@@friedaiceborn1663 Unfortunately, the tech marine had no force projection ability to protect him. I kind of want to see what killed him and how many total Wounds he took from that barrage.
@@pascalr.9836 I like to imagine that the manta crew just hung back because the Commander kept forgetting to order them to do stuff and then see this single marine and go "you know what, eff this guy"
Tonite on POT gear: Nick finally uses his massive Manta to commit several different kinds of petty crimes, Lauren hijacks a Titan much to the annoyance of a tech priest and Zach rolls enough dice to make the ork players feel jealous.
Seeing the smile on Nick's face when he realizes he still has the Manta left in the Shooting phase is just priceless. It's like a child seeing their favorite candy on sale.
You guys should get someone with a big Thousand Sons collection on the channel to do the Burning of Prospero at some point! A huge amount of TSons vs a bunch of Space Wolves and Custodes would be super cool!
Love seeing games this size because we finally get to see those Titans on the table, absolutely awesome content guys, still one of the best channels for tabletop content 🤟
The sheer amount of 1s Tau Nick rolled in this game make me wonder if Space Marine Steve threw his dice in an oven to sabotage them, if anyone gets my meaning. He may want to get a replacement set just in case.
It's extremely fortunate that Nick is a big Tau guy - that'll be my first 40k (and wargaming in general) army, so I'm learning a lot I also learned NOT to split fire
This battle was awesome! Thanks everyone! Also, it would be cool to see some of the new Aeldari being featured in games like this, due to their recent update- maybe Tau vs Aeldari. :)
If they ever decide to get into Age of Sigmar in a major way, I’d love to see the siege of Lethis in this style. Just a tidal wave of ghosts versus the forces of Sigmar.
I need more Tau. Maybe Tau Nick vs Cult Nick Narrated by Nick. If we can work in Rebel Nick, I will take it! Everything will auto explode. Still waiting for Space Marine Steve vs Chaos Marine Steve with a mustache narrated by Steve! if we could work in Storm Trooper Steve, I will take it.
Man, that ending. Talk about both a close call *and* a turnabout. Amazing. And as usual: Great production quality, Tycho really nailing it as a narrator and great game by everyone. Fun as always!
Awesome very entertaining. It would be interesting to see an army that actually has an answer for all the Tau shooting. It feels like if the Tao go first half of the other army is already dead before they can even breath. As much as I’m usually taking the piss out of SM Steve, it was very satisfying to see the dice on his side for a change even if it was a loss. Humanity first!
WHAT A GAME! Love how close and competitive it was, plus seeing a representation of one of my favorite pieces of 40K lore was awesome. Thanks for the great content, guys!
First ever battle report of any miniatures game ever XD. I had no clue what was going on, but I really enjoyed the large/narrative style and everything looks so cool! Definitely want to check out more.
Broken sword is lit, it's also twinned with a story of a raven guard being broken and squeezed for info by a Tau mind control auxillary and just barely fighting back at the end, after they already got tons of useful information
I, CATO SICARIUS, ALSO THINK OF TTS CATO SICARIUS WHENEVER I, CATO SICARIUS, SEE THE NAME CATO SICARIUS OR I, CATO SICARIUS, HEAR THE NAME CATO SICARIUS.
i love watching these battles, the narration gets better with each one. i really love seeing how each model is painted. it gives me ideas for painting my own stuff. i just wish the game wasnt so expensive to get into
Loved Nick’s Tau role playing. His attitude screams “greater good” but he was always quick to let Lauren know when his inferior rolls are a shame to the higher cast. Truly great RP to go with a great battle.
Cato Sicarius: I, Cato Sicarius, am the knight champion of maccragge and as such no foul xenos could ever hope to outmatch my legendary swordsmanship skills! Y'vahra: K [triggers the Ionic discharge cannon control]
Great battle report as always guys! Always fun to watch. One little thing bugging me though.... It's a Xenos vs Imperium grand battle... don't you think there was room for a Deathwatch detachment in the Imperium soup?
