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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the flagship Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid It’s a prestige posting, and life couldn’t be better . . . until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that:I also look at the new Podcasts app from Apple. I talked about podcast apps before on Daily Episode 8 and this is a bit of an update for iOS users. Apple released the app yesterday and it is very similar to the current iphone/ipad iTunes experience.
- Every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces.
- The ship’s captain, its chief science officer and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations.
- At least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is . . . and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
Daily Episode 32 – Top 5 underrated Spells
If I can add my 2 cents,Thanks to Jerry P for posting this and I hope he doesn’t mind me repeating it here.
RE: Buckeye Battles, Looked like it was awesome, Now I’m sorry I missed it. (in fact my entire club was going to check it out, but the website said it was sold out back in May..)
RE: ETC Team, Larry has a point, being that the ETC is a team event, you would be hard pressed to get a working team just by grabbing the best players in the country. Just as im sure England has similar issues, the selection process has to be based on players that trust one another’s abilities, and can reasonably get together to practice (GT’s or otherwise) Also, no one will want to fly thousands of miles to not have a decent chance to win. It sucks that the team is made up of just 2-4 clubs in the USA (Da Boyz, Warmongers, CCG, and Austin Minions depending on the year), but that is the way it has to be. and truth be told, clearly it works. (6th place finish last year, in the USA’s 2nd attempt.)
RE: Regions of the USA.
This is where it kinda gets interesting. Now on the surface, I might have more a passing interest with this kind of stuff, so you will have to excuse my indulgence in the matter. I was the guy, who started the aborted attempt at a US Ranking website (warhammerusa.com) before transferring my data to the Ranking HQ staff. If you feel so inclined, you can look it up in the wayback machine internet archive. What you will discover is that I have had some contact with all points of the US GT scene with interviews with players in all the regions, so while no one is an exact authority, I have results and records of head to head play from the best players in different regions playing each other. If i had to define the regions I’d go,
Northeast (MD,PA to ME)
Southeast (VA, GA to FL)
Texas (including AR)
West Coast (Mainly northern Cali)
MidWest (OH to IA, IL to MN)
Northeast
Has three very strong clubs (Warmongers, DA Boyz, CCG) All members of the ETC team, and all winners of multiple Overall, best generals) The region is also host to other clubs that haven’t seen that type of success, but have very good players nontheless (Ratticus’s Lost legion, The Jervis Johnson’s and Scooter’s Inner Circle Club out of MD)
Head to head, this region went 6th vs the world (sans Jordan) at the ETC, and produced the winners of that won the last 2 Adepticon Championships. (which in fact the Fantasy side of Adepticon only really began getting big around 2008-2009, prior to that more regional players showed up.)
Southeast
Was known for one Club in particular (Page 5 from VA) whom since disbanded, That club (with Jordan B again) did beat their VERY-strong northern rival (the Warmongers) in team event’s in consecutive Necronomicon GT’s (based in Tampa FL) when pitted in the same event. Since 8th, the core members of Page 5 rage quit (much like many of the great Australian players, they hated the new rules) And since the SE region is dominated by 2 clubs, (the Kobra Kai, and the Fancy Lads) The Kobra Kai is made up of some veteran players (like myself) and at least one members of the old Page 5) The Fancy Lad’s best player Lance Lagroue, recently moved back to NYC, to play with the Warmongers. Head to head, the new SE (Kobra Kai) had beaten a NE club in a team scrimmage/challenge (Kobra kai vs Inner Circle at Border Raids 2011) and in Brawler Bash 2010 (Kobra Kai’s Club member won the event (Lord Inquistor on the Warseer Forum), over couple named NE players and ETC players (Segrum) although they did not play head to head.
Texas
Including Arkansas, has produced very strong players including the infamous Jordan Braun, Greg Harris, David Bowman and Aaron Chapman (Furgil) who’s dwarfs I would argue has seen the most success of the lot since 8th edition.) The TX lot seem to cross pollinate the most of any region, with the West-Coast guys habitually coming down for the 100 person Alamo GT, and the TX guys returning the favor for the 100 person Quake City Rumble in SF. Also, when competing in the other regions), the TX players have typically yield top 10 placings, and a few Overall wins in the past.
West Coast.
