Ian and I played a game of Warhammer 40K today in the Aberdeen Games Workshop.
He took his Space Marine “Taskforce Heavy” and I took all his Tau.
Vindicator, Landraider, Termiantor marines and two Tactical Squads commanded by Lysander versus two Hammerheads, Kroot, two Fire Warrior squads and three Crisis Battlesuits.
We played the Fighting Withdrawal scenario from Battle Missions.
The game started well for me with him losing the Vindicator to my first shot and almost an entire Tactical squad.
But in turn three things started to go badly when his Terminators and Lysander miss-dropped and then worked up the battlefield destroying the Crisis Battlesuits, a Firewarrior squad, a Hammerhead and moved towards the objectives. The Landraider took out the other Firewarrior Squad and then charged over the Kroot, routing them twice.
The the game ended with me still holding one objective and the other two uncontrolled, so the Tau won.
I think if the game had lasted one more turn Ian would have taken a pair of objectives and won, but he didn’t!
