Show Notes
8-27-13
News
- Duel Con! Las Vegas Open! Wee! Comikaze tickets will be up this week, we had one last detail on the contract to work out which delayed us a few days.
- Fantasy Escalation league! We will be starting this week! I will be emailing pairings out today.
- Celesticon! Frankie will be running the Zombie Survival game for the first time at Celesticon on Monday and there is a 40K one day, 1500pt tournament on Saturday, run by Doc Dragon.
- The 11th Company will be putting up a live stream coverage of the NOVA open starting around 5:30pm Eastern, Thursday of the invitational and the Open. Link here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-11th-company
- Megalith Games releases some new Godslayer minis, Dwarves, and they look pretty dang cool.
- Kabuki Miniatures has a limited amount of the very impressive Ky-ra bust for sale.
- Privateer Press is releasing digital versions of their products! They also have released a deck building game called, High Command.
- Puppets War releases another new SciFi vehicle turret, this time with rapid firing grenade launchers. They looks really cool.
- There’s a pretty interesting looking KickStarter going on for a game called ArcWorlde, it is fantasy pirate themed, and they have a miniature of an undead whale.
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- Nid Rumors
Rant Session
Tactics Corner
- Psyker Battle Squad and 2 Primaris Psykers and/or Allied Psyker. Lower target leadership and then hit them with Psychic Shriek. On average dice, destroys almost any unit in one volley.
- Ode to the Broodlord
Rules Lawyer
- This comes to us via Eugene K.
- can I roll to see how many shots I get with my Serpent Shield before declaring a target?
List Review
So I was wondering if youd give my vegas open 1750 list a look and tell me what you think?
My buds are getting kind of sick of playing against it in our practice games, so Im going to switch gears here shortly and run some daemon and eldar lists against them instead, but i wanted to finalize my tau first so I can figure out what i need to finish painting!
Anyway heres the list
Tau Empire & Farsight Allies
HQ
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commander
drone controller,shield generator,stimulant injector, vectored thrusters, iridium suit,multi spectrum senor, command and control node, puretide chip
ethereal
farsight cadre fireblade-60(mans the quadgun)
troops
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firewarriors x10
firewarriors x10
firewarriors x10
farsight crisis team x3 (commander here)
missilepods x2 each,target locks x3,bonding knives,
marker drones x6
farsight crisis team x3-(deep striking)
fusionblasters x2 each,target lock x1, bonding knives
elites
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farsight riptide
ion,twin plasma,earth caste pilot,early warning override,stim injector
fa
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pathfinders x5
pathfinders x5
hvy
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broadside team x3
high yeild & smart missiles, early warning override x3
missile drones x6
fort
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aegis w/ quadgun
1750