Fantastic battle, really touch and go. I really love the narrative elements, voiceovers and extra visual and sound effects. It makes it look and feel on the screen like it does in your head while you're playing 🤘
Big game, thematic and narrative gameplay, awesome narration and visuals? Never once felt bored unlike some other battle reps I watched. You guys are epic, keep up the quality work and enjoy the new subscriber :D
I practically don't play, but your videos are awesome. You have a lot of fun, the off-screen speaker and the subsequent animations and radio traffic really make this an experience worth seeing.
Friendly reminder that during the Damocles Crusade, the Tau did not yet possess Ghost Keels, Crisis Suits, Manta's, Tigersharks, or Tau'Nar in their arsenal. They were fighting with Devilfish, Hammerheads, some basic battle suits. Infantry, and some of their smaller bombers and aircraft. Thats it. Still was enough to keep the Imperium from conquering even a single Tau Sept world. The Imperium blasted through a few merchant worlds, resource worlds, and a half baked Tau Orbital defense station. But when they reached their first Tau Sept world where the Tau were amassed in force, and had a much larger fleet waiting for them, they got absolutely pounded. They managed to take a SINGLE city, but then realized they had lost so much strength that they couldn't keep going. The Imperium lost millions of guardsmen, thousands of vehicles, 100's of Space Marines, and dozens of ships. The Commander basically said "man fuck this shit, it ain't worth it. We out of here." And the Tau were gracious enough to let the Imperium retreat through their space, even though they could've flanked them from behind with fleets and wiped them out as they fell back. Now imagine if the Tau had everything available to them today! The Imperium wouldn't have even been able to land forces on the ground of a Tau homeworld, let alone take any major cities. They would've gotten annihilated before they reached that point.
nah GW would've stacked it in the imperium's favor regardless. Face it, there's no way the Tau will ever get a real win on the Imperium. Even their biggest W's are always coped out of by GW's own writing.
That was an awesome battle. I love your narrative and super large and crazy battle reports. Khorne is pleased with the amount of death and destrucition wrought this day.
Large point 40k games are so much better than the apocalypse version of the game. It just removes all the fun from the game in my opinion in trying to speed up the game, which is the exact opposite of what you want when playing large scale games. Glad to see you all rolling large amounts of dice for all those models 🙌🏾
Yeah, but I also feel bad to have your big ticket units shot off the table before you get to even use them. Definitely a point in favor for apocalypse.
@@falsehero2001 just houserule damage being applied at end of turn, or can't shot titans at titans turn 1. Plenty of easy ways to fix that without having to revamp the entire game.
This game was awesome! I have no idea about Warhammer rules, but it was all still very gripping. Love these type of videos, clearly a lot of work goes into it.
I have NO IDEA what anything is here but gawd dayum if I dont enjoy some mini wargaming and thematic battlefields! Love the video and I hope to see more!!
HOOOOLD ON! Primaris units... during the Damocles Gulf Crusade?? That's it, my immersion is ruined and my disappointment is immesurable 🤣 Nah, just kidding, fantastic battle, I'm surprised it wasn't Apocalipse.
Scenario thought- Guard holdout (4k points) vs 8k point Ork army. However, there are 4k points of Crimson Fists (or Imperial Fists, both would work nicely in different ways) in reserve. Can they withstand the Ork onslaught?
@@PlayOnTabletop Alternate thought- same Ork army, but three forces- 2K Guard, 2K Imperial Fists, 4K Crimson Fists which can only enter on turn 3. Crimson in a drop pod assault into the middle of a Waaaaaaaaaaagh! (is that enough A's?) could make a very fun scenario.
op firepower into a bottleneck... not really a surprise ending. it was only bad rolls and extremely smart play and movement that made it close. also Zach should of had a hat, he would look perfect as a commissar lol GGs and great work by everyone involved!