It kinda sucks to label the West Coast particularly out of one region, BUT Northern CA, seems to have the greatest challengers of the West Coast, led by the Leadership 2 Club. That club, i routinely goes to the Alamo, and walks away with most the prizes. Strong and excellent players like Shawn Phillips (who was ranked number 1 in the states for a long time), Mike Sanders, Mike Scalletti, and Derek Wiswell. The dual threat posed by this lot is the fact that their armies are incredible to look at .Back in the 2007 days when the Hillbilly GT was around (100 players) The Leadership 2 lot, would dominate many of the top spots.
In fact as a measure of their skill, lets consult Jordan Braun, in an interview, I had with him for WarhammerUSA.
JP: You have been known to be an avid member of the GT community, playing across the US, and even writing tactic articles for Bell of lost souls, all things considered, which region do you consider to have the toughest competition? What do you consider your greatest achievement GT-wise all of that considered?
JB: I think the hardest room is Quake city rumble or Adepticon. CA has a pretty good group of decent Warhammer players. Adepticon is a grueling 3 day stretch and it is notoriously no comp Warhammer
Midwest.
The Midwest’s good players are getting alot more recognized these days with the advent of podcasts. Provided however, that all of the fantasy American podcasts are based in the Midwest. GT players will know strong players like Joe Rogers, and Johnny Hastings from Point Hammered. Of course there is Dennis Gunia who finishes high, with players like Domus and Rhellion who are established GT players. Gary Luther and his dwarfs also, always finish in the top tables in GT’s that include players from other regions.
If I had to rate the regions based of Overall player skill, from an unbiased view, I’d list them as the following.
1. Northeast. Currently about 5-6 of the top US players reside there (my opinion), Which include Larry M, Brian Moyer, Mike Norton, Alex Schmid and Jarrent Messing. The majority of the USA ETC team play up there, Add to the fact that the region took home the past two Adepticon Fantasy Championships Overall (being the only GT that all the regions could logically participate in head to head ( 6 of the top 20 players in the US reside there) I can also attest from personal experience that I top 5/10 every GT in the SE in the past 2 years, my highest finish in the NE was 15th. Plan to change that at Conflict next Jan.
2.West Coast. The Leadership 2 club leads the way with this region, and while technically the West Coast has more players in the top 20 than any other (7) This region I believe fails from not competing vs the other regions enough (exception being TX) But once they have, the combination of skill and art (army wise) results in high places.
3.Midwest. Off the strength of the Handsome Point boys, Denis and James Hyde (Domus) the Midwest has 4 players in the top 20. I don’t know the success rate of these players when pitted vs the other regions, but needless to say I believe the Midwest has the fastest growing GT scene, which will result in more talent, and more experienced players. Expect this to change.
4.Texas At one point TX was the heart of american warhammer fantasy. TX was some of the strongest players around (Jordan, and Aaron in particular.) The one thing you can say is that the TX players all switch armies on a annual basis, and constantly win. But for the past couple years the TX players have suffered at the hands of the Cali players on their home turf, while unable to return the favor. Also very few of the exceptional TX players travel out of the region, and while Jordan B used to dominate other regions all by himself in the past.These days it’s just not enough. (3 out of the top 20)
5. Southeast My poor region… The SE suffers from lack of players, and talent depletion. With many strong players quitting the game (Chris Long, Rob Canterman, Todd Wiatt, Erik Lindley from BroHammer) and others moving out of the region (Chad Hoggen (oncebitten) moving to OH < the beastman player that finished 2nd at buckeye battles>, and Lance lagroue moving back NE) The GT scene is suffering. The regions best players still perform well against the other regions top players head to head (Jason Conca def Joe Rogers at BB IV and Eoin Whelan (Lord Inquistor) finishing top 3 at Border Raids, the SE players cannot jump high in the rankings due to the local GT’s max out at about 40 players. (can’t max out points and those are the Big ones!) while other Gt’s (Necro in FL) shut down completely. Until the region recovers as a whole, (Nova open GT is gaining traction) the SE will be the bottom dwellers, unless the clubs travel.
