What's New in Power Armour?

I ended up with a PDF of the new Space Marine Codex. However, I had to promise not to disseminate any information about it until the official preorder date (8/31). Since it's now...a bit after midnight on the requisite date, I thought I'd solidify some rumors.

Changes in my Eldar Army: The Motorpool

Greeting Gentlereaders,

Today, we get to talk about one of the most important parts of knowing how to fight against the Eldar menace.  Today is the motor pool section to wrap up my discussion of how I will be trying to transition my army into a 6th edition codex.  While there were the heretical few who played Eldar on foot last edition I was one of those who played mechanized Eldar because they moved faster than my Tau.  Let's get down to discussing the three vehicles I have experience with .

Hobby Table VI

Greetings and welcome to another Hobby Table.  Looking back on this series, I introduced it as being one that would fall on a number of topics pertaining to the hobby that didn't just revolve around the game itself.  We all know that at the end of the day, much of Warhammer 40,000 is about the stat lines, the dice, and the missions.  But there is so much more to this game than simply how a game pans out.  There's a story to it as well.

While almost every Hobby Table has been about trying to create innovative or unique mission types, I wanted to delve into something a bit more towards the idea of storytelling.  After all, if this game didn't have such an intricate and well developed lore behind it, there wouldn't be much more to it then an expensive game of chess.  Recently a fair number of us got together to simply put models on the table and throw some dice.  I am going to take that game, and establish a developed piece of lore for this engagement.  So lets jump right into it.

GenCon 2013: Godfrey's Reivew

The End of the year is Nigh.  The Harbinger of summer's end and the coming of the cold, northern winter winds that year's end brings has come and gone.  Yes, it was a time of celebration for those who dwell in the deep caves of game stores and basements, and gather above ground in the circle of Indianapolis for the annual meeting of GenCon.  Yes, here at the end of 2013, we have taken our yearly pilgrimage to the holy land of gamers in the midwest, and with it several stories and tales of our experiences from within.  So with this, comes the first tale of two bards who have returned from this land...  A Tale of Two Gamers.

Let's Be Friends! - Chaos Daemons

In my last article, I promised you guys that I'd be hard at it this week. Luckily for me, there's a few armies with "small" matrices, and one of these is Chaos Daemons. And boy, is their matrix a quickie. Evidently nobody likes these guys. Evidently, these guys are the baddest of the bad, since not even most of the traditional "disorder" races really get along with concentrated evil mixed with cannot be. The only people who can get along with them, worship them as gods. Traitor guard is yellow with them, seeming to show that though they are capable servants, all those tanks get in the way of fully committing to the darkest servitude. Chaos space marines are all buddy buddy with them as brothers in arms, but even that is a dubious term, given that Daemonic Instability prevents too much cooperation between villains. Nevertheless, Daemons do have allies, and good ones at that. So, without further ado, let us call upon the ruinous powers.

Changes in my Eldar Army: Path of the Warrior

Greetings Gentlereaders,

Today we're talking about the parts of my army that were and still are part of the most competitive builds in Eldar armies, the aspects in transports.  Looking at points only, these units have all increased in price, but I don't think anyone should be arguing that either they didn't improve or that they the points increase wasn't warranted.

My troops in fifth were dire avengers (DA) flying around in serpents.  While that was the troop eldar players ran, most of them only ran five man squads so they could buy the serpent, a tactic called DAVU, I wanted to run full squads so I could use them to hammer a target then mount up and fly away.  DAs have shifted to more of a midfield 'grinder' unit than the shoot and scoot unit they used to be in part because their exarchs aren't as necessary as they used to be, but are fantastic duelists.   Details after the break