12,500pt Apocalypse battle Nids versus Crimson Fists and Imperial Guard

[dwez]

My mates, Ben, Liam, Otty and I had a 12 hour Apocalypse battle. The report is being written on the blog, but given the scale of what I was trying to do was sketchy at best. However, it's more about the spectacle with this, so if you like your hobby porn and enjoy nothing more than 4 totally bada$$ completely painted armies featuring many scratchbuilt and unique items then enjoy. Oh, there was a scratchbuilt Warlord Titan too,









Prelude to war is here: [url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/apocalypse-wow-12500pts-of-armageddon.html[/url]

First turn will be on the blog tomorrow.

[dwez]

My first turn was quite effective with guaranteed reserves arriving from Deep Strike with a Flyrant, 3 Spore Pods with 10 Devgaunts each in two pods and the Doom in the 3rd, Trygon Prime, 4 Sky Slashers with Spinefists and 10 Gargoyles all closing on the objective and removing both Manticores.



Meanwhile the green tide advanced.



Eventually Crimson Fist reserves arrive in the from of this 'X-Wing Pattern' Storm Raven



'Nancy' strikes back



More details and pics here: [url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/apocalypse-wow-12500pts-of-armageddon_3.html[/url]

[knas ser]

Good grief!

I think the point it started to overwhelm me was when you started adding snow flocking to some of the boards in order to make a cleaner transition between the snow boards and the non-snow boards. Hate to say it, but I'm glad they wouldn't let you use that single unpainted mini. Why spoil perfection?

It's awesome. Looking forward to a turn-by-turn.

[dwez]

Good grief!

I think the point it started to overwhelm me was when you started adding snow flocking to some of the boards in order to make a cleaner transition between the snow boards and the non-snow boards. Hate to say it, but I'm glad they wouldn't let you use that single unpainted mini. Why spoil perfection?

It's awesome. Looking forward to a turn-by-turn.

Ha, ha, Liam flatly refused to let his board be the transition one for snow, he said he was still trying to get rid of the talc they used last time. It was a nightmare getting it off all the bits of terrain afterwards, check out the pillar tops on the ruins on my flank, they dusted that too! I'm pretty sure the the first few turns make sense then turns 3 onwards seem a bit difficult to isolate which picture represents which turn. Things were hampered even further by the fact Ben and I ended up playing quicker than Otty and Liam, they did have two thirds of the armies afterall. Of course by the end there were considerably less figures on the board hence why it played quicker and quicker.

[Pssyche]

Congratulations on four wonderfully painted Apocalypse Armies!

Last Easter I fielded 18K of Eldar fully painted in a 60,000 points plus Apocalypse Battle, so I know the hard work that goes into preparing for, let alone playing in such a big game whilst gritting your teeth and saying to yourself "fully painted or nothing".

Well done!!!

[dwez]

Cheers Pssyche

Here's a preview of turn 2:

NOT Lysander and his retinue face a carpet of Stealers



How you mount a kitbashed Storm Talon



Crimson Fists 'fight in the shade'!



'Relic' Whirlwinds were even called to battle to stem the Xenos tide.



More details and hobby p0rn here: [url]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CcO6aBA50BA/UkggC60BS3I/AAAAAAAAL2o/C2e0XXEDLow/s1600/C360_2013-09-28-14-13-38-355.jpg[/url]

[The Sovereign]

Wow, one of the best batreps I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing!

[Pssyche]

The Whirlwinds in the last picture, are they Rhino conversions?
The Rhino chassis is clearly a very old one, but the Whirlwind from back then looked like it had a handful of crayons on two sticks for its missile rack.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the missile racks include a Lego Building Brick.

Kudos!


And I've just noticed.
I'm not the only person in the World who snaps the exhaust pipes off!
Ha ha ha ha ha...

[dwez]

The Whirlwinds in the last picture, are they Rhino conversions?
The Rhino chassis is clearly a very old one, but the Whirlwind from back then looked like it had a handful of crayons on two sticks for its missile rack.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the missile racks include a Lego Building Brick.

Kudos!


And I've just noticed.
I'm not the only person in the World who snaps the exhaust pipes off!
Ha ha ha ha ha...

I think the first official Whirlwind models were the metal 'crayon' ones, I like them as they look like the 'Plasma DJ' from the Dark Angels Land Speeder and would go well with my army. However, these pre-date that model and were detailed in a White Dwarf. Essentially it's a kit-bash comprising two spare doors from the original Rhino that form the top and bottom. The front and back are a 40mm square base, with the edges trimmed - that gives the missile silo look. The sides are card/plasticard and the base is a spare original Rhino chassis piece.

You can read more about it here: [url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/diy-whirlwinds.html[/url]



And that's why all the original epic models looked like this:

[Pssyche]

The conversion I remember from White Dwarf was when somebody stuck a load of Hunter-Killer Missile Launch Boxes together which gave a similar effect to what you've achieved.

Looks good whichever way you cut it!