Today I finally played my first game of
40k in years. I unfortunately don't have pics, but you've all seen hordes of unpainted minis on the table before.
I ran 1,500pts of
IG against 1,500pts of Salamanders. It was unfortunate for me. Rolled Dawn of War and decided I would set up first.
Turn 1. Absolutely nothing happened. Stupid night fight rules hosed all my heavy weapons teams from seeing the one Rhino on the table.
Turn 2. The rest of both of our armies deploy and my opponent decides to drop pod Vulkan with a squad of Sternguard into my lines. He has an amazing turn of nothing. Not a single guardsmen dies to his onslaught while I in turn light him up with my flash lights of DOOM! Honestly, it was one of the poorest turns of shooting possible on both sides. I fired almost 1,500pts into that squad and killed a handful of marines. Those would be the last marines to die.
Turn 3. The remainder of his Sternguard charges my 50 man platoon and close combat ensues. He kills 11 guardsmen and takes 1 death in return. Time for me to roll good ol'
Ld. Good thing I put a Stubborn Commisar in the unit to keep them there. . . in theory. Rolled a 10, popped on of my chodes and then rolled another 10. Delightful. Roll for sweeping advance, which I lost, and 50 guardsmen annihalated in one turn of assaulting by a few marines. Take that fluff. On the other side of the board my other platoon is reduced to rubble by that stupid artillery cannon marines have now. That's what marines needed, more arty. My command squad was completely erased by a heavy flamer (twin-linked, thank you Vulkan) and that was pretty much game.
All in all though it was a lot of fun. I've missed playing
40k quite a bit and it's good to get stuck in again. I just need to get my own dice.
