ChrisO having run a game of the Lord of the Rings the month before (the poor boy can only afford the time for one game during a month with work, wife and kids and their sports) converted Warhammer 40K stats to that for a favourite LotR rules so to have a go with our
old 'veteran' 40K troops — four of us providing the troops not having brought out these guys for some 20+ years!
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| the defences with my Russian looking Valhallans (the effort was deliberate!) ready -but the dice not willing - to shoot up the oncoming Space Marines |
Interesting scenario but, as usual, the dice rolling made things a bit one-sided as the Imperial Guard ‘patrols’ were not as effective, not allowing the defenders of the communications tower to start shooting earlier and not having our reserves did not enter at an earlier turn; and that, due to poor dice rolling (especially by me… as usual…) we could not hurt the oncoming Space Marines. [Yes, it was a 40K “good vs. good” engagement.]
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| my depleted numbers vs 'the monster tin-can" ( photo by ChrisO ) |
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| the comm-tower to defend |
I was happy to get my Valhallans (Russian looking chaps) on the table together with the slightly more recently painted plastic Cadians who I made into futuristic-ultra-modern “United Nations Peacekeeping Force” by scraping off all the Imperial Eagle logos and painting the armour bits in bright blue over camouflage uniforms. ( you can see them in the photo above ). Can’t take this 40K stuff too seriously…….
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| my squad of dismounted tankers |
