A rare thing happened tonight. My wife had to attend some after work activities and I got the night free. I've been working hard this week painting the downstairs den in anticipation of getting my studio set back up. After 6 hours of painting yesterday, I spent today doing some errands and unpacking my Tau Army. I had decided to go to Dicehead Games to watch and maybe get in a game of Warhammer 40k 5th edition.
I had already researched and I think almost all of my old Codexes are dead and useless now, except for Tau, Witch Hunters, Demon Hunters(this will be defunct in >2 months as Codex Grey Knights is coming out) and Dark Angels. I had noticed my Tau near the top of my mountain of gaming stuff and pulled them out.
I made a standard army list using the Codex Tau Empires, while visions of battles in the past floated in my head. Then I packed them all up and headed to Dicehead.
I arrived at Dicehead around 7:00pm later than I wanted but oh well. I was once again struck by the lack of product. I really don't know how the shop stays in business. It really looks like they only sell comic books, 40k, Warhammer, Flames of War, a small array of board games and Magic the Gathering cards. I'm sure there are other card games but I didn't look too close.
Since I had brought Tau I just looked to see what they had. All I found was 1 box of Firewarriors and 1 Box of Kroot. I guess Tau are not popular since they are one of the oldest books now, but I'd hoped for a Piranha or a Crisi Suit.
Anyways, I'd arrived to 2 players setting up for a game of 40k. A pair of nicely painted armies were facing off, Spave Wolves VS Witchhunters which was 99% sisters of battle, there was a preacher or something in 1 squad that was the only non sister model. I spent the next hour and a half ducking a cameraman and trying to stay out of the way to observe this game. Honestly the biggest thing that surprised me was all the Rhinos. The entire Sisters force was in Rhinos, I belive there were 6 Rhinos, supported by 2 Immolaters and 3 exorcists. The Space wolves had 4 Rhinos with troops inside, 3 Long Fang squads without transports, a large groups of marines on wolves(that was new to me, need to check if those were GW models or someone elses) and 2 scouts squads who were in reserve.
I won't bore you with play by play action, but it really seemed very close to Third Edition. Other than shooting through terrain and tanks. I'm guessing blocking line of sight is gone now. The Space Wolf player just walked over the Sisters though. it was like curb stomping someone in Gears of War. Rhinos exploded link tissue paper. leaving craters behind (Space Wolf guy had custom Rhino sized craters to deploy his troops in but he ended up giving these to the Sisters player. I think the Sisters lost 4 tanks in the 1st round of Long Fang shooting and another 3 in the 2nd turn.
I would have liked to stay and watch the final moments, but when I left the Space Wolf Scouts had just arrived from the back side of the board and were destroying the 2 remaing Exorcists. I think the Sisters player had ~15 models left alive and this was only turn 3.
I still have the urge to start playing again, but Fridays seem dead. There was only 1 other 40k game going on and it was just as one sided, Blood Angels Vs Chaos, the Chaos player had not playied in 4 years and just didn't have the right army/models to stop the Blood Angels.
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