INSPIRATION: W40k for the family!

By Suneokun.

This Saturday my in-laws again agreed to play a Warhammer game. After several extensive battles, I felt a change in format was in order. What I came up with, is what I like to call Gladitorial W40k. What I was trying to come up with was something on par to a 'classic' board game like Monopoly or Risk. The concept was based around the loose idea of playing a short game with many participants, maximising the 'carnage', their commitment to their little men (and thereby the interest in the game). The format I came up with was so successful that I think I'm gonna struggle to get them to play normal Warhammer for a while....

4+ players, 150 pts each. Selected troops were as follows:

• 5 Tau Stealthsuits
• 5 Combi-Plasma Sternguard
• 1 Guard Platoon Command, 1 Infantry Squad and 1 Special Weapon Team (all with grenade launchers or flamers (5GL, 2 Flamers))
• 7 Tau Firewarriors with Shas'Ui and 10 Kroot.
• 1 Carnifex with Barbed Strangler, Spineback, ScyTals, Tail Mace and Tusks and +1 WS, +1 Wound.
  

It was great fun. My father in law got the stealth team in the centre and immediately tried to wipe out my Sternguard. The Mother-in-Law got the Carnifex and immediately went on a T-rex rampage dropping Devourer S8 templates on everyones heads. The combined arms of the Guard, Tau and Sternguard finally killed the Carnifex only for the Guard to rip into both the Tau and the Space Marines. My final Sternguard went down in a blaze of glory killing Guardsmen and 1 Firewarrior and 3 Kroot strode from the carnage with the Tau/Kroot victory.

I effectively ignored Leadership tests outside of close combat (and even then it had no effect) and everybody duked it out very nicely.

The game lasted a total of two hours. All in all a victorious invention and great fun!

DOWNLOAD: Commander's Field Handbook - Imperial Guard

At last ... The Guard Handbook

By Suneokun.

After a long wait, the moment is here ... the Imperial Guard Commander's Handbook is arrived. Hopefully this will prove an invaluable aide-memoir, both for players coming to grips with the Imperial Guards new features and rules and those forces or xenos and dissension looking to crack the hammer of the Emperor.

Unlike the previous Guides, it was impossible to fit the sheer variety of the new Imperial Guard codex onto a single sheet. Therefore, we've had to spread the load across 2 A4 pages. I'd suggest printing them out and them laminating them together back-to-back.

Download: The Commander's Field Handbook: Imperial Guard

A huge thanks go out to Ron at From the Warp for what turned into a huge repagination and artwork ask, he still managed to squeeze my pet project in between running FtW and all those lovely commissioned paintjobs he's up to - and then apologise publicly for running a little tardy - no worries fella.

Also a big thanks out to Admiral Drax for a excellent audit of the new rules and my typo's (which were all on purpose honest), a highly gratifying and humbling experience...

Anyhow enough of the Oscar speech - download and enjoy! Any problems spotted please let me know, your feedback is very valued.

The Guard take the fight to the xenos Tau.

JUST FOR FUN: CFH - marked by Admiral Drax

By Sunekun.

In anticipation of the "soon to be released" Commanders Field Handbook for the New Guard Codex ... (Ron has completed his artwork and has promised a PDF copy soon - how exciting! ) ... here's what you get when you put a piece of hard work in front of Admiral Drax - the world's greatest Imperial Guard Treadhead English Teacher...

Nice one Drax...

JUST FOR FUN: All quiet on the western front...

By Suneokun.

Work has been particularly frantic these last two weeks - so I haven't had a chance to post anything constructive. Thankfully, Ron at FtW hasn't forgot about the latest Commander's Field Handbook - for the Guard.

I've also gotta finish off the batrep from the awesome tyranid battle we undertook... so plenty to be getting on with.

I fact I haven't achieved much recently - no painting progress to report at all. Combination of brand new child and busy company conspire to ensure the greatest pleasure in life is a few hours in bed (asleep - dammit!).

I've also promised myself a new bit of 40k writing literature (would you really call it that?) before the end of the month...?!? But with a holiday looming (about 30mins from Drax's house) I'm looking forward to some quality time without a 'to do list'.

Still, If you want something done - ask someone busy! (But not Ron, as he's REALLY REALLY busy and you may be waiting a few weeks (read months) for the upshot! Only kidding...