Game night

I had one of my rather rare games of 40K last night - actually my first game with the 6ed. rules. Also my first game with my AdMech force. Liked how the new rules worked, though there was a lot to keep track of with both a new rulebook and a new codex. The enemy was CSM. Also liked how the force performed in battle, lot more durable than I anticipated, and again some units fell much more easy than I expected. All in all it seemed pretty well balanced, so now it's just a question of getting some experience and figure out the best combo of troops. The game ended in draw btw.

Think the battlefield works pretty well too, need to finish the last couple of terrain pieces I've already bought, and then add a bit more 3D.

Killing Ground

Had the first test game using the Killing Ground rules last night, and though I had my behind handed to me it was good fun. More importantly the rules seemed to be rather balanced and actually make sense in almost all the parts of the game. We only found very few places where a rewrite or a small tweak was needed. So go ahead, have a go at them and let me know what you think.

Rats!

City terrain

Got a good way on the road to finishing my modular city terrain, at least the main building blocks. I think it works really good, adding a good 3D sense to the gaming board - something I always enjoyed, blame it on my many years of playing Mordheim. The longest one has warped ever so slightly, but enough to be an annoyance, so I'll have to figure out what to do, perhaps I'll just cut it in two. I'm planning on adding little pieces of detail to make it more interesting looking. A couple of fans, metal edges, drains, tubes etc. The pieces was tried out for battle last night, and they worked fine there as well. We might set  up a little differently next time with a few more open spaces and the terrain in more levels, leaving a bit more open ground for vehicle movement.

The Rats! part

I got creamed - completely and utterly creamed; 38 to 13 victory points. 

Made a stupid mistake and kept some units in reserve I shouldn't have, which meant the two CSM landraiders and obliterators (those will forever be my most hated unit - EVER!!!)  had way too few targets to concentrate on and I had too little fire power to take them down. I think that kind of cost me the game right from the start.

Anyway - we tried out the "leaked test version" of the 6th. ed. And I must say I'm not disappointed, really made up for some gory fast paced action. Taking into account that we had to look up almost every thing and probably did forget a lot of little rules - 1500 a side took us about four hours.

If this is close to the 6th. ed. rules I think the game will be more personalized, kind of you can kit out you troops for certain battlefield roles better and personalize your army - it will more than just standard blocks of the same troops. To me it sounds like fun.

Critters all over the place.......

Had a couple of games yesterday aginst a good friend, who brought his beautifully painted nids. Our first game was a 1000 pts. a side, just to warm up and get into the rules again. The game was BlitzKrieg from the Battle mission book. I ended up sitting on two objectives, nids - none.

We played 40K EXTREME - meaning outside

The Genestealers are as always lurking

We are moving into position Sir.

Bring 'em on

Come on - keep on moving.....

 Second game was 2000 pts. Never played that big a game aginst nids before - 2K that's a lot of critters, and I thought this was all, but no no they just kept on comming.