Big Toys 40k - What is it?

Some of you may know me from my other blog, and if so you may know that I love the super heavy machines and creatures of the 40k battlefield. You may also know that I have a large collection of figures, of most armies, and that I love adding unusual and/or custom pieces to my collection, and that I love battles with great scenery, theme and a story to tell. You're probably also aware that events that cater to these whims are few and far between because of the following reasons:

• Superheavies are expensive to purchase
• Room to store titans is limited
• Big battles take too long to play
• Big battles have too much downtime between turns, or you are rushed.
• Tables are too small
• Standard 40k setup is a boxing match setup - face each other and punch
• Some units are broken and there's always TFG who spams them
• Custom stuff is never accepted by a group of strangers, in case it's not balanced
• Battles don't have theme or story when it's just a meat grinder
• Scenery is scaled for infantry, not titans

So to work around these, we'll be looking to do the following:

• Share some of the superheavies we have amongst the teams with prior planning
• Make use of faction helpers - players who just help control armies, but don't bring their own
• Use a ruleset which minimizes downtime (tweaked 2019 Apocalypse)
• Have innovative, but accessible table setups (no boxing rings)
• Run on an invitational basis
• Use the Apocalypse units, plus those from Fundapocalypse, with a selection of Big Toys 40k's own ones
• Story will be an integral part of these games, deployments and reserves will allow the battle to unfold rather than all be over in 2 turns of shooting. We're also looking at ways to record the battle to share it with those not at the event as a visual story
• We'll be looking to improve our terrain to stop titans seeing and shooting all - but that may take a little longer unless we can enlist some help - let's see

Currently we're looking at running 1-2 events a year, and we're already looking at a venue for our first, pencilled in for the last weekend in May 2023.

That's the details - more to follow as work is done!