Warhammer 40,000: Boarding Actions (and a White Dwarf)

I picked up a copy of Warhammer 40,000: Boarding Actions yesterday. It contains rules and scenarios for playing battles aboard voidships and space hulks in the 41st millennium! I have a PILE of the spaceship interior terrain from that year of buying all the Kill Team sets (which I never got around to playing - or even assembling!) 

I figured I have it, I might as well paint it up and use it. 

One thing that is surprising about this book is that it is almost ALL rules and scenarios... like, almost 300 pages of it. There are over fifty scenarios, rules amendments for fighting shipboard battles and rules for building boarding parties for all the factions - with a minimal background fluff!!

While I was at my FLGS, I also picked up White Dwarf #511 from April. It is a special issue focusing on the Emperor's Children... since I'm playing Emperor's children, I figured it might be handy - if only for painting inspiration. 

There I did know that it included the rules for using Emperor's Children in Boarding Actions (as the Boarding Actions rules do not include them as it was published before there even was an Emperor's Children faction - other than just using the generic Chaos Space Marines rules and calling them Emperor's Children).

I was delighted to find the magazine also included and alternate Emperor's Children Combat Patrol. The standard Combat Patrol - which is available as a box set - includes units which I do not own (like, $140 worth of units!). At some point I was resigned to buying it at some point... but the Emperor's Children Combat Patrol included in the magazine is made up of THINGS I ALREADY OWN!? YAY!! Mind you, half of it is things I still need to paint... but both units were on the painting priority list, already, so... 

The disappointing thing about the magazine was the Emperor's Children in Boarding Party rules... there are only two FOUR units you are allowed to take!? Two characters; Lucious the Eternal (an Epic Hero) and a Lord Kakophonist (both of which I do not have and wasn't planning to pick up any time soon!?). No Lord Exultant... No Sorcerers... and Two Infantry Units; Flawless Blades and Terminiator Squads.  No Infractors... No Tormentors... (the core troops) Not even Noise Marines...!? WTF!? 

Ah well... It's not like I have any of the terrain painted yet. It's not like I have a shortage of other armies I'll be able to field in Boarding Actions... 

Guess maybe I might be picking up that Combat Patrol after all.. (to get the Flawless Blades!) 

This month's White Dwarf is another special focused on Khorne... so... maybe I'll be buying that one too...