Monthly Archives: October 2010

Weekend Wrap-up: Boo!

Posted on October 31, 2010 06:20 pm by Thor

Been a pretty busy week at work this week and haven’t had much time to write articles. I know, you’re all sad, me too. Read more... (312 words, 1 image, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n, News | Tagged Blogosphere, Drop Pod, Joe, Painting, Space Marines, Speedmek, Warhammer 40K | no comments

Command Center: Update v1.2

Posted on October 29, 2010 12:57 pm by Thor

When it rains it pours. More features for my faithful testers. Here we go: Read more... (178 words, 1 image, estimated 43 secs reading time)

Posted in Command Center News | Tagged Command Center Update, Free Army List Building Tool, Lists, Warhammer 40K | no comments

Command Center: Update v1.1

Posted on October 26, 2010 03:21 pm by Thor

I’ve gone through and put in a lot of updates for Command Center. Here’s a list of updates: Read more... (212 words, 1 image, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Posted in Command Center News | Tagged Command Center Update, Free Army List Building Tool, Lists, Warhammer 40K | 1 comment

40K Rules Quiz #8: Universal Special Rules, Buildings & Ruins and Missions

Posted on October 25, 2010 11:27 am by Thor

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series 40K 5th Edition Quiz

One of the easiest ways to become a better 40K player is to know the rules inside and out. Even veterans will re-read the rules to freshen up and make sure they know their stuff. So, I thought it would be fun to do a 40K quiz. I’ll chop the rulebook into sections and post a quiz for each. I’m aiming to quiz on the more obscure stuff and by obscure I mean items you may have overlooked, not known or always been fuzzy on. Some questions will be easy but hopefully overall the quizzes will be a challenge to anyone taking them. Oh, goes without saying but don’t use the rulebook to look up the answers. I want to test knowledge, not ability to research. Read more... (496 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Posted in Quizzes | Tagged Buildings, Missions, Quiz, Ruins, Rules, Universal Special Rules, Warhammer 40K | 6 comments

October Tournament Report

Posted on October 24, 2010 08:38 am by Thor

Yesterday at the LGS we played an 1,850 tournament. A few months ago I began advocating we remove army composition and this month was our first without it. At the end of the day we were asked what we thought and nobody noticed a difference, that army composition wasn’t in place. That’s the appropriate answer in my opinion. Read more... (1249 words, 1 image, estimated 5:0 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Orks, Space Marines, Space Wolves, Speedmek, Sun'z Killaz, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 7 comments

Command Center: Update

Posted on October 23, 2010 05:00 pm by Thor

A minor update to Command Center for the testers. Aside from some aesthetics, you’ll notice that unit cost is now broken down into two fields. The first cost field is after the unit name, that one is for the base unit cost. The second cost field is after wargear for wargear cost. Both fields total up into the total cost column. Read more... (212 words, 1 image, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Posted in Command Center News | Tagged Command Center Update, Free Army List Building Tool, Lists, Warhammer 40K | 5 comments

Tankbusta Nob – Lookie What I Found

Posted on October 22, 2010 03:19 pm by Thor

This past Wednesday my Orks squared off against Imperial Guard. On the first turn my Looted Wagon with Tankbustas blew up, not surprising. At the shop we have these wrecked Rhinos we use for vehicle craters so I grabbed one to represent my destroyed Looted Wagon. Now, my Tankbusta Nob is a conversion of mine and he’s magnetized at the waist. His lower torso is a small tank, appropriate right? I’ll have to get a shot of him in full at some point. Anyway, one of the regulars had the brilliant idea for the placement of my Nob in the wreck. The quality sucks since I used my phone, which obviously doesn’t have a great camera. Read more... (117 words, 2 images, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News | Tagged Nob, Random, Tankbustas, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

40K Rules Quiz #7: Vehicles (Part 2)

Posted on October 21, 2010 09:10 am by Thor

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series 40K 5th Edition Quiz

One of the easiest ways to become a better 40K player is to know the rules inside and out. Even veterans will re-read the rules to freshen up and make sure they know their stuff. So, I thought it would be fun to do a 40K quiz. I’ll chop the rulebook into sections and post a quiz for each. I’m aiming to quiz on the more obscure stuff and by obscure I mean items you may have overlooked, not known or always been fuzzy on. Some questions will be easy but hopefully overall the quizzes will be a challenge to anyone taking them. Oh, goes without saying but don’t use the rulebook to look up the answers. I want to test knowledge, not ability to research. Read more... (427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Posted in Quizzes | Tagged Quiz, Rules, Vehicles, Warhammer 40K | 4 comments

