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Thing 2 and I played a game of Apoc on Saturday. I must admit that Apoc isn't really my thing... just too hard to keep tack of what's going on for it to be more than just a dice rolling exercise for me. That being said... seeing 18+ feet of custom made gaming board filled to bursting with figures is majestic. Thing 2 had a wonderful time even though his bio-titan was wiped out in the very first shooting phase. He really conducted himself well throughout, I'm proud of him.

This shot gives you an idea of what the board looked like. At least 18' of custom table made just for this fight. Following a campaign in some book... Nids out-numbered the Eldar & Imperials 2:1 (supposed to be all Eldar but we only had 1 Eldar player). There was a HUGE contingent of GS cult which had a major impact on the game. Nid force was split on either end... good guys in the middle holding a river valley and key bridge.




Thing 2's hive elements and bio-titan (in green) supporting their left flank, opposite my knights.




The Admech (there were two of us) acting as rear guard. We held... at least through 3 turns when I had to leave.




My cheeky assassin who managed to keep about 5 or 6 squads of GS cult from going into the weeds (or whatever it's called) by infiltrating into the middle of them. Special rules had the Nids not allowed to charge the first turn (lest the game be over by turn 2), which means she'd more than earned her points in the 2 turn delay she forced for significant cult elements.




By the end of turn 3 (my last turn), nearly everything I had left alive was in CC with wyomingfox's tyrant and a HUGE unit of gargoyles. Fearless, so of course you just couldn't kill them fast enough.

Looks awesome Gits! Yours definitely stood out though (best painted of course ).

I wouldn't say that.... there were some really beautifully painted models on the table (check out those purplish things behind my son's bio titan & wyfox's brown Nids are beautiful)... some not so much. But, mine were consistently good, which is what I always strive for.

Bleeding heck thats alot of swarms. Some of those models made me want to collect tyrandis for a sec. I know what you mean about big games turning into just a dice rolling affair, but if well done can be fun.

Wow, what an epic scene!! Very cool, Gits, and glad Thing 2 enjoyed himself and was a good sport

Wish I had something interesting to report or great pictures to share... but I'm just plowing my way through blocking out the metals on the EC and MW models. It's tedious. I am using some new metallic paints though and I absolutely love them. Going to have to get some more in a wider variety of colors.

Will have a photo update for you eventually... probably when the steel is finished.

Needs to be done . Nice pics of the apoc battle!

Always seems a shame to me that "it" gets lost in these huge battles, supposedly normal games are just part of a battle front campaign, just does not translate up.

What is funnier is that when I got into this it was through a friend and it was Epic, at our height we had an 8ft long battle field covered in models, deployment zones so packed we had to come up with rules for "waves", and the game would take 2 days, and every last minute was intense and wonderful and exciting, and we argued and laughed and had fun. And in real terms that is what you are playing there, but the real essence is slightly lost by the sound of it.

Thanks for the pics, it looks like fun and very spectacular, really glad Thing#2 had a good time.

Now where are these painted models?

Its partially because rounds are limited to 40 minutes, so people are very rushed. Secondly, if you are one guy facing three players for 3 turns, you are going to have a lot of enemy players yelling for your time...as they collectively try to shoot you off the board.

My units were largely ignored in the first half, so I mostly spent the first half twiddling my thumbs during the enemy turn.

That's simply massive! Nice to see the younger gen enjoying an apoc round. Out of curiousity, what metallics did you get?

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
That's simply massive! Nice to see the younger gen enjoying an apoc round. Out of curiousity, what metallics did you get?

Yes... Do tell

Well... by the next game I'll have my Reaver... so it'll be just titans for me with a few groups of techs to keep them running. That should help.

Just Vallejo metallics. But they must be a newer formulation, I've had Vallejo metallic paints before and these are better. Finer flake, thin enough for the AB, cover really well. I love them.

I'll have to check them out. I'd really like to get out of GW metallics

What kind of support are you planning for the big guy? Can techs repair super heavys?

