Its interesting...here's the kb article I found that described it working:
KB33472-How to integrate a Google Apps email account using Microsoft ActiveSync
This is one that didn't come up this morning (or at least I didn't see it, when using the same search string I just used) saying it doesn't work...lol
KB33798-BlackBerry 10 smartphone displays the error message "Service for account <account name> is not available, access should be available soon error 403" when trying to integrate a free Gmail account via Microsoft ActiveSync
Oh well, I was hoping to use that to test part of my ActiveSync issue...guess I'm back to setting up a couple of test Exchange servers...