Quite the past couple of days. No blogging mostly because I've been run into the ground... Zina is visiting family for the next week, and I'm on long-term kid patrol. Regardless, I'm back on the blog.

John and I played two really great 2000 point 40K Sabotage games today, they were probably the two most enjoyable games I've ever played. In the first, I was the attacker. I struggled to get close to the objective, but finally managed to get my Terminators adjacent to the WarpGate. Two of the Terminators concentrated on planting the explosives, while the others defended them. The Eldar assault was vicious, but the Terminators held. The explosives were set. Just as the Terminators were preparing to destroy the WarpGate, it activated and reinforcements from the Craftworld warped in (i.e. the variable-length game ended on the roll of a 2).

The second time around, I was defending. I messed up on deployment a bit and allowed two units of Eldar (Howling Banshees and Blooded Guardians) to swoop in and begin planting explosives on the WarpGate. Fortunately, I got lucky on my reserves roll and subsequent shooting phase and took out both units -- Banshees via shooting, and Blooded Guardians in assault. The rest of the game was me advancing forces to hold off the Eldar, which I did. Stephen stopped by during the second game, maybe I'll blame his for distracting me ;-)

It is a bit ironic -- I think I should have won the first game and lost the second, but it ended up switched. I think I played a more solid game first time around. In the second game, I made a bunch of mistakes but didn't suffer too badly for them (such is the life of a Space Marine player, it seems. Mistakes are seldom punished severely)

We used my new WarpGate terrain piece as the objective, and it really looks cool. It's my best piece of terrain yet.

I'm falling asleep as I write this. Tomorrow I'll write more about Chrysos, Chainmail, etc. Must sleep now....