I will only say that I had fun and I really enjoy the direction GW is going with Apocalypse. It feels like a continuation of the move in 6th edition to a more narrative, garage-hammer style game. While in the past I was more into the competitive when 6th rolled around I was pretty much done with competing in the hobby so this move is working out really well for my hobby.
We played a game of around 3500-4000 points with some super heavies. I had a Titan and my opponent had the new Khorne super heavy as well as a tower thing on top of a Baneblade. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it sure did pump out some pain. So many weapons.
Like most games I didn't take a ton of pictures, though I did get some. My army wasn't all the way painted so I wasn't crazy about the pictures that did come out.
My deployment. Ralph took the left side and my Riptide formation (4 strong, thanks to the GW store manager letting me borrow one of his) took the right flank.
My opponent got first turn and I already had some demons in my face.
I manged to put enough shots down that the demon unit and his demon prince friend got scooped. This was a portent of things to come as Tau and Chaos are a such a potent combo. Between the hell drakes and crisis suits they didn't last long.
After my first turn more deep strikers came in. This time Lord Zufor and a full Terminator retinue deep struck right in my lines. I knew this would be crazy and devoted about half my army to dealing with it. I got really lucky in that 3 of my 4 riptides passed reactor overcharge checks and I could an overcharged ion cannon pie plate on them. A very lucky hit, followed with many marker light assisted shot brought the unit down and then Zufor bit it. It was one of those turns where I got very lucky and I shouldn't have been able to handle them.
The Demon Princes on my right flank (left screen) came deep striking in and since my left flank was clear my whole army could shoot at them. I had a lot of lucky wounds and my opponent couldn't make hardly any invulnerable saves.
The game went on for another turn though it was mostly a one sided game. It was a game where it wasn't a great match up for my opponent, playing a mostly assault army, and he got really unlucky in a lot of his rolls and I rolled hot equaled a very one sided game. He was a fantastic sport, made the best of it, and I think had a good time.
Bonus pics time.
Found out if you knock Ralph over just right he looks like he is napping.
The store had an Apocalypse demo table. Fantastic idea, and it looked fantastic.
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