(as an aside, if someone knows Aaron Fishkow’s email, I wanted to see if he could get the Kobra kai club (7 members) in the Conflict GT in Jan, basically the South’s best club vs the north competition. )
So, that’s my opinion of the “region’s argument” maybe i’m completely wrong, but those are my thoughts. The thing people must be careful of when judging the regions (particularly by RankingHQ) is the players that are in regions with more GT’s will have more opportunities to get ranking points, so you also have to take into account Head to head in GT’s where members from all the regions participated.
Jerry P
Daily Episode 47 – New Daemons and Plastic Wishlist There has been loads of rumours about some new Daemons of Chaos releases recently and this weekend there have been some solid information posted on Warseer that gives all the information about the reease of new plastic kits for the daemon army. Daily Episode 48 – Small World Review I review Small World from Days of Wonder Games. One of my all time favourite board games and also one of my most played iPad games I do my best to fit it into a daily epsiode when I could easily talk for over an hour about the game!
It really gets me through the mundane days After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.
And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
Daily Episode 49 – Tips for flying units I have been spending some time browsing the various forums and I came across a gem of a topic over at Druchii.net all about how to get the best from your harpies and general flying units. It turns out that the thread was ‘borrowed’ from the High Elves forums about how to use Eagles most effectively and then modified to suit the Dark Elves.Tzeentch Fried Lizard invites you to our bbq at the Midlands Open. Visit table 12 to try our Flickering Fire roasted skinks and whole Bolt of Change mutated Saurus. Or, in other words, Chris Tomlin you’re a chump and I’ll be taking all your toys off tomorrow. Your hero PanzerNext announcement is that I am very sorry to hear Heelanhammer Podcast have just released their final episode. Dan and Wayne have been a constant companion to my working week over the last 3 years.
Daily Episode 52 – Top 5 Vermin Lord Alternatives I talk about the top 5 units that could be used for an alternative to the ‘Best Vermin Lord’ as it was run at the Midlands Open. The units I mention are Dragons, Giants, Daemon Princes and Manticores as well as the humble Silver Helm. I give my thoughts on why each of them are not used so much and why it would make a fun competition to see who has the best one.
Daily Episode 57 – The Empire iBook and War Room app review So Games Workshop released the Empire iBook, and I wanted to hate this. I really did. It cost around £25 and I thought it was goaing to disappoint, but how wrong was I! It is simply amazing and I can see myself spending £££ on these in the future, Here is the blurb from the Games Workshop Website. Warhammer: The EmpireSince recording I have spent another hour playing with the iBook and I am even more impressed. It is pretty spectacular. Its just a shame that I can’t say the same for War Room. Whats Good.
Warhammer: The Empire is the indispensible guide to the mightiest human realm in the Warhammer world, its noble heroes and glorious armies. This book details the Empire’s bloody history from its legendary founding to the reign of the current Emperor, Karl Franz of Altdorf, and provides full rules for fielding an Empire army in the Warhammer game. This expanded Warhammer Armies book features interactive miniatures galleries, handy dictionaries to explain game rules, and the comprehensive army list includes all the Empire’s machines of war. Much like the Space Marine and Necron Codexes that we have already put on the iBookstore, the Empire army book is chock-full of new features. In addition to the army list, the bestiary and the miniatures gallery you’ve also got several new features such as 360 degree images of many of the miniatures and a rather handy shortcut button for accessing unit entries. A simple press of a button takes you from army list entry to unit bestiary, and a second click takes you to the unit summary sheet, which means even in the heat of battle you can look up units, rules and other information very quickly and easily. One of the biggest features, however, is that like the Space Marine and Necron Codexes, the Empire army book is entirely up-to-date with rules and FAQs and will be periodically updated when new FAQs are released. Great news all round I’d say!
