The Assault on Black Reach- First Battle

After many weeks of longing to play this game I was finally able to partially achieve just that. It was originally going to be me versus my buddy who is also my wife’s cousin. He called me yesterday afternoon and asked if I cared if he brought my wife’s brother as well. These guys are both looking at getting into 40k so I figured this would kill two birds with one stone.

Once they arrived they were probably a little shocked at the nerd-ness that was taking place on my table.



I went through a simple squad versus squad combat with them to explain the basics of the rules.



After they got the basics down we started out on a full on battle using all of the mini’s from the “Assault on Black Reach” starter set. The wife’s cousin was going to be playing the Orkz with the brother-in-law playing the Space Marines. While I was nose first in the rule book trying to double and triple check how were playing while helping them out with the rules.

We decided to have the Orkz go first.



Once the Orkz moved, the cousin didn’t realize he was in range with his big shooters so he didn’t attempt to shoot with them. The Space Marines saw the whole group of angry Ork warriorz heading his direction and decided to hold ground so he could get the full 24” range on his bolters. The space marine started taking shots with his bolters at the incoming Boyz taking down about 3-4 of the Boyz. He gets a little proud of himself for thinning the ranks of the Ork Army



With the space marine turn over, the orks take to the offensive on trying to close the combat spacing and get in to the assault mode.



The Orks Nobz pull up on the side. They move with-in 12 inches of the Space Marine Tact squad. The Nobz decided to forgo shooting to take a chance at running to hopefully assault the Space Marines. He rolls the dice and BAM! It comes up a 6 with. They get to move forward 6 inches and get ready to assualt.



The Orks Nobz pull up on the side. They move with-in 12 inches of the Space Marine Tact squad. The Nobz decided to forgo shooting to take a chance at running to hopefully assault the Space Marines. He rolls the dice and BAM! It comes up a 6 with. They get to move forward 6 inches and get ready to assualt.



On the assault the space marines go first and whiff. The Nobz come back with a brutal attack of 5 dice each. I think we missed a turn here but this is that happens after the Nobz come in swinging.



On the other side of the battle field the Terminator squad just got done mopping up a small squad of 'Boyz. The Ork Warboss than steps in to help the Def Kopptas out by assaulting the Terminator squad.



The Terminators make short work of the Warboss. He rolls 5 hits and they all wound. The space marines rolls 5 saves in a row! They take out the last of the Kopptas.



The last of the Space Marines then swarm the last three orkz.



All in all we had fantastic time. We made several mistakes with the rules but after this I am looking forward to playing again.