tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50234048813094433362012-02-16T10:58:17.027-08:00Strategy Board Game Tactics and Playrpthomps1111http://www.blogger.com/profile/18065325565775806469noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023404881309443336.post-16225317290487259782010-04-04T15:33:00.001-07:002010-04-04T17:17:18.180-07:00

Today, I got to play an anhilation style game against Orcs. Already, I had this sinking feeling in my heart. My list is just not desgined for kill points. But with a happy heart, I played my best. The deployment was spearhead and I think I worked it well. I got to deploy second and I noticed that he spread himself out pretty evenly along the entire board. I suppose this was to be expected

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I decided I would start a mini campaign with my friend to spice up the 40K game. Here is my writeup and the scenario that will go with it. I play, of course, Chaos Space Marines. They are my first and only army right now. He has two armies: Imperial Guard and Necrons. This scenario will be for his IG.Story BackgroundOn the Imperial Planet of Praxis, a secret experiment is going on, and only a

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In a month, I am going to another tournament. This one will be for 40K though and although I am happy with the list I am bringing, I don't think it will win. My main hope with the list is to run around avoiding things (haha) and grab objectives wherever possible. With such a depressing list, why do I feel so good about it? Well, it follows the rules of the tournament and I think the spirit of the

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Last night I played a game of 40K. I wanted to try out some different missions from the typical 40K book, so I printed off the missions book from Dice Like Thunder’s webpage. http://www.mybattalion.com/home/downloads/dlt-missions . It’s a well done pdf and it’s free, which is a bonus as well. We rolled advance as the objective and corridor of fire as the deployment, which had us play from the

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So, today I want to talk a little bit about space hulk. A couple of weeks ago I got into a game with a friend. The scenario was Defend. In this scenario you get both heavy weaon choices. I was doing really well initially but close to the end the genestealers began to wear at my troops and when I lost all my ammo for both flamer and assautl cannon I was essentially doomed. So, what would I have

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Check out my Dwarf Vs. Bretonnian tactic talk at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanstactictalk/sets/72157623588328455/

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One of the great things about playing warhammer fantasy is the ability to cast magic. Being a fickle force however, there is great risk to trying to tamper with the sorcerous ways. You may already know that this risk is represented by rolling a miscast, or two ones while casting a spell. I have noticed that some players will not risk rolling a lot of dice when casting a spell, the rationale is

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On Sunday, I played a game of Bretonnians vs Dwarves and I was the Bretonnians. I had a small unit of Pegasus Knights, which are very nice models, by the way. I had placed them directly opposite to a large piece of mountainous scenery that was just begging my opponent to place his warmachines into, which he did. If you don't know why this is a good move, it is because he now has line of sight on

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On day two of the warmasters challenge, I woke up feeling like the inside of an old shoe that someone had fished out of a polluted lake. Even so, I wanted to get in a couple of games of warhammer. Since twelve hours of fantasy seemed impossible, I decided to play two games, go home and catch some needed sleep with my baby son and then go back home for a decent bed time. The organizers were nice

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Last Saturday and Sunday I had the pleasure of attending a Warhammer Fantasy tournament. I will briefly discuss the games below and then in future posts will go over some specific strategies related to the games.To the tournament, Chris (my partner) and I brought an Ork and Goblins army of 2250 points.Orks and Goblins are considered a second tier army. Overall, the implementation of the tiered

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Tomorrow and Sunday is the Warmaster's Challenge Fantasy Tournament. I plan on taking lots of pictures and writing about my experience next week. Wish me luck!

