Herald Highlight: Apocalypse

Since Warhammer came out, many people have desired a dedicated system for large scale games. To cut this paragraph short, Apocalypse (released 2007) filled this

Apocalypse is a beautiful system, no denying that, but at the same time does it fully satisfy our needs as gamers? It's given us cheap Imperial Armour rules, given us reasons to bump up our points without bumping up our army detachments, and it's brought gamers together for the probability of immense destruction! But does it go far enough?

How Apocalyptic does Apocalypse need to be?

Well, it seems that many people have the common perception of it needing to be MORE Apocalyptic. We've all heard the rumours (note: CONFIRMED rumours) of the Planetstrike stuff, and it's obvious that on the day it's released, and the store has a mega battle on the day to test it out, that we WILL be using Apocalypse

As WELL

Planetstrike makes it 3 dimensional. Apocalypse gave us Massive Battles over the Second Dimension. Planetstrike will give us EPIC Battles over the Third Dimension



Here's some things we'll be seeing:

• Dude, my Hydra!: We'll find people saying that, since their Hydra has an AA Mount in Apocalypse they'll also be able to shoot at the (rumoured) Attacker-Deep Strike army! Wow, your Long Barreled Autocannons are able to blow my guys to pieces? Wow!


• Dreadclaws: We all saw the Drop Pod models from GW in October, we KNOW that they can mould a Dreadclaw, so why wouldn't they take the chance to release it as part of a Second Wave (of CSM) or even as part of Planetstrike? It's a brilliant oppurtunity to take up, no?


• Stomp!: Oh no! My titan just deep striked right onto your tank! Shouldn't it die? Shouldn't it be able to deal a load of hits, as the Stomp! Attack in Apocalypse allows you to? Wouldn't that be brilliant?


• Swooping Hawks: I'd love to find an upgrade that allows even more Skyleap action, wouldn't you? Or possibly even a better grenade pack anyway?


• Thud! *Tunnel*: Oh no, I can't go straight into terrain? Can I, being a Trygon, tunnel into it? Oh, the special rules they could add to enhance existing units...


• Deep Assault: Sure, this would definately be a step in the wrong direction, but who wouldn't love it? Give us a strategm that allows us to deep strike and then assault with our 20 man Raptor squads/20 man Khorne Berserker squads/20 man Possessed squads/etc/etc...

Hey, a blogger can dream? Right? These are perfectly reasonable interpretations for a ruleset that will allow someone to re-enact the Great Crusade (this Apocalypse battle is the initial landings of the legion...). These are perfectly reasonable interpretations the ruleset that will top even Apocalypse in it's beauty. No denying that

So Planetypse. Apocalstrike. Planetsrike is Apocalypse in a whole new way

Can't wait to see the storm strike