Warhammer 40,000: 1st Battle for Storax: Apocalypse Battle Report Part 1

Turns: Deployment

The following is a game of Warhammer 40,000 played using the new Apocalypse Expansion rules. This allows for larger battles than the average game would normally allow and significantly greater bloodshed and disappointment. Per our usual idiom, parts of this project, specifically the photos used to record the battle were lost in a hard drive crash. This is number 4 for us.

Points: 20,000
Battle Date: August 27th-28th 2008
Length: 5 Turns (2 Days)
Team 1: James Cox (Chaos Space Marines, Daemons, Orks) Shaughn Cameron (Tyranids, Necrons)
Team 2: Mackenzie Williams (Space Marines, Imperial Guard) Brenden Cameron (Tau)


Army Lists:

Da Blue Eyes Orks

HQ
Warlord Vulgrim ug Gullbad and Raoul (Warboss & Squig)
3 Big Meks with Shokk Attack Guns
Weirdboy
Mad Dok Grotsnik

Elites:
15 Burna Boyz
8 Tankbustas with 2 bomb squigs

Troops:
8 Nobz
5 Meganobz
100 Ork Boyz with sluggas and choppas
16 Ork Boyz with shootas
30 Gretchin wih 3 Runtherds
3 Wartrukks

Fast Attack
17 Stormboyz
2 Wartrakks
6 Warbikers

Heavy Support
3 Killa Kans
3 Zzap Gunz
3 Kannons
2 Looted Wagons

Datasheets
Da Green Tide
Ork Truckk Konvoy
Shokk Attack Battery


Children of Oman Ra Chaos Space Marines

HQ:
Teivos Efru (Daemon Prince)
Zhar the Mad (Sorcerer)
Aziz the Woodsman (Chaos Lord)
Chaos Sorcerer
Chaos Lord
Chaos Lord with Mark of Khorne
Abbadon the Despoiler
Ahriman of the Thousand Sons
Kharn the Betrayer

Elites:
5 Chaos Terminators
5 Chosen Space Marines
5 Possessed Chosen Space Marines

Troops:
50 Chaos Space Marines
2 Rhinos
36 Khorne Berserkers

Fast Attack:
8 Chaos Bikers
5 Chaos Raptors
2 Chaos Spawn

Heavy Support:
10 Chaos Havocs
Defiler

Datasheets
Lords of the Black Crusade
Maelstrom of Gore


Chaos Daemons

HQ:
Skarbrand the Exhiled One

Elites
3 Flamers of Tzeentch

Troops:
10 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch

Total Points: 10289pts


Tyranid Hive Fleet Abyss

HQ:
1 Hive Tyrant with 3 Tyrant Guards
1 Winged Hive Tyrand
1 Hive Tyrand
1 Broodlord with 11 Genestealer Retinue

Elites:
17 Warriors
3 Lictors

Troops:
64 Termagaunts
87 Hormagaunts
58 Genestealers
6 Rippers

Fast Attack:
7 Raveners
2 Gargoyles

Heavy Support:
6 Carnifex
3 Zoanthropes
2 Biovores

Special Characters:
The Red Terror
Old One Eye
1 Tyrgon
1 Hierophant

Datasheets:
Hive Mind Brood
Mysetic Spore
Endless Swarm
Sub-Terrain Swarm
Genestealer Infestation
Eye of the Hive

Total Points: 8528pts


Cult of Arabris Necrons

HQ:
Necron Lord with Resurrection Orb

Troops:
24 Warriors

Fast Attack:
1 Wraith
6 Scarabs

Heavy Support:
1 Monolith

Total: 921pts


Imperial Fists Space Marines

HQ:
2 Chaplains
1 Librarian
Lysander and Command Squad of 10
4 Captains and 1 Commander holding the Legion Relic

Elites:
20 Terminators
2 Dreadnoughts

Troops:
60 Tactical Marines
30 Scouts

Fast Attack:
10 Assault Marines
3 Bikers

Heavy Support:
2 Whirlwinds


Black Templar

High Marshall Helbrect with Command Squad of 10 Marines and 5 Scouts

Land Raider Crusader with aforementioned squad

10 Sword Brethren

Datasheets:
Legion Relic
Battle Company
Masters of the Chapter


Imperial Guard

HQ:
Commissar Yarrick
1 Commissar

Elites:
2 Special Weapons Teams

Troops:
Vostroyan 'Redcoats'
3 Heavy Weapon Teams
2 Veteran Squads
2 Platoons (3, 10 man squads, 1 junior officer squad)

Fast Attack:
2 Hellhounds
2 Sentinels

Heavy Support:
2 Lemun Russ Battle Tanks
1 Lemun Russ Demolisher
1 Basilisk

Special:
1 Baneblade

Datasheets:
Defensive Formation


Daemonhunters

HQ:
Inquisitor Lord Coteaz with Retinue
Brother Captain Stern Grand Master with Terminator Retinue
1 Inquisitor with Ranged retinue including 2 Mystics

Elites:
4 Death Cult Assassins
1 Vindicare Assassin
1 Eversor Assassin
1 Calidus Assassin
1 Culexus Assassin
3 Daemonhosts

Troops:
16 Stormtroopers in Chimeras
8 Stormtroppers on foot
20 Grey Knights

Heavy Support:
1 Lance Strike
1 Dreadnought

Total: 16000pts (approximately)


Tau Empire Kauyon M'yen'ka

HQ:
Aun with Honour Blade
12 Honour Guard
Shas'o Sai'Fa
Commander Farsight
2 Farsight Bodyguards with Shield Generators

Elites:
5 Shas'vre
18 Stealth Suits
Marker Drone
13 Crisis Battlesuits
24 Gun Drones

Troops:
36 Gue'vesa
3 Gue'vesa'ui
2 Shas'ui
24 Firewarriors
30 Kroot
2 Master Shapers

Fast Attacks:
11 Pathfinders
4 Kroot Hounds

Heavy Support:
2 Devilfish
3 Hammerheads
Sniper Drone Team
3 Area Denial Nodes
3 Broadsides
2 Shield Drones

Datasheets:
Nighthunter
Armoured Interdiction
Rapid Insertion
Kroot Mercenaries

Total: 5534pts

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[dineablade]

how do peaple manage to get this many friggen modles.....i can barley sum up enoth money for a rhino

[EclipseStudio]

@dineablade This is about 10 years worth of models, so after a while it really starts to add up.

[SovietSpetznaz]

how long did it take to play the full apocalypse game?

[EclipseStudio]

We took a break between the two days to get some sleep. So I think it was somewhere around 20-23 hours long. Not counting the set up and cleaning of the game.

[absb075]

I have a suggestion for next time you make a sweet report like this. It would be nice to have a voice-over at the beginning to make it pass faster.

[EclipseStudio]

We are going to be doing a report for our next battle. This first one was more of a learning experience for both the game and the report. We've come up with a number of ways we want to step it up. I hadn't thought of a voice over but that could help. That and leaving more time for reading.

[kevlonk]

8:12- EMPEROR PICARD!

[rhysdegnan]

if hollywood has tought us anything its that necrons destroy all there a mix of 3 movie world concering favorats zomboes, macheasns and alians

[tecnowiz53]

dude, EPIC beginning, thumbs up man

[fletch0307]

i swear i hope that setup clip was sped up lol

[dineablade]

@EclipseStudio thanks

[tECZ000000rZ]

oh wow. so. FUCKING EPIC.

[underfire987]

good story line :D