Monthly Archives: January 2011

Rok Da Vote: Close of Article Preference & Opening Hobby Poll

Posted on January 31, 2011 08:30 am by Thor

We’re closing out the article preference poll and putting up the new one. There weren’t a ton of votes, which is too bad, but more than the last few times I ran polls. Progress is a good thing. So, below are the results of the last poll. Read more... (304 words, 3 images, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Rok Da Vote | Tagged Blogging, Hobby | no comments

Mission: Battlefield Superiority (Updated)

Posted on January 30, 2011 08:00 am by Thor

I have been wanting to create a new mission for a while and finally got around to it. I’ve written a bunch of other missions that we use at the LGS for tournaments and campaigns. This one is to add to that library so we can keep rotating missions around. The aim is to keep it simple as they seem to most well received, especially at tournaments. I like using a scaling point method to determine the victory threshold. This allows people who only get in 2-3 turns to still be capable of scoring massacres. Putting a hard point limit difference makes that near impossible, as well as it’s hard to find the right values without getting a lot of sample data. Read more... (369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Posted in Battlefield Superiority, Gaming, Missions | Tagged Custom Missions, Missions, Tournament, Warhammer 40K | 5 comments

Weekly Wrap-up: Brrrrr

Posted on January 29, 2011 08:00 am by Thor

In non-blogging related news, Monday we had a really cold day here in Maine, starting the morning off at -20 fahrenheit. My wife got home and the heat wasn’t working on the 2nd floor so I called the plumber/heating guy. I figured it was a zone control valve since the zone was calling for heat on the furnace, which means the heat just wasn’t being pushed to the 2nd floor. The heating guy couldn’t come till Wednesday so we sucked it up and used an electric heater in the bedroom for two nights. Read more... (460 words, 3 images, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Black Library, Blogosphere, Campaign, Dan Abnett, Hobby, Prospero Burns, Real Life, Rok Da Vote, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Community Pimp: 4th Week of January

Posted on January 28, 2011 09:49 am by Thor

The usual, cool stuff worth reading. Read more... (125 words, 1 image, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Army Transports, Blogging Tips, Blogosphere, Hobby, Lists, Promotion, Rules, Strategy & Tactics, Warhammer 40K | 4 comments

Campaign Report: 1,850 for Week #3

Posted on January 27, 2011 09:20 am by Thor

Last night was out third week in the campaign at the LGS. We ran an 1,850 game playing my mission King of the Hill. We had 10 players last night, five on each team, and we rolled for random opponents. As luck would have it I got to play the other team’s captain, a brutal Blood Angels player. Read more... (964 words, 1 image, estimated 3:51 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Blood Angels, Campaign, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Kayvaan Shrike, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | 4 comments

Army List: 1,850 With Shrike

Posted on January 25, 2011 08:23 am by Thor

To bring some of you up to speed if you don’t read here regularly. Lately I’ve been playing with Shrike and have really enjoyed what he offers to my army. I’ve been toying around with different lists just to feel things out. Right now I’m not after the most super-competitive list. I’m playing, experimenting and learning. So, bear that in mind with the below list. First up, here’s the list: Read more... (516 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Posted in Gaming, Lists | Tagged Fate's Angels, Kayvaan Shrike, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | 12 comments

Blogging Tips: Improving Your Home Page

Posted on January 24, 2011 10:28 am by Thor

When someone visits your blog the first thing they see is your home page, or as I prefer to call it, your index. This is your one chance to gain a new reader. If someone is stumbling across your blog then you need to grab their attention right away, give them reason to stay and not only read your current article but also to dig through your older posts. The design of your blog is a superficial way to accomplish that. I’m sure we’ve all dug through blogs that looked great just because they looked great. However, if you’ve nothing to back up that great design then it does you no good. In the end you’re at a blog to read, not to gawk at an amazing design. So, I plan to talk about those things that any blogger can do, not just the digital artists. Read more... (816 words, 1 image, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging Tips, Community News | Tagged Blogging, Categories, Home Page, Increasing Blog Traffic, Navigation, Search, Tags/Labels | 7 comments

Weekly Wrap-up: Games and Paint

Posted on January 22, 2011 08:00 am by Thor

This past week was a very busy week for me on the painting front. Since wrapping up Joe’s Marines I’ve just about finished painting my Assault Squad. I just have the Sarge left and he should be done this weekend. Read more... (282 words, 2 images, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Blogging Tips, Blogosphere, Campaign, Chaos Space Marines, Command Center, Crossroad Games, Fate's Angels, Increasing Blog Traffic, Joe, Orks, Painting, RSS, Team Game, Warhammer 40K | 3 comments

