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Category Archives: Editorials
Forums, Blogs or Both?
Last month Blood of Kittens put up an article, Meat for Meta: 40k forums a thing of the Past?, and lately I’ve been thinking about it more. Let’s travel back in time a bit, the year is 1999. I’m running a clan/guild called Destroyers of Hope. I want us to be able to quickly and easily communicate with one another and so I find a forum software service called ezBoard. I set it up and we are posting away on the forums. Shortly after I find something called phpBB and I install that and we use that for our forums over the hosted solution. We are competing in FPS ladders on various sites and the forums are a huge asset for posting when matches are, who can make them, last minute changes, etc.
40K Zombies
I have a few pet peeves (a few is putting it lightly), but foremost amongst those is the unthinking person. This applies to anything but I’m applying it to 40K today. The zombie is the type of person who reads things and takes it all at face value, never challenging the advice or truly understanding it. This person said doing X is the best way to accomplish Y, that’s what I’ll do! The zombie may be smart enough to understand the rationale behind the advice but they lack the mental capacity to take the advice and adapt it as needed. In general, they are unthinking individuals who play the game as a set of instructions and not as a game that tests the skill of two opponents.
Does Size Really Matter?
TastyTaste over at Blood of Kittens has been running a series called In Defense of 1500 that I’ve found interesting. When I got into playing 40K with my friends we were always playing 1,500 games, sometimes we’d go up to 1,750 or 1,850. Initially I was building my army and couldn’t do very large games. However, after I had my Orks built up to a relatively large army we still continued doing smaller games, occasionally tossing down a 2,000 for the fun of it.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Game Size, Games Workshop, Playtesting, Warhammer 40K
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Gamers Just Wanna Have Fun
What constitutes fun inevitably varies player to player but the the truth is that when we play we do want to have fun, well unless you’re a masochist. It’s easy to get caught up in the competitive nature of things. Be that besting your favorite enemy or winning a tournament. Some times you just need to step back and relax. It’s just a game, albeit a game we all obsess about beyond what probably passes for healthy, but a game none-the-less.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Campaign, Crossroad Games, Imperials, Orks, Space Marines, Sun'z Killaz, Warhammer 40K, Xenos
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The Whiner
The whiner comes in many varieties. So many in fact it’s hard to nail them all down. Instead I’ll focus on the primary ones I see but even this is a small sampling.
The Inner Voice
Alright folks, I’ve tried to be good and suppress that inner voice but I can’t do it. When I decided to kick off this blog with some of my 40K ramblings I figured I’d be a good boy and keep that voice inside my head quiet. I didn’t want to scare away readers, I wanted to build a base of readers instead. Well, the voice is winning out. I rant and I enjoy it. I try to not be too dick’ish about my rantings and try to keep it founded and not completely off the wall. I don’t rant for the sake ranting…normally.
Tournaments – Win Big or Go Home
I’m far from an experienced tournament goer since I’ve only played in five of them and all of them local. That being said, at my FLGS we’re all discussing our current method of scoring, from army composition scores to the very core of determining the overall winner. I won’t touch on army comp scores, that’s a hot topic for another day. Most of the discussion has been around determining the overall winner. The method we currently use theis massacre, major win, minor win and draw system (MMMD).
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged MMMD, Swiss Pairings, Tournament Scene, Warhammer 40K
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Games for Kids – Games Workshop’s Trend?
Allow me to rant here. I began playing 40K in the last year of 4th edition, so I had enough games under my belt to know the rules. When 5th came out it seemed the world went up in arms saying that it was designed with kids in mind, dumbed down rules and a simpler system. These are the same words that have been ushered almost any time GW decides to do a full version update. Now that Fantasy’s version update is looming I see people hoping it won’t go the way of 40K 5th and become geared towards kids, a simplified system that’s easy to learn.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged 4th Edition, 5th Edition, Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battles
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Must Have Ork Wargear
In every game I play there is always certain wargear that units have to have. I strongly advocate mixing up your lists as you don’t want people to expect the same thing out of you each game, but when it comes to wargear there are simply must have items for me.
