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This is a report for a game played yesterday between Alex and myself.
We played in Alex's shop 'Cut & Thrust' in Bristol so were able to have plenty of room.

We had 4k a side and were playing kind of half Apocalypse, no personal 'Strats' but we could use them from formations. We also agreed to deploy the IG first, then all the Nids and finally the SM. The Nids were allowed the 1st turn but we had 24'' of no mans land like a normal game of 40k.



The battlefield, fully painted terrain makes such a difference, there will be 5 objectives spaced reasonably evenly, we both agreed to place them where it seemed cool rather than by any 'rules'.

On to the forces!



My Imperial Guard 2k. Follow this link if you're interested as it covers my building of this army Clicky

I had to borrow some cadians to fil out my 2nd AC platoon and a Commissar...



Commissar Lebensraum, Captian Stiener felt some of his Veiws were a bit extreme but had to admit he got the trains running on time...

The Green Russ is mine but yet to be painted, the Valk borrowed as mine is awaiting painting and they are a pain to transport..

The Lists

Sheild Company
HQ Captain Steiner
BP, Plasma, Banner, Master of Ordnance, Chimera

Platoon 1
PCS
BP, 2x GL

Squad 1 & 2
2x AC, 2x GL, Vox, Commissar

Platoon 2
PCS
BP, PF, MG, FL

Squad 1 & 2
2x AC, 2x GL, Vox, Commissar

Platoon 3
PCS
BP, PF, MG, FL

Squad 1 & 2
FL, Vox

Rocket Battery
Mortar Battery

Russ Squadron 'The Grim Reapers'
3xRuss 2x LC 1x HB Sponsons

Support Units
Vets
2x MG, FL, Chimera

Ratlings x5

Sentinal
HF, HK

Valkyrie
ML, Pods



The Marines 2k



Surprising how small this looks next to the Guard.

HQ
Captian 'Ivor' Biggun
SB, Relic Blade

Command Squad
2x MG, Rhino

Librarian Eldritch
Gate & Null Zone

Tactical 1
PF, MG, HB

Tactical 2
FL, RL, Razorback HB's

Scouts
Snipers, RL

Terminators
Cyclone (not AC)

Dread 'Buliminus'
MM, HF

Assault x 8
PF, FL

Speeder
MM, HF

Raider 'Unpaintinus'
Phobos pattern, ,MM

Devastators x6
4x ML

Whirlwind



I plan to do a Marine Blog too eventually, showcase the extant stuff and do WiP pics too....
The Librarian is my old Rogue Trader one (back in the everyone has a back banner era) as my new version is still unfinished.

Right that's all for now I'm afraid I'll try to do some more tonight/tomorrow, let me know what you think..



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I had the following Strats from my 'Shield Company', Defense Lines, Scheduled Bombardment and On My Co-ordinates (never used).



That's 36'' of defense line mmm 3+ cover save.

The Intergalactic Menace 4k



Leader Beasts

2x Hive Tyrants
Various psychic power and 3x Guards each.

3x Zoanthropes

Pyrovore



Behold the terrifying Overfiend (Imperial codename 'Trogdor') responsible for the destruction of 2 Warhound Titans dispatched to hunt him down.

The Swarm

20x Hormies
ScyTals, Adrenals

20x Hormies
ScyTals, Adrenals

12x Stealers (infiltrating)
ScyTals, Adrenals

12x Stealers (infiltrating)
ScyTals, Adrenals

20x Stealers (Outflanking)
ScyTals, Adrenals

4x Ravenors (Deep Striking)
Devourers

4x Ravenors (Deep Striking)
Devourers

EDIT Oh yeah 8x Warriors with Deathspitters!

The Wreckers (Codename: 4 Stooges) Crusher Brood

4x Carnifi
2x Crush Claws, 2x ScyTals

Titans of Terror

Trygon Prime (Deep Striking)
2x ScyTals

2x Trygon
2x ScyTals



This is from memory so may be incorrect, if I get better details I'll post em up.

The only formation Alex took was Crusher Brood which, for 50pts, gives all his Carnifi fleet.....*shudders*, I think he forgot to take some more as he can field pretty much all of them (he has about 10k worth).






