Hello!
Last Saturday myself and
Rich played the final game of our
2017 campaign at Warhammer World. We wanted this to be a big, climatic battle, so we went with 4500pts a side. Originally it was meant to be 6000pts but we couldn't quite muster that many fully-painted points unfortunately.
It was the 40k doubles tournament on Saturday too so we ended up consigned to a standard 6x4 board, but with me taking mostly dreadnoughts and Rich having a combined Raven Guard / Imperial Fist force, there weren't that many models on the table to start with.
Combined with the busy gaming hall, Rich and I both had our children with us... I have never been so stressed in my life! lol
Turns 1, 2 and 3 saw the grey and yellow charge forward, eager to get into combat. The Imperial Fists siege wall survived all three turns before Russ disembarked to finish them off.
The Imperial Fists heavy weapons squad were particularly good at hiding in the trees on the right flank and picking off my dreadnoughts as they shambled forward (I must admit that I'm loving the fact contemptors can move 9" in 8th Edition, they seemed so slow in this game)
I don't feel that we made the most of the Phosphex missiles that both armies had, which usually scatter all over the board creating dangerous terrain. In the trees at the back of the picture above there is also 3 IF mortars that were laying waste to my dreads.
The Deredeo sighting up the IF Spartan tank, fruitlessly. It did manage to take out the Sicaran at the end of turn 3 though.
At the end of turn 3 I think both kids and adults had had enough, so we paused the game and went for some food and a look around the exhibition hall.
Later that evening we put the kids to bed, opened a bottle of mead and re-set our game on the living room floor, I think Twitter said this was know as 'floor-hammer' though I suggested 'floor-gaming'. Either way, it took me straight back to the games of my youth.
In turns 4, 5 and 6, the Space Wolves Hammer finally crashed into the Imperial Fists anvil, the crunch of bone on bone and steel on steel was deafening, and it was close all the way to the end.
I the Imperial Fists Spartan was finally wrecked, but that just unleashed the genie that was a full squad of terminators, who proceeded to wreck both my Deredeo and Spartan in retaliation.
The sole surviving Wolves Leviathan used it's siege drill to take out nearly a full squad of Dark Furies who had foolishly charged him...
And once again it all came down to these two. Sigismund and Russ have met three times now and it generally follows the routine of me forgetting Russ's rules, Sigismund miraculously surviving the first turn, me remembering Russ's rules, Sigismund reducing Russ to 1 wound, Russ killing Sigismund. But some pretty epic dice rolling is usually involved.
I technically won the game at the end of Turn 6, 12-10 on victory points. but the Raven Guard reserves could have swung things if they'd showed up earlier.
This also means that technically, the Wolves won the campaign, 3 points to 2. But it was close, and fun, and we'll definitely be doing it again next year, just probably with some different armies (Dark Angels / Raven Guard it seems...)
Found something new in the exhibition hall...
That's it for this years 30k campaign. Next year we want to run a 30k campaign weekend so will spend a couple of weeks thinking about that before announcing it. If you'd be interested in joining us for two days of 30k gaming fun (and it will be fun...) get in touch.
Dave
theerrantwolf.blogspot.co.uk - a blog dedicated to The Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40k - Get in touch on Twitter: @errantwolfdave
