With my brother and nephew over it was necessary to play a game of some sort … as over the years I have purchased various starter sets and kits from GW … and my nephew has got into the 40k lore ( in a big way) the game was going to have to be 40k based.
However, I don’t have 40k (well I do have a copy of 3rd edition - never played) and the first two editions of Kill Team. But due to work and cooking commitments I decided to go for One Page Rules Grimdark Firefight - I had done Marine and Mechanicus lists for a big game, but thought a skirmish game would be quicker and we could play a 3 player game.
So we picked sides -
Little Dane - Space Marines
Big Morts - Necrons
Myself - Chaos Marines and Cultists
The young Dane was cautious with his marines - trying to keep them out of harms way … the Necrons were slow … the Chaos forces rushed forward with cultist meat shields. My brother and I managed to score some objectives in turn 1. What we were finding difficult was to kill space marines - their armour was blocking most hits. We were also finding that very few wound rolls were “knocking out” operatives.
The game rolled along fairly well - the cultists did their job well as canon fodder, with 5 out of 6 being killed off in the game, but gaining a few objectives on the way. One of my chaos marines was vaporised by a plasma gunner … If I recall correctly the Necrons and Space Marines only lost one figure each, the armour and self-repair being a bit of a pain. The last turns were a grab for points - the Necrons managed to kill a marine when he was on an objective and a cultist was killed for the little Dane to score a point. The final scores were 5 to me, 2 to Big Morts and 1 to the little Dane. I saw this as the Chaos Marines ruthlessly rushing in a getting an artefact for some nefarious purpose or preventing the Imperium and Nercons from getting some Blackstone …
I quite liked the rules - although we probably played a few rules wrong and with 3 players possibly a bit slow. Possibly we played the game a little dry and needed a better reason for the engagement.
Anyway a game played.
Morts
