SPACE MARINES GET SOME

With the considerable hiatus the group has taken, I've had some time to think about the Deathwatch game John ran for us to fill in the gaming void. The game was quite interesting and a lot of fun for me as a player. Playing a character that is a hulking mass of genetic engineering, unnatural resilience and power, and a brain like a supercomputer - all of this wrapped in a tank-like shell of neigh-impenetrable power armor and sporting some of the nastiest weapons ever designed - was a nice change of pace from the roleplay-heavy campaigns I tend to run.

There were some pretty awesome moments that came out of it, but I'm glad it was a short-lived campaign. Not because it was bad, but because playing as these inhuman warriors turned out to be fairly far removed from the epic waste-laying and slaughter I had envisioned. Once we had enemies of similar ability and power to fight, the game quickly went from "kill EVERYTHING that blinks!" to "who here isn't dead and still has functional armor/bodies?".

Now, we as players could have probably done more to increase our survivability - but really we were all looking for astronomically overpowered mindless combat as a way to break up the more complex political campaign I had been running. All in all, it was a good experience and certainly something that would be worth playing again (but with a lot more player planning and tactical thought involved).