Make time for planning:
wars are won in the general's tent.
- Stephen Covey
Hello all and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!
I'm not going to lie. I'm still recovering from COVID-19, and though I'm back to work, I'm still not firing on all cylinders. So I don't think I'm going to go into immense depth with today's post. Rather I will set things up to dig in deeper when I'm feeling sharper next week. You'll see what I mean when we get into it.
Today, we have something completely different. Obviously my main jam in this hobby is painting, but that doesn't mean that I don't actually aspire to play the games for which I paint models. So when the opportunity came up to play a game of 40k with a random guy on Facebook...I jumped at the chance!
This "Random Guy" is JP, a really nice member of a local tabletop Facebook group that I have only recently found. He openly offered to run an intro game and I bit.
I haven't played 40k since 3rd edition (the game is now in the later stages of its 9th edition!) I was probably about 15 or so. Even then I probably played less than 20 times in my life and recall spending as much time poring through the rule book as actually rolling dice. That's not to say I didn't used to enjoy myself. But for me much of the enjoyment came from seeing two fully painted armies sparing off across a dining room table.
Anyway, so it was with no small amount of trepidation that I agreed to play with JP. I had about 2 weeks to prep for our game and used that time to build and prime 500 points worth of my Black Templars (including my Redemptor Dreadnought!) I also madly skipped from the lore sections of the 40k 9th Ed. Core Book to the rules sections (which I had not yet read). I watched a bunch of intro games on Youtube, and learned how to use BattleScribe (a truly incredible resource).
Below I have copied the list that I prepared from BattleScribe. I mostly copied this list from the Black Templar facebook group and from Implausible Nature. I knew that I wanted to include the Redemptor Dreadnought that came in the Black Templars Army box, because I have always loved Dreadnoughts and (until now) never owned one. So I build my list around this guy (who made up almost half of my army!)
I will go into my thought process behind each element of my list next week, but for now, suffice it to say that, as I mentioned in the intro to this post: I am not a gamer, and so I recognize that the audience that I have garnered (you) may not be super into playing Warhammer 40k. This is all as a preamble so that when you see the list that I took pasted below (for those who are interested in this aspect) don't worry if none of it makes any sense. I will paste it again next week and go through it (hopefully) coherently.
So here is my list:
++ Patrol Detachment 0CP (Imperium - Adeptus Astartes - Black Templars) [25 PL, 1CP, 500pts] ++
+ Configuration [3CP] +
Battle Size [3CP]: 1. Combat Patrol (0-50 Total PL / 0-500 Points) [3CP]
Chapter Selection: Black Templars
Detachment Command Cost
Gametype: Matched
Unit Filter
+ Stratagems [-1CP] +
Stratagem: Revered Repositories [-1CP]
+ HQ [5 PL, 100pts] +
Primaris Captain [5 PL, 100pts]: Breath of the Throne, Frag & Krak grenades, Master of Arms, Warlord
. Auto-flamer and Master-crafted power sword [10pts]: Auto-flamer [5pts], Master-crafted power sword [5pts]
+ Troops [5 PL, -1CP, 100pts] +
Assault Intercessor Squad [5 PL, -1CP, 100pts]
. 4x Assault Intercessor [76pts]: 4x Astartes Chainsword, 4x Frag & Krak grenades, 4x Heavy Bolt Pistol
. Assault Intercessor Sgt [-1CP, 24pts]: Frag & Krak grenades, Heavy Bolt Pistol, Power sword [5pts], Stratagem: Champion of the Feast [-1CP], Sword of Judgement
+ Elites [15 PL, 300pts] +
Bladeguard Veteran Squad [5 PL, 105pts]
. 2x Bladeguard Veteran [70pts]: 2x Frag & Krak grenades, 2x Heavy Bolt Pistol, 2x Master-crafted power sword, 2x Storm Shield
. Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant [35pts]: Frag & Krak grenades, Heavy Bolt Pistol, Master-crafted power sword, Storm Shield
Redemptor Dreadnought [10 PL, 195pts]: 2x Storm Bolters, Icarus Rocket Pod [5pts], Macro Plasma Incinerator, Onslaught Gatling Cannon [5pts], Redemptor Fist
++ Total: [25 PL, 1CP, 500pts] ++
It was SO much fun! I was so proud to see all my dudes on the table (I will share photos of this in a later post). But I just want to end this little teaser-post by thanking JP and encouraging anyone who has ever considered playing Warhammer to just give it ago.
Thanks for sticking with me through this "teaser" post. Much more will be revealed next week. See you then!
Watching: Big Deno painting Oathsworn
Next Week:
The "why"...
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