As far as I can tell, a hull point is a hull point... unless someone can show me different in the rules. Right now I'm thinking two tech priests with servitors (for each) and two dominii. All these repair on 2+. Probably get a big squad of skitarii peltasts to attach the dominii to. Add a VSG for a bit of extra protection and AA in the form of a Aegis wall w/ quad gun, 2 dune crawlers w/ Icarus arrays & the auto-cannons on the backs of the knights. In fluffy fashion, I'll need to surround the titan with skitarii in order to prevent the GS cult from popping up underneath it and killing it with rending attacks. They (meaning the cult) were probably the reason for the Nid victory in the aforementioned Apoc game.


Here's a photo dump of my game with Yorkright and his new, fancy Eldar triumvirate last night. He slaughtered me. Since I can't convince Yorkright to start his own blog... I'll have to show his stuff off here.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
What kind of support are you planning for the big guy? Can techs repair super heavys?

You would have to read the specific rule. It may limit or specify repairs to units bought from that codex or units bought from a specific army/faction. But otherwise HP are HP.

The battle looks amazing. Is that a board one of you owns or was it at a gaming store/club?

Looks like a fine battle! The Eldar Triumvirate will take the meta for a bit to adjust and find counters to, but i'm sure we'll figure out somethin'.

@ Archer, all the terrain and battle mats are provided by our FLGS. We are quite fortunate to have such a great place to game at.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Just Vallejo metallics. But they must be a newer formulation, I've had Vallejo metallic paints before and these are better. Finer flake, thin enough for the AB, cover really well. I love them.

Water based or alcohol?

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
Looks like a fine battle! The Eldar Triumvirate will take the meta for a bit to adjust and find counters to, but i'm sure we'll figure out somethin'.

I think with the new Eldar, I can finally break out my allied Krootdar. 4 units of 3 jet bikes, double D wraith knight, a jet seer or 2, a riptide wing, and the remaining points invested in a firestream piranha formation. All those drones dying for the greater good should give me a good amount of double shots.

` Wyomingfox you are going to give us Eldar players a bad name with that kind of talk.

 wyomingfox wrote:

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
Looks like a fine battle! The Eldar Triumvirate will take the meta for a bit to adjust and find counters to, but i'm sure we'll figure out somethin'.

I think with the new Eldar, I can finally break out my allied Krootdar. 4 units of 3 jet bikes, double D wraith knight, a jet seer or 2, a riptide wing, and the remaining points invested in a firestream piranha formation. All those drones dying for the greater good should give me a good amount of double shots.

OUCH.... and Ouch again!

Awesome pics! glad to see the Mechanicus getting out there and doing what they were designed for on the battlefield :-)

More awesome pics of battle. Have seen what Nerdy has been working on. You lucky boy.

That is a beautiful battle, Gits, thanks for the pics!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Things have been very busy at the Casa de Gits... wife has been sick and we've been entertaining an old college friend and his family. Both he and his son game though (my fault) so we played a 5-man free-for-all of 40k one afternoon, and an old game of Titanicus the next. These weren't the original rules as people have been tinkering with them for years, but once we got used to them we had a really fun time. I'd forgotten about how much fun it was to play the titans against one another.

I should get back to painting soon.

Sounds good, even if you haven't been painting. Any pictures from the games?

 wyomingfox wrote:

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
Looks like a fine battle! The Eldar Triumvirate will take the meta for a bit to adjust and find counters to, but i'm sure we'll figure out somethin'.

I think with the new Eldar, I can finally break out my allied Krootdar. 4 units of 3 jet bikes, double D wraith knight, a jet seer or 2, a riptide wing, and the remaining points invested in a firestream piranha formation. All those drones dying for the greater good should give me a good amount of double shots.

Ah yes, the under powered armies of Eldar and Tau. Truly now is the time they have come into their own.

@ DaemonColin: Alas no, I was too busy running the first game and playing in the second! My friend did give me several of the old Imperial titans though so I may do a quick paint job on them so the boys and I can play. They'll be pictures then.

Definitely going to get the new titan game I've heard rumors about when it comes out though.