Absolutely Hammered - 30k megabattle pics

[Sherrypie]

Had a bit of fun with a two-table megabattle of 30k, with traitors summoning the daemon lord Gra-Bul'Ah (Hung-Ov'Ah for you puntastic anglophones out there) who eventually got banished back into the Empyrean through sheer embarrassment. Fittingly, the player in control of the mighty daemon marshall after it arrived had been similarly hammered a few hours beforehand. Initially my plan was to throw my Death Guard dreadnought-only vanguard into the Blood Angels to die off in the opening moves of the game so I could then concentrate on taking pictures, but as it turned out, my commanding ancient brother was the only remaining traitor model on the ritual table at the end of it all :D

 

On the second table, Mechanicum forces struggled over the control of a possessed Warhound titan while astartes forces savaged the Chaos obelisks around the place.

 

On the ritual table, my dreads took the fight to the Blood Angels while skies rained fire. Ultimately, two chaplains of the Angels united to crack some heads and caused Gra-Bul'Ah to pop back into non-existence not by dying, but rather through combat resolution loss as too many World Eaters died in the same combat for the might daemon to keep up with :D

 

 

[Xenith]

Gorgeous table, models and armies! Any close ups of the forces? Who was playing and how many points?

[Sherrypie]

3 minutes ago, Xenith said:

Gorgeous table, models and armies! Any close ups of the forces? Who was playing and how many points?

 

Didn't take any family portraits beyond what was on the table, but we had some 30 000 in total points commanded by a dozen or so people.

 

The ritual table had maybe 2000 points of Word Bearers + Militia doing the summoning business, 2500 of World Eaters and 2500 Death Guard (split for two commanders as the other DG player didn't yet have that much painted so I filled the rest up with 1250 of dreadnoughts) defending the site against some 4000 points of Blood Angels (two players again), 2000 points of Ultramarines and 2000 points of Imperial Fists intent on crashing the party.

 

The obelisk table had both loyalist and traitor Mechanicum, Alpha Legion shenanigans, Space Wolves and Emperor's Children in a similarly happy mix of 2000+ point forces. Traitor Mechanicum got hold of the Warhound reasonably early on, but it blew up relatively shortly afterwards.

[Xenith]

Awesome stuff, it's so inspiring to see these massive games! 

[Pacific81]

That looks incredible! I opened this expecting it to be Epic (knowing your other work) and it is 'epic', but in a different way!

[Sherrypie]

14 minutes ago, Pacific81 said:

That looks incredible! I opened this expecting it to be Epic (knowing your other work) and it is 'epic', but in a different way!

 

Swinging both ways, small and tall scales are both fun to dabble with ;)

And thanks, of course.

[Noserenda]

Looking good! Reminds me that our group has a similar sized game planned in a couple of weeks and i need to tidy up some bits :D 

[Sherrypie]

17 hours ago, Noserenda said:

Looking good! Reminds me that our group has a similar sized game planned in a couple of weeks and i need to tidy up some bits :D 

 

Well it would be just bad form not to, now. Everybody's got to look sharp for the camera as things explode around them :D

[Gorgoff]

What a sight!

Awesome armies, all painted and wonderful terrain as well. 

[Sherrypie]

Cheers Gorgoff, we play it painted here :)

[Gorgoff]

2 hours ago, Sherrypie said:

Cheers Gorgoff, we play it painted here :)

We as well. It is the only way I can make myself do actually some paintig.

If I'd start playing unpainted I would do nothing anymore. Can't trust myself. ;)

And it looks way better.

Whenever I see someone posting pictures of Hufe battles with only 20% painted models on unpainted tables I couldn't care less about these pictures. It is so boring and dull.