Re: AoA build & battle scenario!
Recently, while looking around for Age of Annihilation rules, I came across this AoA scenario somewhere on the internet, asked my wife to try a round of it with me:
However, I didn't want to fish out the bunch of my 24 hexers, which are at the bottom of the friggin tote that contains the rest of my dozen sets of terrain... So, I considered my AotP terrain for a quick fix... And realized that just one of the AotP boards is literally equivalent to two connected 24 hexers, in such a way that 4 of the AotP boards covers for the base layer of the scenario:
Since my AotP terrain is readily available (love AotP, playtesting AotP customs HMU if you want in,) we used ~2 sets of AotP terrain to build our map, placing one piece at a time, including the ruins! Final product:
Then, we rolled our D20s a few times to get semi-random armies from a semi-random pool of cards. The sexiest being in scapedom is teamed up with dumb aliens, a violent ape, and failurestrike samurai. My old lady was quite excited to get the Aubrien Archers and the zettian robots, but less enthusiastic about Dragonspine and Warforged (it's like she knew they were DnD and not Heroscape aesthetic.)
AND SO IT BEGINS!
I win initiative and walk my glorious king of scapedom up a bit. My wife moves the Aubrien up and nails a Frenzy. And again. And again.... And again... 18, 16, 17, 20, filling my beautiful beast with 4 wounds worth of arrows (must be hundreds of arrows in his chest at this point!) Then I move the violent beast Carr forward, murdering an elf with his gigantic 2 attack, and my wife brings up her Zettians.
I send Morpheus in, shooting at an elf, missing, and then failing to kill another elf with his sword. Elves on the attack and defense glyphs repeatedly shoot back and deal 3 damage to Carr. The handsome Pulverizer (what a brutal label; he's just a muscular chad that just wants to give you a hug, don't be so mean!) strolls nearby the big middle hill.
I win initiative and send my secret weapon, ogre elf-hugger, to the high ground, rolling 5 dice against a lower elf. In true Heroscape fashion, I get a completely undeserved (and frankly racist) 5 non-skulls attack roll and my wife rolls 2 shields, killing the sexiest beast of all time in the middle of my own attack, #smhmyhead. I may file a lawsuit against Hasbro for the VIOLENT THEFT I experienced here. I took a picture as evidence of Hasbro's hate toward me:
Luckily, my OM 2 and 3 on the Marro dirtbags, they go in and feast on elves, while my wife's stupid robots clunk forward.
Ape Carr dies to robot targeting systems in the next round, and the aliens shoot back at the bloodthirsty logicsacks with total futility.
Giving up on these Marro freaks, I begrudgingly dump my OMs on samurai and send them in, while the alien freaks are killed by a flurry of lethal flying fluffy teddy bears (I assume the zettian guards shoot teddies; I don't know what their ammunition is by lore.) The zettians did not move from their high positions, but the samurai are closing in.
Murderbots win initiative and one samurai is erased by a lethal dose of teddies. Out of rage, I begin an "occupy" movement of the defense glyph with one samurai, and send the other samurai into engagement with a zettian. Robot attempts to police the defense glyph, but fails. Counterstrike terminates the other zettian guard when it attacks the adjacent failurestrike samurai.
Shortly into this round, the other zettian dies to counterstrike. While maintaining the global offensive power of defense +1, I send the other samurai in front of my wife's start zone. He closes his eyes in fear, covers his face and sticks his sword out, and 80 points of knockoff robots play shish kabob on it.
Then, the final showdown begins against lizard man. Spamming his fire breathing, he safely kills the otherwise lucky samurai and then my last stinky alien. A final combat between the last failurestrike samurai and 4-wounds Rhogar ensues. As you'd expect for Heroscape, the superior figure wins.
Pretty sure counterstrike killed an elf archer, both zettians, and all 3 warforged this game, lol. Samurai probably killed ~250 points worth of figures, while the Ogre only committed suicide on my OM, Carr killed 1 elf, and the drudge killed... 4 elves? GGWP
they totally rolled the red carpet out for my ask 
so instead, I took it upon myself to create the following 8 armies, 500 pts each:
