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So I've been asked by my FLGS owner to organize GW games and get Apoc going as a steady monthly event. First game was today. Orks vs. Imperium, a rematch of a big mosh 3 weeks ago. They played Apoc without Apoc rules, eww. I missed that game, thankfully.

Anyways getting players to commit to today's game was a bit harder than I thought it would be. Seemed like everyone had plans, but we had to start somewhere. 7 players showed who were able to field at least 3000 pts each. Not bad. I thought I might have to play so I threw together some Deffcoptas on a dare, 60 to be exact. I had them from my AoBR boxes. Very funny to see people's faces when they saw 60 'coptas sitting on table. I had 2 days to get them together. Unfortunately unpainted

Long story short. I set up game with a 6'x8' main table and a 4'x6' side table. Big board was main table with the Y road forks being the Ork side reinforcements entry points. The side board was a snow covered mountain, whole table counted as difficult terrain. On mountain the Imperium held a comm link ruin. This ruin allowed them to call down an orbital strike (str 8, ap 4, 10" blast marker) every turn, as long as they controlled ruin. Ork special rule for game, we could bring back 1 destroyed unit per turn, moving it on the board from either of 2 road endings. This may of been too much, lol. The road in Imperium deployment zone led to base of mountain. Either side could leave one board and go to other by simply leaving by road and missing one full game turn arriving on other board.

Imperium side had a very tank heavy force of 2 Baneblades variants, Hellhammer and Stormsword, 6 vindicators, 10+ Leman Russes, 3 Land Raiders, 40 Guardsmen, Sicarius and chaplain led Vanguard squad, 50 marines, 4 dreads, Callidus assassin, 2 squads of Grey Knights, 7 terminators, 3 hellhounds on main board. Mountain had a 3000 pt Black templar army.

Orks had 2 Stompas, Mek stompa with belly gun (aka Mr. Winkie) and normal Stompa, 4 -15 bike big choppa effcopta squadrons, 3 Green Tides with slugga/choppa boyz and War Boss w/ squig klaw, Battlewagon with some poorly armed Nobz, Battlewagon with fully kitted Nobz, painboy, Ghazkull, 5 lootas, 5 tankbustas, 5 poorly armed Nob bikers, another 5 tankbustas, 10 Nobz and Mek with KFF in Mek stompa. Mountain had 3000 pt Ork force with 2 looted wagon, battlewagon, 10 Lootas, some boyz and custom build lifta/droppa Stompa. Our Green Tides were weak, no big guns or klaws. Happens!

Ork's 4 Strategic assets....Jammers, Recon (for mountain), Big Waagh, Flanked March. PURE WIN
Imperium's Strategic assets.....Relic for Space Marines, Disruptor beacon, and unknown last 2

Time bid.... Imperium 10 minutes....Orks 30 minutes. We wanted to go second. I hit the Jammers, lol. Silient deployment was funny. They got done with what they wanted on table. We got our whole armies down with 10 minutes to spare. Deployed all 60 Coptas. Nob bikers and squad of tank bustas stayed in reserves. We gave the mountain 1 of our Green Tides and said "take that ruin" Lifta/droppa was reserved because it didn't fit.

Turn 1 Imperium

Mountain.... Some movement and Templars charged Tide with at last 4 units. Big Board.....Some coptas and handful of Orks died. they focused alot of fire on Stompas. Big Mek lost 2 structure, driver damage x2. Regular Stompa also lost 2 structure.

Turn 1 Ork

<Flight of Valkeries theme>
2 formations of Coptas strategically redeployed in a very tight back corner of Imperium deployment zone via "Floor it Boyz". Apoc barrage 15 hit and pummeled x3 squads of marines, a 10 man vanguard squad, and some guardsman. It was disgusting! Completely demoralized the Space Marine player. Mountain.... 20 minute assault phase.

Turn 2 Imperium

Mountain.... More assault phase pwnage. Big Board..... Stormsword came in behind Ork line and killed a "hot" 3 orks, regular Stompa killed, I lost 40 orks from my Tide to 10 arriving arriving from reserves Leman Russes, some coptas died. Not good for the Emperor's finest.

