Played my first game of spearhead last night. Had a great time with my buddy who was kind enough to show me the roped of spearhead and aos in general, and my word what a great gamemode this is. It genuinely saddens me that combat patrol for 40k was so bad when this is so good.
Despite us stopping constantly to explain rules or talk with another storegoer about something 40k related (we're both votann players so we talked a lot about the new yield points) the game only took around 2 hours.
We were neck and neck the whole time with my KO pulling ahead at the end thanks to the frigate being such a hard model for the rats to deal with. Probably too big a model for the gamemode, so I can see why the new spearhead had the gunhauler instead.

Picrel was the highlight of the game for me. I had my frigate transport my admiral over to his rat leader and use my once-per-game ability to charge after being transported, but his clanrats used a counter charge and stopped my admiral from getting the chance. He proceeded to wipe out the clanrats afterwards, but it saved his leader from being hammered this turn.