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Deployment



Here is the Imperial line viewed from Nid left to right. The barricades are manned by the 1st Platoon watched over by Commissar B'stard. Behind them is the mighty Raider Unpaintinus. There is an objective in front of their position Com tower 1.



Midpoint. The Grim Reapers stand ready to repel the horde, backed up by the Librairian and a combat squad in a Razorback.



Right flank. 2nd Platoon, a trusty Sentinal and the other half of the combat squad. The structure in the middle of 2nd platoon (held by the Junior officer) is another objective, the Power Generator thingy.



Here Viewed from the Imperial side, the Imperial Right, Com tower 1 in sight.



The approximate mid point of the Nid Line, the undefended Com Tower 2 can be seen in the background...and to the left the 'Crashed space ship' objective, also undefended...



The Nid Left.



The Views from behind the Imperial front line, the Imperial right. Platoon 1 in foreground, SM Devs occupy a vantage point above them, The building is held by Tactical 1 and PCS 1.



The Imperial centre. The CCS is in it's Chimera behind the Russ Command tank 'Aleksander'. Captain Ivor is with his bodyguard in their Rhino.
The building is occupied with SM sniper scouts and IG rocket battery. The Mortars and Whirlwind are back and to the left.



Scary



The Nid front line, a lot of Monsterous Creatures....The SM statue objective is visible to the right.



Stealers infiltrate in front of main advance capturing Com Tower 1 for the time being.



Stealers infiltrate to threaten Platoon 2 as well. Just off to the left is the SM tower objective...





Iimperial reserves, units in the front row are deployed but transported.

No pic for the Nid reserves but they have 20 outflanking Stealers, and deepstriking Trygon Prime and 2x 4 Ravenors.

Wow, that planet has the most unfortunate name ever...might want to change it.


The report however looks great! I cannot wait to see it finished.

FINE

Changed the name..

Sorry for the delay, I've been away and not had the chance to type this up..


TURN 1

The Interglactic menace.



The advanced groups of stealers scuttle forward on both flanks towards the infantry platoons..right into triple tap range, the juniour officers prepared to give the order....



The wall of mosterous creatures ran forward as one...that was about it. Alex has always been very claw over gun in his lists and the Zoaneys were currently out of range.

The Imperial Allies

++Captain Stiener reviewed the enemies positions in his command Chimera, "Looks like they're coming on in the same old way..." "Then we'll have to see them off in the same old way" replied commissar B'stard. He then left to rejoin platoon 1's position by the barricades. Captain Stiiener clicked on the comnet and...



crashed the whole thing, sigh..

The entire movement phase was me moving a sentinal, everything else got ready to unleash hell (without the benefit of orders).



The 1st Sheduled Bombardment arrived squishing a few Hormies..bah





The two infantry platoons fired (both the platoon cammanders voxing back "Whats that? Fall back after incinerators?") and did some minor damage to the onrushing stealers, Cadian Russ dropped a shell right onto the group near Com Tower 1. The rest of the Grim Reaper Russ squadron dropped equally accurate shells into the nearest big bugs, they we're joined by multiple rockets and snipers and many wounds later 2 of the nearest carnifi slumped to the ground. A few smaller creature succombed to mortar and whirlwind fire.

Not bad but the 1st wave of reserves will show up next turn...and all those giant bugs are geting very close....

TURN 2

The Interglactic menace.



SURPRISE! Gah, Tryon Prime in my deployemt zone, in charge range of most of my command vehicles, his energy attack thing snipes a few tacticals over by Platoon 1.



Boing, the ravenors arrive and shoot up the tactical combot squad behind Platoon 2, but their shots bounce..



Stealers charge Platoon 2! The win the combat marginally and break the unit unitl Commissar Lebensraum shoots out the sergeant of the unreliable stand in orange cadians "Nein, das is verboten!" and they hold...



The 3 reamining stealers assault Plat1, who see them off with bayonets and chainswords huzzah.



The Lieutenant of Plat1 isn't so lucky and his command squad is assaulted by a Trygon....nothing was found of his body....

The Allies



Plat1 heard the comforting sound of Unpaintinus rotate on the spot to unleash all of it weapon systems on the Trygon, the nearby Dev's and Ratlings joined in too...after the smoke cleared the mighty beast was reduced to 2 wounds......



