Rourke's Drift

[Psychichobo]

Yo all, anyone here ever tried a Rourke's drift match? It's based on that scene from Zulu where a few British Soldiers have to hold an outpost from a rushing assault from Zulu warriors. I think someone from White Dwarf or something did a variant on it with Orks rushing Imperial Guard.

Recently I did a version with Nids rushing Tau and Witch Hunters with Marines drop podding their way as reinforcements. We had rules where all Nids aside from HQ's respawned and no long-range vehicles like Exorcists or Whirlwinds were allowed. It rocked. I lost, thought it was close.

Anyone else tried this?

[Psychichobo]

Has no-one else actually tried this kind of match? Oh well, if you're interested, try and have a shooty army in the centre and a CC army doing the charge, and restrict some of the more heavy shooting stuff (CC fexes are more fun and intimidating than Sniperfexes when doing the charge).

Basically, stick the defenders in a defensive set of buildings in the centre and have the attackers rush on from all sides. House rules are best for sorting out what's best fielded and what's not, so I won't go into too much detail. The general objective is for defenders to survive a set number of turns, for the attackers to wipe out the defenders. Have fun!

[Enigma]

hmmm... Interesting.

Sounds like a surrounded meat grinder. sounds like fun too... I'll have to try it with my friend's smurfs.