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40k: Apocalypse Now!!! See what I did there?
Posted by mace at 5:12 PM

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Ok, it just occured to me that it's nearly been a month since my last post, and I've definitely been uncapped for a while, infact on my way to being capped again.

Stating the obvious: Yes, It's stuvac now. My exams start on the Tuesday 13th with MATH1231, followed by ELEC1111 (Wed 14th), PHYS1231 (Mon 19th) and finally COMP1921 (Wed 21st). Yes, it kinda feels like the HSC. Am I studying as much? HAH, sif. So I've looked through an ELEC past paper and going to look at a Maths one soon.. and realise how screwed I am.

Before I do that though, I didn't get around to finishing what I was saying about Apocalypse!

So, the new 40k Expansion was released on October 13th, whereby I went to the store expecting to find a whole bunch of gamers (I won't use geek stereotypes here, but probably apply) huddled around a table eagerly constructing their Baneblades.. but even arriving a few hours later than I had intended (slept in and all, yeah I know it's Apocalypse and all but still) - I was evidently the first to sit down and look through my stuff.

I bought the Apocalypse bundle that had the big rulebook, a Line-Breaker Squadron (3 new Vindicators), a Baneblade, and templates. My wallet was empty by then. Spent most of the day assembling the Baneblade, and long story short, as I had pre-ordered a Baneblade, I went into the draw to win another, and surprise surprise, I won! So now I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with it all. Probably start IG or Armoured Company. I gave a Vindicator to my brother, but still, now I have a hell of a lot of tanks.

See?

Keeping in mind each Baneblade covers an area about the size of an A4 sheet of paper.. that puts things into scale for ya. Now I've heard of news of a 'Steel Fury' datasheet that consists of 3+ Baneblades.. I may just need to invest in a 3rd, just to make things nice (3 is a good number!).

Two weeks later, they called me in for a big game, so I came along, given that GW Parra were aiming for 30 Baneblades.. and we had around 15 superheavies.

I had to eat my words with that 'Got Dakka?' statement above. We were playing against a massive armoured company that consisted of 8 Baneblades, ~20 Leman Russ tanks, including Vanquisher variants, a Hellhound Tank Company (10) and a few Hydra AA tanks. Got pwnt. We still won game though =) My Baneblade held the line and contested an objective whilst what was left of his army fired everything they had at me. That was a little nerve racking. Probably less so than carrying $500 worth of plastic around Parra.

Just a portion of the Armoured company that we were facing: