Euphanism

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Which model is the prettiest? Which should probably stay on the sprue? Find out in this episode! As always, thanks for subscribing! The post S01E10 – Azyr’s Next Top Model appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

In this psychedelic episode, the gang is joined by special guest Kai! He’s here to talk about how cool the Gloomspite Gitz really are, and how to get started collecting this bizarre army. As always, thanks for subscribing! The post S01E09 – Trippin’ Glooms appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

In this inexplicable episode, the gang talks about all the Lumineth Realm-Lords and Sons of Behemat news we’ve missed! Then, after the break, they challenge themselves to build as many lists as possible from $1,200. Spoiler alert: the max score was 3. If you’re hunting for the lists, click here! The post S01E08 – Entirely Stimulated appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

In this exciting episode, the gang figure out how to record a podcast remotely, with varying results. Once we finish talking about Final Fantasy and vacuum cleaners, it’s time for some Seraphon! The first part of this show has some strange audio-hiccups due to us all learning how to do this remotely. If you’re wanting to jump straight to Dino DNA, jump to the 32 minute mark and go from there! The post S01E07 – The Dinosaur Episode (We’re All Trapped at Home) appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

This episode, we’re talking Chaos! Each Chaotic Faction, poorly broken down and misinterpreted, all for you! There’s a bonus audio treat at the very end if you make it that far. A huge thanks to our sponsors and fans for letting us continue this thing when it arguably should have been put out of its mercy seven episodes ago. The post S01E06 – I Borked the Whole Thing (Chaos Faction Review) appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

We actually played a tournament! Plus, we talk about the Grand Alliance of Destruction, and Josh throws up in his mouth. Award winning entertainment! A huge thanks to our sponsors and fans for letting us continue this thing. 0:00-42:05 – Intro and Tournament Talk 45:00 – 1:37:42 – Grand Alliance Destruction The post S01E05 – Pure Face Punch (Destruction Faction Review) appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

Mechanically, it allows for game rules to interact with more facets of the game. Therefore allowing for different types of modifications, which gives the rules writers more options when developing stats. Honestly though it does mean less reliance on your opponent. Any combat attack usually results in you telling them how many saves to roll with a modifier. I think the 'strength' of the attack is represented more in the Rend.

I think it's likely that Katakros will succeed in taking control of the Shysh realm gate, thereby denying Archaon access to his realm. Of course neither will 'die' (one is way too story important and the other, uh, is already dead technically) but neither will really win either. Is Katakros bringing ONLY Ossiarch? Seems like if I were Nagash and I really wanted this to work, I'd give him about a billion skeletons too.

Do you like fantasy, but wish it had more rocket launchers, spaceships, and paperwork? It’s time for our Kharadron Overlords battletome review! We also sneak in some talk about LVO at the beginning of this one, and all the reveals there. Specifically pointy aelves that praise the sun. The post S01E04 – Shooting Phase: The Army appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

Thank you! Wasn't sure what the requirements are but we'll keep that in mind for when we get there!

I wouldn't want need armies to be categorically better than old ones, because every soup book has brought a handful of people back to my local store to try out their old armies, and most of them have stayed active and started picking up other armies as well. From a sales perspective, that's exactly what GW wants, plus it adds more players to the community.

