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I have another friend who became interested in 40k and bought himself the Battle for McCragge set. I helped him paint up the two squads of marines in a simple red/black combo that looks decent. We played one of the scenarios yesterday but we didn't feel like painting up the genestealers, so I took the equivalent amount of orks.


Marines

2 squads with a Sergeant, flamer and missile launcher.


Orks

10 slugga boyz

10 slugga boyz with Nob/twin linked shoota

25 grots with 2 runtherds


I kept the ork force to non-lethal power because he's a beginner and I really wanted him to win to encourage him.


The fight pretty much went as expected with lots of help from me to teach him what to do next. I don't really write the report to go into what amounted to a routine exercise but what happened in it that made me proud of my little grots.

The boyz did a fair showing of whittling down the marines, but it was the grots (not even the runtherds) that got the most glory. With their crappy little grot blasters, they managed to down two marines and one grot even took down a marine in assault!

I have to wonder if there is some special law that says that this is simply impossible but it made me proud of my little fungus friends. The next turn they ran and got mowed down by the marines, but it was good bragging rights at the store. The grot mob managed to tie up the marine mob for a good 3-4 turns as well, which gives me lots of good ideas for more serious games.