The near by Tacticals, reduced already to 6 men, blazed away at short range with a melta and BP's, again the cover the creature had slithered into prevented any damage....the squad Sergeant readied his power fist and bravely led the charge!



Only he survived and the beast still had one wound.....



Dreadnought Bulimianous arrived from reserve and immediately pounced on the Ravenors, they threw a bucketload of attacks but only managed to shake him, at which he laughed and smashed one into the ground..



Much fire was thrown at the Trygon Prime, Capt. Steiner popped the hatch of his Chimera and took a pot shot with his BP, fortunatley his plasma gunner managed to put a wound on it, another from his Chimera's multi laser. Make Way! Terminator squad Bastardous arrive from reserve and after a blistering point blank fusilade reducing the beast to 2 wounds, threw themselves at it in a bid to protect the high value command and artillery assests nearby...



Again all but one marine paid the ultimate price and the mighty creature survived with one wound...



Back at the front lines the approaching Hive Tryrant was singled out by the Grim Reapers...they managed another lethally accurate barrage (3 hits on scatter dice) and with a little help from the sniper scouts brought down the mighty leader beast and his 3 bodyguards....



Oh yes they had a little help from the much more successful bombardment which caused 3 instant kills on the Zoaney, who passed all his saves, wounded some Tyrant guard and a bunch of hormies..





After some staggeringly powerful shooting the Swarm was looking much thinned however their turn was approaching and more reserves (especially a 380pt swarm of elite Stealers) were waiting to be commited to the struggle....

Great so far, can't wait to see more.

Isn't K'Plah Klingon for something?


The Batrep is looking great so far. I love to see a ton a well painted dudes slugging it out and a nice table.

Yeah I think it's Klingon for 'Loser' but isn't everything? XD

Thanks for the comments, will slog on..

TURN 3

The Space Snakes....



To reinforce the depleted front lines came the outflanking Stealers of Doom!



20 elite Stealers arrived from reserve and were able to charge Plat1. The Guard stood their ground under Commissar B'stard and managed the take out 4 with little more than combat knives and imagination, however.....



12 kills and one sweeping advance later......I put one of the (6) Rends on the gallant Commissar to ensure the unit wiped this turn..



The second group of Ravenors arrive from reserve and deep struck perfectly behind my Command Rhino, they shot the rocket launcher tacticals and sniped one...



The long running combats around the Power Generator objective held by Plat2 began drawing to a close, Plat2 ground the Stealers down to a single beast at the cost of many a Guardsman..



Dread Buliminous shouted "Binge, no I mean PURGE!" and smashed the mini snakes down to a solitary critter too....

In the centre the Nids managed some important charges...



The depleted Hormies managed to just get a few of their brood (6) into assault with the sniper Scouts who had been bothering MC all day.. and 2 strangely quick Carnifeaces bounded (fleeted) into assault with both Cadian Russ and Old Reliable (Russ). After watching the demise of their 2 bretheren and slogging through rocket and sniper fire the Behemoths weren't to be denied...



Cadian Russ was scissored into shreds and exploded (Isn't that always the way when you borrow something?, whos gonna tell Creed?), Old Reliable merely had his turret ripped off and was shaken...his damaged was mitagated by his moving slightly last turn whilst Cadian had stayed still to fire his sponsons..Trogdor the Magnificent Destroyer of Worlds (not pictured) unleashed his flesh heavy flamer and atomised 2 Ratlings, the remainder fled the table to tell the tale......



The Trygon Prime Snake and his less prime counterpart both smashed their solitary PF assailants in the dust...The Nids had made some important victories but with a whine of turbines the last Imperial reserves began to hove iinto view..

The Emprah's 1st and 2nd Best

The Imperial right was reduced to a LandRaider and some devs...reinforcements were called for and arrived in force...



To the far right a Landspeeder braved Trogdor to line up a nice heavy flamer shot on the stealers (not pictured), the Assault marines jumped to do the same whilst a flamer squad of Guard from Plat3 marched up behind for should their betters fail to slay the super Stealers...Before the reserves engaged the artillery opened up, the mortars and Whirlwind both failed to hit the Stealers....fortunately...



Ouch, all 8 Stealers hit by the heavy Flamer on the Speeder died...



