Show Notes
2-25-2014
News
- Upcoming Fantasy GT: the Slobberknocker GT (http://grimdark.org)
- Upcoming Fantasy GT: the Lost Souls GT (http://lostsouls2014.com)
- We want to wish good luck to ThundergingJove, who set a goal to lose 23 lbs and when he does so, he will treat himself with a Thunderhawk Gunship!
- One of our listeners, Peter W. asked us to take a look at All Quiet on the Martian Front again, which we covered in their very cool and successful KickStarter. It is a cool looking game, 15mm scale, WWI era with retro looking Martians vs. Humans!
- Matt Everhart used the advice we gave on his solid Eldar list a few episodes ago and he said it worked out great!
- New Bushido Miniature is out! It’s a double headed snake and it’s gonna get ya!
- Listener Lord Wellingstone sent us some awesome minis he painted up, we especially like the Doombull to Bloodthrister conversion!
- The Frontline Gaming and Tablewar mats are starting to get reviewed! Check out this one by Bill’s Raving Rant! Bill got an Alpine mat.
- You have to see these awesome Ogre conversions! Avengers and X-Men ogres!
- People are lovin the Gaming Mats! Pictures coming in from all over the place.
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Rant Session
Hello!
Tactics Corner
- The Sicaran Battle Tank is bad ass, for those looking for a new addition to their Marine army.
Rules Lawyer
- Ryan B. asks: can I use interceptor on units that use Gate of Infinity, Veil of Darkness or a similar ability that causes them to move around the table as if Deep Striking?
- No you do not, as interceptor only works on units arriving from reserve.
- When it comes to Tau allying with battle brothers, can the Tau unit’s supporting fire rule extend to allied units?Example: My Canoptek Wraiths charge a unit of Eldar Dire Avengers. The Dire Avengers are four inches away from a squad of three Tau Broadside Battlesuits. The broadsides are well in range of a battle brother unit that is considered a friendly unit and the text to supporting fire reads “When an enemy unit declares a charge, all friendly models with this special rule in units within 6” of the charging unit’s target can choose to fire Overwatch as if they were also targets of the charge. Remember that a unit can still only fire Overwatch once each phase.”Would this mean that the broadsides could in fact overwatch in response? I assume so, I just hope otherwise. This whole Battle Brothers thing has gone too far …Thanks in advance for any help guys!
List Review
Hi Guys,
Got a list, trying to break out of running/trolling with Beastpack bomb for a while and trying out an 1850 Chaos/Rustycrons ‘Night of the Living Dead’ List
HQ – Typhus
HQ – Chaos Lord, Mark of Slaanesh, Steed of Slaanesh, Burning Brand, Power Axe, Meltabombs
Troops – 30 Zombies
Troops – 30 Zombies
Troops – 30 Zombies
Troops – 10 Zombies
Fast – Helldrake
Fast – Helldrake
Allies
HQ – The Stormlord
+ Cryptek – Harbringer of Eternity with Chronometron
Troops – 5 Necron Warriors – Nightscythe
Troops – 5 Necron Warriors – Nightscythe
Bastion – Comms Relay
Notes –
Zombies aren’t technically marked so the MoSlaanesh Lord can join and outflank a unit (Steed grants Outflank)
Stormlord = auto nightfighting + lightning and Cryptek allows re-roll to keep it if in Stormlords unit (per FAQ)
Bit flyer heavy to capitalise on Fliers being less prevalent so anti flier dropping away, also for a non forgeworld tournament. 3 Zombie units take my board side and shuffle around the Bastion with Typhus whilst one outflanks (maybe with Typhus too) and the Necron Warriors fly about and go for late game grabbing.
Land Raiders would troll me but they are rare these days (famous last words).
Gotta love Zombies!
Chris (looking forward to getting my megamatt so I can use it for top table at another tornament i’m running!!!!)
