My GW Game's Night Experience

My GW Game's Night experience. It wasn’t a raving success. I played in a two on two doubles match. The match up was Eldar and Dark Eldar versus my Nids and some lad’s Ork army. First problem: this is demonstrably unfair, given that the Eldar were laying down Fortune on the Dark Eldar units. The game breaks down when army one uses their powers on their allies. Second problem: these guys were somewhat young. The Eldar side were, maybe, 15/16? The ork player was around… 13? Maybe? I felt a bit like a paedophile. Third problem: The orks were gash and the kid *really* didn’t know the rules. It was the main warboss (I’ve forgotten his name), a tooled up Battlewagon, 10 nobs in the battlewagon and a trukk with no-one in it. All Dark Lance fodder. The battlewagon was in reserve as well (why did he reserve it?) which I didn’t notice as, whilst it was on the table, it was just stipulated as not being on the table. In any case, tactics were non-existent. The wagon rolled on at the wrong speed, failed to deathroll, and then got blasted to pieces, all on turn three, which meant I had to take two turns of Nids just being fucked by lances. Fourth problem: those previous problems? They were just me whinging. The real problem was that the Eldar moved 8” for every 6”. As soon as that happened I just sighed inside and figured ‘Never coming here again, what’s the point?’ I was happy to get creamed to get it over as fast as possible. Other rules madness included the claims about whether 50% of my monstrous creatures were in cover when you could barely see the thing (the loud mouthed oik I was against claimed I could have a 5+ save. I’d have argued but… well, that sigh inside wasn’t just metaphorical.) Or whether his guys could even SEE the enemy models. LOS was clearly out many a time. At one point the claim was that as the vehicles were skimmers, they could see over everything. (Which, as far as I know, isn’t a rule. Right?) And even basic rules, like which models can shoot (the claim was that if one model could see my units, ALL models could shoot. *sigh*) All the while I had to put up with him telling me what the rules were. I hate people like that. Never, ever, doing that again.

Upside: there were some adults there. Just not playing my ‘game’. They seemed cool, and they very kindly paid attention to my nicely modelled Tervigon, Prime and spinefisted ripper swarms (and I won’t lie, I took them along hoping that comments would be passed.) At least one bloke also seemed like a fairly cool frood. Which was nice. And – even though I swore never to return – I could conceivably wander by again with the aim of talking to such people. But, as it took me this long to step inside, this is probably not going to happen.

And the cute girl didn’t talk to me. Damn.