The Joy of Small Games

As players in the US, we tend to think almost exclusively about 2,000pt games... sometimes 1,850. What I've learned in the past year since the vast majority of my models were stolen was how to love smaller games.

Death From Above! Part II

Decent of Angels Advanced Tactics Part II

Maintaining the Initiative

As mentioned in my previous article, the strength of a Decent of Angels list, as with any drop or deep strike list, is maintaining the initiative. Once your opponent gains the initiative and forces you to react to him you will start losing, no question about that and this can be said about just any army. This is especially true with a fire style army, as described in Duke’s series of articles outlining the various elemental styles present in most armies. Nothing will better prepare you for winning a game, especially at a tournament, than experience, but other factors will ensure that you have at least a fighting chance. Now, DoA armies are not the win all, be all army list. They have weaknesses, like all lists, and those can be exploited by anyone that knows them. Knowing what your own weaknesses are will help you defend against this. They have advantages as well…

Tactics: Air style 40k

Once again, I come to bring you the next (and final) installment of the Elemental nonsense series: Air.  If you have been following you know that we covered Fire, Water and Earth prior to air and you know the format... Onward!

Death From Above! Part I

Decent of Angels Advanced Tactics Part I

 by Immortal

When I was first considering converting my glorious Blood Angels from a mech to DoA list, I scoured the internet in an attempt to figure out the best way to not only put a list together, but also how they are played. I found plenty on how to build a list, but very little on how they're played... other than "drop in close and shoot crap, if you survive, assault things, and kill more crap." Now, there is quite a bit of debate as to the exact composition that a DoA army should be. Be it melta toting honor guard, or which HQ choice to take, there are a few staples that every DoA list has (such as Vanguard Veterans). Let’s take a look at some of the more intricate parts of playing DoA.

Tactics: Earth Style 40k

Self Portrait :)

 Hey Internet, welcome to another episode of Elemental Tactics Nonsense.  If you have been following you will know that we covered Fire and Water already in this discussion.  Now I would like to cover Earth style and some of the tactics/ strategies involved with this style of 40k.

Tactics: Water style 40k

As part of my continuing discussion on the different elemental styles of 40k I would like to move forward. Last time, if you recall, we covered fire.  This time we will cover the element directly opposed to a fire list: Water.

Elemental Army nonsense part 1: Overview & Fire

A while back a friend of mine and I were having a discussion about the different army types around there and how they fit with each other. Today Im bringing you the outcome of those discussions, read on for all kinds of goodies.