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In this episode we talk to Ed Howden of the GrOGG YouTube Channel about playing Skaven armies in 6th edition.
In this episode we cover:
- Skaven special rules and how they can be an advantage and a disadvantage
- The different units in the army and their strengths
- How Skaven magic is one of the strongest lores in the game
- Magic items that you should never leave home (or your undercity) without
- Skaven artillery & weapons teams
- Using warpstone tokens
- The randomness of playing as Skaven and how they can kill themselves with almost every roll!
- Tactics for dealing with Skaven low leadership
- How to play against Skaven
And more! Enjoy the episode.
In This episode we are talking to Matt Deery of Matt’s 3D Haven, a veteran 6th edition player who is going to talk about his army, the Daemon Legions of Nurgle (but we actually talk a lot about the strengths of each other types of Daemon armies too).
In the episode we cover:
• Why he chose Nurgle Daemons as an army.
• The strengths and weaknesses of the army.
• What he enjoys about their lore.
• The creativeness of building a Nurgle army and how you can make it really unique with conversions and painting.
• Differences between horde / mortal armies and Daemon armies
• How daemonic instability works and how it can be the reasons the army wins or loses.
• The lists in the storm of chaos supplement
• Why +1 leadership is huge for Daemons
• Daemonic wards and advantage from the special rule ‘cloud of flies’
• Strengths of Plaguebearers and how they are used
• Importance of a battle standard bearer for Daemons
• Why Nurglings are the best swarm in the game
• What magic items does he always use
• Using psychology as a weapon
• How being outnumbered by fear-causing unit is a huge part of their tactics.
• Using Greater Daemons (and more in detail for the Great Unclean One)
• How enemy armies can take advantage of the slowness of Nurgle
• How to use march blocking to pick apart a Nurgle army
If you are looking for minatures to be 3D printed, contact Matt on the Matt’s 3D Printing Haven:
https://www.facebook.com/MattPrintingEmpire/
This episode is sponsored by WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN, a 6th edition tabletop event in the UK. Get more information and get tickets here:
https://www.talesfromtheoldworld.com/event-details/tales-from-the-old-world-vengence
Welcome to episode 3 of the podcast and this week we talk about how to play better with, or how to beat, Beastmen armies. Dave has a great chat with Phil Ashton from Road To ReIkland, a Warhammer podcast and organisers of some great tabletop events. He’s a veteran Beastman player, specifically of the Nurgle variety.
We discuss:
• The strengths and weaknesses of Beastmen
• The speed of a Beastman army and using it to their advantage or how to deal with them.
• Nurgle magic and how it could be up there as potentially the most powerful magic lore in the game.
• How beastmen should set up against different races
• What monsters Phil loves bringing in his lists and using them to great effect.
• We go over the ambush and unruly rules unique to beastmen
• We go into using characters and bray shamans
• We discuss the magic items Phil never leaves the house without
• And more!
This episode is sponsored by WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN: A Warhammer Fantasy 6th edition tabletop event hosted in Manchester, UK 11th and 12th of February.
Find out full details and get tickets here:
https://www.talesfromtheoldworld.com/event-details/tales-from-the-old-world-vengence
In this episode with Tom Carley of TheBeastForge 3D Printing store, we go over:
• How Tom got into the Hobby and Why he chose Strigoi as an army
• Strengths and weaknesses of a standard vampire counts army and typical army lists
• Whats different about a strigio army and their tactics
• Strengths of a Strigoi army as well as some tips for beating them
• Whats different about Toms particular list and how he uses it if you need some inspiration
• What units to choose against different races
• How to use vampire magic and compliment it with certain units
• Using deployment to stifle the enemy army
• The different roles of ghouls, skeletons and zombies.
• Using Ethereal units and how to deal with them
• Black coaches and how to keep adding wounds to it (Toms record is 26 wounds haha)
• The lore of the Strigoi
• Using speed to your advantage as a Strigoi army
• How to win without relying on magic
• The tactic of Creating ranked units in the game rather than bringing them
• How an enemy can beat vampire counts using their weaknesses against them
• Hot to make your enemy save their dispel dice, allowing you to cast more spells
• Strigoi can not have magic item but how their bloodline powers make up for it
• Magic items to use against VC
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This episode was sponsored by WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN, a 6th edition tablet event:
https://www.talesfromtheoldworld.com/event-details/tales-from-the-old-world-vengence
In this episode with Max Cooper of Bearfoot Miniatures YouTube channel, we go over:
• Why Max chose Tzeentch as his army
• The strength of a Tzeenth army & effective tactics
• Tactics for to fighting AGAINST Tzeentch and how to beat them
• How to use Tzeentch magic AND how to deal with it when playing against them
• What number of power dice to expect & how to use up an opponents dice.
• Different types of lists you are going to see and their strengths
• The most potent magic items the army can use.
• Using fast cavalry in a tzeentch armies (instead of typical chariots!)
• Controversial Opinions on dispel scrolls
• Using fleeing units to earn victory
• Interesting Tzeentch novels and stories
• Favourite areas of the lore
• And just General northerness from the lancshire lad
Visit Bearfoot miniatures YouTube Channel today:
https://www.youtube.com/@BearfootMiniatures
This episode was sponsored by WAR OF THE EVERCHOSEN, a 6th edition tablet event:
https://www.talesfromtheoldworld.com/event-details/tales-from-the-old-world-vengence