(This narrative will correspond with a local league's slow-grow campaign.) Blott Moldtoe stared for a brief second at the wad of mucus, before flinging it unceremoniously into the pile of squabbling Nurglings at his feet. The diminutive demons chortled and hacked with glee, momentarily occupied with their new, lumpy plaything. Blott ignored them as best as he could, and set his one cyclopean eye to the horizon. “Bit of a storm coming,” cackled a wet, phlegmy voice from behind where Moldtoe stood. “Looks like nasty waters. Does this creature walk on land?” There were several sharp taps on soggy wood, followed by a long, exasperated sigh that seemed to emanate from the vessel itself. Blott turned to see the plague shaman Melena Grubwarm leerily eyeing the deck of the ship they both stood on. In her hand was a long, twisted staff, made from the mutated vertebrate of a previous friend who had already joined the Garden, and decorated with the twitching entrails left behind by his ascension. “Stop hitting the beast.” Blott’s words were dull and uninterested in the mortal’s distractions. “He can’t feel it! Blessed be to Nurgle!” The crone cackled again, a thin stream of spittle forming a spiderweb from her lips to the front of her tattered blue robe. She clicked her heels together in mock pomp. “Of course, yes sir Blott sir, no more prodding the Festerfish.” As if to answer her, the ship shuddered, losing a few small planks of rotting wood into the ocean. She looked around, now disinterested in the bits of swollen skin pressing out from the baseboards, and focused her cataract-ridden eyes towards where the Herald stared. In the distance, the thin strips of land signifying the new landmass broke the perfect line of the horizon. The Nurglings began to claw and push their way over the railing, straining to see what the larger Maggotkin were peering at. As they did, part of the decrepit wood splintered, breaking off a section of the hull and scattering a handful of the disease-ridden imps into the water below. Beneath the remaining planks, a mound of sickly-yellow flesh quivered and glistened, slowly pulling what remained of the vessel forward. Melena shuffled up to where Moldtoe stood, her bent frame dwarfed by the much larger Poxbringer. “That’s it? I’m unimpressed. I thought you’d be able to see a god from here.” “Godbeast,” Blott drolly corrected her. The ship lurched forward, blackish filth seeping into the waves behind them.

Does anyone know the reason Slambo wasn't included in this book? He's still legal since he has the StD keyword, but it seems like a weird one to leave out. He's Slambo!

Seeing that they had to do the same fix with the Scourgerunner Chariot I'm surprised they didn't catch that before it went to print.

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No one has stopped us, so we’re still going! This week we talk about StDs and how to use them against your friends! This is our review episode for the new Slaves to Darkness battletome! It’s our first time getting into a book on-air, so please let us know what you want more or less of. We gab on (ok mostly Zack does) about lore and whatnot until about 0:58, so skip ahead if you’re just in it for the numbers! The post S01E03 – StDs and You appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

We’re back again making wild predictions for 2020! And two of them already came true! You’ll have to listen to find out which ones (hint: it isn’t the giant bug army…yet.) Note – This episode was recorded in December 2019, so a few predictions are already proven false and/or correct. Whoops. Time travel is hard. The post S01E02 – Please Tell Us if We’re Real appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

The gang gets together to talk about what they liked and didn’t like in 2019! Bonecast Immortals! The Activation Wars! A Dorf! Note – We’re aware of some strange audio drift in a few places in the first two episodes. We’ve fixed the problem now! The post S01E01 – Thumbs Up For Thicc Skeletons appeared first on Atlanta Warhammer. View the full article

So full disclosure, bringing 4 Morghast Archai was more necessity than anything as I already had two built. The biggest thing with them in Petrifix is to remember the command ability that increases their rend by 1. Out of my whole list, they were the absolute best damage dealers; combined with the Shrieker, the unit threw out 20 attacks at 2/3/-2/3, which was a fantastic blender. However they go down pretty fast as they don't have any defense against regular wounds besides their save and Deathless Warriors save, as their armor only effects mortal wounds. I think one big group of 4 is overkill, a pack of 2 can still threaten a lot of the board with their movement and attacks. Plus the models get tangled on EVERY SINGLE THING ON THE TABLE

Oh yeah, I felt the lack of options a lot, but honestly the generic Mortek Guard are SO good they can act as anvil and hammer at once with only a few buffs. I'm looking at that Harvester/Arkhan/Crematorian list though and I think I'll work towards that, just to have a silly way to run them in more casual games.

If anyone is interested I took Ossiarch to a 5 game tournament last week. I had a week to get the list fully painted and based, so it's by no means optimized, but it was a lot of fun even if I did walk away 1/4.

