Show Notes
12-14-13
News
- We got your room rates down at Ballys! BOOM! https://aws.passkey.com/g/20074284 The rate hasn’t been updated on the site yet, but it will be so on MONDAY. If you already booked, you will be credited at the event for the difference! And that is for Friday and Saturday night.
- LVO Poll Results are in!
- Sweet video from the Narrative Campaign guys down in South Bay! Looks awesome!
- Big Thanks to Brent Selle who was nice enough to send us some terrain for the LVO! Thanks!
- Big Thanks to Anonymou5, Ben Mohlie, Goatboy, Hulksmash and HippestHippo, and everyone else that backed our play with the changes to the LVO we enacted.
- The Quake City Rumble is about to kick off for another year!
- Check out TSFHT Seattle in January.
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- Bugs!
Rant Session
Because it’s Friggin Cool That’s Why
The view from inside my garage.
By Mercutioh
There is a new round of internet outrage and sensationalism regarding the tournament players and the
newest expansions released by Games Workshop. What’s being lost in all of this, is actually how friggin
cool the new releases are. Everyone who started to play this game didn’t sign up to play because they
wanted to stand across the board from a stranger and argue about rules interpretations from 4 different
codices and how they interact. We all saw a game about the nigh invincible Human Empire and how it is
besieged on all sides by legions of death.
Holed up inside staunch battlements our heroes feel the rumble of enemy war machines shaking the
very foundations that protect them. They load their artillery and pray it’s strong enough. I know there’s
a lot of jokes that go around on Frontline about Forging a Narrative. But sometimes it just is that cool to
lose yourself in the thought of Giant Space death robots stomping towards my Fortress of Solitude.
Are there some Wonky Rules? Oh HELL yes. But we didn’t all start playing this game for rules. We play it
because it’s Friggin Cool. So take a moment not just to wax hulk-like as you rage, rage against the dying
of the game, but rather to remember how cool it is to line up across from a friend and his Giant Space
Death Robot and blast that sucker off the table.
- Why it’s good to have a limit on 2 total factions in an army.
Tactics Corner
Rules Lawyer
List Review
Hi,
Just started listening to the show, and have gone through the entire available back catalogue… (Pity there isn’t more). I go by the handle on forums as Yardsman. Been collecting since the start of the year and thought I’d get more into the tournament scene in 2014.
Thought I fling you a couple of small 750pt lists I intend to run at a no comp, tough as nails tournament circuit that runs in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia every year called Force Z.
First off is an IG list (the army I currently collect):
Company Command Squad
Veteran Squad: 3× meltagun.
• Chimera 55
Veteran Squad: 2× plasma gun.
• Chimera
1 Scout Sentinel: autocannon; hunter-killer missile.
Leman Russ Battle Tank
Leman Russ Executioner
750 points
The idea is to blast away with the tanks. Get objectives with the Vets. Out flank with the sentinel, to keep em’ on their feet! And hope the command squad doesn’t bite the dust!
Second is an Iron Hands Space Marines (made up of the units I have and a drop pod I’m get):
Chapter Master: The Shield Eternal; artificer armour; thunder hammer.
• 5 Honour Guards: Chapter Champion (thunder hammer), 2 power swords, power axe & power maul.
Ironclad Dreadnought: hurricane bolter; chainfist, flamer.
• Drop Pod
5 Tactical Marines: Space Marine Sergeant (plasma pistol; chainsword); plasma gun.
5 Tactical Marines: Space Marine Sergeant (plasma pistol; chainsword); plasma gun.
750 points
Basically get the Ironclad up in there grill. Target there scoring units with the chapter master & honour guard. Secure objectives with the Tactical Marines.
All help appreciated.
On a wholly unrelated topic forgeworld gave your Night Lords some love. The models look boss. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/NIGHT_LORDS_NIGHT_RAPTORS.html
Oh wow, those are boss! I missed that.
Thanks for the shout out. I’m sure I’m going to be feeling the “D” in the comments section.
Mercutioh did die. Which makes it appropriate for me as a 40k handle too.
Thanks for writing in, bud.
Im not gonna bring Coteaz. If the bonus does not apply wheb most likely others will bring the 100 points is better spent somewhere else. like a 5 thunderfire cannon
You can still bring him, buddy. Just not him AND an ally.
Im saying that if coteaz is across the board that is 100 points wasted for me, that could be a thunderfire or a Landspeeder
Ah, right. Yes, good point.
To the List writer, hahaha, Frankie and I are tards! We didn’t realize it was two lists, not 1! Sorry.
Who needs hooked on phonics now?
Me! haha
lovely cast as always, my only niggle being jy2’s list. no way is bringing a ground based super heavy a way to make a list to combat revenant[unless you too are bringing one:)] The darn thing is pretty much the trump card for ground based big point targets and bringing a super just means it can more efficiently remove your points from the table.
Also you can stop a Rev from getting inside void shields by having good placement of your own army so it can’t land legally in that twelve inch bubble.
You could still bring a ground based super to a rev fight, but it’d have to go in reserves most likely and you’d have to bring other titan killing stuff like drop pods or other deep strikers to take it off in one or at most two turns.
I’ll watch the battle report when it comes but I think Jy2 may have missed a trick
I’m sure there’s tricks to it or things JY2 could have done better in 20/20 Hindsight, but I think the point stands that the Rev is crazy! haha
True, I am sure we can find some errors here and there but the point stands: the Rev is disgustingly OP.
This one isn’t showing up on my podcast thing for android. Same thing happened last week though it did eventually pop up.
It may take some time to fix, we’re short staffed at the moment.
thanks for the shout out gentleman, it wasn’t necessary just gald to help..
hopefully my limited artistic abilities and lofty ideas made it usable terrain as well!
..and props to Frankie saying my name mostly right.. you do indeed pronounce the name.. but its a hard “e” like, tree. not a French sounding a like in lay… so to sum up I think hooked on phonics would have made him say it way wrong… heh so props!
Haha, in fairness, I screwed that one up, too!