I played two games of Warhammer 40,000 and, I would say, put on a fairly good show for all that my models were vastly outnumbered and largely outgunned. I put down a thousand points of Space Marines for the first game, against a mechanized Imperial Guard army with lots of plasma and melta weapons, plus a tank and a gunship in support. Were it not for my opponent's First Blood score, it would have been a tie... even though I only had a dozen models out of my starting forty, compared to his assorted remaining troops, transports and gunship.

The second match was a game of Kill Team, in which the players put only 200 points on the table. I used a five-man tactical squad and a five-man Sternguard squad with a heavy flamer. I won simply by deploying models in a tall fortress and shooting down, eventually forcing his army to take (and fail) a leadership test.

We shook hands gladly. We're friends, after all.