Daily Episode 58 – Common Magic Items Today’s topic was suggested by Big_Stuntie from the Bad Dice fourms. The episode is sponsored by Audible, sign up for the free trial and get a free audio book which is yours to keep even if you decide to not continue the trial. You could even get your missus to sign up and grad the new hotness, 50 Shades of Grey. What are the best common magic items in each section Weapon – Sword of Anti-Heroes – 30 Points. The bearer has +1 Strength and +1 Attack for every enemy characters in base to base contact with him or his unit. Armour – Tricksters Helm – 50 points – The wearer counts his armour save as being one point higher than normal. Any successful roll to wound made against the wearer of the Tricksters Helm must be rerolled. Talismans – Dawnstone – 25 points – The bearer re-rolls failed armour saves Magic Standards – Standard of Discipline – 15 points – Models in a unit with the Standard of Discipline have +1 Leadership but can’t use the Generals Inspiring Presence special rule Arcane Items – Feedback Scroll – 50 points – One use only, When and enemy spell has been cast, a wizard who has the feedback scroll can read it instead of attempting to dispel the spell. The spell is cast as normal, but after the spell has been resolved, roll a dice for every dice used to cast the spell. The casting wizard takes a wound for every result of a 5+ rolled, with no armour saves allowed. Enchanted Items – Crown of Command – 35 points – The bearer of the crown of command has the stubborn special rule. Thats my rundown of what I think are the best items in each section. I would love to hear what you guys think, so please leave some feedback in the episode thread on the Bad Dice forums. Don’t forget to visit our episode sponsor – Audible and sign up for a free audio book. baddice.co.uk/audible Daily Episode 59 – Painting Motivation and Extra Life I have 2 guests on the show for a bumper double episode today, Steve Wren shares some ideas about Painting Motivation and The Cranky Lawyer tell us all about the Extra Life charity fund raiser. Daily Episode 60 – What Would Curry Do, Ogre Kingdoms Its been a hot topic recently, what can you do to make Ogre Kingdoms fun. I write a list that I think is fun to play, should be fun to face, still has a few tricks and nasty surprises but is by no means the Iron blaster + Mournfang cookie cutter list that is the scourge of the tournament scent at the moment.
Daily Episode 61 – Asger Granerud talks History of the ETC The ETC is finally here and Asger Granerud returns to the show to talk about the History of the ETC. We chat about the origins of the event with a Polish and Danish team facing off against each other for fun turned into a full fledged international tournament the following year in Poland. The ETC then grew through the years, visiting Italy, Germany, Switzerland before returning this year to Poland. Daily Episode 62 – Asger’s Top 5 ETC Lists Its day 2 of ETC Week and Asger Granerud make back to back appearances to share with us his Top 5 ETC Lists.
Daily Episode 63 – Marcus Pitt’s High Elves ETC Tactics Of Legend Day 3 of ETC week and I have Marcus Pitt on the show to regale us with tales of his ingenius tactics while using High Elves at the ETC in years gone by.
Food: No had any other than my cupcakes.
Team Wales v Northern Ireland
Daily Episode 69 – ETC Team Polands Lists In this episode I talk about some of the lists from ETC Team Poland. Daily Episode 70 – The Future of the ETC I talk about the ETC going forwards, the Chairman roles, the WFB Comp and Rules committees and some other issues that the ETC faces from year to year
Episode 96 – 2012 Hobby Review Episode 96 is the last one of the year and we will be doing our 2012 Hobby Review. Its a bumper episode at nearly 3 hours long. In Fortnight in Fantasy we talk about the Winter Incursion and Bjorn Supremacy events, what we have been up to in the hobby and all the other fun stuff that you can usually expect from the Bad Dice crew.
Monstrous Cavalry Comparison As 2012 draws to a close I want to run a Monstrous Cavalry Comparison as they have been the units that are the most talked about this year.
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Held on 2nd & 3rd of March at the Stockport Gaming centre. A 1500 point, 6 game, zero comp tournament.
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Hobby Challenge and Plastic Eagles Episode 156 kicks off 2013 and I have a recap of the hobby things that have been going on over the last 2 weeks, the Bad Dice Hobby Challenge and the Plastic Eagles from the Hobbit Releases.
Changes to Rankings HQ Explained On todays episode I am joined by Andrew Galea from Rankings HQ and we talk about some of the changes that are taking place over at rankingshq.comAs some of you might know, Rankings HQ recently turned 3 years old. Many of you might not know that I actually starting publishing rankings systems for miniature war-games over 10 years ago. It is amazing how much the web site has grown in that time and that is something I will always be proud of. RHQ has grown from 2 game systems for 2 countries to 5 game systems across more than 20 countries, and boasts over 8,000 active users. What started out as a small hobby site has turned into a sophisticated rankings software platform with a vast array of features and millions of lines of data.Since sending that email Andrew has signed up an affiliate fo rthe UK WFB rankings group but at the time of recording WFB in the US is still looking for support.