I think it might have added to the roleplay element of this battle if the tau’s priority targets were also the imperium’s scoring units. because the company commander being hidden away in the chimera and the knight holding back as long as possible were the right strategic choices but made for bad story. why should that company commander matter if he isn’t actually leading the troops? why should that knight matter if it isn’t actually dishing out damage to the Tau lines. maybe if it was an assassinate style secondary and characters had to take an action from morale phase of imperium turn to command phase of next imperium turn in order to score (and you could even rule that the characters would be allowed to fight and fire overwatch without interrupting! i just think that the models worth points should have to be exposed to the battle in a narrative game)
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I'd love to see the expression on that single Tech Marine's face as the entire arsenal of a manta all point towards him.
It was at this moment that he realized, he fucked up
Its like that scene in star wars. Where the new order tried to shoot obi wan.
@@friedaiceborn1663 Unfortunately, the tech marine had no force projection ability to protect him.
I kind of want to see what killed him and how many total Wounds he took from that barrage.
Its like "I'm to old for this shit"...then evaporates.
@@pascalr.9836 I like to imagine that the manta crew just hung back because the Commander kept forgetting to order them to do stuff and then see this single marine and go "you know what, eff this guy"
Tonite on POT gear: Nick finally uses his massive Manta to commit several different kinds of petty crimes, Lauren hijacks a Titan much to the annoyance of a tech priest and Zach rolls enough dice to make the ork players feel jealous.
so here as well
@@iglusmulmus5171 yes
Nice to see you here!
hello there jeremy clarkson 2.0
I love your videos
I can see how it would be easy to forget about the Manta, it's almost like a piece of terrain.
Seeing the smile on Nick's face when he realizes he still has the Manta left in the Shooting phase is just priceless. It's like a child seeing their favorite candy on sale.
You guys should get someone with a big Thousand Sons collection on the channel to do the Burning of Prospero at some point! A huge amount of TSons vs a bunch of Space Wolves and Custodes would be super cool!
I will always vote for more custodes content. Please emperor let them win once in awhile….
Interesting….
@@sauceover well if your going by imperial records the custodies have never lost.
Yes, yes, yes please, i love the thousand sons, that would be awesome. Sorry just a bit of fanboying here, just started with them as my first army.
Another thing should be the siege of Baal. Would love to see chaos and imperium vs tyranids
Love the mix between normal more "competitive" games of 40k and big fluffy thematic battles that you guys do. Play on!
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Man, I love when the Primaris are so good, they show up 260 years early
Because this is supposed to be first contact with the Tau?🤭
That's some warp time shenanigans
To be fair, some of the suits, such as the stormsurge, also weren't around yet.
dw, time warp fuckery makes it all canon
Love how close it was. That poor techmarine XD
And that apothecary... I don't think there is anything left of the two
Honesty nothing better than coming home from a hard long day at work to seeing a new play-on video
Truth bomb
Love seeing games this size because we finally get to see those Titans on the table, absolutely awesome content guys, still one of the best channels for tabletop content 🤟
I gotta wonder how different this game goes if Imperium goes first, with that Reaver being at full power. Good stuff!
I like how this one is alot more spread out! Makes it feel alot more realistic seeing units be able to maneuver! Great batrep guys!
The second I heard Cato sakarius all I could hear was the Emperor tts voice for him
The sheer amount of 1s Tau Nick rolled in this game make me wonder if Space Marine Steve threw his dice in an oven to sabotage them, if anyone gets my meaning. He may want to get a replacement set just in case.
Nah, Steve's "luck" is just contagious.
And then Steave rolled all 1s and 2s on melee and did nothing xD And before that, that one vanquisher volley that just whiffed...
I was the same when I played Tau. Haven't gone back to them since I played them in 7th.
It's extremely fortunate that Nick is a big Tau guy - that'll be my first 40k (and wargaming in general) army, so I'm learning a lot
I also learned NOT to split fire
Okay but...splitting fire worked.