The Assault Marines only managed 2..they followed this up with a brave charge, numbers now in their favour..



They managed to get the Stealers down to 3 and not rout, pretty good really! In the Background the Raider finally brought down the normal Trygon mega snake.



In the centre rear the PCS from Plat3 arrived to bring their melta to bear on the single wounded Trygon Prime, the Verterans arrived to in their Chimera again readying their 2 meltas to destroy the beast. It had to die this turn so Plat3 PCS opened fire and failed to harm it, the Vets Meltas were just out of range and thier Chimera's multi laser bounced off...

Captain Steiner indicated the beast to his own Chimera's gunner who managed to wound the monster again finally slaying it..The CCS then stood by whilst the Master of Ordnance missed anything by a mile..



Captain Ivor deigned finally to get involved with the battle and disembarked his Rhino sending it to the front, his Command squad fired bolts and meltas at point blank and killed 2 mini snakes and wounded the other.."With me brothers!" the Captain fearlessly waded into combat and when the dust cleared all the beasts were slain and he had taken a wound, "Back to the barricades!" he shouted as the squad consolidated, he was only too aware of the 3rd Trygon about to reach them...





At those very barricades (just to the left of the previous pic) the remnants of Plat 2 stood firm, the PCS advanced in front of the menacing Tryon No3 and fired their melta and pistols to no effect.....the ACs and GL's of the infantry made no dent either.....



Just behind all this the Dread destroyed his last Ravenor and also consolidated to the front.."Wait for me...I'm coiming to destroy you, but I've only got little legs.."



In the centre front the Sentinal, who's only contribution so far had been bouncing a HK off a Zoaney, charged the Hormies engaged with the Scouts, the Imperials won and forced some no retreat wounds on the bugs, the tide was turning..On the top floor of the same building the rocket battery passed a 'Bring it Down' and planted 3 perfect shots into the face of the Carnifex (which had just neutered Old Reliable) causing it to slump to the floor. The aforementioned tank powered off (rolled a 6) 12 " to contest the Space Marine Statue objective.



Behind the Genestealer BBQ the block house had been quietly occupied by the 'spitter Warriors, these were noticed by the last fully functional Russ, the 'Aleksander', who again planted a perfect shell and las cannon hit onto them, after some awesome save failage only 2 remained....

The Devs up in their eyrie spotted the wounded Fex who had smashed the Cadian Russ to pieces and killed it dead, finishing off the last of the Carnifi, obviously not wanting to be outdone by the Guard..



The last unit from reserve, the Valk (acting as a flyer) could be placed anywhere, I stuck so it could missile pod the massive and still largely untouched swarm of Hormies making for the Power Generator (and Plat2). With glee I picked up pie plates and scatter die only to discover I was 2" out of range......the ML got 2 though..meh. Just in front of Alex's camera can just be seen a red splash of artillery fire signifying the 3rd Sheduled Bombardment, I had planted this to clear the backfield objective (Com Tower 2) of any defenders proior to an attempt to capture it, however I was outfoxed by Alex, as he had not even tried to hold it...



The Imperial turn had ended, 4 monstrous creatures had died this turn but could the battered survivors cope with the last 2?

Great report so far. Looks like it was a pretty great battle! Looking forward to the rest.

Cheers dude I'm doing it as I get the chance, it takes a surprisingly long time......

TURN 4

Xenos Threat



The Nid force had been dealt some bitter blows but continued to apply pressure where ever possible..

The Overfilend turned his attention to the smug speeder and flamed it only to warm the crew...he then charged and reared up on his tiny legs and viciously lashed out with his puny talons....still no damage..The Stealers and Assaulties fought each other down to 2 models apiece..



The last Trygon snaked his way into the Plat2 PCS who evaporated before his might, he consolidated nearer the objective and Plat2's remaining infantry..The last Tyrant shuffled his way up towards the same unit...nearly...in...range..but not this turn.

The scouts and Hormies continued to fight on, more no retreat wounds caused...

Imperial Tag Team

The turn began with moves to capture the Nid backfield objectives..



