Show Notes
12-13-14
Intro
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News
- Some great 10mm terrain coming out from 4Ground Miniatures and Gamecraft.
- Hawk shows off the new units for X-Mas, it is a modified Ferrum and Caiman!
- The special rules for Cato allow her to re-roll a single missed to hit roll and a single drone may reaction fire per turn. Cato also lowers the cost of Archangel Interceptors and Seraphim Strike Bombers. She also allows for an extra Air Battle Group for your list in clash and battle sized games.
- LVO Poll out for the 40k Champs: to change invis or not! The poll will run through the weekend. We’ve already gotten nearly every response back.
- Warmachine LVO event!
- o We are hosting the event at A-1 Comics in Roseville on December 20th.
- o Reg starts at 10 AM, starts at 11 AM.
- o Entry fee is $15, comes with a raffle ticket – extra tickets are $5 a pop.
- o We are also doing a pot luck as well (bring food, get an extra ticket).
- We have some updates on the minis being assembled and painted to give away at the LVO for the Warmachine events! Tyson has assembled them, and paint to follow soon!
- Warmachine announces more All-in-One boxes for Retribution and Legion! These are 35pt complete armies!
- Forgeworld Shows off the new Alpha Legion and Word Bearers Contemptors.
- GW’s advent calendar reveals some cool upcoming stuff. A book about the Dark Mechanicum getting waxed by the Imperial Fists looks like it will be a good one.
- New scenic bases for PuppetsWar, Battlefield Themed.
- Mechanical Warhorse shows off some of their painted cargo containers.
- Victoria shows off some more sculpts, and they’ve got some winner. Highlanders, Winter themed and more Van Diemans.
- Some really cool minis by Mad Robot Minis coming out that look like Mad Max style wasteland warriors.
- Heavy Gear’s living rule book new edition is going into the layout phase which means it should be ready to print, soon for the KS.
Upcoming ITC Events
- ITC updated with Salt Lake City Gladiator Games
- More events will be uploaded soon, and we’re working on a way to automate the process.
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.
- Endtimes 4 will be about Skaven, supposedly coming in early January and will have rules for battles in dungeons, which sounds cool.
- Upcoming White Dwarf to have free Objective Cards.
- Crammed into the GW schedule right before the new year.
Pre-orders Dec. 19th
Street date: Dec 26th
(Previous chatter from last month says first week of January)
ModelsLittle to no new models (a la Grey Knights)
(scattered chatter says perhaps 1 character clampack and 1 Destroyer/DestroyerLord plastic kit)
Rules
Look for Nerfs to the following:
Doom ScythesNight ScythesTesla will get an overhaul to their rules.Deathray will receive a big overhaul to how it targets models.Characters remain fundamentally unchanged.The Stormlord will recieve a Necron themed orbital bombardment of some type once per game.
Warlord Traits are good with some granting individual units USRs, while another listed granted an improved version of Reanimation Protocols - Skaven Endtimes book to come out before 9th ed Fantasy.
Rant Session
Tactics Corner
Rules Lawyer
- Knight Armor Arcs thanks to Adam from the Dice Abide.
Completed Commissions
- Relic Knights Commission!
List Review