APB: Stolen Miniatures

Posted on October 20, 2010 07:09 am by Thor

If you haven’t heard yet, I am a day late in this post, someone stole Big Jim’s Chaos army. We fellow bloggers are trying to circulate some pics of Jim’s army. So, keep an eye out at eBay, Amazon, or any site where someone may go to sell off the miniatures. If you do see them then contact Big Jim over at his site.

Posted in Community News | Tagged Big Jim, Chaos Space Marines, Galaxy in Flames | 2 comments

October 1,850 Tournament – Ork List

Posted on October 19, 2010 08:28 am by Thor

For the tournament this coming weekend I’ve decided to run one of my tested Ork lists. I was originally hoping to use my Marines but in wanting to field only painted units, well that leaves me with a poor Marine list. So, with little time to experiment I’m using the below list. Read more... (648 words, 1 image, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Posted in Gaming, Lists | Tagged Orks, Speedmek, Sun'z Killaz, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 5 comments

Ponderings: Random Game Length in Tournaments

Posted on October 18, 2010 08:41 am by Thor

There’s been a lot of articles and discussions lately about tournament formats. A big topic is the random elements in a tournament. Basically, the less randomness in a mission the better the test is of player skill, which I can agree with. I know I’ve won and lost my share of missions based on some random element in the mission itself. However, what about random game length? Read more... (687 words, 1 image, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged Introspection, Ponderings, Random Game Length, Risk vs Reward | 5 comments

Weekend Wrap-up: Lots O’ Stuff

Posted on October 17, 2010 07:52 am by Thor

I got in the usual game on Wednesday and put down my tried and true Speedmek list and pulled out a minor victory over Chaos. We were play testing Recovery for the upcoming October tournament next week. I had tried last week a test an Ork list that was more shooty, which I feel has potential but I don’t have enough time to tweak it with play testing before next week. So, the tried and true list it is, which I’ll probably post up this week. Read more... (354 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n, News | Tagged Blogosphere, Command Center News, Gauntlet, Joe, Painting, Speedmek, Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battles | 3 comments

Mission: Recovery v1.01

Posted on October 15, 2010 12:15 pm by Thor

Minor updates. Just some wording clarifications. Read more... (428 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Posted in Gaming, Missions, Recovery | Tagged Custom Missions, Missions, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Ramblings: Competitive Armies

Posted on October 14, 2010 11:47 am by Thor

I’m a competitive gamer. I don’t mean that I fly out to the various tournaments held across the US and prove my worth against a room full of 40K players. I would if I could. No, I mean that I enjoy competing. I enjoy the challenge and regularly attend tournaments at the LGS. I have a competitive nature, as we all do to varying degrees, but I compete locally. Read more... (905 words, 1 image, estimated 3:37 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged Introspection, Orks, Ramblings, Tournament Scene, Warhammer 40K | 6 comments

My First Display Tray

Posted on October 13, 2010 09:57 am by Thor

The LGS has trays to use to put your army on and carry around. The problem is the trays tend to be too small for my Orks. So, I finally got around to making my own display tray. I wanted to make something generic so I could use it for either my Orks, Marines or Necrons. As much as I enjoy woodworking, making three separate trays just didn’t make sense to me. Read more... (148 words, 2 images, estimated 36 secs reading time)

Posted in Hobby | Tagged Display Tray, Painting | 7 comments

Big Mek with KFF

Posted on October 12, 2010 05:10 pm by Kamui

Hello all,

I’ve just uploaded a few pics of Ro-Twang, my Big Mek with Kustom Force Field. He’s based primarily on one parts from the plastic Nobz box. The hair and bioniks were scratch built using styrene and Kneadatite, the KFF was built from various bits and wire. His arms are magnet mounted, I’ll post more pics when I get his burna arms painted. Read more... (65 words, 4 images, estimated 16 secs reading time)

Posted in Hobby | Tagged Big Mek, Orks, Painting, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments