Show Notes
1-28-14
News
- Las Vegas Open is almost upon us! A few reminders.
- We will not have the Playstation kids corner, we ran out of room as we sold out the event!
- Get your Con Badges! We don’t want folks showing up and getting an unpleasant surprise.
- The Dinner Social Event will be announced today via email. Everyone will be responsible for making their own reservation. See you there! Steak!
- Crystal Brush voting and competition will be on Sunday.
- All of the best of Trophies have been made, and they look great!
- It looks like the first run of Mega Mats will be here Tuesday!
- Big thanks to Drittunger for the shout out! Check out their blog is you are looking for a cool new source of info! http://www.drittunger.no/?p=1942#more-1942
- Games Workshop Antioch near us is closing. Too bad, we wish Josh, the manager, success is his next venture.
- Micro Art Studios releases some more, cool Tau Ceti terrain. And yes, we do carry these!
- Terragnosis releases a really cool new mini!
- Forge World releases a new WIP that looks pretty awesome! Looks like Alpha Legion or Salamanders.
- Kromlech releases a new artillery piece that is pretty awesome!
- Tale of War Miniatures, a Spanish company, releases some awesome new sculpts that are pretty blatant rip-offs of Metal Gear, but hey. We do sell these for anyone interested.
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.
- Epic to return? Supposedly the starter set will come with Space Marines, IG and Orks. Expansions planned.
- Rumors of new editions of 40K and Fantasy this year….wow. The rules will be extremely similar to one another to make transitions between games easier.
- BoLS is reporting that the update to 6th ed, or “Not 7th ed” as it is being called, will come with a new starter set.
- Supposedly Launch Window – @September
Rules Summary: Updated Mini-rulebook contains FAQs, minor tweaks and clarifications, and much of Stronghold Assault rolled into a new shiny package.
Miniatures included: @70Armies:Blood Angels (plastic quick assembly)– Assault Marine Squad– Tactical Marine Squad– Death Company Squad– Captain (kitted out for assault)– Chaplain– Sanguinary Priest (limited edition, similar to the Dark Vengeance mini was)Orks (plastic quick assembly)– ‘Ardboys (full mob)– Nobs (small squad)
– Warboss– Big Mek– Ork themed fortificationThis was described as simply an updated Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set and specifically “NOT 7th Edition.”
- Rumors of Specialist Games to return! That would be awesome. Although, it will not be called Specialist Games any longer, the games will be stand alone products that will be supported with expansions. All of them will be plastic with Cardstock. Sounds cool!
- Blood Bowl
- Epic
- BFG
- White Dwarf pics are popping up of Dawrves! We don’t know yet when they will get released, but, when you see them on GW’s website though, game on! We can hook you up.
- Ork Playtest rules up on Faeit, maybe. He says take it with salt, but they look interesting.
- Str 4 Orks again?
- Super Cheap Dreads and Kans, that would be awesome!
- Stormboyz as troops?! We will soon see, please just don’t Nids them!
Rant Session
- Tyranid Data Slates
Tactics Corner
Rules Lawyer
List Review
In my battelgroup, chaos seems to getting beaten up alot, and deamons seems to be the go to detachment.
I dont know if its the same over there? but where is TAU?! in all this…
I have been play testing this list lately, and I love it. (its 1850 points)
Commender gives riptide, twin-linked, monster hunter, tank hunter, ignore cover.
Broadsides sits in the bastion With a 2+ save, and the get fearless inside there.
Typhus drops With oblits if oblits aint necassary popping tanks.
The flaw seems to be firstblood With zombies, cus I need to deploy two units. And one need to man the comms.
atm I dont have the oppertunity to meet every sort of list, so what do you guys think?
HQ
Typhus (230)
Troops
10x – Plague Zombies (50)
10x – Plague Zombies (50)
10x – Plague Zombies (50)
10x – Plague Zombies (50)
10x – Plague Zombies (50)
Fast attack
Heldrake (170)
Heldrake (170)
Heldrake (170)
Heavy support
2x – Obliterators (140)
Fortification
Imperial Bastion (95)
Emplaced heavy bolters(x4); Comms relay;
Secondary Detachment:
Tau Empire (625)
HQ
Commander (140)
Crisis battlesuit; Multi-tracker; Blacksun filter; Vectored retro-thrusters; Command and control node; Puretide Engram Neurochip; Multi-spectrum Sensor Suit;
Elites
XV104 Riptide (210)
Riptide battlesuit; Multi-tracker; Blacksun filter; Riptide shield generator; Ion accelerator; Twin-linked smart missile system; Early warning override; Velocity tracker;
Troops
Kroot Carnivore Squad (65)
1x Kroot Hound (5pt.);
Heavy support
3x – Broadside Battlesuit Team (210)
Twin-linked high-yield missile system; Twin-linked smart missile system; Early warning override;
Q: Can I use Nova and hit enemys while embarked in a transport without an fire Points?
If you look at pg 12 Choose a target:
“Choose a target for them to shoot at.”
if you then look at pg 69 Witchfire:
The psycher must be able to see the target unit (or target point), … if he wishes to manifest the withcfire”
Note that, as witchfire is a shooting attack, a psyker embarked on a vehicle can target an enemy outside that vehilce using a fire point.
There are several different sub-types of witchfire, each applying a slightly different targeting restriction.
if it has one of the following subtypes, use the rules for that subtype.
Nova:
a nova auto target and auto hit…. and dont need LOS.
if targeting is done by choosing a target to shoot at, and I need the fire point to target – would you say that a nova actually never targets anything?
Thx, even if u dont adress it!