I don't know, maybe "don't split fire" is just kind of a meme.
@@Bluecho4 it fails alot more than it works. Focusing fire remove threats from the board it's overall alot better than splitting.
@@bradleyhall1815 there is a place for splitfire-ing
Railgun everything. Win. Thats my philosophy
Yes I'm looking at tau to be my first too
This battle was awesome! Thanks everyone! Also, it would be cool to see some of the new Aeldari being featured in games like this, due to their recent update- maybe Tau vs Aeldari. :)
If they ever decide to get into Age of Sigmar in a major way, I’d love to see the siege of Lethis in this style. Just a tidal wave of ghosts versus the forces of Sigmar.
That sounds epic dude
they did, like a year ago
Another fantastic video. Tycho is doing such a great job this season.
Need more large battles like this with guest players.
Were about to film another!
Nick "I want that twink obliterated."
Manta "Yes sir!"
I need more Tau. Maybe Tau Nick vs Cult Nick Narrated by Nick. If we can work in Rebel Nick, I will take it! Everything will auto explode.
Still waiting for Space Marine Steve vs Chaos Marine Steve with a mustache narrated by Steve! if we could work in Storm Trooper Steve, I will take it.
Man, that ending. Talk about both a close call *and* a turnabout.
Amazing.
And as usual: Great production quality, Tycho really nailing it as a narrator and great game by everyone.
Fun as always!
Well it was close until they remembered the Manta lol.
Techmarine never had a chance.
This literally gave me chills...top work gentlemen.
Epic! Loved the drama, the scenery and just how much fun you all had. Thank you for an awesome spectacle!
Awesome very entertaining. It would be interesting to see an army that actually has an answer for all the Tau shooting. It feels like if the Tao go first half of the other army is already dead before they can even breath. As much as I’m usually taking the piss out of SM Steve, it was very satisfying to see the dice on his side for a change even if it was a loss. Humanity first!
WHAT A GAME! Love how close and competitive it was, plus seeing a representation of one of my favorite pieces of 40K lore was awesome. Thanks for the great content, guys!
First ever battle report of any miniatures game ever XD. I had no clue what was going on, but I really enjoyed the large/narrative style and everything looks so cool! Definitely want to check out more.
Absolutely insane, truly on another level. I've actually never seen anything so clean and polished. Left me speechless
Broken sword is lit, it's also twinned with a story of a raven guard being broken and squeezed for info by a Tau mind control auxillary and just barely fighting back at the end, after they already got tons of useful information
Everytime they said Cato Sicarius all I could think of was TTS Cato Sicarius
I, CATO SICARIUS, ALSO THINK OF TTS CATO SICARIUS WHENEVER I, CATO SICARIUS, SEE THE NAME CATO SICARIUS OR I, CATO SICARIUS, HEAR THE NAME CATO SICARIUS.
Best game of the year, love Tycho's commentaries ! Thanks guys
Absolutely outstanding! Loved every second of it
What a good level of editting, the weapon firing effect is exceptional!!
I love when Farsight and his crew of outcast warriors have access to the latest and greatest walking fortresses.
The effects are always my favorite and I’m always on the edge of my seat. Thank you for doing such a great job PlayOnTableTop!
i love watching these battles, the narration gets better with each one. i really love seeing how each model is painted. it gives me ideas for painting my own stuff. i just wish the game wasnt so expensive to get into
Invest in a 3d printer and the game gets cheap
Loved every minute of it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable! I love you guys. Great battle report. Dynamic and fun. More more ! :) Thank you very much.
Loved Nick’s Tau role playing. His attitude screams “greater good” but he was always quick to let Lauren know when his inferior rolls are a shame to the higher cast. Truly great RP to go with a great battle.
Fantastic game with a narrow finish! Hope to see more features, because you all seem to enjoy them as much as i do.
Cato Sicarius: I, Cato Sicarius, am the knight champion of maccragge and as such no foul xenos could ever hope to outmatch my legendary swordsmanship skills!
