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Well, the scene is pretty cool, however it was announced as a "BIG REVEAL" and from that point it was really underwhelming.

 

personally i like more the second one

 

APOCALYPSE TIME!

Every once in a while, we organize a 40k mini-apocalypse narrative game, beer & pretzel style.
This round the theme was “A bunch of Xenos”

2 Imperium players (both Space Wolves) – 2550 + 2550 pts
Vs
3 xeno players (Necrons, DE, Orks) – 1700 pts each.

BG:
Xanadu once was an industrial world, part of a small imperial system. Now the world lies in ruins. Ancient machineries are covered by desert’s dust. The perfect place for a secret meeting: the Necron Lord Trazyn (famous collector) and the Drukhari lord Drazhar are discussing some trade, along with their retinue.

Suddenly, a massive Space Wolves force arrives. They are answering a distress call from Xanadu’s governor. Yes, the call is 2 centuries old and yes, the described attackers are not at all the ones that are right now on the planet, but who cares? This is an imperial world and those are filthy xenos. It’s time to purge!

Special rules:

Imperial forces, tnx to their surprise attack, will go first.

Necrons and DE are massively outnumbered (5100 pts vs 3400), but there is Trazyn, and this dude never leaves home without some stasis cubes that store some of the less valuable pieces of his collection.

So, starting from xeno’s turn, Trazyn will free his “reinforcements”: 1700 pts of orks, that will be deployed near Trazyn himself, as if they disembark from a transport (so, within 3” + move)



The battlefield (almost) completed: the terrains with white dices are obscuring.








The xeno generals are having a nice chat, unaware of what's coming in their way...





...and suddenly... BAM! a barbarian horde arrives!

 

The space wolves have a large number of infantry, able to flood the battlefield. As bigger models they have just a couple of dreddy and a Land Raider.
they open fire but the obscuring terrains limit severely their offensive power. However this doesn't stop them to advance and threaten the whole battlefield.

Our reaction is immediate.

On my flank i send a buffed horde of scarabs, supported by destroyers, wiping a bike unit



all in all, our plan is simple: we need to hold them back, letting their heavy meleers crush on disposable advanced units, to buy time to score primary points and soften them with necrons and DE shooting.
to support this plan, the fastest units crush the frontline of space marines.






The plan works: the advanced xeno units crumble but manage to slow the main advance.
But a new threat emerges: deep strikes behind our lines!

 

we manage to secure the rear, and while Darke Eldar storm the right flank, the orks arrives with all their waaagh!
60 Boyz push hard in the middle!



...while a new unit of scarabs locks in combat the hellblasters, severely hampering the marines firepower on the necrons' flank!




the xeno alliance is holding the line and is slowly gaining victory points, but in the center of the battlefield is a carnage. The elite of the space wolves slowly but surely crush 2 units of orks and also some drukhari, albeit suffering heavy losses...






...and new reinforcements arrives in deep strike!

 

LEFT FLANK: on the Necrons's side, albeit a successful wolves' charge that wiped some troops, the destroyers are fully operative and exact a heavy toll on the marines, while the third unit of scarabs locks also the eradicators in melee, basically silencing the most dangerous shooting on the left flank.
The necrons firepower is free to act and demolishes the attaking humans and the robots take the field.

CENTER AND RIGHT: The orks have been basically wiped away. Only 5 boyz and a couple of heroes remain... the drukhari still have a handful of troops, nothing really threatening, but the space volwes have no more melee power to take and hold the middle. Everything has been decimated in the killing field.
The victory is in the hand of Xenos, and while the wolves retreat, there's still the time for a final showdown: Drazhar and a wolves' general meet in a duel!



...and with a couple of remaining wounds, the drukhari is the one that remains alive.

Four rounds of ferocious battle, for an amazing (and very fun) game.



...at least the terrains were almost entirely painted, because only 1 army out of 5 was fully painted (Necrons)

 

Interesting analysis by goonhammer of the current state of the game

 

I can assure you it was.

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