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Show Notes
Date: 9-5-18
Intro
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News
- Make sure to tune in Friday, September 7th at noon PST for this month’s Second Hand Shop auction! We’ve got some great items for auction this month!
- The SoCal Open is quickly becoming one of the largest 40k Champs events in the world! The event is less than 2 months away so be sure to grab those tickets, soon!
- This week’s GW pre-orders include some new Bloodbowl team, Nurgle’s Rotters and the Reaver Titan for Titanicus! You can pick these up from Frontline Gaming at a discount with FREE shipping for orders $99 and up!
- We’ve also got a brand new, awesome FLG Mat! This new mat is called Warzone, and is scaled to 8mm which makes it perfect for games like Adeptus Titanicus. We have it in every size and in two flavors: perpendicular street orientation and angled streets! This hot new mat is available at 20% off during the release period! Grab it between now and September 17th and save. Plus, as always we offer FREE shipping for orders $99 and up so if you wanted to grab another mat or some ITC terrain or GW goodies, do so to save even more money!
- There were a ton of reviews and previews from NOVA. Here are some of the highlights:
Upcoming ITC Events
Upcoming 40k ITC Events
- 40k ITC ‘Swept-ember’ RT, Game Empire Pasadena, Pasadena CA, September 8th, 2018
- Warhammer 40,000: 2,000 pt tournament, Shiv Games, Murray, UT, September 8th, 2018
- Dice of Fury 6, Fate and Fury Games, Vancouver, WA, September 8th, 2018
- “Hunt”in’ Heresy, Anoka MN, September 8th, 2018
- Alliance Open – 40K – Rogue Trader Tournament, Hoofddorp, Netherlands, September 8th, 2018
- GT: WarZone: Central Coast IV, The Entertainment Grounds, New South Wales, Australia, September 8-9th, 2018
- GT: The Chicago Open Gt, Grognard Games, Roselle, IL, September 8-9th, 2018
- Blood of Sept’tau-ber, Somerset, U.K, September 8th, 2018
- Jolt Games Warhammer 40K ITC Competitive Tournaments, Australian Capital Territory, September 8th, 2018
- Fight for the Fort, Gamer’s Hideout, Saint Robert, MO, September 9th, 2018
- The 40k Classic- ITC Tournament at Sword and Brush, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 9th, 2018
- GT: Warzone Montreal, Gerard Filion, Quebec, Canada, September 7-9th, 2018
- Twisted Fates Warhammer 40k Tournament, Royal British Legion Leighton Buzzard, England, September 9th, 2018
- LBK Tour 41, Linkoping, Sweden, September 9th, 2018
Upcoming AoS ITC Events
- Age of Sigmar Team Tournament, Colpar’s HobbyTown, Aurora, CO, September 8th, 2018
- The AOS Classic- Match Play Tournament at Sword and Brush, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 9th, 2018
- Age Of Sigmar ITC Event at TerraCrux Games, Tacoma, WA, September 15th, 2018
- Too Poor for DragonCon: Age of Sigmar Tournament, Memory Lane Antique Mall, Gate City, VA, September 22nd, 2018
- Tucson CuddleBug 2k Tournament, Tucson AZ, September 22nd, 2018
- September Age of Sigmar One Day event, Boards and Swords Hobbies, Derby, UK, September 23rd, 2018
- The War Zone Monthly Age Of Siggy Diggy, Mattoon IL, September 23rd, 2018
- Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament, Winter Park FL, September 22-23rd, 2018
- GT: The Last Rites GT, Castle Rock, CO, September 22-23rd, 2018
- Age Of Sigmar Tournament, Fremont CA, September 29th, 2018
40k ITC Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike | Porter | 721.36 | 5 of 5 |
| 2 | Matt | Root | 691.07 | 5 of 5 |
| 3 | Joshua | Death | 644.8 | 5 of 5 |
| 4 | Nick | Nanavati | 640.11 | 5 of 5 |
| 5 | Trent | Northington | 627.26 | 5 of 5 |
| 6 | Geoff | Robinson | 619.99 | 5 of 5 |
| 7 | Nick | Gower | 617.09 | 5 of 5 |
| 8 | Don | Hooson | 616.2 | 5 of 5 |
| 9 | Archon | Skari | 608.81 | 5 of 5 |