Unfortunately the growth of the site has resulted in RHQ becoming a victim of its own success as I am no longer able to effectively process the hundreds of queries, requests and result uploads that hit the site every week. The miniature war-gaming side of RHQ is still very much a hobby indulgence for me; the site is free for all users and tournament organisers, and as such I can no longer justify the hours each day that I spend on maintaining the rankings for so many gaming communities.
For many of you the site will remain free and nothing will change, as your ranking groups have acquired an Affiliate sponsor. For those groups that do not have a sponsor by March 31st 2013 it will cost players US$12 a year to remain as part of the group.
Before I go any further let me list the ranking groups that have already attracted Affiliate sponsors (listed in the right hand column): Warhammer 40K (USA, UK, AUS); Warmachine/Hordes (UK, AUS, NZL); Flames of War (UK); Malifaux (UK). For players of these ranking groups there will be no change for 2013!
WHAT DOES AN AFFILIATE SPONSOR MEAN? Essentially, an Affiliate sponsor means a company, organisation, club or group of gamers becoming an “Affiliate” on RHQ, who provides financial support to cover the time/costs required to maintain and publish the rankings for a given ranking group. All affiliates on RHQ have their own customised home page which they use to communicate with users in the ranking groups they “own”.
Affiliates are able to advertise their products & services through their home page and banners that appear in the relevant game system forums they sponsor. They are also able to send out communications to the users in their rankinggroups. An affiliate does not have to be a retail store, it could be a podcast, a miniature manufacturer or any other company in the miniature game industry.
Ranking groups that are sponsored by Affiliates provide entry for players to that group for free during the term of the sponsorship.
WHAT HAPPENS TO EXISTING DATA FOR RANKINGGROUPS THAT DO NOT ATTRACT A SPONSOR? All existing data, profiles and rankings will operate as normal up to March 31st 2013. After that date only players that purchase 12 month memberships to the ranking group(s) they are part of will appear in the ranking tables.
Note that players that do not purchase a membership will still maintain their profile which will still accumulate their tournament results, they will just not appear in the rankingtables.
WHAT HAPPENS TO RANKING GROUPS THAT DO ATTRACT AN AFFILIATE SPONSOR? Ranking Groups that get a sponsor will continue as they have done the last 3 years. Players will be able to join the groups for free and all registered players in the ranking group(s) will appear in the ranking tables each month.
HOW CAN I HELP TO GET AN AFFILIATE SPONSOR FOR MY RANKING GROUP? There are many benefits for a business in the industry that wants to become an affiliate. If you know a local store, business, club or podcast that might be interested, send them a link to the affiliate benefits page and pass on the RHQ email address (contact@rankingshq.com).
THE BEST I CAN DO Between now and the 1st of April 2013 I will be doing everything I can to attract sponsors so that Affiliates can be found for all the ranking groups on RHQ. I want to send out a heartfelt apology to everyone that has supported the site all these years, however I simply cannot devote the enormous amount of time and money required to support the 8,000+ registered users on the site.
I hope you understand this has not been an easy decision to make. I have been deliberating over it for most of this year and have spoken to many players, tournament organisers and friends about my predicament. The decision to stop maintaining the rankings for free after all this time was a very difficult one to make.
If you have any questions or comments, please make them on the appropriate thread on RHQ (this message will be posted there as well) or you can contact me via the email addresscontact@rankingshq.com. I will try my best to answer all questions and will get back to you as soon as I can.
Regards,
Andrew Galea
Tactics Against Siren Song In this episode I am taking a look at some tactics that you can employ when facing Daemons of Chaos with Siren Song. These can also be put to use against the Master Rune Of Challenge found in the Dwarf army.
Listeners Questions Today I answer some of the Listeners Questions that have been sent into the show recently.
UK WFB Masters Results Round Up The Warhammer Masters have been run and won. After a hard fought 2 days we have a winner.
UK Warhammer Masters Lists Today I talk about the Top 5 UK Warhammer masters Lists.
How To Beat Lizardmen Jack Armstrong joins me to talk about How To Beat Lizardmen.
I want to say a huge thanks to David for helping out with this episode, you can catch up with him on Twitter or over at Garagehammer.net
The South Coast GT Dan Heelan of Heelanhammer fame makes a return to podcasting to talk about the South Coast GT rulespack.
