Show Notes
1-25-14
News
- LVO News
- BAO News
- Mega Mat news
- Avatars of War releasing awesome new Dark Elf black Shadow miniatures. They also have some new images of the Toughest Girls in the Galaxy line! Also, if you got in on their KickStarter, we are signing up to be a pick-up location for their event! Tell them you want to pick up your order at Frontline Gaming and we’ll have them ship to us!
- Puppet’s War release the…Robogre!
- Micro Art Studios busts out yet more awesome bases!
- Found some cool, different mins. Asgard makes some 15mm Space Marines! Just not the kind you’re used to seeing.
- Beyond the Gates of Antares, Rick Priestly’s new game, has some miniatures up. The Boromites.
- Privateer Press releases a new Convergence model, Father Lucant.
- Laser Cut Card releases a cool new SciFi cardstock building.
- MaxMini releases a new turret mount!
- Forge World releases some awesome new AdMech miniatures!
Rumors: The Rumor Section is gathered from the web and is not in any way information we receive from any manufacturer nor is it necessarily accurate. This section of the podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only.
- GW to release new miniatures independent of codex releases, so we may be seeing boxes released throughout the years for all armies. This backs up the rumors of Chaos Space Marines, Havocs and Chosen being released in plastic in the near future. Rumors of Greater Daemons, Harlies, etc. also to be released like this.
- Supposedly Ymgarls may be coming back in a data slate, perhaps like this, released later when the models are ready.
- Rumors of the Mycetic Spore Pod coming back through Forgeworld.
- Supposedly a new supplement is coming, “The Long War” about Chaos Space Marines and what they’ve been up to for the past 10K years since the heresy. Supposedly they will allow units with VotlW to get USRs ….for more points. Yikes, unless they fix morale, CSMs will still be total crap.
- More rumors that this will bring to the table skills like stubborn, fearless, infiltrate, tank hunters, etc. to be applied to entire units or characters, and possibly walkers, too!
- Rumors that in fact, the entire Dark Vengeance set is getting updated into multi-part plastic kits! Nice.
- Imperial Knights! Lots of rumors that Knights will come in the spring, that would be awesome.
- Rumors of Wood Elves coming in the Spring, too!
- And, more rumors of IG also coming in the spring, and that they will be Cadia specific and that they will drop the Catachans from the line.
Rant Session
- GW and Rules.
Tactics Corner
Rules Lawyer
List Review
Dwarfs 2500 points
| Lord | |||
| Dwarf Lord | |||
| – Master Rune of Kragg the Grim | |||
| – Rune of Snorri Spangelhelm | |||
| – Rune of Cleaving | |||
| – Rune of Stone | |||
| – Master Rune of Spite | |||
| – Shieldbearers | |||
| Runelord | |||
| – Great Weapon | |||
| – Shield | |||
| – Master Rune of Gromril | |||
| – Rune of Resistance | |||
| – Master Rune of Balance | |||
| – Rune of Spellbreaking x2 | |||
| Heroes | |||
| Battle Standard Bearer | |||
| – Master Rune of Grungni | |||
| – Rune of Rune of Guarding | |||
| – Rune of Battle | |||
| Master Engineer | |||
| Master Engineer |
| Core | ||||
| 30 | Warriors + Great Weapons | |||
| – Command | ||||
| 30 | Warriors + Great Weapons | |||
| – Command | ||||
| Special | ||||
| Grudge Thrower | ||||
| – Rune of Penetrating | ||||
| – Rune of Accuracy | ||||
| Grudge Thrower | ||||
| – Rune of Penetrating | ||||
| – Rune of Accuracy | ||||
| – Rune of Burning | ||||
| 27 | Ironbreakers | |||
| – Command | ||||
| – Rune of Battle | ||||
| – Rune of Sanctuary | ||||
| Rare | ||||
| Organ Gun | ||||
| Organ Gun |
Dwarf player: So this is pretty close to the stock dwarf list. I don’t really like Dwarf lords in general since they’re very expensive and it’s hard to deliver them to the right place because they’re so slow. I also think the master engineers are pretty expensive for what you get, but if you do want them, you basically only need one for the 2 grudge throwers. The other thing I don’t like so much is the Ironbreakers (although they’re one of my favorite units in the game) since they just don’t do anything. Hammerers are just way better now. I would also try to get at least one cannon in there. (Cannons are great for sniping other WM that would target your grudge throwers… Seth) It’s helpful to have at least one of each of the 3 good war machines (Cannons, grudge throwers and organ guns) because they all serve different purposes and work well in combination (for example, you can hit a unit with a grudge thrower and kill a ton of guys, then shoot it with the organ gun(s) to get rid of Look out sir, then snipe a character with a cannon before they have a chance to move the character out of the unit). The one caveat with this list is that it’s really boring in basically every possible way. It is boring to paint since it’s just a million of the same thing. It’s also boring to play against and with since you can’t really move and you don’t get to make many decisions in a game. The good news is that Dwarfs are apparently coming out very soon, so all this advice will probably go out the window.