Y'vahra: K [triggers the Ionic discharge cannon control]
Great battle report as always guys! Always fun to watch.
One little thing bugging me though....
It's a Xenos vs Imperium grand battle... don't you think there was room for a Deathwatch detachment in the Imperium soup?
Fantastic battle, really touch and go. I really love the narrative elements, voiceovers and extra visual and sound effects. It makes it look and feel on the screen like it does in your head while you're playing 🤘
This is the coolest battle report in Play On history!
I can’t help but hear “ I Cato sicarius” whenever he’s mentioned lol.
Big game, thematic and narrative gameplay, awesome narration and visuals? Never once felt bored unlike some other battle reps I watched. You guys are epic, keep up the quality work and enjoy the new subscriber :D
I practically don't play, but your videos are awesome. You have a lot of fun, the off-screen speaker and the subsequent animations and radio traffic really make this an experience worth seeing.
Friendly reminder that during the Damocles Crusade, the Tau did not yet possess Ghost Keels, Crisis Suits, Manta's, Tigersharks, or Tau'Nar in their arsenal.
They were fighting with Devilfish, Hammerheads, some basic battle suits. Infantry, and some of their smaller bombers and aircraft. Thats it.
Still was enough to keep the Imperium from conquering even a single Tau Sept world. The Imperium blasted through a few merchant worlds, resource worlds, and a half baked Tau Orbital defense station.
But when they reached their first Tau Sept world where the Tau were amassed in force, and had a much larger fleet waiting for them, they got absolutely pounded. They managed to take a SINGLE city, but then realized they had lost so much strength that they couldn't keep going.
The Imperium lost millions of guardsmen, thousands of vehicles, 100's of Space Marines, and dozens of ships. The Commander basically said "man fuck this shit, it ain't worth it. We out of here."
And the Tau were gracious enough to let the Imperium retreat through their space, even though they could've flanked them from behind with fleets and wiped them out as they fell back.
Now imagine if the Tau had everything available to them today!
The Imperium wouldn't have even been able to land forces on the ground of a Tau homeworld, let alone take any major cities. They would've gotten annihilated before they reached that point.
nah GW would've stacked it in the imperium's favor regardless. Face it, there's no way the Tau will ever get a real win on the Imperium. Even their biggest W's are always coped out of by GW's own writing.
Woah, this is EPIC! Great job, guys!! 😁
This was BEYOND awesome!! Amazing video, love what you guys do!
Well done
Excellent battle report! Love this narrative campaign. Good job POT team! :)
I was on the edge of my seat watching this, and I was impressed that the T'au got the W in this thematic battle.
Brilliant Battle! Beautiful scenery and cinematography to boot!
I kept on hearing "it is I, Cato Sicarius" whenever they mentioned Cato Sicarius
I'm so glad I've been ruined by the Emperor's TTS 🤣
Wow, this was epic! And it really recreates the Damocles well. :)
Wow Play on gets better & better with each episode, :) thank you for great channel!
This battle was so intense that they ran out of room! new nickname- Play on Tablecloth! Love this, and thank you for producing such great content😀
This ending was epic! Very close battle, good job from all players.
Love the cinematic battles!
Just straight awesome! Well done !
That has got to be one of the coolest battles I've seen you guys do. PLAY ON
I absolutely love this chnnl I miss playing tabletop games so bad thank you for all the awesome tables and epically painted pieces
Just getting into 40K and Im loving this! Sooo exciting!
That manta did some work
This table is f*** amazing!!
I love all the Tau terrain!
I think this is my favorite battle report on the channel !!!
Awesome battle report!
What an epic game! Watching those big boys in action was very fun. Always wanted to see a Ta'unar being played in a game.
"I, Cato Sicarius, [insert "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" reference here.]"
That was an awesome battle. I love your narrative and super large and crazy battle reports. Khorne is pleased with the amount of death and destrucition wrought this day.
