War returns to Johnson City

Last Saturday night marked the return of public wargaming in Johnson City at Hobbytown. They just moved into a new (and seriously better) building, but while working through their lease are using the old one for gaming.

Most of us convened at a local restaurant before meeting up with our 6th player at the store building where we found that no tables had been set up yet. After about an hour of scrounging we found ourselves with 3 tables and a decent amount of terrain to get in some games. Hobbytown is promising to provide more scenery as time goes on but what we had was good enough.

We divided into 3 groups.

Table 1
Da Masta Cheef (Storm Warden Codex Marines with Dark Angel Allies).
vs.
RTvoril (Dark Eldar)


Dark Eldar playing nice with Dark Angels (from the Dark Vengeance set) during the Dark Millennium. Focus in on the objective marker.

Da Masta Cheef fought against a wonderfully painted and converted Dark Eldar army. I really enjoyed seeing this army. Very inspiring. Particularly his wonderfull objective markers, one of which can be seen in the middle of the pic above.


Commander: "Fire on those xeno scum!" Driver: "Arrrrrgh!!! A giant turd!!!Turn! Turn!!!"

Da Masta Cheef briefly discussed this game on his blog (see link above).



Table 2
Screech (Chaos Marines-Tzeentch)
vs.
Murl (Chaos Marines-Nurgle)


Sadly I only took one pic of this game, but from what little I was able to witness and over-hear it was quite the slug fest. Screech apparently won this somehow... I hope to edit some details back in once I get some.

"C'mon 'ere and kiss your grandma!"

Table 3
Hiveangel (Blood Angels)
vs.
Neverness (Space Wolves)

Our fight seemed to take a long time to start, as this was a mission and a layout that took some time to work out. It was also the 1st time using Bastions as more than just LOS obstacles, which distracted me a lot and I made some wonky tactical errors.


Blood Angel deployment. (Red ones hide faster)
 

Hive Angel wanted it known that his BAs are indeed a work in progress (like all of my armies are) so excuse their appearance. You can check out his blog for progress updates by checking his link out. 

Space Wolf deployment. More on that bastion if a future update...

It was an intense game, with our armor saves annoying each other, which seems to happen a lot in Marine vs. Marine fights. That is until I dared to fight LeMartes and the Death Company! Wow! That is some vicious competition right there! He clearly had an edge over me as slowly my units started to fall.

Setting up for the kill, the Death Company move in, and the Baal Predator looks strategically relocates.

I lost this by 2 points. Although I can not recall what the exact points were.

With the last bolter report fading in the vale, Screech and I locked up, leaving the hall of Old Hobbytown soaked with the blood of the fallen and the promise of more battle...