Friday Night Setup. That's Mike (MTD) hanging out.
This is the Ork Town table. The Big Gunz in the left corner will drop an Orbital Bombardment template each turn on another table.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, the bunker with the crucified beakie at the far right was the Beakie secret objective.
The Governor's Palace and the Space Marines' defense line.
da Guvna's Palace.
Pete (Hakbash) did the amazing Palace. He asked if I'd do up some simple doors while he was finishing up. I got a little carried away.
Across the wire from the beakies lies the gargant head where Orkrates is hiding.
This bunker is a lovely piece of terrain brought along by Steve (Nosher). It was done by a professional and features a fully detailed interior.
Hakbash's Choppaporium.
The peaceful center of Orktown, where the squigeons are feeding in the town square and the Grot Messenga service is open and ready to send your important news.
Pete blazing along setting up terrain.
Saturday! Orkfest! Ork Town, ork deployment.
We're deployed and waiting for the Blood Angels' player to deploy. I assumed he was going to keep his titan where it is in this picture. Had he done so, I believe it could have done far more damage to our cause.
Steve (Nosher) has deployed his wall of blue in the sea of green and is looking despairingly at Pete's (Hakbash) empty deployment zone. At this point so few scumgrods had arrived that Pete wouldn't be able to play his orks.
Ork pre-deployment in front of the Governor's Palace. Right to left is Dakkabu's Def Skullz, a local ork's ladz and jackdoud's Speed Freekz.
Da Guvna's Palace and jackdoud's forces waiting to be deployed, including the Orkerprise.
The bridge of the Orkerprise (see, jack, I said I could get the shot!)
The City Fight table. Orks right, forces of good left. The young lad at the immediate right was playing Necrons. At the far end is generalmalaise with his Akwatik Desert Raiders.
generalmalaise and his Akwatik Desert Raiders.
generalmalaise's swimfin ladz.
The Raiders are easily the most entertaining Ork army I have ever seen live and in person.
Note the aircraft carrier shaped BW in the background.
Andy (generalmalaise) turned it so I could get a deck-length shot.
Blurry shot, but it vaguely shows the two large orks manning the chains that control the massive belly gun. They are converted Heroclix Hulks. Brilliant!
The pink conch-grotz are just adorable... er... weedy gitz!
Back at Ork Town, the orks got and took first ups.
For some odd reason, the BA player elected to jam up all his units in the far corner away from me. Unfortunately for me that meant I wouldn't see any action for at least two turns... in Apocalypse, that is effectively forever. Fortunately for Ork Town that meant the invaders weren't going to be taking it from us.
Over on the City Fight table, gm's Waaagh was rolling along and starting to crush all before it.
Further down, the Spiky Boyz and Tin'eads were warming up to the fight with the Fish'eads and 'umies.
There's HOW MANY points on this table?!?
Two of our local greenies (Andrew and Rich, who is frgsinwntr) consented to make the ultimate sacrifice and play scumgrod armies to even the sides and Hakbash finally hit the table. In the foreground is Bad Gob and in the near foreground is Mini Gob behind a wall of Gob-smashaz.
Looking the length of this table was an impressive sight all day long. So many beautiful models.
Andrew (who is normally green) hosting Titan-fest in front of the Guvna's Palace.
Back in Ork Town, the boyz are surging angrily to the front attempting to get into da krumpin', while da beakies hold off crossing the minefield. Whatcha 'fraid uv beakie boyz?
The gentleman on the right here is the one who built and brought the Warlord Titan, affectionately known as Fred, who appears to be sporting Shawn's head in this picture.
Looks like Nosher's dropping an Apocalyptic Barrage on the panzee player opposite him here.
With the stand-off in full swing in Ork Town, the BA player finally got an extra set of hands to help him roll dice and move troops.
MTD's gargant is having a "reach out and touch someone" moment.
Apparently size does matter...
gm's ladz seem to have things so well in hand that they are needing to run to find new targets. The gargant seems enamoured of that bridge.
The beakies on the bridge seem headed away... run! she's gonna blow!
And at the Guvna's Palace, jackdoud's Speed Freekz press forward. Clever jack has plunked down a shield generator to protect Orkrates and is leaving him safely in his gargant head to avoid rolling on his random effect table.
Warboss Nosher finds himself sent on vacation to daemonland...
Bad Gob (left edge) and Fred, the Warloard Titan (right edge), trade shots over the top of no-man's land.
Turn 2 on the main table. The Grot Air Force makes its debut!
He may be dwarfed by the Ork fightabomma following him, but he's got the heart of a grot!
Peacecraft's Freebootaz Nobz wade into the Blood Angels with their wacky attack squig arms.
Sorry for the blur...
generalmalaise's gargant gettin' jiggy wif da bridge
generalmalaise's Gargant heads off down the road in search of more Beakie's to krump.
The green tide washes across no-man's land...
...and rolls towards the Guvna's Palace.
The scrum in the bottom center of this picture was due to the arrival of Old Zogwort with a Green Tide in tow.
Aaron (bagahammaz), Bruce (blackskull) and Mike (MTD). The defenders of Ork Town!
Andy (generalmalaise), showing a father's pride toward his Gargant.
Steve (Nosher), Shawn (Dakkabu), Max (local ork), Jack (jackdoud) on the "big table". Not pictured is Pete (Hakbash) who organized this little shindig and occupied the anchor position on this table (bottom left of photo).
Jack (jackdoud).
Our fellow greenie, Rich (frgsinwntr), being weedy and supporting the scumgrod cause today.
The ladz of The Waaagh who were present.
The ladz of The Waaagh give their Waaagh face.
Derek is a local who had to work and so arrived late. He brought some Inquisition on but only played a turn and a half.
Bad Gob took a beating (note his head hit the deck) but was still trading shots with Fred at the end.
The forces inside the Guvna's Palace sallied out on turn 3 to take the fight to the Orks.
jackdoud's Bikerboss finally pulled Orkrates from the ruined Gargant head.
The rescue of Orkrates
The Beakies sally forth to meet the Ork onslaught.
While the Beakies assaulted out, some sneaky Kommandoz and a unit of Stormboyz swept in from the back of the Palace. And the air support came to visit.
Dakkabu takes joy in delivering a perfectly placed hellstorm template using the Mad Grot's fightabomma.
Looks like Nosher's ladz are swarming the panzee trenches while the Wraithgitz are taking his Skullhamma apart. With perhaps a 2nd wave of greenskins inbound.
Ork Town in turn 3. The Gargant is gone. And while the Beakies hold the outskirts and are crossing the minefield into town, the bulk of Ork Town is firmly in the hands of the Thousand Tribes Waaagh. We ain't goin' nowhere!
Bottom of turn 3 had some assault beakies itching to crack the bunker with the Lootaz in it. Azhkrag and da Angry Yoofs were hammering down the last of the Termies in the left corner, the Nobz mob in the lower center had swept through a Termie squad and were heading for the last dreadnaught. The four surviving Tankbustaz had retreated back behind the BW wreck after popping the other Dread, and the SAG battery in the fort was warming up another round of snots...
My fightabomma. Image by jackdoud.
Me, fiddling some units from the other side of the table. Image by jackdoud.
Aaron (bagahammaz), Bruce (blackskull) and Mike (MTD). The defenders of Ork Town. Image by jackdoud.
The great orkish philosopher, Orkrates. Image by jackdoud.