With a loud *BAMF* the Librarian teleported his flamer Combat squad across to the objective previously 'cleared' by the Scheduled Bombardment. Com Tower 2 captured. He had actually made a cotribution to the game previously by casting 'Null Zone' and having his hood he created a big space the Zoaneys didn't want to go into..helping my Russes and Raider go about their business unhindered by pesky Warp Lances..



The Valk switched to hover mode and dropped off a flamer squad from Plat3 to occupy the Crashed Spaceship objective. It then flew off to ineffectully shoot up Hormies..





The last Trygon had to go, all the available units scrambled to bring their weapons to bear..the monster still had 4 wounds..However is was not in cover, the combined firepower of the Command Squad, the Dread, the Vets Chimera, the rocket combat squad and finally the rocket battery on the roof proved enough to lay the beast down...strewth..



The near wreck of Old Reliable can be seen in the background contesting the SM Statue, the nearby Zoaney had blasted it last turn but only succeeded in knocking off the HB..



Com Tower 1 was contested by the remaining Spitter Warriors who had gone to ground..the Speeder zipped over and turned one to goo with it's MM,



the Raider advanced the hold the objective and failed to destroy the last cowering Warrior, time to appeal to a higher authority, the Devs safe still on their balcony rained in krak shells till the last beasty got the hint, 3+ cover or no....



Back at the barricade the Assault Marines survived the Stealers attacks as no rends came up and the PF toting Sarg pummelled the last Stealers on the board off it..Leaving only the lethal Pyrovore on the Imperial right....



All remaining spare firepower was directed at the Approaching Tyrant, slaying 2 of his guard...a bit of cheeky pre-measuring showed that he wouldn't make it into assault next round so we decided to call the game there..................

IMPERIAL WINZ







The slain, but they didn't think it too many.....



The noble fallen.....

Over all it was a really enjoyable game played with someone who made it fun and exciting, the outcome was much closer than it looked and I think came down a lot to the 2 PF marines preventing the Trygons from causing serious havoc. The MVPs for me would have to be the Russ squadron, they caused massive damage and were surprisingly (suspiciously?) and uncharacteristically accurate though in part this made up for the woefull performance of my artillery. I may force my opponent to try putting some gunz on the big bugs allowing them to have some impact on the game as they trudge across no mans land, also some Biovores would have put the wind up me....On reflection I think we should have started closer together too, we got a good fight on my right flank because the terrain induced me to deploy right up to the 24" line but on the left flank many bug units were still stranded from the action...

Please comment on the report, let me know what you think, this is my first attempt so be gentle!

Just behind all this the Dread destroyed his last Ravenor and also consolidated to the front.."Wait for me...I'm coiming to destroy you, but I've only got little legs.."

Funny! Awesome report.

I'm surprised this has gotten so few comments! Great report-- both armies were nice painted, and I liked some of the humour you injected in there. Nice job!

Nice paintjobs on the minis AND the scenery, that's nice to see.

Great report and the photos are all very clear and crisp. What model of camera were you using?

Great report with really nice terrain and well painted armies. I thought the narrative was good and kept a clear picture of the battle as it developed.

I know how much work goes into putting one of these reports together, so well done and lets see some more!

Lord of Nonsensical Crap wrote:I'm surprised this has gotten so few comments!

Me too :(


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Strangelooper wrote:Nice paintjobs on the minis AND the scenery, that's nice to see.

Great report and the photos are all very clear and crisp. What model of camera were you using?

Thanks a lot, I was just using my HTC phone, nowt fancy, as the game goes on they get increasingly blurry (astute viewers maybe able to tell why) but they get across the story I think


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Gordy2000 wrote:Great report with really nice terrain and well painted armies. I thought the narrative was good and kept a clear picture of the battle as it developed.

I know how much work goes into putting one of these reports together, so well done and lets see some more!

Thanks, the terrain was all from Alex's shop. I was trying to keep the action clear as I have read enough hard to understand BatReps in the past. I was surprised how long it took actually but I still look forward to doing another sometime....Alex has got over 10k of Nids and between 3 of us we can match that with Guard, that's got to be done eventually....

I didn't realise you were bat-repping this game, looks like it turned out awesome! 10k Acockalypse sounds fun

Thanks, you actually popped in at my lowest ebb, but it all came out good in the end!

