2014-15 Hammerfest Apocalypse Game at Warhammer World!
This will be updated over the next couple of days, but here are the pictures from the big 20,000pt Apocalypse game at Warhammer World!
This will be updated over the next couple of days, but here are the pictures from the big 20,000pt Apocalypse game at Warhammer World!
Quick batrep! Haven’t had one in a while, and this was the second game at Jack’s place and the first on the new Necromunda-style terrain! Loads of catwalks, platforms and ladders. Can’t wait to get it all painted!
Initially we were going to do a scenario with the Dark Angels trapped in the Dark Eldar city of Commoragh and they would have to get to a comms unit objective (to allow them to call in reinforcements), but we were running out of time to set everything up, so we did a simple layout with 3 objectives down the middle of the battlefield at 1250 points. No vehicles, just footsloggers!
Dark Angels took Belial with a large Deathwing bodyguard, plus 2 more smaller squads of Deathwing. All would Deep Strike in but only Belial wouldn’t scatter at first.
Dark Eldar took 3 10-man squads of Kabalite Warriors with 1 Splinter Cannon and 1 Shredder each, 20 Hellions, 2 5-man squads of Scourges and a tooled-up Archon with a large cohort of Incubi.
The board setup – there’s no more ‘roll for terrain’, you just place the terrain as you like it. I imagine tournaments will handle this very differently, but if you want to set up like an entrance to a city with wide-open areas at one side and a mega-dense area at the other, you can do that. It makes it a little less tactical but for ‘serious’ games you can roll 6th edition style. I think 7th requires you to talk a lot more with the other player to decide what sort of feel you both want for the game.
Unbound Tyranid & Chaos (Forgefiend in the middle of the picture and Heldrake in reserve) army faces off against a Dark Angel Deathwing force.
Two games with the Hammertime 40K crew today! Most of us were able to show up and get in a 2 vs 1 game starting just before noon, and around 3 we started a 4-player free-for all using the just-released Carnage rules from Black Library. Game 1: Dark Angels defending
Not sure if these are worth a tenner, but these are the highlights of the new Cypher rules the Black Library released this week, from a user on Something Awful: I grabbed the new Cypher dataslate against my better judgment so here’s a quick summary: Cypher is 190 points with
Hammertime: 28 May 2013 Relictors (Shane) Mephiston 2 x Drop Pods with 10 Stern Guard each 2 x Predators 2 x 8 Assault Marines Dark Angels (Jack) Belial Sammael Ravening Command Squad (5 bikes) 1 x 10 Deathwing Terminators 1 x 6 Deathwing Terminators Vindicator Watch it here! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv8PTsuKUwA]
Some pictures from the Kill Team Mini-Tournament we had the other night: A couple of top-down views The ‘lake board’ – this was Chaos v Relictors The ‘desert board’ – this was Relictors v Dark Angels
Just want to throw this out there to the modelling experts…. how do I get a Dark Angel ‘wing on the back of this? I tried a stencil on my other rhino (which went very badly wrong and the paper I was using as the outline glued onto the paint
Hammertime: 20 March 1500 pts Dark Angels – Jack Azrael Librarian 3 x 10-man tactical squads 6 Black Knights Land Raider with Banner of Devastation Space Wolves – David W Rune Priest 2 10-man Grey Hunter squad 2 5-man Grey 2 Long Fang squads Vindicator Dreadnought Watch it here! [youtube=http://youtu.be/TOdLnjfnreI]