Bits and Pieces That Go Boom

Posted by Ranillon on 23. December 2008 20:22

I really like playing Apocalypse games and in my copious spare time have tried to come up with extra units to play.  What’s nice about Apocalypse games is that you can bring along pretty much anything.  Unlike a more typical tournament army which is meant to be well balanced, an Apocalypse game will attract units you’d never see elsewhere.  The most obvious examples are super-heavy tanks and titans, but smaller units are another possibility.  In particular, smaller units that you would be unlikely to see in normal games even if they are allowed.

Here are two examples:  A battlecannon emplacement and an earthshaker platform.

I created them using bit and pieces of other models.  As such neither were very expensive – I maybe spent $30 for both.  For that money I get two large guns I can bring to an Apocalypse battle.  They are also cheap points-wise, making them easy to fit into a list even when you have an upper point limit (usually many thousands for Apocalypse).  The emplacement is a good choice to guard an objective while the platform can hide behind a building or hill and bombard the enemy.

Basically, for a relatively small expenditure of effort and money the result was two nifty units.