World Wide Apocalypse Game Early game

The beginning of Turn One. The Xenos won the roll and took first turn. The majority of the titans lined up on the more open other end of the table. This left John's Orks, Jonathan's Tau and Gue'vesa , a sprinkling of Jerry's Tyranids and my Deathguard holding the objectives on our end of the table, Facing an overwhelming force of Space marines and guard fielded by Randall, Curt and Steve.



The center Plague Tower deployed with a Plaguemarine squad using it for cover and another Plaguemarine squad deployed in cover on the objective. They are supported by a couple of Jonathan's Tau tanks.

The left Plaguetower also with a squad walking behind it using it for cover and another Plaguemarine squad in cover sitting on the objective.

The enemy Silver Skull Baneblade being escorted by rhinos.

The Titan end of the table. Matt's titans are joined by his silver tower and a horde of Jerry's gaunts.

Some of Jeff's imperial guard preparing for the coming Tyranid onslaught.

Steve's force of Imperial guard, Marines and Leviathan.

Curt's White Swords waiting for the storm.

A better View of the Chaos Line of Death.

A scratch built Ork Skullhamma'

The Tyranids run into the Imperial Guns.

The Silver Skulls deployed in depth to repel the Xenos.

The Orks Waaauuggh and close on the Imperials.

More ork support backing up Matt's Titans.

Jim's paper Land Raiders provide rolling cover for his thunder wolf cavalry.

I originally planned for this squad to be a titan hunter squad. A Chaos Lord with a chain fist leading a squad of four terminator champions with chain fists mounted in a land raider. All the titans were far away so I sent them into a group of Steve's Dreadnoughts.

First round of combat and I only damaged two of the dreadnoughts.

A good hit from a plague tower destroys a silver skull rhino.

My first two casualties of game, killed by a dreadnought, but far from the last.

A Silver Skull Thunderhawk arrives and finds a target too good to be true. Bombs Away!

The second Silver Skull Thunder hawk arrives and and drops a bomb on the Plague Marines guarding the objective.

The Bomb Hits!

And leaves few survivors.

The Quake cannon from the Leviathan hits behind the center Plague Tower.

Jerry W standing next to Jeff's fully assembled Imperator Titan.

The First round left both sides bloodied but more was coming.

World Apocalypse Game Forces

I participated in the World Wide Apocalypse game on 22Jan11. The game was organized by the Apoc-Eclipse apocalypse gaming group and played at All Fun and Games in Apex, North Carolina. It was my first trip to All Fun and Games and I wished that I lived closer. I had a great time playing, catching up with old friends and took many pictures. I plan to break the pictures up and do a series of posts about the game.

The battlefield while we started setting the terrain up. The table was twenty five feet by six. All Fun and games really came through with the gaming space because they also had a pokemon tournament and a World of Darkness roleplaying convention going on the same day.

Randall's Silver Skull Marines and Thunderhawk transports.

The Leviathan. I not sure who's model this is but Steve used this during the game and lit my forces up several times with its fifteen inch template quake cannon.

Matt P's Warlord Titan. He was actually only the second largest titan on the table.

Matt P's Khorne and Slaanesh chaos Reaver Titans with his Chaos warhound behind them.

Jerry W's Tyranids including hie cashe of the old armourcast big bugs, a Dactylis, two Exocrines and two Malafactors.

Jim's paper Thunderbolts. These are some amazing models and he had a whole selection of other paper goodies.

Curt's White Sword Marines.

Matt P's Chaos Thunder Hawk.

Jonathan's Gue'vesa Guard. They are mostly the death corp of kreig troops back by a Malcador, Valdor and Minotuar tanks.

The other half of Jonathan's Gue'vesa and their Tau masters.

A part of John's Ork horde.

More of Jim's paper models, this time a couple Land Raiders. Through a mix up in Imperial transmissions his Space wolves would end up fight on the Xenos side with me.

My Nurgle Terminators, a Nurgle Dreadnaught and three squads of plague marines I had riding in the Plague Towers.

The rest of my force. Three Plague Towers, a Chaos land Raider and four more squads of Plague Marine. Missing is Matt P's Mortarion model I planned to use. Mortarion missed the transport so I went into the game down on points.

Robert's three Imperial Reaver titans.

Jeff's scratchbuilt Warhound.

The legs of Jeff's Imperator titan. An amazing model that would pour out alot of pain in the coming game.

Chinese Defend against Americans

I have played my first game of 2011, with hopefully many more to follow.

We had another game at Casa de Killgore for some Disposable Heroes action. The scenario was US army versus Japanese backed Chinese holdouts. The scenario was the Americans attacking while the Chinese defended. Chuckaroo and Big Roy fielded 1000 points of American verses me with 700 points of Chinese.

The American force was a US army infantry platoon backed by a 105mm howitzer, a couple heavy machine guns and the King of Battle M3 Stuart tank.

The Chinese force consisted of a full strength Chinese Infantry platoon, with one squad equipped with explosives, a Ha-Go Japanese light tank, and a 81mm mortar.

Only an Honor less Imperialist dog would bring a 105 howitzer.

(According to Chuckaroo it was the best 109 points he never spent.)
Then go onto put his command squad with a radio in the stone tower to spot for the gun.

The stalwart defenders manning the defences backed by their trusty Ha Go tank.

The Chinese commander extolling the brave defenders.

The dreaded M3 Stuart tank closes to bring its deadly firepower to bear.

The lone gunner survivor of a rifle squad takes cover at the edge of a dry rice paddy and blazes away at the Imperialists spotting for the artillery in the stone tower. After losing several models from his command squad he withdrew from the tower.

The Ha-Go brews up. Unable to penetrate the thick armor on the M3, it had concentrated its fire on the infantry until the M3 acquired it and finished it off.

The King of the Battlefield, the M3 Stuart moves out, closing the distance to bring its machine guns into action.

After leaving the dry paddy the Lone gunner tries to make it back to a friendly squad but takes fire and is pinned.

The Gunner takes more fire, fails his test and routs.

A group of prone riflemen take aim and

Finish off the lone gunner.

The Chinese command regroups after taking heavy fire from the M3. Along with the surviving rifle squad they decide that they have held the Americans up long enough and withdraw.

The American infantry creep along beside the Stuart as the Chinese decide to withdraw.

Once again a fun game. We got Big Roy to play and might get him to return for another game. The uneven points added an extra edge to the game for me. One of the big surprises of the game was the M3 Stuart Juggernaut. After we discovered the Ha Go couldn't hurt the Stuart from the front, it was down to a waiting game for the Stuart to get close enough for me to assault it with explosives. This didn't happen. The American kept up a heavy volume of fire either killing my troops or keeping them pinned behind cover. Once The last squad with explosives was killed it became a numbers game I couldn't win. I decided to concede the game and withdraw.

I had the best luck with artillery with my mortar actually hitting a unit, while Chuckaroo's 105 howitzer missed every shot of the game.

I have gone back to the drawing board and once I find that I16 fighter I have somewhere in a box, it will be rematch time.

Another thing is I need some more terrain. Disposable Heroes punishes anybody that moves out of cover. I am planning to build some Chinese themed buildings and make some Asian themed terrain. I want several rice paddies and a bamboo grove or two and maybe some stone wall sections. The sheets of felt are okay to get by with but well modeled terrain pieces can really make a game pop.