My amazingly thoughtful wife suggested,
since our lives would be busy the next couple of weeks, that I should
try to get in a game of 40k this weekend while she hung out with one
of her girlfriends. This was an excellent idea and I thank her
very much.
I drove up to my local Games Workshop
store. The employee was nice and very friendly. I also Met a fellow
player. He had a small Eldar force that he was going to use in an
upcoming tournament. Since I didn't know how many points are common
in this store I brought 5 different lists to cover all my bases.
My list had 30 sluggas, two 20 boy
shoota squads, a warboss, a painboy on bike, an 'eavy armored big mek
with KFF, and a dakkajet for good measure.
His list he had a Wraith knight, a
wraith lord, a squad of sword wraith guard, a squad of ax wraith
guard, a squad of single shot wraith guard and a psyker. I was happy
that he didn't bring the flamer guard. They would have wrecked my
day.
First turn was uneventful. My army ran
forward, and then only lost a single boy thanks to some good night
fighting saves.
The second turn I WWWWAAAAAGGGHHH'ed
and had 2 squads assault his knight. With no shield he wend down
quickly to my Nob and Warboss. The next turn he counter charged into
the shoota boys with his sword guard. He did a few wounds but my nob
evened out the combat. He took off a few more wounds on my other
squad of shootas but then failed to charge them with his lord. Lucky
me.
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The next few rounds saw me whittle away
his small units with shooting while his ax guard and lord cleared out
my other squad. The game ended short on turn 5. We each had two
objectives but I had first blood and slay the warlord. Ork Victory!
At 1000 points his type of army really
was small. The model count was something like 18 – 74. That is
just crazy. Since his was a tourney list I hope that this helped him
prepare. With Orks being the newest codex I think he might see a few
more of this type of list. He might need to add some anti horde to
his army. Maybe a fire prism or something. I know his list was
thematic but maybe he could switch out a melee unit with some
flamers. With flamers he would have some punch to all those horde
armies.
Things are going to get busy the next
couple of weeks. I don't know when I will get a chance to do some
more hobby stuff. When I do you guys will be the first to hear about
it.
Questions? Comments? Dakka dakka
dakkas?
