Well it had to happen some time...

I just played my first game of 40K in YEARS!  The last two sets of rules came and went and I never played game one under either set.  So the 6th Edition was the catalyst for me.  Yay!  I undercoated my 500 pt Praetorian Imperial Guard Army in red and spray painted by bases desert tan.  I know.  But I have started playing, who knows, maybe I'll be embarassed about my Army and paint some of it.  Stranger things have happened.  Tonight's battle was 500 pts of  Praetorian (me) allied with 500 pts of Sisters of Battle (not me) VS 1000 pts of Crimson Fist Space Marines (Eric).  I ran two 10 man squads with a Grenade Launcher and Lascannon in a Combined Squad, a 10 man Veteran Squad with Sgt. Harker, and a Platoon Command Squad.  The first turn was seized by Eric and he proceeded to shoot everything he had against my Combined Squad and whittled it down to 6 models.  ::sigh::  My Veteran Squad holed up in a building (Love those 4+ cover saves!) and spent the entire game shooting Space Marines.  My Sister of Battle ally did really well and polished off half of the Space Marines.  When we had to stop playing (shops have annoying tendencies to stick to their open hours), our side was winning by a long ways.  In Eric's defense I haven't seen such bad dice rolls in a long time...

PRAETORIAN xxiv

&LORD COMMISSAR FIELDER (Lord Commissar) 70+15...........................................85

1 Lord Commissar (70)

Infantry

Flak armor

Power fist (15)

Close-combat weapon

Frag & krak grenades

Refractor field

Independent Character

Stubborn

Summary Execution

Aura of Discipline

O THE WILCH COMMAND (2^nd Platoon Command Squad) 10+30+5+30+15+5+10…105

&Lt. Will’yams (Platoon Commander)

w/ Las pistol & power weapon (10)

4 Guardsmen (30)

Infantry

Flak armor

Lasgun

Close-combat weapon

Frag & krak grenades (5)

Junior Officer (Platoon Commander only)

Medi-pack (30)

Platoon standard (15)

Vox-caster (5)

Meltagun (10)

PONE OF THE 6^TH OLD CORPS (1^st Infantry Squad) 50+5+5+20……………....….…….80

1 Sergeant w/ laspistol

9 Guardsmen (50)

Infantry

Flak armor

Lasgun

Close-combat weapon

Frag grenades

Combined Squad

Grenade launcher (5)

Vox-caster (5)

Heavy Weapons Team w/ Lascannon (20)

PTHE TRAVELING TINKERS (4^th Infantry Squad) 50+5+5+20…….....….80

1 Sergeant w/ laspistol

9 Guardsmen (50)

Infantry

Flak armor

Lasgun

Close-combat weapon

Frag grenades

Combined Squad

Grenade launcher (5)

Vox-caster (5)

Heavy Weapons Team w/ Lascannon (20)

PTHE OLDE AGAMEMNONS (Veteran Squad) 70+5+10+10……………..95

9 Veterans (70)

Infantry

Flak armor

Lasgun

Close-combat weapon

Frag & krak grenades

Vox-caster (5)

2 Veterans replace their Lasguns

w/ Grenade launchers (2x5=10)

Veteran Weapons Team w/ heavy bolter (10)

&SGT. JENKINS (Gunnery Sgt. Harker)……………………………………55

Infantry (unique)

Flak armor

Close-combat weapon

Frag & krak grenades

“Scorpio” (heavy bolter)

Relentless (Lt. Jenkins only)

Feel No Pain (Lt. Jenkins only)

Catachan Devils (Lt. Jenkins & his squad)

-Infiltrate

-Stealth

-Move Through Cover

 500 pts

I had forgotten how much fun this is...