Leic-Arrian Conflict 2001 - The Battle Begins

The weekend of July 23rd to 24th 2001 saw the Leic-Arrian conflict come to life. This was a weekend of 40K games during the day and socialising in the evening at the Bar-b-ques.
Planning had been taking place for the last couple of months with commanders forging alliances or issuing challenges.
Figures had been bought, vehicles assembled and painted, terrain built.
The web-board was full of alliances and insults, with communications from the planet surface. Now it was time for battle.

This was the 3rd such weekend I had run and was by far the biggest and most involved. The brief was simple the Leic-Arrian system was under threat.
All the different commanders had to do was remove the enemy threat.
Sounds easy …... well it wasn't.

With each race and commander having an individual brief no one was sure what the other side was truly after.

The battles would take place on 4 main battle zones

1. Last Stand at depot 23/24
2. Blood and Ice
3. Hidden Mysteries
4. Pegasus Bridge

On a mix of table sizes from 12ft x 4ft to 6ft x 4ft, there would be other battles, but these 4 were to be the main sites of carnage. As it was played over 2 days the commanders might find them selves assaulting a bridge one day and defending it a few hours latter.
But the event was a lot more than just gaming it was a social event too, with a Bar-b-que on the Saturday night in what proved to be a very late night for quite a few people.

Day 1

• Saw the Speed freaks Orks charging the Pegasus bridge and then having to defend it from the guard
• Chaos fighting in the snow, ice and blood of the polar ice cap of the Blood and Ice table, against Imperial Guard, Necrons and Eldar .
• The city hives Last Stand Depot, being defend by orks, with the Dark angels and Blood Angels attempting to purge it's infestations.
• The heat of the jungle would see Necrons Eldar and Catachan Guard facing one another over ancient ruins on the Hidden Mysteries.

Day 2

• Imperial guard renegades face the Blood Angels over the bridge
• Imperial forces being assaulted by Chaos and Orks at the Last Stand
• Continued skirmishes in the Jungle
• Orks and Dark Eldar face off in the heat of the desert

The battles ended on the second day with the dark forces truimphant, leaving the imperium to tend to their wounds and pray to the emperior for forgivenss for their failure.

Last updated: October 30, 2001