Legions Imperalis (1) - First game

 So in normal blog tradition, I hit the ground running. Below are some photos from our first outing with Legions Imperialis. I'm going to pic dump and then add my thoughts and opinions at the end.

The Details - 

We played a 4 player, 3k a side game. We had Fists (me) and Blood Angels v Thousand Sons, and a combined army of Death Guard and Iron Warriors. There was a mix of everything the rules have to offer. Highlights of the game include warning the Tsons player that we had AA batteries, him forgetting and then getting blasted out of the sky. My knight blowing up a whole building to get to one command stand. The BA allied warhound titan shooting a laser up the table and wiping out most of the IW in one go and the BA Kratos tanks leveling a building to "help" his assault marines win a close combat. We started at 10 and wrapped on turn two at 2pm

 

The Good - 

So the game was a lot of fun. It felt very combined arms and it was a good way to spend an afternoon. We challenged one another with a game day planned on the day of release and everyone had paint on everything with only one player not having a completely painted force. Ironically our Tsons player finished all his infantry which never left his wip rhinos. It was so rewarding to actually get my force finished and it was great to get the game on the table. I'm super happy with the terrain i contributed (need to paint still) (more details on the army and terrain at a later date)

The less than Good - 

GW reccomends 3k as the standard size for a game. The way break points and morale work, 3k is a ton to keep track of. Comments on the game during clean up focused mostly around, "it'll go way quicker when we know what we're doing and with less players" which I agree with. The game is surprisingly crunchier than I was expecting which is good but was a lot to keep track of. My quick reference sheets helped but i need to slim them down significantly before another game.

 

Whats next - 

Theres a new book on the way with more options. We've scheduled a game for 2k, 1 v 1 for next time and I plan to add to this. I may run solar aux instead though, I'm not sure yet. For the blog I'll try and take some nice glamour shots of the army and terrain along with a guide on how I painted it all at some point. For now I'm taking a break from this project to paint something totally different as a palette cleanser. 

I wanted to do a bit of a yearly preview type teaser photo but to be honest it's mostly what we discussed in the year ahead post. Theres 2 big projects I've made some very real headway on but am not quite ready to share yet, though stuffs coming soon.