My Top 40K Sites
We all have our favorite 40K sites, those sites we visit daily, weekly, or whatever your free time allows for. I wanted to share my top 40K sites and maybe you’ll find some new favorites. I’m not going to list these in any particular order since it would hurt my brain to really figure out which rank where, they’re all great sites! Without further ado.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Community, Orks, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K
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When the Planets Align
Some times you wonder if all those beatings you are receiving on the table are finally going to manifest into something more than bruised pride. You tell yourself that with each loss you are learning, and you should be unless your an egomaniac and blame everything but yourself for the loss. So you take another loss, shake hands, collect your army and think about the match and analyze it pondering where your mistakes were, how you could have played it better. You take those lessons in loss to heart, evaluate your list, adjust your tactics and hope the next game fairs better for you.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Experience, Orks, Sun'z Killaz, Warhammer 40K
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Games Workshop – Downloadable Content
Kumui and I have chatted about this at great length over the years and it’s not a new topic by any means. Should GW make their rules and/or codices freely available? Yes, they should.
Speed Freeks
Early on when I started Orks I knew I didn’t want to push around over 100 models and I quickly started going Speed Freek style. Back then Orks had clan rules and specialist rules for Speed Freeks and Feral Orks but I didn’t actually play a Speed Freek list. I just emulated the style because I was learning the game and Orks and didn’t want to confuse myself with a specialist list. This type of list was pretty unforgiving in 4th edition where glancing could destroy a vehicle, you had entanglement checks for ruined vehicles and there were three different charts for vehicle damage. As much as I enjoyed the ease of movement and approach to the list, it wasn’t the easiest of lists to play.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Orks, Speed Freeks, Sun'z Killaz, Warhammer 40K
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Style, You Have Any?
If you’ve been following my blog then you know I’ve been working on figuring out a style with my Marines that works for me. I can’t say with 100% certainty that I’ve found it but I feel I’m on the path at least. With my Orks I play pretty much a Speed Freek list because that’s a style that suits me. The key thing here is doing something that suits you.
Get at it ye Gitz!
Played at the FLGS last night and ran into a situation which I fell victim to and no doubt others out there do to. I do this more often than I should so this is just as much making you all aware as reprimanding myself for it (bad Thor!).
Experiences Against the New Blood Angels
I’ve now played three games against the new Blood Angels with my Orks. I have not seen everything the codex has to offer of course but I’ve certainly seen some of the key units and rules in those games.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Blood Angels, Experience, Lessons Learned, Orks, Space Marines, Warhammer 40K
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Mistakes – A Learning Experience
This past Friday I got in a Battle Missions game with my skumgrod Tyson (skumgrod = favorite enemy). I have no idea what it was but both of us kept forgetting stuff, be it moving a unit, shooting with one or making an assault move. If it weren’t for the fact we were both forgetting this stuff then it could have easily swayed the game. The thing is that whenever I play a game if I forget to do something then I stand by it, same with Tyson or anyone I play really. By that I mean if I’m moving models for assault and realize I forgot to shoot with a unit then it’s tough luck, I’m on to assault and have started making those moves. Even if someone offers to let me shoot with the unit I forgot I will pass. The idea is that I’m going to learn and won’t forget to do whatever it was again. If I get a free pass each time I mess up like that then I’m not learning and I’m not holding myself to a standard that allows me to grow as a player.
What Does Your Gaming Record Say?
BoLS just posted up an article called Wargaming ASKEW: Arrogance is Bliss? and it got me thinking a little bit. What exactly does your gaming record say? Does having mostly wins with very few losses mean you’re a great player? On the other hand, does barely being able to win a game mean you’re terrible? I don’t think it’s really that cut and dry and I’ll use myself as an example. I just posted a page with my gaming record, you can find it here. I broke it down into 4th and 5th edition and you’ll see I don’t have an amazing record. It’s not terrible but if you look at it you probably don’t see a player you’re afraid to face, especially against my Necrons! I don’t consider myself a bad player but certainly not one of the best out there either, I’d say I’m above average but my record would seem to contradict that. Let me explain.
Creating Synergy
Let me start by giving the definition of synergy:
synergy |ˈsinərjē| (also synergism |-ˌjizəm|)
noun
the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects : the synergy between artist and record company.
My Decline from PC Gaming
I first got into online PC gaming back in 1999 with a little known game called Starsiege. I promptly realized I needed to join a squad, what Starsiege referred to a guild, in order to have some real fun. Long story short, I took the reigns of the squad that was named Destroyers of Hope and have been running the guild ever since.
Posted in Editorials, Warhammer 40K
Tagged Destroyers of Hope, PC Gaming, Starsiege, Warhammer 40K
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