So I arrive at the GW Glasgow store, set up my finely painted (!) Grey Knight Space Marines (two 5-man squads of Grey Knights, 4 Terminators led by a Brother-Captain, a dreadnought and five stormtroopers and an inquisitor, topped off with an Assassin.)  Steve, the store manager, set up his Deathwing (a mix of bikes, terminators and a dreadnought.)

This was meant to be a ‘getting to know the game’ game, after all there is only so much you can read the rules.  Sometimes you just have to get a game under your belt.

It lasted five turns, capture and control if I remember correctly, and I narrowly lost.  His last squad of terminators managed to best my own terminators and stalked on the capture the nearest objective.  It was tight though.  When the GKT finally arrived they mangled the bike squad and laughed off the dreadnought assault cannon before charging for Steve’s terminators.

Other high points included the rain of storm bolter fire on his other terminator squad and land speeder and the triumphant skills of my dreadnought.  And the Inquisitor, who only took out one of the enemy, but it was enough. 

Lows included the hopeless stormtrooper squad which only fired once before being wiped out.  And the assassin who killed no-one at all.  Back to assassin school for you matey.

Still, it was a great game.  I remembered loads about the game, and learned a good few details about army list design, like actually having weapon choices that do damage to the heavy armour of terminators.

Currently: Grey Knights, Won 0, Loss 1, Draw 0

When the weather clears up, back down to the store on one of their gaming nights for more. 

- Alistair

Did get housework done, some work on The Fracture and a few key upgrades to the site. 

So an overall success.

Got a meeting with fellow NaNoers tonight.  A pre-NaNo meet.  I’m quite excited.

And I bought the wife flowers today because of a top class image she’s done for the site (which isn’t up yet).

I’ll share a bit of info on what this years NaNo will be.

Title: Planet of Snakes

Plot: Searching for info about his lost loved ones our intrepid crew visit a planet off the beaten track and find more then they bargain for:  Treachery, Loss and Giant Snakes!

Heh.  Giant snakes.  What the hell is going on here… 

So today I’ll not be working on NaNoWriMo plotting much at all.  There are a number of things I was to get cleared away before next Saturday arrives, as I may have mentioned in yesterday’s post.

I’ll be painting my two remaining Deathwing Terminators and once they’re out the way I can clear my desk of painting and miniatures, and hopefully keep it clear until December arrives.

After that, housework beckons and I’ll be working on the Fracture story I started ages ago.  There’s some work on the website required before the 1st, I don’t want to be thinking about any of it during November.

So a busy day ahead of me.  I’ll check in later to say how wisely I’ve spent my time.