[Forbidden Power campaign - Battle 1: Sorcerous Streams]

Looks great.  I have the hallowheart box set and love to use it.! 

[Free People Tournament Recap 1]

Great Writeup, sounds like a wonderful time!

[The General on Griffon]

Wow great paint job!!

[Skirmish Warband Final]

35 minutes ago, Kessler said:

Thanks! I added the warlock, last picture in the post. The paintjob is not that good, I painted it 2 years ago (but based for skirmish now) and it was my 5th model ever painted :).

It's cool, I like the paint scheme vs normally painted warlocks!

[Skirmish Warband Final]

Looking great!  can you put a pic of your doomfire warlock?

[It’s the Hobby Photo Dump Post!]

Looks great. I'm about to paint some chaos warhounds myself

[Falling for Chaos : Part 2]

Brilliant write up.  

[Skirmish : First Thoughts]

Maybe the AOS All-Gates campaign book could be used, they have regiments of renown in them with special abilities.

[Swifthawk Agents - Not all competitive lists are from new releases]

Maybe using Swifthawk agents as the base and then mixing other order units it could be boosted.  Obviously a hurricanum, but maybe a few more mages like the Loremaster to boost a model, then another mage to cast mystic shield  while the archmage uses elemental shield? Or other units

[Swifthawk Agents - Not all competitive lists are from new releases]

Great review.  I grabbed the High Aelf portion of this with a friend.

Love the models but haven't painted or played them yet.

I added an additional 5 Reavers to them and plan on not using the battalion.

[Battle Report: Consumed]

Great write up!   This is by far my favorite battleplan.  Everytime I've played it, the game has been really close down to the wire. 

A good discussion of balance and army theme prior to the game can really make this an awesome one to play.

[Holy Havok Tables!]

Looks great, wish I could have attended

[The Elephant in the Room: Why Matched Play Should Not Be The Default]

7 hours ago, Lord Veshnakar said:

What a comforting thing to hear, thanks for writing this up!  I agree with your points on all accounts. To me if anyone has never played a true narrative campaign before they are REALLY missing out.

IMO the feeling of being part of a story trumps "winning" by miles and points have only ever been the "illusion of balance" that serves as a platform to support someone feeling that they beat someone else fair and square in order to pump up their ego.  Wish we had more players like you here in Georgia! I would be thrilled. We have a fairly large "in it to win it" crowd here and it's pretty disheartening.

Side comment,  I'm in SC, are there are any SouthEast tournaments, etc?  PM Me if you know of any.

[The Elephant in the Room: Why Matched Play Should Not Be The Default]

Personally I feel like I'm the type of person GW needs to attract to keep it growing.  I started playing in April when they opened a store 6 miles away.  I've known about Warhammer games but never played.  I went into the store, played the demo of AoS and 40K.  Looked at the 4 page ruleset of AoS and said sure. Grabbed the paint and build kit of liberators to see , would I like the building.  I did enjoy it so I grabbed the starter set and have been enjoying since (mostly narrative).  Since I've not been playing for years, it wouldn't hurt me much to walk away and grab a different hobby.  I feel if GW does not ensure the other play methods get as much focus as matched play, then it will go back to the way Fantasy was (at least from what I'm told and read).

[The Elephant in the Room: Why Matched Play Should Not Be The Default]

I've noticed a big change in our local players after the GHB came out. Many players who left and then returned after the GHB only play points and only the matched play battle plans.  Whenever I bring out my campaign book and convince them to try a narrative game they field crazy powerful combos.  I discuss with them, hey not sure that will be a balanced game, and most of the time they just kind of give me the "Well I can't play this in matched play so I want to use this in narrative/open".

It seems like the community is more focused on winning than everyone having a good time.  

 

[Preparing for my first tournament]

Where did you get that case for the tokens and markers??  I have the same tokens and that would be much easier than my current way of dropping them all in a plastic bag.