This Warhammer cost 40k!

[Krogothwolf]

Okay, so I've been an avid Table Top Gamer for yeards(actually decades really) The first one I played was Epic, then Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Plus a slew of other random ones I've given a try.

I still always, Always go back to Warhammer 40k even over Fantasy Battles. There's just something awesome about it. The Tagline says it all:

"In the Grim Darkness of the Future, There is Only War"

What's not to love about that? Read the lore? yeah everyone is trying to fuck everyone up. Sure they have alliances among the races every now and then but in the end its everything for itself.

Eldar? Screw you everyone we have our own plan for things, if you get in the way will murder you all, and then some.

Dark Eldar? Yeah we want to torture everyone! Woo! Torture rules!

Human/Mankind? Burn the Heretics, Kill the Mutant, Purge the Unclean! They also want all xeno's dead too.

Orcs? They just wanna fight everything and anything.

Tau? Sure they were peaceful, once, then they tasted war and want to conquer the galaxy and make everyone follow their ideals!

Necron? Kill everything and anything.

Tyranids? Consume all life and use it to make them stronger.

So yeah, that sums up all the main species, its no wonder no one gets along in space!

Personally. I have a small Tau army and a Massive Blood Angels army(I am 100 Space Marines shy of creating the Chapter(thats 1000 marines+support vehicles). And enjoy bringing them to against the enemies of mankind. FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

Anywho. I love it mainly because, the dice gods are fickle beings and make some games turn into the most hilarious battles of all time. The stories involved are awesome and great(and will appear here if people actually like these games). But anyways, I was just setting them up the other night looked at them and went. Man, this would be awesome if I could have a chapter vs Chapter match against someone. But not many people have as many minis as me. It's sad but true. I've got some really old ones in there.

The biggest game I've been in was like 600 mini's aside between 6 people. God it was so much fun. It was part of one of the GW sponsored events. Armageddon. GW sponsored events are fun because you're fighting within their lore to create future lore. Anyways the battle was the biggest one here for it and it was a glorious thing. It was Blood Angels, Ultramarine's and Imperial Guard against a massive force of Chaos. The battle was fought long and hard, and had some memorable moments. Such as one portion of the imperial guards was almost wiped out, save the Commissar and 2 troops. They held off 4 squads of traitor marines till reinforcements arrived. It was awesome. They survived the entire battle after seeing their force slaughtered and went on to slay a demon prince it was glorious dice rolling! We couldn't believe it. The Ultramarine force carved in the entire chaos front in almost the first round of shooting in a display of hideously made chaos armour. And my blood angels got into hand to hand quickly and it became a shit show on that side of the board. The middle was jammed pack with almost 400 minis hacking and slashing at each other. My furious dreadnaught engaged and destroyed a Bloodthirster of Khrone only to explode from a lasshot of a cultist. The Death Company though was the star of the show as they swept past their foes in a clusterfuck of blood and limbs then carved through the entire back rank of the board that was all their heavy weapon teams. It was one of those "holy shit" moments when they first group of heavies I ran into and just rolled 5's and 6's. This was offset when my my tank forces all hit everything in sight but couldn't wound worth a damn and my Honor guard spending the entire match tied up with the same squad of cultists. These where the best and strongest marines and they couldn't kill cultists!!!!

It was an awesome game, it really was!

Anyone else play? got stories? Share em cause I have tons more!

Chaos? DEVOUR THE SOULS! DESTROY THE UNIVERSE AND TURN IT INTO THE WARP!

[† Anras Rune]

Wow kro, never knew you played!

I had a little tau army as well, and had bought, constucted and was ready to paint a new army of Necrons....something about space terminators got me going. But alas, the tragedy begun. The two guys I played with semi-regularly stopped playing (one due to finance and the other moving away) and the shop I used to go to, which had one epic map maker, closed down at the beginning of the crisis. After that I lost motivation and sold my tau army and gifted away the necrons....*sighs*

Ain't got any funny stories playing it really, except maybe the time we watched a group of fully grown men get their asses whooped by a 12 year old kid. 2 against one basically, as the other kid was useless. 1500 point armies, with some interesting custom rules that the shop had. Anyhoo, the whole shit hit the fan from the get go as the kid's fire prism managed to wipe the floor with the pair's armor support; a predator with lascannons and a leman russ. The imperial guard guy managed to push through the right flank of the other kid's space marine army. As the kid panicked and tried to stave off the imperial infantry groups with his dreadnought, the eldar kid moved to squads of warp spiders around the central cover (this particular map had a small circular trench with a little turret in the middle) and in the space of 3, maybe 4 rolls, decimated the Chaos guy's Chaos lord and eventually killing after a few more rolls, the Lord, his backup (a squad of obliterators) and finishing off the imperial leman russ tank, all before a single good roll on their part caused any trouble. Twas funny watching the two smug adults wither in their pride after the kid proceeded to wipe the floor with his Farseer and a Seer council group and very satisfying to see them beat by a relative newbie. I could've sworn one of them cried.

I'm sure if I spoke to my mates they could remind me of more stories, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. twas good times however, good times...

[Maxa_CZ]

I Like WH Fantay battles better