40K Apocalypse at SOGCON

It had been awhile since I last update this blog. Still alive and enjoying the hobby.

Scroll down for the Apocalypse pictures if you don't want to read my rant.



Many things happened in life since I last quit my previous job in 2014 to take a break from work and rethink life.
Got a job offer early this year from a company that I worked with before I quit my previous job in 2014.
Taking up the job offer in a different company but same industry was exciting as I would be doing something different and opportunities to learn and gain more experience. After 3 months into the job I decided to leave... Many factors contributed to my decision, every little things add up... but the main one was human relations.
Few weeks in the new job, I felt that the culture was quite strange... I'm an easy going and agreeable person to work with but I couldn't understand some of the people I work with and their ethics. I can only guess that they felt threaten by me joining the company. I decided to give myself some time before making any decisions, thinking that being a new guy in the new work environment I just had to adjust and adapt with time. The final straw was an incident (which I'm involved) happening when working onsite. This incident accelerated my decision to leave and not giving it more time so that it would work out.
Initially I thought that joining the new company would be something that give me a clear goal and future in life, but I'm filled with more self doubt than before I started. Now I'm just going to focus on getting a 40k army fully painted (at least 1850 points) and finding another job thereafter.




Anyway enough with my ranting/musing. Here are the pictures for the 40K Apocalypse the gaming group played in a recent gaming convention.

More pictures can be found in the gaming group blog.
http://anythingbutones.blogspot.sg/2015/07/apocalypse-imperials-vs-tyranids-with.html

Mission: Exterminatus (Apoc book)
Imperium: 9k
Nids: 9k
Dark Eldar: 2k (disruption force)

View of the battle from the right flank

Dreadclaw dropped into Nids line

Imperial Left flank

This tank killed the Nids supreme warlord in 1 shot with its volcano cannon

Fellblade aiming its turret at the nids lurking at the ruins

Some Skitarii positioning in ruins

Angron kill the charging carnifex in 1 round of close combat

The Reaver titan arrives

Imperial left forces push forward

Angron charging the Hierodule

Killing the gargantuan monster in 1 round of CC before the beast can strike back

Titans face off

Castigator knight titan supporting the Reaver titan

Nids pods surround the objectives

A view from the reaver titan shoulder

Knight titan counter the Nids dropping into the objective zones

Fellblade scanning for other targets

Hierophant make short work of the castigator knight titan

Harridan zoom in for the kill

A Dark Eldar raiding force appear to capture slaves and bio morphs in the chaos

Knight titan charge the Mawloc

2nd knight titan charge another Mawloc

3rd knight titan charge the zoans

Surviving terminators couldn't hold the hierophant back

Harridan zoom closer to reaver titan to bypass its void shields

Knight titan couldn't pierce the zoan Psychic shield

Machine Vs Beast

Flyrants came from behind to capture the vital objective

Razorwing down the wounded Hierophant in an attack run

40K Apocalypse 14k battle SM + SM VS Eldar + DA

Played another Apocalypse game organize by the gaming group. Due to personal obligations we only have 4 players turning up in the end and decided to go with 2 vs 2. 

7000k a side with a total 14k point battle. 

Battle: Exterminatus !

SM VS DA/Eldar

More pictures and detail turn by turn report can be found in the gaming group website - Anything but ones blog spot. 

http://anythingbutones.blogspot.sg/2014/10/14000-points-apocalypse-abo-style.html

Some of the pictures I took during the game: 

Altansar craft world

Dark Angels

The game commence 

Mass fire fight & combat

The Eldar/DA capturing the no man's land objective

SM drop pods reinforce the deployment zone

DA terminators DS to target the SM forward unit 

DA terminators DS into SM deployment zone

SM counter attack!

DA terminators with librarian charge the Castigator 

DA terminator survived the Castigator assault

Castigator Knight titan Close combat with DA terminator

Castigator knight titan was subsequently charged by DA imperial knight titan and with only 1 hull point left, the castigator exploded from the imperial knight hammer of wrath attack. The apocalyptic explosion caught the imperial knight titan killing it instantly which trigger another apocalyptic explosion! Miraculously the DA terminator (pic above) survived both the apocalyptic explosions!!!

Single Stern guard capturing Eldar/DA objective

After around 6 hours of gaming, we ended the game at turn 3.

Strategic victory points
SM : DA/Eldar
21   : 20

SM victory !

Was a close game and SM won by 1 SVP.
Looking forward to the next apocalypse game and higher points apocalypse battle - more carnage!

7th Edition Apocalypse Game

Had my first Apocalypse game after 11-12 years in the hobby. Got the chance to organize the game with ABO gaming buddies. 

Using 7th edition 40K rules. The game was planned to be played at around 10k points per side with 6 players. Due to Nurgle striking 2 players, we had to play the game with 6.5k points per side with 4 players.

Got to thank Titan Games LGS for hosting the game.

Imperium 

IG - 4k

Flesh tearers (BA) - 2.5k

Chaos

IG - 4k

Alpha Legion (30k) - 2.5k

The game was a blast. Never had such crazy fun in 40k for awhile, with super heavies failing spectacularly, daemons summoning left and right, rampaging knight titans, mass air battles between the IG. The action never stop.. well before turn 4. I will let Jaeroler post the more detail post on the game. Here are some pictures..

Alpha Legion Terminators strike at the heart of the Imperium lines

Chaos IG Valkyries zooming into Imperium defences

Rampaging Imperium Knight Titan in Chaos lines 

The battle field at turn 3

Fell glaive brace for knight titan charge!

The heat blast from the dread claw was too much for tzeentch herald and blood letter.

Armillus Dynat (proxy SOH) surrounded by Bro Corbulo, Gabriel Seth and Flesh Tearers and the meat grinder dreadnought...

Imperium and Chaos Knight titans face off

Supreme Commander "Kim" last moments

Conclusion
We ended the game at turn 4 with the final result concluded at turn 6:
Imperium : Chaos (points)
17 - 12
Imperium Victory.

The 3 knight titans brought by the Imperium side were unstoppable, rampaging through the battlefield killing whatever they came into contact. Future Apoc games will surely bring counter measures to kill off those knight titans before they can deal devastating damage in melee.

Some nonsensical pictures below..

Gay Game Master slacking...

One of the best CKT I had for awhile