Yeah need to do more painting yet but it was the eventual aim, I was thinking of maybe using 2.5 of Marines and Guard and Dans and (if needed) Alexs Guard at 5k, we would need to be 2 player teams too....

Something to work towards..

Very nice batrep. Love the pictures! Awesomely painted armies, too. Really like the look of them all.

Great rep: Thanks for posting!

Excellent Batrep! It's a joy to see games with great terrain and nicely painted armies. It was well written throughout and I enjoyed the humour. Job well done!

I look forward to your next batrep.

Very nice report. I can continue to confirm that having now been to two dakkacons and travelled the Eastern Seaboard of the US, your Ultras are still my favourite. The blue edged black is very striking and much more gritty than the light blue.

I'd love to see you two swap armies one day (car keys in the mixing bowl...). I would be curious to see how you do with an assault based army as all your forces tend to be defensive, shooty types. Maybe you could borrow Dan's orks? Perhaps you, Alex, Dan and Liam could all swap armies and try doubles? I tried my hand at chaos marines the other day, enjoyable, but not sold on MEQ tbh.

Also get Alex to whip out his heirophant for the next battle!


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...Also, I liked Cervix IV...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
...Also, I liked Cervix IV...

Me too,
there were complaints,
Probably from Lesbians,
*ducks new volley of comaplaints*

Thanks, dood. I have used my SM quite assaultily against shooty opponents, did it to Lawson at your house, but yes IG can find it harder (unless your all Mechy, which I'm not) to charge stuff..I was thinking of playing with the Nids actually for the hell of it..

Ta for the Marine love too.

I do hope to do another of these sooner or later, maybe a WAB one as that's what I've been playing recently.

Toodles




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MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Also get Alex to whip out his heirophant for the next battle!

I've never heard it referred to as that before......

RandyMcStab wrote:
Thanks, dood. I have used my SM quite assaultily against shooty opponents, did it to Lawson at your house, but yes IG can find it harder (unless your all Mechy, which I'm not) to charge stuff..I was thinking of playing with the Nids actually for the hell of it..

Ta for the Marine love too.

I do hope to do another of these sooner or later, maybe a WAB one as that's what I've been playing recently.

Toodles

I'd like to see you use the orks one day, be interesting. I've been eyeing dark eldar for a while myself. (also got back into fantasy battle at the dakkacons and building myself a WoC army of Slaanesh, which is mostly useless in terms of rules but is going to be a great modelling and painting exercise).

RandyMcStab wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Also get Alex to whip out his heirophant for the next battle!

I've never heard it referred to as that before......

It got embarrassing, when drinking down at The Crown and he'd go lurching after goth girls, offering to introduce them to his 'bio titan'............................................................

Say hello to the lanky shirker from me.

Very nice battle report, easy to follow, great pics and well written humour.

Wish more were done like this!!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

It got embarrassing, when drinking down at The Crown and he'd go lurching after goth girls, offering to introduce them to his 'bio titan'............................................................

"Yeah I've got a Bio Titan, I did a s**t on it......"


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Djdom wrote:Very nice battle report, easy to follow, great pics and well written humour.

Wish more were done like this!!

Thanks! I hope to do another sometime...

That was awesome! Commissar B'stard is my hero now

Thanks Braw!

B'stard is a personal favourite, check my Blog (link in sig) for the work on his converted colleague Commissar Dredd.

I'm hoping to get more stuff finished soon and to do a 2k game rematch, maybe a cool last stand type scenario....

I'll post in here when it goes up (whenever that may be!).

Cheers

If a normal Apoc game looked more like this, rather than a Special rule/Super heavy cluster f*ck, I would actually play it.

Excellent looking game and beautiful pictures.

Awesome report! it really got the fun of playing across instead of just the nitty gritty. Land raider unpaintinus... great nickname

gardeth wrote:If a normal Apoc game looked more like this, rather than a Special rule/Super heavy cluster f*ck, I would actually play it.

I think that's quite key, over the top is good within reason otherwise it's just dustpan and brush time with no manouver etc. We plan to limit all the superheavies and stratagems to be narrative as opposed to "Oh look 'Flank March' say good bye to your troops" when we do further APOCS.

@ Vercingatorix, thanks!, glad you liked the name!, it'll be called 'Thunderchild' whenever I manage to paint it!