Took this list to a local 2-day, 5 game competition last weekend and had a lot of fun! I didnt have any other options to run as this was a fully painted and based tournament, and I had about a week to kill myself getting these all ready. Thank goodness Arkhan was painted four years ago. Round 1 - Three Places of Power - VS Skaventide - Major Loss Squared off against a really good local player who brought Thanquol and three Verminlords, plus five endless spells. I already had a disadvantage on this one, only having two Heros (heroes are required to score) but I managed to wedge the Immortis and Arkhan square in the middle of the board, where they stayed the rest of the game. It was neck and neck up until turn five, but once he took out my Boneshaper I just didn’t have enough heroes to catch back up. Arkhan survived two Verminlords at once though and earned his weight in tithe. Round 2 - Scorched Earth - VS Skaventide - Major Loss Played another local guy on this one who brought Skaventide with a 40 block of plague monks, 6 Stormfiends, a Verminlord Warpseer, and then a bunch of piles of clan rats. This was probably the worst matchup for me the entire tournament due to the insane shooting the Stormfiends put out. With a three drop army I managed to secure all four of my objectives and snag one of his, but after that it was all downhill. It didn’t help that the table we were on only had one piece of terrain on it that would block line of sight, and it was a tiny tower in his territory. Without a way to reroll saves in the shooting phase, he deleted 10 Mortek Guard in his first turn, double turned me, and took out all four Morghasts with the next salvo. At that point I managed to fly over and secure another objective with Arkhan, then burnt both of his for a whopping…2 victory points. Bottom of turn 3, he burnt two of my objectives and rolled boxcars (6 victory points), so that was that as I simply didn’t have the models to take any more objectives, even though he couldn’t unseat me from my back two. Side note, I really dislike random score battle plans in tournaments, because they have the potential to make the whole game relatively pointless if one person rolls super well on the burns. Every time I play this battle plan I walk away thinking we could have each just rolled 4D3 and whoever rolls higher won the game. Round 3 - Focal Points - VS Khorne - Major Loss Nerf Blood Boil right? This was a really fun, bloody game that unfortunately just came down to a ridiculous amount of swingy Blood Boil rolls. Nothing really tactically interesting here as it all devolved into a big melee pile across most of the board with the sheer amount of Reavers and Blood Warriors on the table. It was a slow grind but by turn 3 I had managed to push him pretty far back. Unfortunately my luck went totally upside down at the bottom of Turn 4, when he rolled two successful Blood Boils at 6 mortal wounds each, plus getting the Axe and Skulls off and slamming them into my Immortis, clearing out all of Arkhan's protection. Got double turned, all his prayers stayed on the table, and he rolled another 12 mortal wounds with the two Blood Boils for a second turn on Arkhan himself. Unfortunately my shrug rolls were nowhere near as blessed and I couldn't crank a single one, and with the big guy gone, I couldn't get enough people on an objective to outnumber him. Even though this was a loss for me, the sheer amount of models he had to pull off the table every turn made it feel more satisfying. Yes, I know they're Reavers and therefore made of balsa wood and sneers, but it was still a thrill to have 3 Immortis kill 18 people in one shot. Plus he had to dump his Blood Tithe points on the last turn to kill ONE Mortek Hekatos with Greatblade who had managed to survive two turns and was single handedly holding up a Mighty Lord of Khorne and 5 Flesh Hounds. (You don't actually have to have a shield in the unit to use their Shieldwall ability so he was happily hacking away through the dogs before he was finally stopped) Round 4 - Shifting Objectives - Vs Big Waaagh! - Major Loss This was the most disheartening of all of my games because I honestly think the only reason I lost was the clock. My opponent was a really nice guy though and I'm fairly sure he wasn't trying to slow-play me, just learning his army on the fly. He was running 15 brutes, 6 gore-gruntas, a bunch of Ardboys, and a Megaboss, Wurrgog Prophet, Megaboss, Warchanter, and Weirdnob. I set up right at my territory line with a wide screen of Mortek and let him go first. Thanks to smart screening and knowing exactly what his plan probably was (our meta is FULL of IJ players now) he couldn’t Hand of Gork anything to my back line, so instead he just pushed the wall forward. 