Tuesday night is games night and oft times it is the rest of the family who are far more keen on games night than me. I feel I am such a fortunate guy every time the four of us sit down to play. Perhaps my enthusiasm, or rather my obsession, with all things GW has rubbed off more than I thought it would on them. Whatever the case, Tuesday night is Games night.
It is not always Warhammer. The odd board game creeps in and sometimes we have a Magic round robin. Mostly though it is Warhammer. The last three game nights have been; 40k, Bloodbowl and Age of Sigmar. Each was a success in its own way. 40k was the first game of 40k we had played as a family and ended up with a The Alimo type last stand by the Space Marines on the central objective. It was a great hit despite the fact that practically everything was unpainted (we really don’t like playing with grey models but we were impatient).
The game of Age of Sigmar was typical of our approach to all our games. We seldom play by the book. We read the rules and then promptly forget most of them. We play an approximation of the game, our own version of it. We play fair we play happy. The set up for this game was unique. We had played many Spearheads recently and fancied a bigger game. However we ran out of time to generate Army Lists and ended up playing with four Spearheads, one each. Idoneth and Stormcast V Skaven and Slaves to Darkness and used one of the new missions from the Generals Handbook. Quite a mix but it was fun.
One of the best bits of this game was the special little rule we made up. The Order guys could talk tactics during the game but, to simulate the chaos guys sneaky spies they could not whisper. The Chaos guys, on the other hand, just could not discuss tactics at all. We all bought into it and it all came out nicely.
So that is our approach to Warhammer. I have always thought that Warhammer games have a feeling of, “flying by the seat of your pants”. We don’t go chasing the Meta, we are just family and friends playing games. We bend it and shape it how we like. We make it game we want it to be.
I used to be a tournament player but I have not got the stamina for that any more. I have returned to my roots and simply play for fun. That is the great beauty of this hobby, obsession, it is playable on so many different levels.
Have Fun!
Grumpy Old Orc 