My first Apocalypse game

Being new to the hobby, there are certainly a lot of firsts. I wanted to share some pictures and a short video walkthrough of the battlefield of my first apocalypse game at the local friendly wargaming club.

We used four regular size gaming tables and a couple of the bigger terrain pices that don't get much use in normal games.

This first picture shows the deployment of the Tau and their human auxiliary troops that happen to sport two scout titans and my chaos space marines.

Here the orks have crash landed in a wide band between the skyshield landing pad and the fortress.

The loyal imperial forces and space marines on the other side of the battle are dug in among the ruins. Some marine forces will deepstrike via half a dozen drop-pods and seven blo(l)od angel land raiders.

With the special 60" formation move and enough luck to score a penetrating hit and an explosion, each of my drakes killed a vindicator before the first move.

Not too long after the game started we had a lunch break, which I used to do a quick video walkthough of the battlefield. I didn't think about switching off the radio, so I had to remove the audio rather than get into trouble over some faint noise in the background.



These pictures show the battlefield shortly before the game ended after turn two.

It was amazing to see this many minis in action! I've learned a lot and will be revising my setup for the next game.

Hellfire FTW

From left to right, my first, second and third heldrake. Apocalypse formation ready in time for the game on Saturday.

And we are back!

Due to starting a new job and hobby time spent playing 40k, I didn't make any progress on the modelling or painting fronts in the last weeks.

Now I'm scrambling to get ready for an Apocalypse game this Saturday, for which I still needed a third heldrake to complete the Apocalypse formation. Having learned from previous builds, I went with assembly of groups of parts with access for painting in mind. I got the flame pattern done.

In parallel, I've got a second wraithknight and a hive tyrant on my bench. The tyrand kit makes a flyrant and a corpse under the knight's foot. I stuck the flyrant on four stacks of 2 euro-cent coins hotglued together and superglued to a 60mm round base and two bottom-to-bottom plastic cemented square bases on top. That gives the flying model some lift and also a hefty base weight.

The wraithknight is now removed from the sprue, cemented together, scraped, sanded and magnetised. The parts are split into three groups for the main colours

Next steps are painting the trim on the heldrake and putting that together. The wraithknight will get a German Grey primer coat for the parts on the top left. A black wash will follow. Everything else will be primed white. The parts on the bottom left then be airbrushed blue, while the bunch of parts on the right will be hit with yellow.

PS: Getting there... looks like hot wings to go for tomorrow night.