Malifools Talk Malifaux The guys from the Malifools podcasts take over the show today to give us an intro to Malifaux.
You can get in touck with Joe on Twitter or check out The Pointhammered Podcast
Basing Tips Today I talk about a few different basing tips to get a really great looking base with minimal effort other than applying off the shelf effects.
Feint and Flank 
Top 5 Daemon Prince Builds I give a run down of my top 5 Daemon Prince builds. I pick out the combos that I think will be most used.
Sheffield Slaughter Round Up In episode 99 we talk about the Sheffield Slaughter Event and look at the new Warriors of Chaos Releases.
Warriors of Chaos FAQ’s I talk about some of the Warriors of Chaos FAQ’s that have been popping up over the last week on the forums and sent into me via email. What Would Curry Do – Warriors Of Chaos I give out the 2 Warriors Of Chaos lists that have caught my eye and I really fancy playing with.
Army List Design For Comp In this episode I talk about army list design and how different comp systems effect what I can bring. I have been writing Dark Elves lists recently and all the events I am doing have different comp requirements. Sheffield Slaughter, The Serbian Sauerkraut Team Event (using ETC Comp) The Merseyside Meltdown, Throne of Skulls and Adepticon.
Top 5 Dragons On todays show I talk about the top 5 dragons in the Monstrous Arcanum book.
Sequences In The Movement Phase The Warhammer rules are based a lot on strict orders and I cover the Movement Phase sequences in this episode. Sequences In The Magic and Shooting Phase This is the second part in the series of episodes about sequences in the game, today is the Magic and Shooting Phase sequences. Order of the Close Combat Phase This is the third part in the series of episodes about sequences in the game, this final instalment is all about the close combat phase. Steve Wren Hobby Challenge Chat I grabbed Steve at the 100th Episode party to have a chat about how the hobby challenge is going.
The 100th Episode Party Its the 100th Episode so we decided to have a party. Bad Dice Towers was full and much fun was had by all.
Heelanhammer Returns On Todays Show I have Dan and Wayne from Heelanhammer to talk about the return of their show.
New Daemons of Chaos Rumour Round-up Today I am talking about the New Daemons of Chaos Rumours that have ben all over the forums and social networks this week.
Rumoured Rules spotted so far, all curtosy of fields of bloodBloodletters of Khorne are now strength 4, with special rules MR1, Scaly skin 6+, Daemonic and Daemon of Khorne. They have the daemonic gift Hellblade…. 14 points
I cant see any reference to killing blow but that dosnt mean they loose it as the sword may grant it.
Pink Horrors stats stay the same, special rules are Daemonic, Daemon of Tzeentch, Blue horrors of Tzeentch, and a unit counts as a level 1 caster…. 13 points
Yay Blue horrors of Tzeentch. No idea how it works but yay!
Plaugebearers are strength 4 Toughness 4, have the Daemonic gift plaguesword, and are Daemons of Nurgle, and Daemonic…. 13 points
Daemonettes get 2 attacks, and become Daemons of Slannesh + Daemonic for 11 points
Bloodcrushers are now special, 3+ a unit, the jugger mounts get toughness 4 and 3 wounds like the WOC ones, and are 65 points. With the scaly skin rules Daemons now have a 3+ 5++ save monstrous cav option!
Flamers appear to have the same stats as the WD rules, and are 40 points. Special rules flames of Tzeentch, Daemons of Tzeentch, Warpflame, Daemonic and skirmishers.
There appears to be an option to upgrade a unit of Plaguebearers to have regenerate, and another option that if you score any roll of 6 to hit with a poisonattack, an additional strength 4 hit is made. Another option is upgrading poison to 5+
My thoughts on these, if they prove to be true:
Bloodletters look right if Hellblade gives KB. Scaly Skin is a bit of a red herring. The drop in Str and 2 pt increase rebalance things.
Don’t understand Horror rules. Are Pink Horrors still caster?
Not sure why you wouldn’t take Plaguebearers over Bloodletters – 1 pt increase for +1 Str – yes please
The Bloodcrushers have worse rider than Skullcrushers, but are 13 pts cheaper and have 5+ Ward
End of week round up Todays episode is a round up of whats been going on in the last week in warhammer.
