First game done =)
Lots of fiddling through the pages of the rules, lots of missed +1's and a few mistaken rules that lead to an untimely ammo explosion, but nothing that had much impact on the outcome and bottom line is we had a blast playing and learning =)
We pitted 200 tons each against each other, half of mine went into the Atlas which was an issue for me since I had trouble getting it to the action. I got a few rounds of with the AC and some salvos with the LRM, but all in all the Atlas didnt produce as much as id hoped for, mainly because my opponents fairly highspeed force managed to stay out of its crosshair most of the time.
Strangely enough, my most effective piece was the small Spider with its two M lasers. It already proved its worth a few rounds in when, from high ground, it managed to kick the opposing hunchback in the head, injuring the pilot and tipping the mech over!
I lost the game when only my Atlas, still struggling to get into the battle, was my last active mech.
But I had a great time and we both learned a lot.
What struck me the most is how unforgiving and utterly important movement is in BT, much more so then I could ever have imagined.
Several times we moved into a position for what we thought would be a devestating attack proved to be next to useless when the modifiers for movement and cover was added up.
And as we went on, we learned, and as my friend described it it felt almost like playing a form of chess. Positioning your "pieces" was more important then actually firing their weapons since we began to do whatever we could to stay out of fire unless it would be with enough modifiers to make the shots really hard!
Since we only played until one side had lost 3 of its 4 mechs, this could potentially lead to a boring game, but I cant wait til we start putting objectives into the game!
Another thing, which I HAD anticipated to be very important, was initiative. Winning initiative became one of the biggest cheers of the evening!
Im throwing in another image also.
After weve finished BT, we played a round of Warhammer 40k "Kill Team".
My Necrons was brutally mangled under the boots of the Space Wolves, and everything seemed lost. But a stroke of luck, and the fact that a choice to split my troops up early in the game which had initially seemed stupid later proved to be of great importance, the game started turning to my favor.
It all finally came down to a showdown between a handful of warriors, and a few dice rolls...
And when I needed it the most, the Dice fell my way, and I simply HAD to take a photo of it. The pic is a roll "to hit? on 5+ and I cross my heart, that is how the dice fell. I almost yelled "YATHZEE".
