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Had another game of Warhammer Quest on Tuesday. This time our party was successful in spite of losing the Barbarian in the second room. Quest remains a brutal game, but perhaps not unworkable. Throughout the game I was considering house rules on the number of extra events via power dice. Limiting it to one at a time was my first thought, but on reflection I think that might be a bit much. Two at a time is intriguing as it allows for problems to compound on each other, potentially 3 events at a time if you get two extra events while dealing with the standard room event, while not overwhelming the party with 4+ events in a row. I've had some horrific power rolls in these latest games, so 4+ is neither impossible nor terribly rare. Since more events take longer to do, which leads to more power rolls and more potential extra events, once the ball starts rolling it soon becomes unwieldy. Next time around I may start tweaking and seeing how it works. NGF also asked a question that had me stumped. We did the good gamer thing for dinner: ordered pizza. Said pizza arrived when we still had (potentially) 5 rooms to go, so we hurried along to the finish to avoid mixing pizza and cardboard tiles/cards. NGF remarked on the length of the game, around 2.5 hours including dicking around time. This is pretty standard for gaming and I told him as much, and in return he asked if there was anything that took around an hour. This is where I'm stumped. I have a few ideas, mostly combat patrol/40k in 40 minutes and battlebox Warmahordes. Neither of those options represents the parent game well, though battlebox games aren't far off, so I'd like to find something that's a better fit. I want something that is based around minis, something that requires collecting and painting which will eliminate most boardgames. I'd also like something that doesn't take a full-sized (6x4) table to play and something that requires little to no terrain. Not too much to ask for, right?
In other news I saw a
post about lots of orks on 3++ this morning, one that reminded me of another
post I had seen on fester 40k a while ago. I have 6 Dethcoptas, mostly in pieces, none of which is a lock to ever see the table. At the same time I have a single rocket buggy, and a trak at that, which is featured in every ork list I've written. Since these examples look so nice, and I have a surplus of coptas with a deficit of buggies, I'm thinking I'll convert up at least 3 of the coptas into buggies. I would change them all over if the base Dethcopta model wasn't so nice, plus there's always the chance that FAQs and new editions will make the coptas more attractive than buggies. I have 3 buggies already, two wheeled shootas and one trakked rokkit, so I may do two conversions with trakks and one with wheels to make two coherent squadrons. Of course if I did all of the coptas I have I'd be maxed out on rokkit buggies, which would be nice. Plus I can always get more copta models via AoBR, Ebay, or something similar. They should be pretty cheap. I also think I'm gonna take a pass on converting the AoBR boys. They should only be about half of the Slugga boys and they aren't all the same model, just similar poses, so hopefully they blend in well enough and everything looks nice.