New Daemons Of Chaos The March issue of White Dwarf has been released and its full of the new Daemons of Chaos! The Advanced orders have gone up and photos of the new models are out in all their glory. I have a run down of the new releases and give my thoughts on the model now we have all seen better pictures of them.
Hexwraiths I interview Russ Veal to get the lowdown on Hexwraiths. Russ tells us how he has been using them to great effect in the teams event and how you can get the best from them.
WWCD – Spider Themed Orcs and Goblins Army This episode is less a What Would Curry Do and more a What Would’t Curry Do as I talk to Sean Gill about his spider themed Orc and Goblins Army WWCD – Spider Themed Orcs and Goblins Army This episode is less a What Would Curry Do and more a What Would’t Curry Do as I talk to Sean Gill about his spider themed Orc and Goblins Army
Tournament Round Up Today I talk about the results from a double UK Tournament weekend.
Top 5 Daemons Of Chaos Highlights Todays episode is all about my top 5 highlights from the Daemons of Chaos army release.
Painting Warriors of Chaos This week I have been painting a Hellcannon for my Chaos Dwarf army and I have found some tips for painting Warriors of Chaos that I share in this episode.
Virtual Pivots In episode 199 I talk about the rules for virtual pivots. There are no hard and fast rules on how pivots interact with the 1″ rule, particularly when it comes to random movers like the Hellpit Abomination so I look at the different interpretations and how it is commonly played. WWCD Daemons of Chaos I talk about 2 Daemons of Chaos list’s that I think would be pretty effective and neither of them are packing Skull Cannons!
Top 5 Chariots Today is top 5 tuesday and I am talking about my top 5 Chariots in Warhammer
Daemons of Chaos, Mersey Meltdown and Teams Events In episode 101 we have a guest on the show, Michael Biggs joins us to talk about the New Daemons of Chaos and some recent tournaments.
Shout out to gaming club in Columbia, Maryland USA — Ineptus Astartes.”
Dealing With Chariots In this episode I will talk about some of the ways that different armies can deal with chariots.
Running Away! Today I talk about running away and some of the tactics used when fleeing.
Ben Johnsons Daemons and Throne of Skulls I talk about Ben Johnson’s Daemons of Chaos Army that he unveiled this weekend at the Throne Of Skulls event.
I took part in th ethrone of Skulls Event this weekend and I have to say that it was one of the best gaming weekends I have ever attended. From start to finish the organisation, atmosphere and general enjoyment levels were top notch. Once you get past the fact that it is not a tournament then you can really enjoy the proffesional levels of service that GW have at these weekends.
Top 5 Executioners Moments I used 40 Executioners at the Throne of Skulls and I talk about how they did in each of the games.
Thunderers or Quarrellers Today I compare the differences between Thunderers or Quarrellers in a dwarf army.
Warhammer Buildings Following on from a lot of questions at the Throne of Skulls I take a look at the rules for Warhammer Buildings .
Chaos War Mammoth Today I am looking at the chaos War Mammoth in all its glory. Daemons of Chaos and Throne of Skulls In episode 102 we have a guest on the show, Chris Taylor joins us to talk about the Throne of Skulls and also his thoughts so far on the new Daemons of Chaos army.
Greatest Day In Warhammer Today I have fellow Warhammer Brithday Boy, Chris Tomlin on the show to talk about the Warriors and Daemons of Chaos armies that were taking part in the Dragons Lair SCGT Warm-Up event at the weekend.
SCGT Empire Army List On todays show I have a look at Steve Wren’s Empire army list for the South Coast GT. A few weeks back Steve contacted me to ask for some tips on his list and make sure there were no glaring mistakes. He had a few requirements in the form of unit that were already painted and his list was geared towards making the most of the units that he had painted for their look rather than just table top power.
Paint Stripping Models There was some talk on twitter yesterday about paint stripping models. This is an often discussed topic that has a multitude of different options.
White Dwarf 400 was released on Saturday and I urge anyone who has not already done so to check out the trailer for the 40K Tau Empire release. As you can see below it looks like a full on Hollywood Blockbuster movie trailer
Vampire Counts Army Review In episode 103 the ETC Team England Vampire Counts player, Chris Legg, is a guest on the show to tell us all about the Vampire Counts.
