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INTERVIEW·WHITE DWARF 334

Apocalypse: Design Notes

October 2007·pp. 40–63

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Jervis Johnson explains how removing conventional army limits makes room for entire collections, super-heavy machines and unusually ambitious multiplayer battles. Timed deployment, strategic assets and formation datasheets address the practical demands of that scale without replacing the core game. Interviews, vehicle examples and two expanded armies show the design extending beyond rules into collecting and scenery. Its central aim is to give players permission and tools to stage the vast conflicts described in the setting.

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War on an Unimaginable Scale

Grombrindal welcomes Apocalypse as a way to place whole collections on the battlefield without ordinary army limits. A foldout photograph introduces the scale of the spectacle, while the issue’s enormous Studio battle shows what happens when friends combine their armies. The Baneblade, formation design and practical modelling coverage connect that grand ambition with projects collectors can attempt themselves, alongside painting and cavalry tactics for the other games.

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Masters of the Chapter

The Chapter’s senior commanders bring different strategic resources to a shared command formation. A Chapter Master, four Company Masters and a supporting squad unlock once-per-game assets corresponding to reconnaissance, precision fire, orbital support and raiding. Descriptions of the commanders’ equipment connect each battlefield role to his wider responsibilities, from training neophytes to guarding the fortress or directing the fleet.

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RulesWD 334 · p. 45

Line Breaker Squadron

Three or more Vindicators can combine their fire into one exceptionally large demolisher barrage rather than firing separately. The attack can destroy the terrain beneath its impact, harming occupants and potentially pinning survivors, with additional tanks improving the chance of demolishing the feature. The rule gives a familiar siege vehicle a formation role suited to Apocalypse’s massive battlefields, where removing an entire defended position can reshape the fight.

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