Author Topic: A Thoroughly Rude Dust Up First SW:A AAR Now with Campaign day photos. (Read 1067 times)

Pictors Studio · « **on:** May 07, 2017, 02:32:02 AM »

We played our first game of SW:A today. It was just a quick one to get the rules straight before the campaign day next week.

It was Space Wolf Scouts vs. Orks, each had about 1000 pts.

The Orks ended up bottling out, but the Rout leader went down in the fighting.

In the end phase after the battle was over, the Space Wolf leader and two orks died. Big loss for the Rout. A couple of orks made a painful recovery, one got an extra advance while one of the Vlyka Fenryka suffered a head wound and is a little crazy now.

The game was fun, very fast, we probably finished, including set up, in about 45 minutes and we had to thumb through the rule book a bit here and there to make sure we got everything straight. It is almost exactly like Necromunda especially including the end phase where winning or losing is not quite as important as who goes out of action sometimes.

The Rout are going to have a tough time recovering from the loss of their leader, while the Orks can just go and buy another Boy to replace one of the two they lost right away. The Scouts are going to be down a man, and an important one, to be at 80% of their number, while the orks will also be down a man but will only be at about 90% of their original force. Pointwise the difference is much bigger.

You can see the rest of the pictures in order here:

http://imgur.com/a/gkF8p

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2017, 07:54:23 AM »

Excellent, and a nice board.

Pictors Studio · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2017, 02:14:52 PM »

Thanks. I'll be using the board for the campaign day we have planned next weekend in Pittsburgh. This was a test game to make sure I remembered all the rules.

I'll probably at least run one more test game before next weekend if I have time. The games are fast, like 30 minutes or so.

This week I'm going to be working on the Genestealer cult army for the game.

Steam Flunky · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2017, 02:18:37 PM »

Nice setup.

Pictors Studio · « **Reply #4 on:** May 10, 2017, 05:03:35 PM »

Da sneaky gits 'it us when the ladz was scattered all ova the place. We wuz on da look out for 'em when they shot Ghazzie in da back and doubled up on Whazack.

All da boyz came a runnin' afta that. Da boss got stuck in rightways, but da rest of us culdna get close enuff.

Roters were shootin' da whole time. Shot one of their own in da back they did. 'E went down and da boss had a go at 'im and gave 'im a right kickin'.

They didna seem to like dat much and lit da boss up but good. 'It 'im wiv every thing they 'ad.

I wuz watchin and da git wiv da plasma gun got in da first licks. Da boss was burnt da whole way fru. Saw right fru 'im I did.

But 'e wuz still standin'. Anuvver git lit 'im up den, wiv his pistol but the da boss wevered dat, 'e did.

It wuzn't til da fird bloke 'ad 'im wiv da big gun. Lottsa dakka dere, dere wuz. Da boss took lottsa shots an' went down.

We rushed up and Rekkit was shootin' da whole time. 'E 'it da one wiv da plasma blasta. But the puppies were too fraid to get stuck in proppa an' just kept poppin' off at us.

We wuz all 'it somewhere. Yuz can see 'ere, look. I took one right in da gribblies.

Rekkit got 'it an' 'e stood back up ta give dem some more proper like. I recon 'e wuz a lil' shot up doe as 'e shot mostly inta da roof.

Da one wiv da scatter gun did for 'im da second time an' we all crawled away and 'id.

Da hummies went an' blew up da 'ole so nows we can't get back 'in an' da uver ladz can't get out.

It wuz a hard win ta be sure, but we gived it ta dem pretty good. We all gotsaway ya see, so we can goes back an' av anuver go an' dats what winnin' is all abouts.

Pictors Studio · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2017, 07:11:18 AM »

Our campaign day went pretty well.

Here are some pictures from the first two battles: A Chaos space marine Kill Team vs. Wyches and then vs. Harlequins. CSMs came out on top decisively in both games.

And more photos here:

http://imgur.com/a/l61jx

Pictors Studio · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2017, 03:01:04 PM »

Game 3

This game really taught us that a low powered force could really take it to the elites as the Genestealers nearly wiped out the Chaos forces with no loss in this battle. It was terrain and scenario dependent and a lot of the Chaos guys got gunned down trying to climb from one level to the next.