That first game...

I mentioned my first test game with the unpainted models. It happened on my dining table which, apart for having rounded corners, happens to be almost exactly regulation size. Imagine that!

The terrain consisted of exactly one piece of impassable terrain, which was a bit of kitchenware that was too large to conveniently remove at the time. I later learned that you should have more terrain than that, and I quickly realised why. It made for a rather boring and one-sided game. The one side in this case was the spacemarines.

The matchup was a spacemarine captain, a tactical squad of ten, and five terminators on the spacemarine side, and on the ork side a warboss, seven nobz, and thirty boyz with a nob.

The game consisted entirely of the orks charging across the board to get at the pesky spacemarines. The boyz charged against the tactical squad, the nobz and warboss charged the terminators.

Needless to say, when the boyz came into charging distance with the spacemarines there were about half a dozen left. They charged, caused no damage, and promptly broke and ran.

The nobz had a similar encounter with the terminators. The warboss and one nob actually made it up to the terminators, and were cut down.

The space marine captain and five of the tactical marines (the squad was split in halves) never even saw combat.

Oops.

Looking back, I realised I had forgotten most of the rules for charging and gave the orks about a quarter of the attacks they should actually have. That would have evened things out a bit, but not enough to cause a win.

Next time I need more terrain. And faster orks.