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Tournament Preview – Three Cool Lists from the LGT

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 11, 2019

This coming week sees an especially exciting tournament coming up - the LGT. As TheChirurgeon already covered in his metagame analysis article, this represents the last "grand slam" of the summer, and is also the last huge event prior...

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Lock, Stock, & Two Loaded Dice: Dealing With Cheating

James "Boon" Kelling - August 22, 2019

Disclaimer: I am neither a behavioral economist nor psychologist. As such I refer to established experts in their field and cite their works where appropriate in discussing theories of dishonesty. Cheater. Possibly the most serious accusation someone can level at...

Battle Reports

Hillbilly Cyborg Yacht Club RTT: A Naramyth Trip Report

Cyle "Naramyth" Thompson - August 14, 2019

Introduction I'm back! This past weekend was a regularly scheduled Two Rivers RTT held at Parallax Games in Bismark, ND. The field wound up being the largest yet for our RTTs at 18 people. Thankfully their gaming space is pretty...

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Tournament Preview – Three Cool Lists From the London Open

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 8, 2019

A month on from the Bristol City Open, it's finally time for me to hit the tournament tables again this weekend at the London Open. I haven't been totally idle gaming-wise - I TOed an RTT for our local...

Battle Reports

Punchy Admech RTT: A Naramyth Trip Report

Cyle "Naramyth" Thompson - July 31, 2019

No rest for the servants of the Omnissiah - Naramyth is back with another tournament report, this time trying out a more combat-oriented AdMech build. Will Dragoons be even better now they have some buddies to zoom up the...

Battle Reports

The Corroad to NoVA Part 3: Actually Playing Warhammer

Liam "Corrode" Royle - July 18, 2019

Welcome back to the Corroad to NoVA! If you’re somehow reading this and don’t know what the Road to NoVA series is, check out TheChirurgeon’s intro post here. Part 1 and part 2 of my personal series are here...

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Start Competing at Warhammer 40,000: An Intro to Tournaments, Part 3

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 28, 2019

Part 3: Learning and Improving When we first started writing this series, we expected it to be a single article. Then it ran long, so we broke up the parts about play and the meta. Then that section ran long...

Battle Reports

The Meandering Road Towards NoVA – Week 3 and First Practice Tournament

Jack Hunter - June 24, 2019

My progress towards my NoVA list over the last week was……..lacking. It turns out that masking these caladius hulls takes hours, and work was crazy. Ended up not getting the tanks to an assembleable state, so I left them...

Gaming

Start Competing at Warhammer 40,000: An Intro to Tournaments, Part 2

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 21, 2019

Part 2: Playing in a Tournament Welcome back to the second part of our “Intro to Tournaments” series. Last time we covered the basics of preparing for a tournament - understanding tournament formats, preparing materials, and building lists. This time,...

Events and Challenges

130 Hours: TheChirurgeon’s Road to NoVA, Part 2

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 3, 2019

The 2019 NoVA Warhammer 40,000 Grand Tournament starts on Friday, August 30th. That means that between today - June 3rd - and the event, I have 87 days to have an army painted and ready to go. During that...