How about using Horus Heresy minis/rules from FW?? i really wanna play the adeptus mech from ‘Massacre”
Not that’s a huge nerf, but FW already FAQ’d the Sicaran to 13/12/12… That said it’s still awesome and I can’t wait for it to come to Chaos Marines (which FW said is coming). 🙂
Nice one, thanks for pointing that out.
You also didnt mention that its a Fast Tank
Did I say that?
Oh shnap, I missed that! WOW, that is what a Tank should be!
Yeah, it’s pure beast mode… I’m just waiting for FW to make those chaos rules before I buy 3… and maybe after I paint my new knights, haha.
Yeah, legend! I am definitely ordering one.
Its so much better then a Predator its not even funny
Yeah, and for about the same points…lol!
WHAT?!? That book just came out!
Dude, that’s a faster change then what they did to the Mortis Contemptors BS!
Those are some sexy gamers … I mean gaming mats. Yeah , that’s what meant.
Lol!
Hey I wanted to contribute towards LVO experience attending as a wife of the player to the person thinking of going next year. You should totally take your partner with you. There were PLENTY of things I could do during the day and I went off on mini adventures during each round as well as being there every now and then at the tournament cheering! Everyone was super friendly at the tournament and streets really safe, so there is nothing for her to worry about! She could go off and do sight-seeing and shopping etc… We brought plenty of snack because there isn’t really enough time between the rounds to go out for meals, so snacking is vital for hard battle (it’s an endurance game right?). We didn’t gamble nor drink the whole weekend so Las Vegas doesn’t have to be as lavish as people think! Just go for it :-))))
Thanks for that, Miho!
Got my battle at today!!! Thanks guys, it was a welcome sight to see the package leaning against the door when I got home. Can’t wait to put it to use!!!
Awesome!
Can’t you also make the sicaran immune to melts rule for 20 points
Keeps getting better!
Pretty down on Chaos Marines there Reecius 🙁 For one point more than a Battle Sister, a Chaos Marine gets +1 S, WS, I, T, and they have basically the same wargear/unit size option, with Chaos having access to Plasma Guns and Marks if desired. Chaos players love to hate on their troops but other Codexes have it just as bad. My wife runs sister of battle and would certainly pay an extra point for that stat line boost, plus the option to mark them if desired.
The police are very lenient in vegas. I accidentally punched someone who jumped out at me(He was pretending to be a statue and jumped at me)
They where laughing
And also. The are food courts with cheap food in vegas. like in Ballys there was a sunbway me, JY2, Creepycrawly and theirs spent most of out food on
AW! Thanks for the shout-out about my weight-loss motivator. Hearing it last night really put the pain in my late-night eating plans.
Hey, we wish you success!
So y’all said y’alls’ battle mats are almost gone. Will y’all be ordering more or is it one and done?
We will be fully restocked in April with new designs, too!
LVO was super – super fun, and I’d suggest it to anyone for their first tournament as it was me and 2 of my other friends first big tournament/GT thingy.
I checked my army (at the airport) on the way to LVO – I have a GW hard case (which is huge and which is why I didn’t carry it on.) and if you pack it with foam it’ll fly pretty well. Even when the people at TSA didn’t relock the case on the way back and tore my zipper (which they lovingly tapped back up with TSA packing tape) there was a little damage, like a guy fell off a base.
What Reece and Frankie said is true, if its your first big event I suggest also being conservative for what you’re doing. One of my friends played the three games on Friday, and then Beerhammer that night – he was crushed on Saturday hehe. Food is fine, for example the hotdogs at the little place below the venue were pretty affordable. You can make Vegas expensive if you want, but it can be affordable as well if your careful..
Make sure you socialize and say hi to people – one of the funnest nights I had was hanging out while my buddy played Beerhammer and I was BSing with the DiceAbide Folks… and Sunday when the final was going on and you could hang out and see a bunch of cool people really interested in the game.
Also show up early! We showed up the night before, Thursday night signed up and hung out in the venue saw the tables and everything..