Earlier this week my oldest son and myself decided to play Battle for Armageddon. He is old enough now to do well at games and I no longer need to hold back or let things slide. It is usually every effort on my part to win a game against him now.
We got out the games and gave the rules a once over... he decided to play the Imperial Guard because he saw the Space Marine units that come out in the middle of the game and liked the sound of it.
We set up according to the rules and the Ork's got the first turn. We quickly made a full out assault on his front line and the fate of the game was decided before the halfway point as the Orks plowed their way through the map taking factories as they went.
A nice moment in the game (for me at least) was his deployment of the Space Marines amidst several units of Orks. I was able to take him down to only one token by the end of my following turn.
We felt the game was a lot of fun, and has some great potential, especially with the expansion (which I only have the PDF of). However, I think we may have been doing the resupply rule (reserves or build or whatever it was called), it seemed like there was a ton of stuff the human player had being built that never made it out into the game, and the one time I drew my build card I was in a position where I was not able to built.
I think the game would have gone much better had we been able to get an extra build phase in there (especially the IG player), so I need to read over those rules again to see if I can figure on anything I did wrong.
In any case, we both had a blast and really enjoyed the game. I'm going to get the expansion all printed out so we can also use that in future games.
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