Turn 2 Orcs
Would you believe what arrived via the long winding road? Why a fresh Stompa. Within 4" on their tricky Stormsword. Coptas did some damage to Hellhammer, My coptas multicharged Hellhammer, 3 squad of guard, Thunderfire cannon. My tide multicharged 4 Russes. Boss killed Exterminator and coptas did little.

Turn 3+ on is all foggy. Sicarius unit got shot up pretty bad. We beat them down to point of quitting. We contolled 4 of 6 objectives on Main board and 1 on Mountain, rest were contested.

Enjoy pictures.

Forgive my failed spelling, I'm tired.

Lol that amount of deffcoptas is just funny!! I wanna see them painted!

Clay Williams wrote:Lol that amount of deffcoptas is just funny!! I wanna see them painted!

Friday night when I finished assembling them, no glue just snapped together. Store owner came back and said he should add them to his Ork Army. We laughed and said "so when you ever going to play?" He hasn't played 40k since 2nd edition, but he felt a need to have these Coptas. I happily abilged. Got some store credit and he got 3100 pts of coptas.

So they're on the painters list of projects. I heard the quoted price to paint them an silently cried inside. So they should be done in about 2-3 months, painter is heavily backlogged.

WHAT THE HELL? Is that even allowed or is that some crazy APOC rule lol. And really? 27000 points? A turn would take for god dang ever!

HA I keep forgetting if I OD on assault on black reach sets every month from the end of this one I will have apocolypse ready Space Marine and Ork forces I have 2 planned for purchase end of this month thats only a mere 80 quid but im soooo slow at painting I work insane hours.....

hmmm may have to pull some equally insane favours like lunch and break time painting sessions at my desk mmm yes!

I second that request to see them painted, but I understand. It took a month for me to get 12 painted.

For 27,000 points it looks like a small number... I guess all the super heavys make up for lack of thousands of foot troops. Those copters though. Simply stunning in the hilarious ork kind of way.

I had no shot of painting them in 12 hours. I apologize for unpainted coptas. It was the shock value of playing that many than anything. I traded to store owner for 2 stompas, ftw.

13,500 per side. Some stuff was in reserve. I didn't take nearly enough pictures.

Coptas were 3100 pts.

Nydhog wrote:WHAT THE HELL? Is that even allowed or is that some crazy APOC rule lol. And really? 27000 points? A turn would take for god dang ever!

That was total, from what was said later, makes it a good midsize apocalypse game. We have one up here this weekend that I wish I could get off work to go too. It's being setup as a 3 way battle, and I'm fully anticipating 24-28K points per side. Last one was 32k per side, two sides, this one seems to be drawing more interest.

The turns don't take that long. People have a point limit of 4K per player, and each phase (reserves and movement, shooting, assault) are limited to 20 minutes each, so 1 hour per side, 2 hours per game turn. Get in 5 turns.

that's a very smart thing... At my shop each turn typically takes about that long but that's just because we're efficient. I think it's a very good idea to actually have set rules--just to put a little bit of pressure on.

Wow, nice swam of deff koptas and cool battle report! Thanks for the pics

dancingcricket wrote:The turns don't take that long. People have a point limit of 4K per player, and each phase (reserves and movement, shooting, assault) are limited to 20 minutes each, so 1 hour per side, 2 hours per game turn. Get in 5 turns.

We went with 15 minutes per phase (movement/reserves, shooting, assaulting). If you keep to strict time limit game goes fairly smoothly.

can you tell us your basic list? please

3100pts of deffcopters? must be a hard job trying to keep EACH AND EVERY ONE'S blades together without them breaking.

And lawl, 3100 of deffcopters could deal insane rokket output. With them being twin-linked too ^_^

You traded all of those copters for some stompa's? Why?!

NIce report.

Raddaatt wrote:You traded all of those copters for some stompa's? Why?!

NIce report.

That many 'coptas are not needed. My friend owns a store and I traded them to him. They aren't far away.