Well...
That was certainly fun! As Ive mentioned elsewhere, Lis and I had planned to spend this afternoon at the local
GW store, playing an intro game to the latest
40k.
Rather than spend ages workin out lists and such, we jumped straight in with an approximately even (points wise) pair of armies facing off in a standard 3 objective game.
In my corner, Commander Culln and his Captain Deputy headed up a force made up of a Termie squad, Assault Termie Squad, a 10 Man Tac Squad (broke into 2 combat squads) and a Dreadnought.
On the opposite side, a mixed force made up of a Cannoness,
SoB Squad, Seraphim Squad and Immolator - supported by a
SM Captain, leading a squad of Termies, Tac Squad and Dreadnought...
In short - a good time was had by all - was good to be taken through the rules by someone who was genuinely interested (rather than just saying "you need this to hit / wound /save etc, we got pretty good explanations of how things were worked out, and easy methods of remembering various modifiers etc) in teaching the game rather than making sales. It's certainly helped us both get a good grounding with the units we already have - and given us ideas on where to take things next.
For those interested, the
SoB /
SM won a fairly decisive victory - having claimed two of the three objectives and contesting the 3rd. The body count on my side was astronomical (surely a dodgy batch of terminator armour methinks, or the missus heavily loading my dice! "call me snake eyes......AGAIN!")
In my eyes, the game certainly flows a LOT better than the earlier editions I've played in the past (I did have fairly limited exposure, due to primarily focussing on the Epic system). We're already planning to run a few skirmish style games on the table (if i can get this goddamn thawk glued into one piece) to get a feel for each of the units / special rules etc (the naivity of ploughing a group of LC equipped termies towards the Melta equiped dread springs to mind!)
In short, a big plus one from me and Lis - both very keen to keep on playing / painting / learning, and I guess that's all I could really ask.
Stu
(*really needs to build some terrain to play on at home next)