Show Notes
5-17-14
Intro
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News
- GET YOUR PRE-ORDERS IN! Yeah, that’s right, the new 40K rule book set of 3 books is now up for pre-order! You know the drill, 25% off your entire order if you order the new rule book! That includes non GW stuff like Privateer Press and Infinity, etc. There are some exclusions to this which we will let you know about if you order them. No, this is not 25% off of our 20% off.. We charge a flat $6.99 flat shipping within the USA and we cannot sell GW product outside of the USA, sorry.
- New releases from the very awesome Darklands line.
- BAO news, Christian A asks if we are waiting to see what happens with 6.5/7th ed 40K before pulling the trigger on the BAO. That is part of it, but, it is more the incredibly high prices that have slowed us down. We are at the contract negotiation stage with a hotel in Santa Clara, though. It looks promising.
- A new Space Hulk Video Game will be coming out!
- The Storm of Silence results are up in the ITC! We have had a lot of movement in the rankings, too.
- Top Ten 40K: Pajama Pants just fell to 11!
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1 Alexander Yuen 2 Alexander Fennell 3 Chuck Arnett 4 Eric Hoerger 5 Adam Tricola 6 Josh Sands 7 Ben Cromwell 8 Nick Rose 9 Jason Peterson 10 Christopher Morris
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- Best of Currently:
- Blood Angels: Pascal Rogen
- Daemons: Adrien Jeanniard
- Chaos Space Marines: Justin Adams
- Dark Angels: Aaron Wisch
- Dark Eldar: Bryan Gregory
- Eldar: Alex Yuen
- Grey Knights: Gordy Danke
- Astra Militarum: Gareth Hunt
- Imperial Knights: Vince Price
- Necrons: Chris Morris
- Orks: Don Maddock
- Sisters: Obi Hampton
- Marines: Eric Hoerger
- Wolves: Keith Jenkins
- Tau: Chuck Arnett
- Tyranids: Tie for first between Geoff Robinson and Cooper Waddell
- Top Ten 40K: Pajama Pants just fell to 11!
- The next event in the ITC Circuit is the Golden Gargant at KublaCon in the bay area, Sunday May 25th.
- After that is the Guardian Cup up in Portland the following weekend, May 21 through June 1st, at Guardian Games, which we have an interview with the TO, Aaron at the end of the next show.
- Check out the Mech Maker Kickstarter! You can custom make your own robot dude. http://kck.st/1nbWUE1
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.
- 7th is sounding pretty awesome, actually. Unbound armies seem to require opponent permission. Most tournaments outside of Ard Boyz style events will probably not allow them they way they look now.
- The changes to the psychic phase will really cut back on spamming psychic powers which will be good for the game if done right. The powers are still good, and help a ton, but the odds of getting a power go down and everyone gets psychic defense which is a good thing. That was one of the main problems with 6th.
- Ignores cover going to a -2 to cover is awesome, thank goodness! That will help balance things out a ton.
- Vehicles getting tougher sounds cool, too. They needed it.
- Missions changing every turn based on drawing cards with objectives on them and being able to choose what you want sounds interesting. We will have to wait and see how that one pans out.
- FMCs only taking a single grounding check per phase and only if they take a wound is interesting. That could make FMCs so much harder to hurt, but, it sounds like you may get a bonus to hit them if you hold still which really balances it out. Time will tell on that one. Interceptor/Skyfire no longer giving full BS when firing at ground targets it big, as it really makes Tau think twice about taking it. It appears that if you have Skyfire, you will always snapfire on ground targets.
- Bikes/Skimmers having to choose to jink and in so doing snap firing seems fair. There’s no reason some vehicles always get a save and other don’t, particularly things like the Wave Serpent. This will really tone those down which is good.
- Consolidating into combat is pretty powerful on its own, but we need to see more of how this works before passing judgment.
- Allies matrix is changing and you can ally with come the apocalypse armies? Interesting.
- In general it feels like a lot of the things that made 6th fall just short of awesome are being addressed. Time will tell, though. We have to read the entire book and play some games first to see how it all comes together, but things sound promising so far.
Rant Session
Tactics Corner
Rules Lawyer
List Review
So, I noticed you all hated my three Imperial Knight and Grey Knight list. Based of the feedback I changed to the following:
White Scars primary
HQ Captain on bike with artificer armor, shield eternal, and thunder hammer
Command squad
Apothecary
3x storm shields and 2x power swords for other three bikers
Bike squad
Sgt with lightning claw
2x grav guns
Bike squad
Sgt with power axe
Plasma and grav
Bike squad
Sgt with power fist
Plasma and grav
Bike squad
Sgt with grav pistol
Melta gun and flamer
Heavy support
Stalker… Brand new and needs paint!!!
Allies
Imperial Knights Errants… The ones with the Melta Cannons