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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!

Ian and I took part in a Warhammer 40K doubles tournament today at Games Workshop in Aberdeen.

We took a Space Marine force (Strikeforce Crimson) consisting of Chapter Master Omar, a pair of full Tactical Squads, a Venderable Dreadnaught and a Landraider Crusader.

We lost our first two games against Chaos Demons (actually lost, is an understatement – we were utterly destroyed) and won our final game against a mixed Sisters of Battle and Imperial Guard force.

Great fun!

This morning Ian and I headed into the Aberdeen Games Workshop for a Warhammer 40K – his Red Fist Space Marines against my Tyranids swarm.

We chose to play on one of the Cities of Death tables and rolled a “seize ground” scenario with a  “dawn of war” deployment and three victory locations – two in buildings and one in a crater.

In the first turn Ian’s Predator got imobilised in the crater whilst I positioned my units to take the other victory locations.

One brood of genestealers and a carnifex attacked one of the victory locations held by a squad of marines and Chapter Master Omar whilst the other genestealer brood and a brood of warriors went against the immobilised Predator and a tactical squad.

The carnifex’s barbed strangler made short work of the tactical squad and Omar which was mopped up an assault by the genestealers when then took the objective in the building above them whilst the carnifex took a nearby objective by lumbering up to third floor of the buidling.

The warriors and genestealers tried to attack the tactical squad covering the immobilised Predator but were all taken out by withering heavy bolter fire.

So, in the end it was two Tyranid objectives to one Space Marine objective.

I win! I win! I Win!

Just finished painting my first batch of Tyranids for my Warhammer 40K army – a Carnifex and three Warriors.

I painted them warlock purple with a generous wash of leviathan purple; some red for the tongue and blades; white for the teeth and green for the gun and they were done.

I’m very pleased with the results.

Now onto Gaunts and Genestealers…