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Chaos Space Marines Review II: Generic HQ
The named HQ's underwhelm almost to a man. Fortunately, the generic picks are very strong indeed. Two of them, at least, make the HQ section one of the high points of the CSM book. At leats until those...
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What's left for CSM/Daemons? (Part: 3)
We started off by talking generally, next we moved on to units and strategies, and now it is time to take a look at a sample list.This is the list I am planning on running on Saturday at a local...
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Rocking The Tzeentch Clown Car
Victory at last! I have scored my first win over Blackmoor since 6th edition after several close calls. I listened to him arguing with James Watkins on the 11th company podcast about whether or not a...
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What's Left for CSM/Daemons? (The Conclusion)
After discussing a specific list in the last article I ran a version of that list at a local tournament with pleasant results.Here is what I ended up bringing to the tournament.Chaos Lord: Bike, Mark...
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Chaos Space Marine Reviews: Troops
I lumped everything that could possibly be a troop into this section since it's not all that unusual to be running a marked Lord of some sort in a CSM detachment. Since that encompasses pretty much the...
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Chaos Space Marine Reviews: Fast Attack
Someone pointed out I didn't include Cypher in the HQ review. This is true. We'll toss him in with the Elites when we get to it since there isn't much left in that slot to talk about. Today is fast...
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Wanna See My BAO List?
The BAO FAQ came out today. Reece and a number of other TO's from very large national tournaments met a few days ago, to, I assume, coordinate their rulings and create a comprehensive GT FAQ for one...
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Chaos Space Marine Reviews: Elites
I think the number of appealing Elites choices in all codices from CSM onward can be counted on one hand. Lessee... Riptides... Um... Crisis Suits, but they're usually troops. Ironclad Dreadnoughts?...
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Chaos Space Marine Reviews: Heavy Support
We'll wrap this series up before I go out the door tomorrow. I'm on vacation all next week after BAO. We're dumping the kids with the grandparents and spending a few days in the south bay. So you won't...
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Painting Update: Fallen Angels
Seeing as my summer is coming to an end soon I have been painting like a mad fiend. Right now I have six terminators and another rhino to finish and I will be done with the current iteration of my...
View ArticleResults From the BAO
Howdy folks. We wrapped up the BAO today. Good news and bad news. Good news: I won best Daemons, yay!Bad news: I was a mere 25th overall out of 115, so not a terrific showing for Daemons in general....
View ArticleChaos Space Marines and the Meta
Let's talk Chaos Space Marines. Thousand Sons got best CSM's at BAO, and that army was a gorgeous purple, lemme tell you. Honestly, besides Thousand Sons, I don't know what was in the army. I went in...
View ArticleCome The Apocalypse Allies Part 1
A reader suggested we explore the idea of using CTA allies with Daemons. This seems a fine idea. Since everybody besides Chaos Space Marines hate Daemons now, you'd want something out of such a choice...
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I see that you are back for another round. This time I have randomly selected four more armies to talk about. By the way, we'll include Orks and Dark Eldar in this discussion although they are only...
View ArticleCome The Apocalypse Allies Part 3
So far, I think I like Space Marine allies the best. Especially that drop pod list I did. Though I'm probably just biased. Maybe I come up with something better today, yes no?OrksThe consensus is they...
View ArticleCome The Apocalypse Allies Part 4: The Fourth Part
Good news! Voice of the Chaos Gods has predicted that GW is working on splitting up the legions for the next CSM dex! This, of course, is the same Voice of the Chaos Gods, who has so far predicted...
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Fallen Angels: The Anvil
Once again I have more pictures of my Fallen Angels army! Everything is actually completed, and I will now start working on my Nurgle marines and traitor guardsmen. There will be one more post of...
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Going Second With An Assault Army
Like many of you, I was saddened to hear of the death of Robin Williams of Death to Smoochie fame. He seemed a most agreeable fellow.Any time someone famous dies, it reminds me of when I came home from...
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Teh ETC Daemon Lists... No... List!
Of all the places I have ever been, Europe has the most stuff that is gray and depressing.ETC happened last weekend. It is Europe’s annual celebration of tabletop wargaming and white privilege (also in...
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In Praise of Highlander Format Tournaments
I had my very first game of Warmachine this week. I played the local press ganger (a dude who recruits for WM/H) who brought Trollbloods against my Mercenary army. I go to deploy and realize I have no...
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