Stricken Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I wish I saw this earlier, I would have loved to jump in on this I will definitely sign up for next year We should look into maybe a campaign day or some kind of event at one of the shops. More Ottawa Players!! We should consider doing a league with everyone were finding. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Pics!!! I demand pics and also a group gamer pic off my Canadian brothers Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athrawes Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 This is really tempting for next year. I could bring about 5k points of II Legion, plus the warlord Titan. But it would be a 12 hour drive for me from Chicago. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 This is really tempting for next year. I could bring about 5k points of II Legion, plus the warlord Titan. But it would be a 12 hour drive for me from Chicago. If I only had to drive 12 hrs I'd be there so what's your excuse Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolemai Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Day one update? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Still alive haahah its a giant mess of models. Youll see when we upload the pictures ^_^; ~70k points on a too-small table set up (we would have made it bigger in hindsight but whatever) makes for a very cramped game. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4244969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 The Battle is progressing well! Day one ended after 13 hours of furious combat, (with a good 3 and a half of feasting) ending the day with turn 3 complete. Pictures, comments, battle report and notable quotes incoming tonight or tomottow for sure ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Blackwood Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Slipstream represent us well D: For Stone and honor ! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 A little teaser to keep you guys busy while we finish this mess. I realized last minute Slipstream wasn't going to have his primarch, and I couldn't have that happen. So I rumaged through my bits box to make a Dorn the go, and gave it to him on the day of as a suprise ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneMarshal Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 There's a disturbing lack of mustache in that miniature, I kid. It looks just how I would envision Dorn, with the helmet being fitting of a crusader. What model did you use as the base? The battle sound awesome! Can't wait to see pics. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Ohh so slips gets a model but Kurama doesn't pffft! Lucky he's a bloody mod now or I'd have to challenge him to blood knuckles Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneMarshal Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Ohh so slips gets a model but Kurama doesn't pffft! Lucky he's a bloody mod now or I'd have to challenge him to blood knuckles Can't wait for more pics guys This calls for a...MURDER DUEEEL!!! (please don't think I advocate violence) Was this a floor battle? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Ohh so slips gets a model but Kurama doesn't pffft! Lucky he's a bloody mod now or I'd have to challenge him to blood knuckles Can't wait for more pics guys all my participants got something ;) Ohh so slips gets a model but Kurama doesn't pffft! Lucky he's a bloody mod now or I'd have to challenge him to blood knuckles Can't wait for more pics guys This calls for a...MURDER DUEEEL!!! (please don't think I advocate violence) Was this a floor battle? Hell know, old men like us don't need their knees destroyed. I bought a metric ton of tables at costco. This is in it's infancy, and I will be improving it as time goes on. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_out Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 So apparently this is only a 7 hour trip for me..... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Preface First of all, I want to thank everyone who participated, it was awesome and a smashing success overall. Lots of dice rolled, lots of cheeky trash talk (we went from PG to R by the end of turn one), we also downed an insane amount of food and beverage along the way. While we did not manage 6 turns, we did a solid 5 full turns of play, managing reserves in several waves. MASSIVE KUDOS TO MY GIRLFRIEND FOR SUSTAINING US NERDS FOR 2 DAYS with awesome meals. The players, at out day 1 lunch break, eating barbecue jumbo dogs. Front left is Myself ( NINJA TURTLE PANTS BABY) Fuzzy Motton Chops is Dan (Night Lords - The Misunderstood) Center left is 1000 sons (Death Guard - Wall Hacking Mortarion) follwed by Zihui (Mechanicum + Solar Auxilia), Slipstreams (Imperial Fists, with 100% more Dorn) and Charles (I always have something in my mouth - Raven Guard) The Game Setup Teams : Loyalists - Slipstreams, Charles and myself The Misunderstood - Dan, 1000 sons, Zihui Both sides had roughly 35k-38k each. We did last minute tweaks for models that we could not manage during the week and gave out some some superheavies as well to balance out points and give players a better participation rate. we decided to have a Zone Mortalis game within the game running parallel. The ZM board was accessible via entrances on the table and teleportation was available for troops with Nuncio Voxes. There were 8 objectives on the ZM board, which would only 3 of them be worth random victory points (D3+3 each )at the game, revealed at random. It made investing in the trench warfare a huge risk that could not be ignored. On the main table, 6 objectives were setup mid board at various