We’ve uncovered a few tidbits that 40k players may find interesting about the recently announced 8th Edition version of Warhammer 40k Apocalypse!
Warhammer Community previewed what was dropped at Adepticon. Bottom line, something big is on the way for 40k. Break out those massive collections and check out the latest on Warhammer Apocalypse!
Tuns out GW already laid the framework for Apocalypse in 8th edition just two years ago. Let’s take a look!
Warhammer 40k Apocalypse
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Get ready to battle bigger, better. The new Apocalypse is a ground-up reimagining of mass battles in the 41st Millennium – a totally new ruleset designed to capture the spectacular carnage, grand strategy and high drama of Warhammer 40,000’s biggest battles.
With this system, you’ll be able to fight in the kinds of conflicts once confined to art and lore, brought to life on your tabletop, all in an evening after work or school.
What makes this game so appealing? Well, you’ll be able to play with all your biggest models and it won’t take an entire weekend! Coming from GW themselves, we’ll be able to host bigger battles in half the time. The game may be set in 40k but it’ll have a completely new set of rules compared to what we know about 8th edition right now.
At the event, they said D12’s would be included in the box, which may mean the rules release themselves may be something similar to perhaps Titanicus rules set with specialized dice, cards, and stratagems.
We actually played a full-scale game of Titanicus and if you scale up the table size based on the models, an 8’x8′ table works perfectly for at 40k scale version of the game. Using the previous Apocalypse templates, the game went swimmingly.
Is this the format GW could use for the reboot? Well, it turns out they may have adapted the game to 8th already as well.
Back in 2017 GW rolled out Apocalypse in the first Chapter Approved book for 8th Edition, which may also be the framework for the new edition as well:
In Chapter Approved, Apocalypse is back, featuring rules and scenarios for playing your biggest battles ever. Apocalypse games are focused on epic moments, grand narratives, and fun, while accommodating armies that can run into the tens of thousands of points. The toolset in the book is a flexible and robust base from which you could build countless scenarios. We like the rules for multi-board games; perhaps one table could have a clutch of Deathstrikes waiting to fire as a team of desperate Pathfinderstry to stop them before they annihilate the Ta’unar Supremacy Armour on another.
The Apocalypse missions are similarly awesome. Our favourite is Exterminatus, set during the death of a world while viral bombardments, cyclonic torpedoes and orbital lasers tear apart the very planet your warriors stand on.
It’s not just about the games themselves – Chapter Approved is full of advice on organizing your Apocalypse games. As anyone who’s tried to run a club can attest to, organizing a pack of Warhammer fans has a lot in common with trying to herd cats. Thankfully, you’ll find tips for planning your games, picking a place and even using a gamemaster or umpire to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Apocalypse games are games you and your friends will remember for a long time. It’s great to see Games Workshop bringing it back and providing rules and a guide to help us organize games for our local groups. Can you imagine playing 10,000+ points of models on each side? These games are going to be epic!
How can you play games this size in half the time? Well, instead of moving each individual unit like normal in 40k, the units in this game will be broken down by entire formations. Break out those movement trays because you’ll be moving a bunch of units all at once!
With word of bigger and faster games of 40k on the way, will you be giving this a try? What faction will you be playing? Will the points ratio of all the units be the same as it is in 8th edition (just on a larger scale)? Let us know what you think in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
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