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I started a game already underway. I was in third place but not too far behind. Surprisingly, red was winning despite having no access to wood OR brick. Red DID have access to 3 out of the 4 highest probability tiles though, which means lots of trades possible.It's turn 4 for me now and I am fighting for my life. I make a few trades, grab a development card and I am thinking of picking wheat,

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Although I said yesterday I would post a Catan report, I haven't had a chance to play a game and I really want to get my thoughts in order about Warhammer fantasy. I was thinking about the idea of issuing challenges and why they are important. For the Bretonnian list that I play, my friend put on the lord a magical item that doesn't allow opponents to refuse challenges. Clearly by doing this, he

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Tomorrow, I am planning on writing a post on Catan. I might play a game before I go to bed, or tomorrow when my son is asleep. But because I am trying to hammer this 40K list before the tournament, I would decide to try it out mentally before I send in my army list at the end of this week. To make it interesting I decided to use the DLT scenarios pdf which you can find at http://

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This weekend I am gearing up for the fantasy tournament and I have some cool article ideas that I will be working on tomorrow. Hopefully, I will get to share them with you by the end of the week. I also have a 40K tourney that I am thinking about, which you know of, if you have been following my posts. I have been painting like a madman, or trying to, to prepare my Chaos Marines for this

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Yesterday, I spoke about utilizing the FIRST EVER historical use of strategy in Warhammer Fantasy. Today, I am going to write a little bit of its use in 40K. Unlike, ancient Greek battles and Fantasy ones, the wars of the future do not fight rank and file. This alone changes the dynamic of the strategy. In order for this “bear trap” like plan to work, the bait must be a unit that is a big threat

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Arguably, the Greek plains of Marathon was the first recorded use of strategy in warfare. Pitted against a superior aggressor, the Greeks won the battle using cunning and guile. These two traits were surprisingly rare in battle. The idea was simple, Miltiades, the Greek general, divided his army into three units. A central unit, winged by two more units, thicker in depth of men. To protect his

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Yesterday, I wrote about how the Ork and Goblin army was going to handle two of the four scenarios my friend and I would play at the Warhammer Fantasy doubles tournament we are attending. Today, I thought I would finish the strategy talk with the remaining two scenarios. The scenarios that I am writing about can be found athttp://www.warmasterschallenge.com/system/files/WMC%20Fantasy%20Playtest%

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Hello. I have been mentioning on and off that I will be competing in a Warhammer Fantasy Tournament in two weeks and day one is the doubles tournament. So, last Tuesday my friend Chris and I went over the scenarios to be played and came up with some strategies for our army in particular. We are bringing Orks and Goblins and the troops are mainly riding wolves. The scenarios are found athttp://

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I played a game of Warhammer 40K on Sunday, my first game against Space Marines. Chaos vs Space Marines, guaranteed to be a fight to remember. It was a close game, I thought, but I lost in the end. I tried my list that I am bringing to astronomi-con and I am glad I got to take it for a test drive. I don’t think, overall, I used it as effectively as I could have and this post will be an attempt to

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BackgroundA battle force has been sent to escort a small group of individuals with important intelligence. However, they are in a high conflict area and the potential for enemy interception is high. To help ensure that the survival of the informers is improved, two extraction areas have been selected. If the battle force can safely escort the informers to any of these (or both) then extraction is

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I am posting right now, despite feeling a little woozy. I think my body is fighting a stomach flue. But, I am dedicated, so here I go… Today’s topic is really twofold and is more like an example than any lecture. Being my blog, a lot of the content here is me trying to figure things out. I have always been partial to the word and once I put it down on virtual paper, it seems to stick a little

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Here is the second and last background story for the doubles warhammer tournament I am going to in two weeks. It is the doubles army for Orks and Goblins. Enjoy!-------He had been a great leader and by great he scared the shit out of every one of them. Even Malek two-fingered who had lost 8 fingers wrestling a minotaur, had feared him. The two brothers, Maskel and Rias watched as the priest

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I have been going over the following mental exercise in my head, what if I opposed the exact same army as my own in warhammer? What strategy would I use to win? If the armies were exactly the same and assuming the players were of equivalent ability and winning couldn’t be done at the expense of experience, I think that the terrain itself would be the deciding factor. The location of terrain, the

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Thought I would share my writeup for the Bretonnian army I am playing with in a tourney in a couple of weeks.He is an empathetic Lord, Bohemond, one of the few, who want to do well for his peasants. He understands what the Lady expects of him, to protect the weak and the simple. From his outlying fiefs, the trickle of peasants has stopped. The newest ones tell of war and battle lurking in the

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