greetings, greetings all!
well, last night we a "staff meating" which is a fancy way of saying we played a game of apocalypse for 3 hours!
dear god is it total and utter madness!
we had in just super-heavies alone;
imperial forces: 2x baneblade
chaos/ork alliance: 1 baneblade, 2x brass scorpions, 1x reaver titan, 1x big stompa.
okay, so us imperials got absolutely hosed, but we still had a blast! just to give you an idea of some of the mad happenings;
- 1000+ pts of guard drop troops all appearing at once, while being supported by 15 terminators surrounding several ork mods and the chaos reaver titan!
- a baneblade leading a guard armoured spearhead, which was them ambused and ripped to shreads by a single brass scorpion!
- a single salamanders tactical squad holding the faltering imperial line against 2 waves of orky assaults before being over run.
- 20 necrons + necron lord using the viel of darkness to drop right into the middle of the guard artillery position... even the baneblade cannon couldn't keep them down! the necrons spent 3 turns rapid firing all the artilery into oblivion...
- the vortex grenade fizzing out the turn after it was thrown...
- the massive 14" nuclear explosion of a dying baneblade!!! the total casulties were nearby 3 imperial tanks, 8 storm troopers, 8 tactical marines, the stompa's death cannon & 2 pieces of area terrain!
- speaking of the stompa, beware the lifta-droppa!!! it was a laugh watching as it threw our tanks around like toys, but the results are rather painfull! (such as seeing a leman russ demolisher thrown 24" and drop right in fron of an ork dread mob!)
all-in-all, apocalypse is great fun and you'll have to learn and accept that balance is never ment to be a factor! (because nothing about apocalypse really is truely "fair"!!!)
cheers!