Large point 40k games are so much better than the apocalypse version of the game. It just removes all the fun from the game in my opinion in trying to speed up the game, which is the exact opposite of what you want when playing large scale games. Glad to see you all rolling large amounts of dice for all those models 🙌🏾
Yeah, but I also feel bad to have your big ticket units shot off the table before you get to even use them. Definitely a point in favor for apocalypse.
@@falsehero2001 just houserule damage being applied at end of turn, or can't shot titans at titans turn 1. Plenty of easy ways to fix that without having to revamp the entire game.
lol the railgun shot at the guardsman 10/10
Even he, Cato Sicarius, could not sway the tides of war.
How the Tau ever will survive against the imperium is beyond me. But I like playing the underdog.
The board is truly amazing! Well played!
6:29
"Nick is still a dork"
You mean the BEST!
This was absolutely an amazing battle! The Tau are wild!
This game was awesome! I have no idea about Warhammer rules, but it was all still very gripping. Love these type of videos, clearly a lot of work goes into it.
would love to see more important tau victory's. ive been building a small tau army myself and i am just in love with it.
I have NO IDEA what anything is here but gawd dayum if I dont enjoy some mini wargaming and thematic battlefields! Love the video and I hope to see more!!
This was a special one, well done Play On.
RIP that tech marine
Beautiful board, minis, and editing. Very nice match!
That was awesome! 😮 Thanks guys
2:20 it was here that i laughed at how many times you said it was here ! LOL
HOOOOLD ON!
Primaris units... during the Damocles Gulf Crusade?? That's it, my immersion is ruined and my disappointment is immesurable 🤣
Nah, just kidding, fantastic battle, I'm surprised it wasn't Apocalipse.
Errrr, i dunno, the manta, in a vacuum, seems excellent!... however on tabletop
Wow the manta is held up by way less plastic than I'd like
oh damn this is awesome. this is why i like 40k. BIG THINGS with BIG GUNS going BRRRRRRRRR
Great Battlereport love it !!
I love these really big point games, I hope ya'll make a few more of them.
We’ve made several!
@@PlayOnTabletop And I've been watching! but I'm about to run out lol.
Amazing editing and storytelling as expected!!!!
This was such a good battle! Thank you for this!
Scenario thought- Guard holdout (4k points) vs 8k point Ork army. However, there are 4k points of Crimson Fists (or Imperial Fists, both would work nicely in different ways) in reserve. Can they withstand the Ork onslaught?
We did something similar with the Armageddon 40K Feature but seeing Guard reinforced by Crimson Fists against a green tide would definitely be amazing
@@PlayOnTabletop Alternate thought- same Ork army, but three forces- 2K Guard, 2K Imperial Fists, 4K Crimson Fists which can only enter on turn 3. Crimson in a drop pod assault into the middle of a Waaaaaaaaaaagh! (is that enough A's?) could make a very fun scenario.
op firepower into a bottleneck... not really a surprise ending. it was only bad rolls and extremely smart play and movement that made it close.
also Zach should of had a hat, he would look perfect as a commissar lol
GGs and great work by everyone involved!
Best battle yet, can’t wait to play a game this big :)
I love the narratives on this game.
Just condensing a game of this size down to ~40 minutes is impressive in itself.
I think it might have added to the roleplay element of this battle if the tau’s priority targets were also the imperium’s scoring units. because the company commander being hidden away in the chimera and the knight holding back as long as possible were the right strategic choices but made for bad story. why should that company commander matter if he isn’t actually leading the troops? why should that knight matter if it isn’t actually dishing out damage to the Tau lines. maybe if it was an assassinate style secondary and characters had to take an action from morale phase of imperium turn to command phase of next imperium turn in order to score (and you could even rule that the characters would be allowed to fight and fire overwatch without interrupting! i just think that the models worth points should have to be exposed to the battle in a narrative game)
Not a bad idea.