locations. to promote active play and movement, if a side controlled an objective at the end of a game turn, it scored 2 points. We quickly realized that even with the extra tables I bought, we would not be able to slap everything on; and that was just as well. We ended up fielding as much as possible and keeping the rest in automatic reserves to fill in the gaps left in the wake of destruction. This helped accelerate the early game tremendously and even out the action and overall game balance. Most apocalypse games in my experience are a 2 turn affair and nothing stands after the initial decimation. We went with Time bids to setup. The team that bids the least time goes first, and anything they fail to setup during that time is held in reserves. loyalists started the bid at 30 minutes, Traitors down to 20, and the we won the bid at 15. this picture was taken during the Loyalist setup : The ZM board setup on the side has access points on the left side of the board (back boxes) and through the red mechanicum building mid board. Zihui brought a fortress to setup his Auxila parking lot in for infinite cover, but this will later have some dire repercussions for the Traitors. Green flags on the main table are objectives. Random miniatures from my bitz box on the ZM table are objectives (we added this feature last minute after harping on how awesome ZM is). To come next, deployment... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeternus Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 *snip* *snip* Looking awesome so far! Can't wait to see more of what happened. On a side note, I NEED to know where Dan got that shirt :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Playing with 2 Black Colored Legions does make my awesome yellow pop that much more :') Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Deployment and Turn One I will be giving a gross overview of each turn with highlights, as thousands of dice were rolled and much and more died in anoymity. Loyalist Deployment Traitor Deployment There isn't much to say about "Deployment Theoretical Tactics". As Guilliman would say, the practical was as follows : If your junk isn't on the table before the 15 minute clock runs out, it doesn't get to kill heretics! We zoomed everything we were able to cram on the table during the first 12 minutes and use the last 3 to reposition on swap a few units around. the forces of Chaos did the same, with Zihui's fortress taking a significant portion of the game space, it game them a ridiculous amount of cover to hide medusas behind and rapiers, at the cost of severely taxing their ability to deploy reinforcements. Turn One With a failed attempt at stealing the initiative, the Loyalists go first. Determined not to get outdone by Ferrus who his outflanking (in reserves) with several Landraiders, Dorn surges ahead of the battle line in the spartan and the Raven Guard drop 3 pods, and some infiltrating lascannon heavy support squad boldly deploy in front of the enemy warhound on the building. the sneaky lascannons remove all the void shields and a single hull point with their 10 shots. The rest of the shooting is just good old fashion foreplay. Until... I was there, the day the Warhound slew the traitor engine... turbo laser fires, direct hit, rolls a 6 on the D chart, another 6 for the D6 + 6 and a 3rd 6 on the Meltdown table. Had Slipstreams not stolen First Blood with killing an insignificant dreadnought seconds before, this would have been the best scenario ever... The Chain Reaction takes out 2 predators and a proteus landraider as well! Traitors turn 1 With the Mechanicum/auxilia entrenched in their fortress, the Night Lords cannot sit idle very long and surge forward in an armoured spearhead on the left. They punish the recklessness of the Raven Guard heavily, and take out my precious sicaran venator. No other major casualty is inflicted at this time a few hull points are chipped here and there. ZM board. The Imperial fists are heavily invested in controling the objectives, while the Nightlords clog the corridors with volkite weapons. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 It's a slow start, but wait until turn 2. The proverbial faeces hit the fan. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 You Bloody legends I'm so :cussing jealous! Now when I visit Canada wolf pack brother your having me over for a game Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 You Bloody legends I'm so :cussing jealous! Now when I visit Canada wolf pack brother your having me over for a game My humble home is always open to those who wish to learn about or Lord and Savior : The Omnissiah! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 This is really tempting for next year. I could bring about 5k points of II Legion, plus the warlord Titan. But it would be a 12 hour drive for me from Chicago. That is quite the drive indeed. However, if you have the stamina to grind that and play 2 13 hour game days, definitely consider it ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_out Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I have but one question. How did that room contain so much sexy at once? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Deployment, looks more like a pile up of tanks. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 You guys wait and see the picture for turn 2 and you will understand the futility of tactical accumen ;) Should be up around 1pm eastern time. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316590-first-annual-battle-for-the-capital-3-turn-is-up/page/3/#findComment-4245642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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