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Well, title says it all: What is the biggest game of 40K you've ever played, calculated in points? Mine was a game at my FLGS, where everyone brought vehicles and Super-Heavies. Some that I remember from the top of my head are:

4 Chaos, 2 Loyalist Land Raiders
3 Loyalist Predators
2 Imperial Knights
1 Lord of Skulls
2 Stompas
2 Stormravens
5 Helbrutes
1 Reaver Titan
1 FW Hierophant
1 C'tan

it was atleast 15k points. It was awesome.

I did an Apocalypse-but-not during 6th where we did 3 vs 3, 2000 points each. That ended up being 12000 total, but that's not what I selected because I wasn't paying attention.

I quickly posted 8k but didn't know we were talking about multiplayer games, I thought it meant biggest army you have fielded against an opponent, which I guess would be 16000. Biggest game I have participated in was a 26000 point game spaced over 5 six foot tables.

The largest game I’ve been in was a farewell to 5th apoc game. Everyone brought 3,000 points, there were about a dozen of us playing.

We did an inagural game for new Apocalypse that was around 16-18k a side. I brought out all my Terminators.

a friend was a staffer at GW at the time and collected 'nids. he got extra stuff from friends as well and it ended up as nids vs imperium (dark angels, grey knights, tempestus militarum, vanilla marines and mechanicum)

he basically matched everything we could put down which came to ~26,000pts and then we included everything he had left as nid reserves in a 'last stand against the flood' type situation.

that was a messy game. things appearing all over the place for no reason, psychic gubbings happening on just about every phase, more flyers than we had space for, spore pods all over the place, my Warhound aquired an invun save at one point! - it was ridiculous and i can't WAIT to do it again!

How are we totaling this? Pts per side, or pts on the table.

Like when I think of a 10,000 point game it means each side has 10,000 points. But it would be 20,000 points on the table.

I cannot recall the points of the Apoc games I've been in.

My last game was a rather heavy battle of a mixture of 30k Luna Wolves and Horus and some 40k marines plus a few elder, vs my Mechanized Imperial guard holded up in the corner of the table. with heavy fortifications and plenty of Super Heavy Tanks to beat back the heretic Horus.

I almost managed to kill Horus who had invisibility spam going from sheer volume of bullets thrown at him. I joked I could have ended the Horus Heresy before it started....

Another Apoc was My IG and Grey Knights vs Another IG player and Grey Knights back in 5th. Both me and the other IG guy had the largest armored forces in the store and the GK practically had no real presence on the table. It was an all out armored Slug fest. Leman Russ tanks and Super Heavy Tanks duking it out with infantry only existing to be caught and slaughtered by scattering templates thrown by the armored monsters. It was Glorious.

I didn't have any many tanks as I do now in that battle (but it was still a lot relative to other players, I had more Super Heavy Tanks, while he had more Russes with a single Baneblade)

I would love to get another heavy weight armor battle.

I have once played a 10k+ per side game, but it ended after turn 1 of one side. Biggest full game I played was 1750pts.

I played an 8k game once. Stupid amount of proxying involved. Wasn't highly enjoyable either.

5K Points each
12 people per side

8k is the biggest game I have ever played, and the biggest I will ever play too. Takes way to long

I've been in a 100,000 point game... That was a long time ago back with the oldcron codex. It was a xenos vs. Imperium battle and we pretty much had everyone at our FLGS involved, I no longer remember how many players were there.

I remember I brought about 6,000-7,000 points worth of Necrons: Two Monoliths - think one was proxied as a doomsday monolith, 15 destroyers, 9 heavy destroyers, the Nightbringer, one lord with a warscythe, veil of darkness and nightmare shroud lovingly called Commander DC, some pariahs and god knows how many warriors... Probably a few more lords, wraiths, don't really remember.

Some highlights, The Destroyers seriously messed up a bunch of baneblades and yarrick's fortress of arrogance. Commander DC destroyed a shadowsword on his own and played pingpong with a commissar with a unit of IG as the pingpong ball. One player brought something like 10,000 points worth of Necron Pylons. Someone else had two Warlord Titans, one of which died turn one thanks to massed focus fire from our side (xenos), I didn't think that was possible. One player had a bunch of valkyries crammed with melta vets who would play Wagner everytime it was his turn.

All in all it was long, REALLY long, but fun. If I could do it again, I would.

About 400,000 if I remember right. It sucked.

I should have said, it helps A LOT in the enjoyment department of the game to have things, activities, food, etc. on the side. We had a couple X boxes set up, lots of food, tables set up for painting, movies playing, some music, beer pong, and other stuff to help pass the time. We pretty much made it a party.

