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Welcome To Scotland

Posted on February 11, 2012 10:39 am by Grumhelden
This is him ACTUAL SIZE! Bonnie Prince Charlie was a very wee man.

This is what Scotland looks like, honest.

That awkward first post…

Hi, I’m Grumhelden.   I have other blogs, you may have read them, you probably haven’t.  Either way your thinking “who’s this guy?”.   I’m Scottish, from Glasgow, I’m full on working class and I play Games, nah, I *love* games.  For my part here on Creative Twilight, I’m hoping that I can contribute more about the how’s and why’s, as opposed to the who’s and what’s of our hobby.  There will be batreps, tournament reports and progress reports on the Blood Bowl Team I’m converting up, in future, god willing.  For now, let me kick off with some stuff on how things are here in Scotland in gaming terms.  I’m sticking to gaming terms because I don’t want to ruin that image of a kilted ginger Janitor you have in head right now.  Read more... (605 words, 1 image, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: Don’t Be Stupid

Posted on October 21, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Played a game on Wednesday against a Daemon player I routinely face. He’s been trying to deal with Marines using null zone to learn to overcome it and he did just that. He went into the game very aggressively. We had spearhead deployment and he had first turn. I set up my parking lot of vehicles and he dropped most everything in my face. The aggressive deployment is not typical of this player. Usually he goes more mid-field which gives me a few turns to soften things up before I send in my assault units. Putting it all in my face was a smart move on his part, especially with spearhead deployment as it left me little room to disengage.  Read more... (423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

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Introspection: You Didn’t Try

Posted on October 10, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

Those were the words I heard the other day as I playing a game of Blood Bowl against someone. The fact it was Blood Bowl is irrelevant, it just got me thinking. In this particular game he had scored in the 1st half and he kicked off to me. So, we went into the 2nd half with him up 1-0 and me kicking to him, not good odds for me.  Read more... (390 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: Campaign Report Week #3

Posted on July 14, 2011 08:42 am by Thor

Continuing into week #3 for the campaign at the LGS I was paired off against a Chaos Marine player. The game was seize ground with pitched battle deployment and a few catches. First, terrain features were nominated as objectives. Second, as the defender (the Imperial side having lost last week), I had to deploy my entire army first and then the attacker got to decide if he wanted first or second turn.  Read more... (801 words, 1 image, estimated 3:12 mins reading time)

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Know when to hold em

Posted on June 29, 2011 07:00 am by Stealthy Stealth

Last Wednesday I got a 1500 point game in against Amberclad. I brought out my Grey Knights and he fielded his Dark Eldar. You may not know this but Amberclad is kind of a big deal. I will also tell you that I have beat him, more than once. However he won this game. By that I mean he beat me like a school girl and I cried.  Read more... (348 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

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Global vs. Local: Why you should meta-game your local environment

Posted on June 5, 2011 02:14 am by EvantheNoob

I’ve come to a realization that blogs such as 3++, Yes The Truth Hurts, and forums such as DakkaDakka or Warseer will only get you so far when it comes to list builidng. Yes, I understand the concepts of math-hammer, and I understand the general themes of 5th edition (namely that mech is king).  Read more... (687 words, 1 image, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: Trust Your Gut

Posted on May 12, 2011 10:35 am by Thor

This article could cover a ton of things regarding trusting in your ‘gut’, or your instinct, but instead I’ll focus on my experiences with it lately seeing as these are my lessons learned and not every possible lesson to be learned.  Read more... (483 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

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How Blood Bowl Translates to 40K

Posted on May 3, 2011 09:13 am by Thor

I play a lot of Blood Bowl. The game is amazingly addicting and playing the PC version means knocking out a game in no time compared to table top. If you’re not familiar with it then here’s GW’s specialist page on it. In short, it’s a brutal game of American football that’s turn based, played on a gridded board with dice rolling. It’s a lot like chess, just bloodier.  Read more... (913 words, 1 image, estimated 3:39 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: Play to Your Strengths

Posted on December 29, 2010 10:00 am by Thor

I absolutely love my Orks. I’m a sucker for brute strength. It doesn’t matter what the game is, I will always play whatever the hulking brutes are. I’m a believer in the Ork philosophy of “might makes right”. That’s why playing Orks as my first army was an easy choice. The thing of it is that it matches my play style pretty well. I’m not as simple minded as an Ork, at least I’d like to think I’m not, and I’d like to believe I have a solid grasp of strategy and tactics. However, I’ve always favored the simple strategies and tactics to the layers of complexity that other employ. I can fully appreciate a well played Eldar army. The finesse and precision used by a great Eldar player is nothing short of amazing. For me though, I’ll happily take a sledgehammer to battle over a rapier.  Read more... (721 words, 1 image, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: The Failure of Confidence

Posted on September 8, 2010 07:17 am by Thor

We’ve been doing this tournament at the shop that spans two weeks. The other week was the first week and so last week we were pairing off appropriately, losers vs losers and winners vs winners, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I got there late and there was one person left not paired off, who fortunately happened to also win the previous week, so we grabbed a table.  Read more... (597 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

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Lessons Learned: Kommandos

Posted on July 26, 2010 07:22 am by Thor

Kommandos have always been a favorite unit of mine, especially with Snikrot. They’re a unit that as soon as I put into my list the list becomes exciting for me. For a while I had not fielded them and I couldn’t honestly recall why. After this month’s tournament I recalled why, mech.  Read more... (509 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

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