Community Pimp: 3rd Week of January

Posted on January 21, 2011 03:47 pm by Thor

Another busy week for me, which means very little blog reading on my part. So, here’s the short list of posts you should check out. Read more... (132 words, 1 image, estimated 32 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Blogging, Blogosphere, Increasing Blog Traffic, Promotion | 1 comment

Campaign Report: Second Week – Team Game

Posted on January 20, 2011 11:38 am by Thor

Having played our mega-battle the other week and teams now set, last night we played a team game for the campaign. Each team determined the players on their side who would pair up and then who they played was determined randomly. My Orks paired off with a Necron player (who normally plays Space Wolves), and we faced a Tyranid and Blood Angel army. The other game was Daemons and Space Wolves (my team), against Imperial Guard and Necrons (other team). Read more... (594 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Campaign, Chaos Daemons, Imperial Guard, Necrons, Orks, Space Wolves, Team Game, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Quick Report: January Team Tournament

Posted on January 18, 2011 08:28 am by Thor

Saturday was the monthly tournament at the LGS. This month was a random partner team tournament: 1,250 per-player with 1 HQ, 0-1 Elites, 1-3 Troops, 0-1 Fast Attack and 0-1 Heavy Support with the ability to double up one 0-1 slot. We had a pretty good showing with 10 teams (20 players), and I was paired up with a Tyranid player who I’m acquainted with, a co-worker of Kamui. I’d run through his list but I’m still terrible at remembering Nid unit names. I had my Necrons and ran this list here. Read more... (633 words, 1 image, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Posted in Battle Reports, Gaming | Tagged Battle Report, Eldar, Necrons, Orks, Space Wolves, Tau, Team Game, Tournament, Tyranids, Warhammer 40K | 6 comments

The Road to Da ‘Ard Boyz 2011: EvantheNoob’s Take

Posted on January 17, 2011 08:59 am by EvantheNoob

Sorry everyone, I’ve been very busy with my job as of late and have let the blog fall to the wayside while I proved I deserved my paycheck. I hope everyone had happy and safe holidays, and that all the bad decisions made on new year’s eve only resulted in hangovers the next day. Read more... (488 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged 'ard Boyz, Space Wolves, Warhammer 40K | 2 comments

Community Pimp: 2nd Week of January

Posted on January 14, 2011 08:25 am by Thor

I didn’t get to do as much reading this week as I’d have liked. So, here are the articles I did manage to read that I thought should be pimped. Read more... (110 words, 1 image, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Posted in Community News, Community Pimp'n | Tagged Birthday, Black Library, Blogosphere, Dan Abnett, Hobby, Horus Heresy, Promotion, Strategy & Tactics, Suicide Squads | 3 comments

Random: Snow, Snow and Snow

Posted on January 12, 2011 01:36 pm by Thor

Maine Turnpike

Those of us in the northeast (US), are getting pummeled with snow today. Check out that lovely picture, courtesy of Maine Turnpike Webcams. Read more... (100 words, 1 image, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Posted in News | Tagged Random, Snow | 4 comments

Da Road to ‘ard Boyz 2011: The First Steps

Posted on January 11, 2011 11:05 am by Thor

Despite my mixed feelings on ‘ard Boyz, I’ve decided I’ll be attending this year. It’s funny how your opinions and views change over time. Things you once swore you’d never do you find yourself considering and things you thought you’d always do you gave up on. Such is life. Read more... (310 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

Posted in Editorials | Tagged 'ard Boyz, Fate's Angels, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K | 11 comments

Blogging Tips: Comments

Posted on January 10, 2011 08:57 am by Thor

We’ll change gears from blogging tips on how to increase your blog traffic to tips regarding comments on your blog. Comments let us bloggers know that people are reading our stuff and they care enough to reply. Comments are probably the most sustaining feature of a good blog. Getting a lot of comments on an article is the difference between something that’s forgotten in a day to something that lives on weeks after it was posted. You want people to comment on your articles, to discuss it, so you need a way for them to do that. Read more... (655 words, 1 image, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging Tips, Community News | Tagged Blogging, Comments, Disqus, IntenseDebate, Tips | 4 comments