
For my first game, my opponent and I had the advantage of being shown the ropes by an experienced player, which was useful as it was my opponent's first game of Warhammer ever. The board was set up in such a way that I had to reach objectives in my opponent's deployment zone, which also contained a large, double story ruin. So basically an assault by my Astartes (Space Wolves) on a defended position. It ended in a draw as I recall. Still, a great game and I now had the basics of the game down

Second game was last Wednesday, against an opponent who hadn't played before and who only had 3 Adeptus Astartes Primaris Reivers assembled by that stage. So I brought a force equivalent in points, also Astartes but 2 Primaris Intercessors and 1 Primaris Reiver in my force. We played the Clean and Sweep Matched Play mission on a battlefield with lots of terrain of various shapes, sizes and heights. It ended quickly at the end of turn 2 when I failed a morale test due to casualties above 50% and my force therefore broke. In any case my opponent had to get back to work (he was playing in his lunch hour) so we would have had to have stopped soon after anyway. It was still a great game and showed that it's possible to fit a game in in a short space of time, which is one of it's great benefits - fast, furious fun

My third game was later that day, starting after 5 PM. This time it was a three-way battle. One of my opponents hadn't played any Warhammer before in his life and had only just started collecting a Tau force. So we used some proxies to raise his force to just under 100 points and he faced off against my Space Wolves and the other guy's Genestealer Cult. Again we did the Clean and Sweep mission on the same battlefield as before. This time we had less time constraints and the game went the full 4 turns. In the end it came down to the last few rolls of the dice. My Primaris Intercessor Sergeant needed to kill my opponent's Genestealer but died to it's tooth and claw attacks before he could bring his power weapon to bear. Victory went to the Genestealer Cult player. It was a wonderful game though and all three of us enjoyed the experience

All in all, I'm even more impressed by the game than when I started. It's relatively easy to learn, lots of fun and doesn't have to take a long time so one can get games in pretty much anytime you have a few minutes to spare. I'm looking forward to more games soon. So if anybody is in the Somerset West area, let me know and I'll gladly arrange a game sometime. You won't regret it
