Adventurer's Guild

Before the game I generated powers for the daemon prince – from the Nurgle list I picked up the powerful two warp charge ability Plague Wind and from Biomancy I got Hemorrhage which I never actually got a chance to use. Being a daemon of Nurgle I also picked up Nurgle’s Rot as a chaos focus. I completely forgot about the Warlord traits, but it was both sides – so I wasn’t really stressing. Generally I also completely missed the Tactical Doctrines the marines have. It is either reroll 1’s or reroll misses, and that wasn’t happening all that much – I really want create some counters for that effect. It might help me remember it. My set up was pretty interesting. I crammed all the marines in a tight pack. The idea here was they can scatter out and that is exactly what I did on the first turn. I was excited about seeing how well they advanced and I know I made a few mistakes by not taking full advantage of my first turn shooting for the Crimson Fists. For my Chaos Marines and t...

Strike Force Command - Pedro Kantor Demi-Company - Chaplain w/Jump Pack Demi-Company - Captain in Terminator Armor 1st Company Task Force - Assault Termies & Vanguard Vets Armored Task Force - Predator & Vindicators Dreadnought - for either company Not pictured are transports - still need a little more work.

Not going to write really deep on this, but it is on my mind. Great discussion on Bell of Lost Souls today about could 40k borrow a thing or two from Age of Sigmar. To me I really don't want to hurt people's feelings but the current 40k point system forces you to constantly escalate. If you aren't fielding the Best In Slot choices and spamming them, you will lose to the player that does. It is a point based system and we will work to exploit it. Or at least we should in the world of competitive play. I told the anecdotal story of my brother's Night Goblins. He was buying, assembling, and painting all of these cool little goblin mushroom freaks with their kick ass black robes and bad moon shields. They looked awesome. But.. it is a game after all. I couldn't wrap my head around it. THEY ARE TERRIBLE. Like under no circumstances would they ever do anything at all in the game. Maybe some filler on the board or whatever, but they just weren't an effective force ...

What a difference a week makes. We sat down for our second session, and it went a lot smoother this Sunday. We lined our forces of chaos up against the Imperial Guard and Space Wolves again. Instead of a mere three turns like the week before we got through four turns. It was pretty decisive at that point. The Guard and the Wolves rallied in the second game against us to pull out a victory. The Imperial Guard See I knew something was up the first week. It just felt like they weren't very effective when we fought. This week- our guard player held nothing back. He didn't sink as many points into Chimeras for his troops and brought two of the Leman Russ Punishers against us. One of them was a special HQ choice that added Rending to the tank and made it BS4 . Way more impressive. There was also a Munitorium officer in the Company Command who was dropping an Ordnance Large Blast round after round. That threw me a little - I was aware of how powerful the Marine Orbital ...

We had a pretty nice game yesterday. Hooked up with my brother and two friends to run a little bit of Warhammer 40k. We each had a 1,000pts and one warlord per pair. All in all I think we did all of the rules right. But we did spend a considerable amount of time looking things up. A couple of points I really want to make here. I shared my list I really wanted people not to be surprised. I thought the easiest way to do it was to share what I had. It still devolved down to that level where one of our opponents (my brother and I were playing Chaos Space Marines and Khorne Daemonkin) says at the start of the game, "Well I guess I wasted the point on my psychic hood." I was a little confused. I told him I shared my list in advance, but he said he thought it was cheating to look at it. He didn't want to make a decision about what to field based on what I was bringing. Dennis blinked. But that is the entire thing. I was sharing my list so we could have a good game....

Honestly I am still trying to get my head around all the internet hate for Age of Sigmar. What is it about the game people really don't like? I'll address some concerns in this post. They destroyed the much loved fantasy setting that has been around for 30 years. How exactly did they destroy it? It all still happened right. The Old World as we know it is gone. That isn't going to stop you from drawing on the resources of the setting though. The new rules specifically mention playing games over countless worlds and dimensions spanning a range of fantasy battles that much trumps the Old World. It is back to the notion that was originally borrowed from the work of Micheal Moorcock. The battle against Chaos spans time and dimension. It is a war that rages across multiple settings. We've always known the Realm of Chaos touched more places than this one little map- now they are trying to open it up. For me it is a boon. Let's say I decided to run my High Elf ar...

Well, I've been trying to figure this out because with a dwarf/elf army it becomes pretty important- usually like first turn important. After our first game it became apparent that war machines are very dangerous in Age of Sigmar. Something has me puzzled though- and it is part because of the streamlined rules and in part because of conflicting reports I've uncovered on the internet. Let's start at the beginning. WARSCROLLS & UNITS “All models are described by warscrolls, which provide all of the rules for using them in the game. You will need warscrolls for the models you want to use.” “Models fight in units. A unit can have one or more models, but cannot include models that use different warscrolls. A unit must be set up and finish any sort of move as a single group of models, with all models within 1" of at least one other model from their unit.” When I first read this it seemed very apparent that you would never have more than one unit in a warscroll. B...