| 10 | Daniel | Olivas | 605.23 | 5 of 5 |
40k ITC Hobby Track Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew | Bodnarchuk | 387.13 | 4 of 5 |
| 2 | Lou | Rollins | 378.11 | 4 of 5 |
| 3 | Jeffrey | Merrick | 348.7 | 4 of 5 |
| 4 | Nick | Gower | 327.37 | 4 of 5 |
| 5 | Antonio | Cedeno | 307.41 | 4 of 5 |
| 6 | Mike | Genoni | 290.4 | 3 of 5 |
| 7 | Shawn | Prosser | 286.89 | 4 of 5 |
| 8 | William | Ivey | 279.72 | 4 of 5 |
| 9 | Nick | Barden | 279.19 | 4 of 5 |
| 10 | David | Danuser | 277.86 | 4 of 5 |
AoS ITC Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe | Krier | 469.64 | 4 of 5 |
| 2 | James | Thomas | 446.05 | 4 of 5 |
| 3 | Matthew | Pashby | 439.81 | 4 of 5 |
| 4 | Mathew | Jones | 439.17 | 4 of 5 |
| 5 | Joshua | Harvey | 427.39 | 4 of 5 |
| 6 | Steven | Hyche | 419.67 | 4 of 5 |
| 7 | Ken | Eubanks | 417.31 | 4 of 5 |
| 8 | Alexander | Gonzalez | 415.73 | 4 of 5 |
| 9 | Randall | Nelson | 388.51 | 4 of 5 |
| 10 | Jarrett | Zazuetta | 387.53 | 4 of 5 |
AoS ITC Hobby Track Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philip | Verduzco | 248.57 | 3 of 5 |
| 2 | laljit | sidhu | 208.52 | 2 of 5 |
| 3 | Joseph | Halfacre | 173.36 | 2 of 5 |
| 4 | Josh | Lara | 170.36 | 2 of 5 |
| 5 | Jon | Christenson | 161.9 | 2 of 5 |
| 6 | Frank | DeLoach | 158.62 | 2 of 5 |
| 7 | Scott | Reed | 155.07 | 2 of 5 |
| 8 | Joshua | Harvey | 150.5 | 2 of 5 |
| 9 | Ben | Nelson | 146.37 | 2 of 5 |
| 10 | Josh | Greenfield | 124.35 | 2 of 5 |
Shadespire ITC Hobby Track Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike | Corse | 333.98 | 3 of 5 |
| 2 | Michael | Rundles | 329.17 | 3 of 5 |
| 3 | Brandon | Ulick | 325.46 | 3 of 5 |
| 4 | Andrew | Everhart | 320.07 | 3 of 5 |
| 5 | Matt | Everhart | 318.32 | 3 of 5 |
| 6 | Josue | Ibarra | 297.42 | 3 of 5 |
| 7 | Adam | Brazzell | 280.43 | 3 of 5 |
| 8 | Tony | Field | 276.65 | 3 of 5 |
| 9 | Sean | Ratner | 274.15 | 3 of 5 |
| 10 | David | Escobar | 263.04 | 3 of 5 |
Tactics Corner
- NOVA Open recap, Reecius’ pure Ultramarines finish 15th out of 237 players. Here’s how he did it!
Completed Commissions
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You mentioned Dropfleet last podcast and WOW I am glad you did. Got to see the models in real life and they are sooo amazing.
just in case people missed it: https://imgur.com/gallery/pSauuJL
This is “How many top 3/58th lists had these units in the summer season”
AdMech didn’t win a single tournament in the summer ;-;
AdMech dragoons and enginseer are only there because of team tournaments, where you can match the -2 to hit dragoon spam vs gunlines. Also enginseer is in IG too.
Dominus knight is already topping the chart, despite entering the scene only in july (so getting only half the scores but still towering over so many other units.
Necrons only win with vaults – if those get nerfed (which they shouldn’t… just limit to 1 per army) = RIP Necrons (with a failed RP ofc, oh wait you don’t get it because everyone kills your unit)
So, what’s up with the “top 3/58th”? That seems like a really odd cutoff, unless there’s something weird going on with my browser or whatever you’re using to type these, and something’s getting mis-interpreted.
It’s because to be considered a 40k major – you need to have 58 people. So at least top 3 from every major, top 2-3 from GT, top 1 from 20+ ppl RTTs
That does make sense. I didn’t think of it because, for some reason, I thought the cutoff for a Major was either 40 people or 64.
You gotta stop hijacking every thing with “everything and everyone one is the worst”.
It’s just data. My 3 comments are just some things that haven’t been mentioned before or just proof that the some number correlate with the public perception.
No one really thinks of AdMech as bad. Almost everyone thinks Necrons are bad. Yet Necrons did way better than admech, vault or not.
