Ah... we come to it at last. The
first battle of our time. That's right! My buddy and I played our first game today. Let me start with a little anecdote.
Last night I was chatting on MSN with my friend. We were talking about the game and our squads. Since he was going to play Urban Fighters, I linked him the discussion thread concerning theColonel's Urban Fighters, so he could take a look at the list. Completely unbeknowest I proceeded looking at the thread myself and the picture thread theColonel put up, wondering what my friend was going to bring to the game. So this afternoon he comes over, we have coffee and he starts unpacking his stuff. I take a look at his mini's and hear myself saying: "Dude, cool. You converted the guns just like that Colonel guy on the forums." Then he pulls out a set of very familiar looking booby traps and everything falls silent for a moment. He puts a way too broad grin on his face...
... crap.
Yes, I suck. Omg. You can guess the mysterious identity of theColonel now, LOL. I did a few facepalms to punish me for my lack of vision afterwards.
Anyhow, the game! Here's a summary with pics!
Campaign game 1
Scenario: defend the find
Contestants: Arachas' Cadians vs. the Colonel's Praetor Infiltrators (Urban Fighters)
Seeing as my generic Guardsmen outnumbered Colonel's Praetors by several men, he was designated the defender. He deployed in the building in the centre of the table, with my Cadians deploying along the table edge not far away. I'd have to assault his position: luckily, I brought enough canon fodder!
Initial set-up:
The attackers:
And the defenders:
Turn 1:
Saw the Cadians moving in, confident that their superior numbers would carry the day. Initial fire stunned one of the Praetors' infantrymen. The Cadians' hopes were soon tested as they moved through the ruins not far from the objective building. The lead trooper had barely time to cry in surprise as his head exploded in a gory mess. On the other side of the building, in the open, one of the Praetor's Lieutenants had trained his shotgun on the Cadians, masterfully picking them off as they moved through the ruins.
The Cadians move up:
Turn 2:
With the right flank of the Cadians taking heavy fire in the previous turn, the left flank now took a beating. As they homed in on the objective, the Praetors' HW specialist let rip with his flamer and casually toasted a Cadian sarge, while stunning the Lieutenant next to him. On the right flank, the shotgun Lieutenant kept pumping shots into the Cadian's cover, this time blasting two of them over a wall, into the cover (with a ricochet critical!).
The Praetorian Lieutenant (far to the right), picks off his targets:
Turn 3:
By turn 3 the Cadians were able to take up a firing position themselves and started blasting away at the beleaguered Praetors. The Praetors' other Lieutenant, positioned behind a low wall, took the brunt of the fire on the Cadian's right flank, but was unharmed. The trooper next to him caught a mouthful of stone splinters in the proces, though, and slumped to the ground, stunned (again, ricochet!).The Praetors relented, the Lieutenant with the shotgun once again hitting the Cadians in the ruined building, grazing the Cadian Captain!
Turn 4:
This turn the Cadian flamer came in range of the objective building and immediately started toasting Praetorians. On the right flank, the Cadian sarge exchanged furious fire with the Praetorian shotgunner.
Turn 5:
The Cadian Lieutenant on the left flank declared a charge, receiving covering fire from two recruits. Those did their job too well and gunned down the Lieutenant's target before he could reach it! Out in the open, he was summarily gunned down by the defenders - but stubbornly held on to life, getting away with a stunned result!
The Cadian Lieutenant out in the open:
Turn 6:
The Cadian Lieutenant on the right flank was set to charge, hustled up... and tripped. His charge stranded in front of the defenders' gunline, but survived the hail of fire flung his way!
Cadian Lieutenant tripping... the guy in the middle, with the brown undercoat.
Turn 7:
Making up for last turn, the Cadian Lieutenant summarily executed the the Praetorian in front of him. In an attempt to secure victory, the Cadian medic moved up to lend support to the attack, but... tripped, fell headlong through the ruined building and knocked his head on a beam: out of action!
The Cadians move in for the kill!
Following this turn, the Praetor Infiltators decided they'd had enough and routed! Never fear, because the Post Battle Sequence is here! Indeed, a Praetorian sarge was saved from death by the medic and survived with horrible scars! The Cadian Lieutenant who summarily executed his opponent after a failed charge apparantly learned a lot from this encounter and became hardened!
Cadian Lieutenant aims to execute!
I hope you guys enjoyed it! We certainly did. We found
to be an easy-flowing game with interesting rules for the weapons and movement. It's a lot like 40k in terms of cover and To-Hit/To Wound and a lot like Mordheim in many other things... but better! I'm looking forward to our next game!