (like a mission in Horus Heresy Book 1). The marines would set up and
the nids would have turn 1 in which the moved on from the board edge. This would
save time in not having to set the nids up then move them. When we setting the
board up we decided that it would be best not to have any terrain between the
base and the table edge. While this would not give the nids cover it would also
not slow them down getting to the marines. The nids aim was to wipe out the
marines (not flyers).
We agreed on a time limit for moving and shooting of 30mins
(timer paused for the psychic phase). We didn’t time assault as it was felt you
could not do an assault for an advantage, so all would have to be done, where
if you forgot to move or shoot it is generally to your own detriment. Rather than play APOC we just played a big game of 40K. APOC has even more rules and situations to remember and to be honest we just wanted to roll dice and play!
I’m not going to give a turn by turn report or anything like
that, but overall the game played well with very little that needed changing. We
ran out of time (as usual) but managed to complete 4 turns, which isn’t bad for
21k points on the board. The marines held out and had a little over 2k left…
the nids still had a lot left! The nids did start with 25% more models and
could respawn stuff each turn. Their entry point also crept closer to the base
each turn. I think it was a balanced game, maybe swinging to the easier side
for marines. I think we still would have held out for 1 more turn, after that
not so sure!
Here are a few pictures of the game.
More can be seen in my photobucket account here:
Lessons learned:
- Big games are hard to plan. This took the best part of 2 months of chat to get a rule set we all liked (or at least compromised on!)
- Time: no matter how much time you give you will always run out
- Space: hosting is hard and we needed space for an 8*6 table (no deployment zone for nids) and plenty of space to walk around and put models out of the way. We were lucky and could hire a local room that allowed us to be there until after 11pm.
- Game rules: it was a little one dimensional and as the marine player I didn’t have to think about too much, no choosing between a run for an objective or shoot the nearest enemy. Not this scenario needed it but other games I would like to have a 3 tiered set of objective, turn based (maelstrom), game based (eternal war), secret (special one made up for that specific game, like kill all HQ’s, or hold any 6 objectives at the end of the game). each one worth more than the other so it would be hard to know how is going to win
So that is now over I am cracking on with finishing off my
first load of Centurions and I have started the storm raven. That should keep
me busy until my house move is complete!
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