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With an annual regional tournament (NorCon, a Northern California event) approaching in mid-July, community preparations have begun around here to provide cool bits and bobs for the tourney and accompanying Apocalypse game. While my contribution was slated to simply be making a "No-Man's Land" table, I walked by this baby at a local hobby shop and at $50 I couldn't resist...

http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/rm/kit_rm_7811.shtml



How's that for Imperial firepower? The barrel of the model alone is somewhere around 2.6 feet long, to give you an idea.

Anyways, there's always some gimmick to our Apocalypse games i.e. last year one of the tables was an Ork ship which players teleported and/or flew onto and attempted to seize control of the bridge so that on turn 4 they could plow it into any section of the game they wanted to and cause a giant explosion.

This year, I'm going to suggest this big- cannon as a gimmick. IG will probably be defending the crap out of it, but anyone who can grab its control can fire it, either once per turn or once on 4th turn since it takes so long to prepare.

I've never played Apocalypse with anything more than standard 40k equipment as I tend to represent the Navy with fliers everywhere. Thus, I'm not terribly familiar with the big guns that are out there. So, what do you lot think? Care to help homebrew some rules for a nuke cannon?

You're using multiple tables, yes? Maybe a rule that is can drop an apocalyptic mega-blast on one of the other tables every other turn?

How about a custom firing rule too, the gun uses a experiencemrntal multi stage rocket assisted round.

This can work perfectly, over or undershoot, damage done to all units under template. Friendly fire allowed for realisam.

So on 1 it undershoots so work out how far via some mechanic and hits said number of inch's short on the guns firing line, from gun to target.

On 6 it over shoots and do same forward of target.

On 5\2 you get scatter effect.

On 4\3 it fires perfectly.

So then the gun has random chance and means you have topick your target carefully and consider the ability to miss like real super calibre guns could do.

I propose that you make a custom template.... Hula hoop. And any model friend or foe with in so many inches of the weapon when it fires suffers blind to represent the magnitude of the ignition and thunder.

STR: * AP: N/A Range: 48"-infinite. Ordnance barrage 1, 5' blast. Special: after resolving scatter all models and fortifications/buildings/etc under the final location of the template are removed from the table with no saves or other defensive abilities allowed. All other models on the table suffer a STR X AP 1 hit, where X is equal to 12 minus the model's distance from the edge of the template, in feet (round all distances down). If the strength value of this hit is 11 or 12 resolve it as STR D.