Today Pablo and his guest go over the game “above the board” at competitive 40k events, and everything you can do to master one of the key mental aspects of competition.
Today Reece and I go over the psychological aspects of competition, and specifically how they can both improve your game, and how you can avoid mental errors to prevent derpy losses.
You can check out last week’s episode here
Tournament News
- BITB 4 – A New Hope: Tau 1st, Orks 2nd
- Harvester of Souls: Tyranids 1st, Paul McKelvey’s Tau 2nd
- Dragon-Fall Champs: Eldar 1st, Imperial Knights 2nd
FTGT Evan’s Tyranid list
3 Flyrants (ESG, 2xTLDevs)
2 Troop Tervigons
2×30 Termagants
2×10 Hormagaunts
Malanthrope
Venomthrope
Zoanthrope
Good Luck Evan this weekend at Warzone ATL!
Did you just win an ITC event? Is your list dominating everyone it crosses? Did you just recently do well with a unique list at a large event? I want to hear about it! Just send it to
frontlinegamingpeteypab@gmail.com
Please do not send your army list in a format such as Army Builder, send them in an easy to read, typed format. Thanks!
This is terrible content. It comes across like you’re justifying TFG behavior. The line is not clear and therefore this sort of behavior should be considered cheating. New players get this shit all the time then stop playing. Sad you would do this FLG
We don’t condone this in casual games, and like we said in the podcast never against new players!
Whether you admit it or not this kind of play does happen and people should know about it. Remember people also do these kinds of things sub consciously across all games. If you don’t like it rise above it, no reason why you can’t.
This is a sensitive topic for sure, and we knew coming in it had the chance to stir the pot a bit. But, I think we did a good job of clarifying that this is the kind of thing you do only at high level play, only with an opponent that is on your wavelength. It’s not to be used in casual play (which we specified many time throughout the cast). And, it is good to know about this type of thing for the casual player to defend against if they encounter it.
Never do you directly condone this behaviour but the tone of your discussion makes it sound like its ok, in certain vaguely defined situations. That’s my point, the line isn’t defined. You say it’s ok on the top tables at a tournament. I disagree. Perhaps amongst your friends if you both know it’s happening, but otherwise you’re just being ‘that guy’.
Essentially this podcast is about how you shouldn’t hate on ‘that guy’, he’s allowed to be a dick, you should just prepare yourself to see a lot of these behaviors at tournaments and try to guard against it…somehow.
Isn’t this what most gamers fear about tournament gamers and your only serving to normalize TFG antics. You should be very sternly outlawing this form of cheating and have proper safeguards and consequences for those that think it’s acceptable.
What is or is not being a dick is subjective. If someone let’s me make a mistake without saying something, some folks would call that being a dick, or unsportsmanlike. I would not. It really comes down to perspective. Whether we like it or not, these types of things to occur at top tables. It’s a part of the game (of any competitive event, actually) whether we like it or not.
I felt we defined it pretty clearly but obviously you disagree, which is fine. Hopefully you can walk away from this episode knowing what to look out for and how to work against it.
PSA RE: BATTLESCRIBE!
The FLG crew and all who hate the stupid dense output from battlescribe – you can easily change it so that it presents much cleaner (like a hand written list)!
(I’ve heard you guys annoyed by this forever, – this ain’t the 90s homeys, folks don’t write out lists, so start telling ’em to do this : ) )
Click view roster ->
on PC the settings are to the left of the print preview.
On android/iOs look for the “settings” button.
Choose – minimal output, root points, no profiles, no rules, no custom names, no roster statistics.
and bam! Clean list!
Also love the idea of taking a super detailed “reference list” and a simplified “opponents” list.
PC example attached here: http://imgur.com/gallery/cANAM
Ejoy!
Also Petey Pab congrats on the wee one, and glad to hear you back on the beat.
The most recent canhammer podcasts had some great tournament coverage recently, worth a listen as I think it was a great format/approach to covering an event.
Cheers!
Happy to write this up as an article if you’d like. #goodforthegame
You beat me to it! FYI Army builder can be similarly cleaned up. Been awhile since I have used AB but it has/had a very similar mechanism (i think it called it forum format or something like that).
As a TO I have been tempted to require list formatting for lists turned into me. Or bonus points for doing so (carrot rather than stick).
Thanks for the nod to our Harvester event. Was definitely a nice surprise to see Nids on top. Look forward to Tyler’s write up.