The Dominus knight (aka Castellan) outlier just shows how insane it actually is. It managed to top the chart despite being there only for less than 2/3rds of the time period.
Finally I’ve heard Reece say that vaults are too good. They’re not. The 3 vault list sucks. If it meets any sort of counter – it flops. However, yes it is not fun to play against. So I just don’t want it to get a point increase because that’s not the root of the problem. The problem is the ability to take multiples of them.
This isn’t really negativity as the main reason I posted this was to get attention to admech. Every time I’ve heard people talk about worst armies: Necrons, Grey knights, Space Marines – are always mentioned. AdMech is never mentioned, yet is almost doing the worst of all of them (exception: grey knights).
I was just surprised honestly, I wasn’t aware of this.
Reposting the same comment to multiple threads in succession isn’t going to do your cause any favors. If you really feel it’s important for people to know, write a post about it. Otherwise, repeatedly posting about it only going to gather antipathy.
Oh, I only posted it twice. On both podcasts.
I posted it on CT because it was on topic.
I posted it here, because this is the “main thread” of the website.
I won’t post it any more, don’t worry. I just got very excited when I saw this made as I wanted to make it. So I just wanna share it. I’ve already posted it on: 2 discords, 5 facebook groups, 4 dakkadakka threads.
Yeah… I LOVE data and talking about it, especially when it is so scarce as it is in 40k
Have you shared your data here?
40kfaq@gwplc.com
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Ad-mech rangers are quite good imo. Dragoons as well, but it’s tough running those with so many captains floating around. Have not tried electro-priest, but they have seen some success. The drill is amazing with Stygies forgeworld.
Priests have to go first. If they don’t – they die like flies (and a 16pts model can’t afford that).
And the whole drill interaction depends on the TO. There’ve been stories of TO’s not allowing infiltrating drills with priests inside.
I’ve kinda stopped reading the comments section of flg these days, purely because of rvd1ofakind. The sheer gargantuan scale and volume of his negativity is just so tedious
loool
Have you seen Don Tomaso’s posts? Or any of my recent posts?
I have recently posted:
being happy about data,
being very happy about the Nova stream,
being happy about recent chapter tactics episodes,
being happy about the Best in Faction podcast.
Sure, I’ve posted about DakkaX3 flaming Reece, but he deserved it for that one.
And I’ll make less posts about Reece not saying stuff is bad or good because he explained why he can’t do that.
And BTW, for every comment like this, I get like 2 PMs on Dakka/Reddit/Facebook/Discord asking me for list advice, thanking me for my mathammer spreadsheet, agreeing with my posts.
Here, have this picture of a cat staring at my Kairos Fateweaver, maybe It’ll make you feel less angry about me. https://imgur.com/AFFj94E
Don’t confuse people agreeing with you for popularity.
And don’t go on Reddit or Dakka in general. Facebook… sometimes is better, sometimes is not.
Oh I’m not boasting “popularity”. I just don’t want people higher up to get the wrong opinion, that I only drive people away. It’s just that people on this website disagree with me way more often… for some reason, when I the same stuff everywhere. (Probably because this website doesn’t have up-votes/likes, so all you see is complaints. People don’t wanna comment with “I agree” as that seems like a waste)
And generalising people based on forum platform is silly. That’s like website-ism… that’s a word, don’t question it.
I will admit to the cat melting my ice wall ever so slightly
I pat my arm to the right of the miniature to get her attention lol
I have to agree, used to enjoy these comments but his constant crying is ridiculous, just shut the #@$% up already, we get it.
1. You do realise you make me post more to respond to this.
2. Quote the part where I was crying in this thread. I’ll wait 🙂
Reece thanks for taking SM to a tournament. It was great to hear about your exploits, just a pity you had to change to Ultramarines.
I’ve reluctantly stopped playing W40k with my Imperial Fists as even following the ideas you used, the lack of named characters/ extra abilities makes them unworkable. Whereas in Kill team they have a much better chance of winning.
Sorry to hear that, buddy. I was playing Raptors with just Lias. But the canges to reserves beat that army up a bit. It can be tough for a space marine these days. But they still can win!
Reece, when will we see your full SM List and be able to read your write-up about it?
Getting BCP outside of the U.S. doesn’t make a lot of sense right now.
I’m super curious to see it and read about it. Don’t let us wait much longer!
Looking forward to it.
I second this! Would greatly appreciate it.
I will do, gents. Sorry for the delay.