The Daemon's Claw

New Zealand is returning to normal, we are now down to 1 active case in a country of 5.2 million people. My local wargaming club had it's first meeting since 23 March. Alan and I tried out a game of Kill Team. Just to get in some practice of rolling dice. I used the Flawless Host while Alan used a Deathwatch team of 5 Intercessors, supported by the recent inductee Brother Knuckles from the Doomfarers. Turn 1 is very peaceful with both sides running out of the deployment zones and into the middle. There was no shooting or fighting so the turn was over quick.  Turn 2 both sides continued their advance.  The Flawless host moves onto one of the deathwatch objectives and one of their marines moves up to block the door.  The Flawless Host marine makes 3 out of 3 rolls to keep the door closed.  There is some shooting in turn 2, the chaos marine on the objective survives with a flesh wound. Victory points are now 4-2 in favour of the Flawess ...

I tried a solo game of Kill Team today. I got to try out a couple of my kill teams I have been working on. I am able to fit a game on the coffee table. In this mission its the Howling Griffons against the Flawless Host. It's the impact of the Griffons plasma weapons against the numbers of the Host. The Griffons are using Ultramarines rules and the Flawless host are playing as Emperors Children. I am using the Arena mission Catacombs. I used random draw of the Arena objectives to simulate objectives and goals set by management with incomplete information, or just being crazy. The Griffons selected Bounty Hunters, Contain (the scenario special objective), Thin Their Ranks. The Host got Domination, Contain, Thin Their Ranks This is the setup before the game starts. I tried to video the game and its harder than it seems to look at the table the camera and the dice tray. The Griffons had Tactical Sergeant with plasma pistol and Auspex (Leader) Tactical Gunner with plasma...