FiveCore Blue World

So, today I decided to hit three targets with one game:

1) I wanted to play a game, any game, on my new blue terrain.

2) I've been wanting to play a nice little solo game without it being a part of one of my campaigns.

3) I've wanted to play FiveCore 3rd Edition with my Warhamster 40,000 models for quite a while now.



So, a one-off FiveCore 3rd Edition game pitting four Death Guard against nine Eldar on Blue World. I rated the bolters as 2 Kill dice and 2 Shock dice, with a More Dakka option of 6 Shock dice instead. Their pladma gun was a true killer, with 2 Kill dice, 3 Shock Dice, and a further 1 Kill die and 1 Shock die to any other model within 1" of the target model. Oh, and Power Armor for the Death Guard as well. The Eldar's shuriken catapults were rated as 1 Kill die and 2 Shock Dice, with an option for 4 Shock dice. They didn't get any armor.



The Death Guard had to escort an uarmed Cultist to Objective 1. The Eldar had to kill half of the Death Guard. The Eldar managed to scrape out a win after many turns of battering each other back and forth..



This was the first time I had used the random objective generator in the FiveCore 3rd Edition rules. Had the missions been reversed, the Eldar would have probably won the game on the first or second turn, rather than after an unacceptable level of casualties.



It was fun playing FiveCore again, as it's been quite a while since I have done so. Mostly I have been playing either Five Parsecs From Home or Five Leagues From The Borderlands, both also from Nordic Weasel Games. Once in a while I dabble with Rangers Of The Shadow Deep as well. However, after having spent as much time as I have playing games that are designed for solo play from the ground up, I think in the future I am going to try to talk my friends into FiveCore and continue with Five Leagues and Five Parsecs for those times when I am playing with myself.



As an aside, my wife thinks my "Blues Clues" objective markers are a bit silly. I maintain that, as I am using them while I am playing with my toy soldiers, they are perfectly appropriate.

FiveCore 3rd Edition and the supplements are available here.

Five Leagues From The Borderlands and the supplements are available here.

Five Parsecs From Home and the supplements are available here.

Rangers Of The Shadow Deep and the supplements are available here.