Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000 or simply Warhammer 40K is a miniature-based tabletop game. It involves building and painting your own miniature army and pit them against others' on a dioramic 6x4 or 4x4 feet table using a standardized set of game rules. Miniature armies come in various factions, from Imperial commandos to space-faring orks, each with its own background stories (what 40K players call "fluff") and combat units.

My army, a sub-faction of the Adeptus Astartes or the Space Marines, is of the so-called Dark Angels Chapter - one of thousands of regiments of bio-enhanced supersoldiers created by the Emperor of Man to impose his will throughout the grim universe of the 41st millennium.


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Dark Angels of the Adeptus Astartes
The Dark Angels Chapter is first among legions of Space Marines bred by the Emperor from his own genetic imprints. Enhanced physiologically for combat operations, they are literally Angels of Death in the battlefield, sowing fear to anyone who dared oppose their mandate. Their homeworld, Caliban - now reduced to a barren asteroid after an epic battle against their traitorous Brothers - holds the Chapter's mobile fortress-monastery called the Tower of Angels. Here, deep within the labyrinthine pathways to the underground caverns, lies the key to their monastic nature. The Dark Angels hides a millenia-long secret that compromised their honor. It is with this reason that they and their Successor Chapters are called the Unforgiven.


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Friday, August 25, 2006

Weekday Warrior Session Seven

*edited from my post in the RHGC forums

Weekday Warrior Session 7

Attendance: Romy, Gelo, Obi, Ian Beefcake, Jun, Garr

Grub: various bags of chips, Saint Mike's Lightly Brewed Concoction

Game 1
Obi (Dark Angels) vs Ian (Word Bearers)
2000pts - Take & Hold Gamma

Highlights:
- first turn was played Night Fight via Dusk & Dawn. combined with uber crappy dice rolls my firing line wasn't able to do much damage on his rabid bikers, ready to deliver some daemon lovin'.
- it was only second turn when the brunt of the assault hit my left flank (two dev squad firebase against squads of berzerkers, bloodletterz, and bikez) and more or less decided the game result already.
- my assault squad barely held the assaulting party, collapsing the combat to the rest of my firebases.

Result: Ian won!!!


Game 2
Jun (Tau Empire) vs Gelo (Lost and the Damned)
2000pts - Secure & Control Gamma

Highlights:
- Jun did the ninja vanish manuever : after deploying spread out with his mobile army, one flank zoomed to reinforce the other leaving the mutants on that side too far from the action
- two mutant mobs left to deal with: the one on the other flank and the one straight in the middle
- luckily, on the active flank, the Kroot held the ravenous mutants for some turns effectively preventing it to reach the cramped skimmers parked on that side. on the other hand, two squadrons of Piranhas blocked the advancing hoarde in the middle.
- all of these was while the Tau skimmers slowly withered down the Damned numbers with a hail of projectiles.
- i can't imagine how a lone drone could kill a mutant and a mutant boss in close combat, but they did!

Result: Jun won!!!

*****

Thanks Romy for everything!

I've updated my Battle Stats link in the sidebar to reflect the result from my game this session.

Inscribed by Interrogator-Chaplain Randel on 3:43 PM              

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