he sheer size of the galaxy and its teeming hordes of inhabitants makes for battles of cataclysmic proportions. Billions of soldiers and civilians die in a single day of war at this scale of conflict, while hundreds of thousands of vehicles thunder across their corpses to lead the next advance. The material resources of entire star clusters are consumed in the engines of interstellar war. This galactic maelstrom of wholesale slaughter is the setting for your games of Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse.

Battles at the Apocalypse level have engulfed whole sectors of the galaxy over the millennia. Now, the Apocalypse expansion book gives you the framework to re-create some of these epic conflicts on your tabletop. Here, we go back through the ages of these Apocalyptic battles so you can consider using them as settings for your games.