10 Mortek Guard met the charge of the Gore Gruntas, and in my favorite combat of the day, managed to only lose ONE guy while killing a pig in return. Mortek are TOUGH. My opponent all three objectives through turn 1 and 2, though just barely. He got the double turn on turn three, which is when the TO announced that there was only a half-hour left. Unfortunately, my opponents hero, movement, and shooting phases took up that whole time, as he was very polite about the fact that he had only played this list twice before. The TO allowed us to finish up the combat phase thankfully, which saw me reclaim two of the objectives and contest the third (he held it by one model). However, that meant that he had gained 11 victory points to my 4. Looking at the board, he had a Megaboss, Wurrgog Prophet, 2 brutes, and I think 12 Savage Orruks when the game was called, whereas I had only lost one unit of Mortek Guard, 2 Morghast, and 2 Immortis (one from each unit). Assuming I didn’t just roll straight 1’s across the board, it as looking like I’d table him entirely as most of his guys were heavily wounded but…the clock ran out. Round 5 - Knife to the Heart - Vs Cities of Sigmar (Living City) - Major Victory Finally a win! Although the battle plan helped me more than anything on this one, as my opponent’s list consisted of 7 Steam Tanks, a Knight Azyros, a Celestial Hurricanum, and a Luminark of Hysh. To make it even more wacky, we were clearly on the ‘last place’ table, which had been decorated with American wild west style terrain, some aquarium plants, half of a geode, and several buildings from a Star Wars game. With only 10 models to to my 42, it was pretty obvious how this one was going to go. Being on the last table and in the last game against a friend was a great way to end the tournament though, especially after a sour Round 4. My ‘tactic’ was to leave the Boneshaper and 3 Immortis on my objective and just run everything else up in a giant horde, which worked very well. He had a lot of good shooting but the Morghasts managed to engage four tanks at once, so he had to spend all their shots trying to bring them down while I retreat-ran a group of 8 Mortek Guard onto his objective. Overall Thoughts Admittedly, I’m way more of a narrative player than a competitive one, but Bonereapers feel strong while not overpowered. When speaking with each opponent after each game, no one felt like they were too unfair to play against, just that they were new and therefore hard to predict. Of course 4/5 of those people just walked away with a win; I’m guessing if I had tabled everyone the opinion would be quite different. Although I was somewhat handicapped with the availability of models (there was no way I could build and paint anything more than this in the week before the tournament) I think the list was surprisingly solid, especially at simply being impossible to kill. I have plenty of memories of trying to run Arkhan pre-Legions of Nagash, and boy was it nice to not have him shot off the board in the first turn. I also managed to end nearly every turn with at least 1-2 Relentless Discipline points left, which was kind of nice. I averaged about 5 a turn and really only spent them to boost movement a few times, and then to give the Mortek Guard a reroll to saves. The Immortis Guard ability to pile in and attack with only their shields never really did any damage, but it did let me reposition them for maximum irritation, so that was nice. And hey, I won best Death player. Of course, I was the ONLY Death player, but I still got a trophy and store credit...which immediately turned into a Mortek Crawler. Next time I see those Slaughterpriests, they're getting Stele'd. Standout Units: Bone-tithe Shrieker: Ok so it’s not a unit per se, but it takes the top spot her because of the sheer utility it brings. Adding +1 to hit in that bubble is MASSIVE, especially if you can tag three or four units with it (since it isn’t wholly within, just within). The bravery debut never really came up, but I bet it could work nicely with a Morghast/Horrorgeist build. Plus, the base of the Shrieker is big enough to physically block off a decent sized unit while letting your 2” range swing around it, and since you always get to move it, its a great tactical piece. Mortek Guard: At one point I had a unit of Mortek Guard with an attack profile of 2/4/-2/1 that rerolled all failed saves and ignored mortal wounds on a 4+, PLUS 5+ to hit did an additional hit. I blender’d a unit of 15 Blood Warriors with one turn of that insanity. Their biggest weakness seems to be the shooting phase, unless I’m just missing a buff somewhere. Arkhan the Black: Surprise surprise, he’s solid. I’m use to playing him very defensively but with the protection of the Morghast/Immortis, he could plow right into the fray and be totally fine. His healing bubble (24”) is crazy if you can get him near the center of the board and while his command ability didn’t do a lot for my list, I could see a more magic-heavy list really utilizing it. Still never got Curse of Years past 2 wounds though, but the dream is there. Bonereapers_2k.pdf

It would be cool if each one was more of a Warband starter kit. Include the models and cards, plus some tokens, maybe a folding ruler, custom-color dice themed to the Warband, a dice holder/tracker, and a little notebook with pre-made forms for keeping track of their battles. It would make it really easy for new players to jump in and play on any sort of board or terrain they might already have.

Look I think we can all agree that Slaves to Darkness are doing just great.