20k game that happens to be the first battle of our battle for bulwark campaign. (Can be found on YouTube.) Using the strategic asset that allows no scatter deep strikes with my BA was insane. I even ds'd in land raiders and let loose with some flame storm cannons.

I believe it was around 4.5k per side. Last year I was playing a Tyranid player at my GW. Another kid showed up with a really large Tau army, about 4,500 points of models. He was just watching us silently, very obviously wanting to game.

The Nid player and I just looked at each other and sort of knew what to do. We offered to just restart the game except with his entire Tau force against my Necron army and the Nids. He was super happy to set up his entire gunline and unleash all of his armor and broadsides at two very different sorts of enemies.

We played the attacker and just kept repairing and respawning until we overwhelmed his forces. Once we got past the first line of Fire Warriors it was all over (well not really, we played until the end but it was obvious he couldn't stand up to the variety of units he was faced with) - the Monolith, Deathmarks and Flyrant just wreaked havoc on his rear suits, etc.

Fun game, and it took a good few hours because I don't think any of us had been in a game with so many models. I also learned just how powerful broadsides were that day. They were just blasting holes out of our army any time we were in sight, it was nuts!

 King Pariah wrote:
I should have said, it helps A LOT in the enjoyment department of the game to have things, activities, food, etc. on the side. We had a couple X boxes set up, lots of food, tables set up for painting, movies playing, some music, beer pong, and other stuff to help pass the time. We pretty much made it a party.

Then honestly why even bother with the 40k game? It's not like you're going to finish more than a turn or two if people are off doing other stuff instead of rolling dice, so what's the point?

4000 points per side, shortly after Stronghold Assault was released. Almost my entire collection of Orks against my pal's AM/Inquisition and one of those fething huge macrocannon fortresses. In all honesty, it was not the best 40k experience I've ever had, but at least it was mericfully short - By turn 4 there wasn't a single ork standing.

 Peregrine wrote:

 King Pariah wrote:
I should have said, it helps A LOT in the enjoyment department of the game to have things, activities, food, etc. on the side. We had a couple X boxes set up, lots of food, tables set up for painting, movies playing, some music, beer pong, and other stuff to help pass the time. We pretty much made it a party.

Then honestly why even bother with the 40k game? It's not like you're going to finish more than a turn or two if people are off doing other stuff instead of rolling dice, so what's the point?

Nothing was set up for long term aside from the game. Quick duel set up on the Xbox's, movement phase alone would allow the opposing team to kick back and do something else. Once that was over, we'd head back to the table and deal with the shooting and assault phases. Then when it was our turn for movement, they'd go dilly dally amongst the beer pong and whatnot. Everyone loved 40k then and the game was the primary attraction, everything else was to help prevent boredom from settling in.

I'll have to write it in since it wasn't an option. It was 3 players a side with 2k points a player, so 6k points a side for 12k points total. We played on an 8 ft wide board. This was the result (half of our team's force was in reserve. That ended up not going so well since the poor Tyranid player lost literally everything to bad deep strike scatter)

Approximately 120k per side is my biggest. 3 days of playing and honestly most of what played didn't matter beyond the titans and super heavies. If our group of guys ever does it again we all agreed less titans and d weapons. When you have 10 leman Russ tanks last for 1 turn because a single titan kills all of them it gets a little crazy. Was a lot of fun though.

We use to play "Floor-Hammer" back in the day, pre-Apoc version of Apocalypse in 2nd Ed, using normal 2nd Ed rules, except with no point limits, bring everything you have, team up into factions, and play all day (or night) in a battle royal. It was easy to far exceed a 100,000 points, what with resin Armorcast Gargants, Warhounds, Reavers, Baneblades, Revenants, Phantoms, shoals of infantry, battalions of artillery, divisions of Tanks, the odd Fly (they were skimmers, back then). Guess-range weapons, Pulse Rokkets, Virus Bombs .... it was a blast! Never had more fun playing 40k than when we would play "Floor-Hammer". Apocalypse never had that feel for me, despite being still one of my favorite formats.

SJ

20,000 points on a 10 foot by 10 foot table. 5 players per side. The store's Tyranid Players versus Space Marines, Imperial Guard, and an Eldar Player. The Imperial Side won by rolling up the left flank and then pinching the right flank and center.

My group loves team games. I am slowly trying to get my group forces built up to do another game of that size or bigger.

I played in the last year of apocalypticon which was 500,000 points. INSANE

I usually play rather small games. mostly because I refuse to bring along any unpainted models and I am an extremely slow painter.
I have this huge pile of unpainted plastic just sitting here waiting for a large Apocalypse game. I just hope I can finish them before the real apocalypse comes along