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I think talk about ways tha you can use sponges to apply a weathering effect. I have done this in the past on a Flames of War tank army and it works really well!
Wizards and Flying Characters I delve into the mail bag to answer some of the questions that have been sent in recently about Wizards and flying characters.I was wondering if you had any tips on builds and how to get the most out of flying characters? Specifically ones using the magic carpet magic item? It might make a good daily episode since all armies have access to it!
Here is the character build I’m considering, any pointers would be great!
Tyrant, magic carpet, charmed shield, talisman of preservation, great weapon, heavy armour
Can you please spend 10-15 minutes talking about the pros and cons of placing spellcasters on horses, on monsters, on foot and alone, within units, in buildings, etc.?Feedback If you have anything to say about this episode feel free to let me know by leaving a comment below or sending an email to bencurry@baddice.co.uk
What Would Curry Do – Daemons Of Tzeentch On todays episode I talk about a Mono-God Daemons of Tzeentch army. I will be covering all 4 gods in the future but I have decided that I will start with Daemons of Tzeentch. Back in the days of the Storm of Magic I aleways wanted to play this type of list but the book was outdated before I got around to it. High Elves rumour round up and Daemon FAQ While I was away at Adepticon the New High Elves pics have hit the forums. I talk about all the new units that have ben spotted and the rules that have been posted to the various forums.
AdeptiCon Championships Feedback After all the talk on the forums and social networks this week about the post Adepticon fallout I thought I would put out my feedback as a podcast episode. AdeptiCon Dark Elves List Since AdeptiCon I have received a bunch of emails asking about my Dark Elves list for the Championships.
Top 5 AdeptiCon Experiences AdeptiCon finished well over a week ago and I’m still buzzing from the whole event. In this episode I talk about the Top 5 Experiences at AdeptiCon that I want to pass on to anyone who might be interested in attending in future years.
Secret Weapon Miniatures I interview Justin from Secret Weapon Miniatures about the Tablescapes Kickstarter. Warhammer FAQ Updates The latest Games Workshop FAQ’s went up last week and I have only just had chance to cover them on the show.
An Unusual Lizardman List In this episode I talk about an unusual lizardman list that I saw in action at Adepticon and had sent in to the show by a listener.So my list is definitely on the weird side and probably considered sub optimal, but I have had a bit of success with it and I enjoy playing it. I won a small one day tourney at the FFG Event Center with a similar build and placed fairly high at Capital City Carnage with it as well as getting the 10th place finish at Adepticon.Feedback If you have anything to say about this episode feel free to let me know by leaving a comment below or sending an email to bencurry@baddice.co.uk
The build really requires my Slann to get some magic off and with the lore of light and focus of rumination it is possible to cast every spell in the lore. How I approach the magic phase is really dependent on the match up and what is currently in combat. I will boost pha’s protection a lot and sometimes boost speed of light, but will hardly ever boost timewarp. Generally Timewarp is better on a saurus unit, especially if they have Speed of Light so I can feel like a HE for a bit, but sometimes if a kroxigor unit has Speed of Light I will cast it on them to cancel the asl and get them to strike before losing a model or two.
Shems is often cast first using one die from the pool and one free die to try and draw out some dispel or get rid of some annoying unit.
First turn I will often cast a timewarp on a krox unit to have some tasty very long range charges on my second turn with the double movement. If I can run right through a unit and then have a Kroxigor unit in the rear of his army I am usually pretty happy.
The Slann runs by himself unless I am facing dreaded 13th and then he bunkers. He is pretty well protected against most everything else. He can catch my opponents off guard when I charge him in too. He has seen Nicol’s Prince on Star Dragon off the board and during Adepticon he ran down a chimera. Being solo I really am only worried about the top and bottom result of the miscast table and have the cupped hands to toss that one over to my opponents if need be.
It definitely suffers from a lack of chaff units. I would love to have some chamos in it as well. The salamanders usually march forward first turn and shoot and then flee or get in the way. The skinks get out in the middle to redirect and such as well.
I have tried running all the Kroxigors together in a horde too and that was pretty fun as well and had the benefit of only needing to cast spells on one unit, but it was definitely an eggs in one basket deal.
After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.
And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
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