Mega-Battle Report
What a day! 10 straight hours of wargaming, almost as good as a MidSouthCon! Mike, my son and I attended. Mike played with some of my forces, I played with the rest and my son played his Tau forces on the side of Disorder.
Mike and I warmed up with a small game of Epic. It got called at the end of turn 2 due to it was time for the Mega battle. I'm glad, as I was getting my butt handed to me for once.
This was an unlimited point battle, bring everything you have as tricked out as you can, but you need to adhere to a Force Organization Chart, which limits how many of the different types of units you can have.
We got the Mega-Battle started up about 3pm. Instead of one big table with a slugfest, this was three different tables, with each table affecting the others. One was a space hulk with a planetary bombardment cannon. Another table had planetary defenses, large bombardment cannons that were aimed at the last table where the main action was taking place.
I was elected team captain for the Forces of Order, the more-or-less good guys (In this universe, there are no "good" guys, only bad and not-so-bad).
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Here is the Forces of Order set up and ready to go. We still have all of our mounted troops and other vehicles off the board in reserve.
Here is the main fortress, where the Forces of Order must hold on. As you can see, one wall has already been breached and Forces of Disorder (the bad guys) are already pouring into the fortress. If this is lost, we lose the table!
Here is a view of the defenders of the Planetary Defenses table, you can see Ork bikes in the distance advancing toward the guns.
This was the easiest victory of the day. This is the space hulk table, with the victorious Forces of Order controlling the gun. This comes down on the main table later in the game.
Here is the battle in the advanced stages. Things are not looking good for the Forces of Order. We are being swamped by Tyranids and Chaos demons.
Battle of the Titans. On the left is a Tyranid Bio-Titan, the right is an Eldar Titan. These two slugged it out without a winner before the game was called.
We got to fire the planetary defenses 4 times. We had to guess the distance from one table to the other. I guessed 25 feet the first time and fell well short. The rest of the shots landed pretty much on target, but failed to do any permanent damage.
Also on turn 4 we got to fire the weapon from the space hulk. When we deal with template weapons, we are talking normally about palm sized or CD sized templates. For this weapon, we used the lid to a 25 gallon trash can, about 2 1/2 feet in diameter. Devastating is not descriptive enough to detail the carnage unleashed by this orbital strike.
When we had a glimmer of hope after the devastating space hulk strike, but then the last nail of the coffin was nailed in. Chaos takes over planets by corrupting the citizens of the planet and turning them against the Imperium. One player on the Forces of Order, our biggest point player, changed sides and started attacking us! He didn't do it willingly, he was told by the store staff when he walked in that he would be playing the traitor. He didn't have a choice in the matter.
By the end of turn 4, the Forces of Disorder had the main table well in control, but the space hulk and Planetary Defense tables were still in Imperium control.
It turned out we held the Forces of Disorder to a tie.
To be continued next month after the next Mega-Battle. The results of this action will carry over into the next one.