Showing posts with label Rogue Trader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogue Trader. Show all posts

Sunday, March 3, 2013

My Boy the Game Master

Folks, today my ten year old ran a game for me! Well us really as it was a co-op game.

It was splendid!


The rules used were Warhammer 40,000, Rogue Trader, bodged together with various Two Hour Wargames concepts to help run enemy forces.

After laying out then terrain and assembling our forces the boy gave me the backstory. Our force was tasked with cooperating with local forces in suppressing a rebellion. 

Part one required our force of Space Marines to liberate an Eldar noble who was being held captive by human rebels. This part was a bit of a cake walk as we stormed the two enemy bunkers and prevailed with no loss to ourselves.

Part two saw us enter an Eldar outpost. Rather than the warm welcome I had expected the demmed aliens mad our characters duel, first against rebel prisoners, and then against Eldar champions to prove our worth as allies. Naturally as bio engineered human heroes we prevailed once again.

Then (part three) all Hades broke loose.


A series of blasts rocked the outpost signalling an all out rebel assault.


The compound was soon overrun and the fighting raged at close quarters.


It was a very close run thing but our qualitative advantage eventually allowed us to overcome the element of surprise and their considerably superior numbers.

All in all an excellent showing from a very promising young story teller indeed!

Hope you enjoyed the tale and thanks for stopping by!





Monday, November 19, 2012

Old School 40K game to be held at Foundry

First off, I have no association either with Foundry or the team that brought us the original Rogue Trader (40K First Edition), other than as a happy customer.

That out of the way I think this is absolutely splendid and would attend were I not so geographically challenged.

Re-posting the announcement (with Foundry's permission) in order that more folks will have the opportunity to enjoy old school 40K.  Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested!

The notification is reproduced below:


Rogue Trader Participation Game
On Saturday the 15th of December we’re hosting a Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader participation game here at Foundry. The game is being run by Andy and Gareth, a pair of veteran gamers who are providing all the models and scenery for the game.

Their blog is talesfromthemaelstrom.blogspot.co.uk

We’ll be open from 10am and games will be running between 11am and 4pm. Anyone is welcome to drop in and take control of a squad from one of the factions battling it out on a destabilized Imperial world.

My Dad, Bryan Ansell, will be there at some point in the day. I’m sure he hasn’t seen a game of 1st edition Warhammer 40,000 in decades. We’ve found a very old master mould for a pair of fishmen with science fiction guns he converted from fantasy models to playtest Laserburn and later on Rogue Trader. Ronnie is going to make a new production mould so that we can have them as giveaway models for anyone there on the day.

We’ll also have tea, coffee, biscuits and possibly even cake for anyone who turns up.

Cheers
Marcus

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As always thanks for stopping by and if you should go, do please send me some photos of the event!