- It's not my shed - it's not but Otty said he was happy about it.
- I didn't think there was room to store it - It managed to tuck behind another RoB bag, in the middle of the table
- I hoped I may use it at home - who am I kidding? And if I did I still have my laminated battle mats and this deserves to be used rather than sit in the bag until AoP once a year!
- I've been 'burnt' before leaving stuff at someone else's house - unlikely to happen now.
So, alongside the board, the new MDF terrain and Ferron Fire Firs I think we made a much more interesting board. Liam had been mighty busy and added not one but two Warlords to his legio! He'd seen a pair for sale and asked if I wanted to go halves. Then we'd both found better deals on single auctions but this one was still going and he got a sweet deal on it. It included 4 Questoris Knights and loads of plastic terrain, which he also painted super quick, but they still look awesome.
Anyway, I can't recall what the missions were but we did not use my Legio specific rules.
Liam castled up at the back - a beautiful firing position and the deployment was a shallow diagonal, which meant I had a lot of ground to cover to get to the titans.
My Cerastus got halfway up the board for the paltry price of half their numbers. I think initially it looked like all of them had gone but I think there was some technicality that kept two alive. The Reaver kept pace somewhat.
We had started to use the reactor rules correctly at this stage. Liam had pushed his reactor into the orange and suffered 3 wounds to his titan, this was the damage role - so he suffered no damage whatsoever.
The dangers of pushing your reactor suddenly hit home and I realised I'd casually put my own Reaver into the orange by running up the board to close the distance.
Unfortunately I was less lucky, as although I suffered only 1 wound the damage was severe [although I can't recall how. I think at this point our old friend Jay turned up with his two sons.
As time went on Liam and I co-opted them to roll the dice on our behalf. What followed was a classic example of all Liam's proxy rolls achieving exactly what he needed and all my proxy rolls failing. The gleeful success of one brother over the embarrassed failings of another - I've been there but it was all good fun. Despite it all I was closing in on Liam's trio and so close that if I blew I could take one, two or even all three Warlords with me!
My Lancer got in, and I'm not sure he managed to do any damage. My Reaver swung, punched the Warlord who was spun to the side, but somehow managed to use that momentum to backhand my Reaver with its own Powerfist, spinning me 90°.
To make matters worse it suffered catastrophic damage and was 'laid low'. It stumbled away towards the board edge and effectively fell out of sight with no fanfare. What could have been a glorious meltdown, taking the traitors with it, or stumbling in any other direction toward the enemy and doing damage to them was not to be!
I think at this point we called it.
We'd had a fun days gaming and we'd got better at the rules. I don't know how I'll ever take down 3 Warlords, but we're getting there and enjoying the game.
As an aside the next shed night I added some of Liam's terrain, both the quick painted plastic ones and his own modular MDF design to see how they looked.
And it just goes to show that wildly different terrain schemes can work in harmony with each other. Those grey buildings look perfectly at home on the red board and I suspect vice-versa.
As I've said before, real world architecture is not all colour coordinated. So 40k/30k doesn't have to be.