I'd also be up for a 40K combat patrol. Actually if two people don't know 40K and want to learn that could be a decent way to do it. I'd just pick forces that don't have piles of special rules. You'd just give orders and I'd translate them into game mechanics. Pretty easy and you'd pick up the game mechanics quickly enough. A combat patrol mission, by the way, is basically two platoons running into each other. Not a full "army" battle.
I'd just pick low special rule armies that would be intuitive to play. Hmmmmm Space Marines vs Imperial Guard.
Space marines are genetically engineered supermans in power armor
Imperial guard. Well they've got modern tech and the full codex has other options. But for these purposes consider them to be about the sort of troopers we have today. Now it may seem like regular GIs vs power armor wearing supermen isn't a fair matchup, but you would have some heavy weapons and as this is a wargame everything costs "points" to balance things out, so you'd outnumber the Marines 2-3 to 1.
Of course if you do play 40K and want to play me I'd probably be bringing my Eldar.
