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Three days ago a bunch of friends including myself had our yearly apocalypse game. The main house rule is that everything has to be painted, or at least in late painting stages.

The armies that participated this year were the following:

1. Space Wolves, including all named characters
2. Space Wolves, including all named characters except Bjorn
3. Ultramarines + Raven Guard
4. Salamanders
5. Imperial guard
6. Traitor imperial guard ~1300 points(we decided they were traitor guard)
7. Chaos space marines (Nurgle themed)
8. Chaos space marines (Khorne themed)
9. Necrons
10. Grey Knights
11. Orks

The distribution of forces was:

2x space wolves, + ultramarines + salamanders + Imperial guard vs 2x Chaos space marines + Necrons + Traitor guard + Orks + Grey knights (weird choice but it worked point wise)

The actual game was played on a 16"x4" table, and the dice gods weren't kind to us. The dice decided that the game will be played length-wise, with 12" neutral zone in the middle.

Six objectives were placed, and four objectives were all around the central area of the table. Two additional objectives were deep inside each army's territory

The bidding started with the "Imperials" bidding 20 minutes for deployment, and "Xenos" bidding 25 minutes, and the "Imperials" managed to deploy in under 20 minutes, which gave the imperials first move.

The whole game took approximately 14 hours (including a few breaks), and it was concluded at the end of 5th turn, where the "Imperials" held 7 out of 8 objectives (Bjorn was wrecked and became a 2 point objective)

And now for the pictures:

All armies on display:















The Game Table:









Imperial side deployment:














Xenos Deployment:











Apocalypse begins!




Reinforcements and squads in transports:






Carnage

In a battle like that, I think tactics boil down to "hammer the enemy with everything you've got."

H-H-H-OLY CRAP! Have way down I stared to have a nerd-gasm. That was amazing! Compared to ANY of my battles, it looks like nothing good has happened yet... to me, at any rate. I host a small Raven claw army, and just looking at that army makes me want to cry. How can it be so good? TELL ME! Right now I 'm in that uneasy state of wher my body is giving me two reactions to choose from, and still I can't figure it out. One reaction is jump up and down and scream HALLELUJIA! and tell all the jocks in my school to suck it and realize that my hobby is better than thiers, and the other choice is to start sobbing in a coner because it's to awesome.

That all leads to say that this was an excellent report. PLEASE keep em' coming.

Wow that looks fun, I loved the rainbow screamers

Very nice guys.

It's unusual to see an Apoc game of this size without any of the really big guys.

So who won and what happened in a nutshell?

What an epic battle! Mazel Tov!

 jy2 wrote:
Very nice guys.

It's unusual to see an Apoc game of this size without any of the really big guys.

So who won and what happened in a nutshell?

In a nutshell, it was a huge mess, and the empire side won based on objectives held

nice armies guys

i didnt know that there are more israeli playing 40k!!!
כל הכבוד חברה הלוואי שהיה עוד שחקנים בארץ

Sargos wrote:
nice armies guys

i didnt know that there are more israeli playing 40k!!!
כל הכבוד חברה הלוואי שהיה עוד שחקנים בארץ

Quite a few of us, including a club in Kfar Saba.

www.lance.co.il

check it out and come play with us

I would love to have a battle like this. Amazing.