Rogue Trader Battle Report: Rabble vs. Salvage Marines
When I finally realised that actually playing 40K was the worst part of 40K, I decided to just buy and paint miniatures that I liked the look of. At the same time, my brother was really enjoying making new Space Marine vehicles out of lots of spare parts. In order to give these miniatures life, we decided to start playing Rogue Trader . It involved making up all the stats and talking things through to make sure we weren't just min-maxing them all. Plus, we had to make up some house rules to clarify things (and more will follow, I'm sure). But after all that, we had our first battle: The Rabble vs. Salvage Marines. Salvage Marines (working title) are a lost chapter of Space Marines that get a lot of their equipment from finding old battlefields and strongholds, recovering and repairing all they need. They have come to an ashen desert world in search of an abandoned Space Marine complex and found that the locals are far from friendly. The Rabble are the inhabitants o