Can’t Be FAQ’d? We’ve Got You 🫶
A sneaky little FAQ slipped in overnight, and if you can’t be FAQ’d scanning through a 65-page pdf for the occasional golden nugget, don’t worry. I already Ctrl+F’d the shit out of it, so here’s what you need to know. There’s two broad categories of FAQ this time around: The weekend’s almost here, so pour…
Mastering Moonclan: Five Essential QOL Boosts
When you stick with an army for a while, you pick up a few tricks of the trade. As a long-term Gitz player there’s a few things I’ve seen people often get wrong – myself included at times for sure – so today’s article presents a few little quality of life boosts you may be…
How Gitmob Wins Games: Sneak, Stab & Scarper
Gitmob has a bunch of movement tricks, but in a game centred on killing stuff and scoring objectives, how does an army without a true sledgehammer or a ton of bases on the table win games? It’s one thing for me to go on about Moonclan nuking units with Squigs or dumping a million Stabbas…
October 2025: A Month in Plastic
Ladies and gentlemen, we had an FAQ! Tagged onto the Helsmiths post-book update, I’d argue that the biggest news was what didn’t happen: we Destro players had our breath held to see if the Gloomspite Chariots were gonna cop a correction – and they didn’t. I’ve spent the last few weeks explaining to opponents that…
Reclaiming the Narrative
What does narrative wargaming mean to you? If your main or only experience is Warhammer, there’s a good chance you associate “narrative” gaming with a table of heavily-randomised effects sitting on top of your Matched Play experience, quite often meaning that you roll a dice at the start of each round, and on a 6…
Kicking Butt with the King: Brodd’s Stomp at Bush Bash
A church house, gin houseA school house, outhouseOn Highway Number NineteenThe people keep the city clean I can honestly say that Bush Bash last weekend was the best day’s Warhammer I’ve had in years. King Brodd’s Stomp felt great: your games are exciting and it’s got a lot of play. Earlier this week I rattled…
3-0 with King Brodd’s Stomp: The List
Geez that was a big weekend. Bendigo VIC punches well above its weight in Warhammer terms – if you’re not from the Great State of Victoria but you have heard of Bendigo, chances are it’s either because of an Age of Sigmar GT or an old Rick and Morty bit. October is Springtime in Australia,…
AOS Christmas Boxes 2025: Fuck, Marry or Kill?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The time where content creators get cheap clicks from adding up the notional cost of whatever sprues GW have stuffed into a big box this year, and telling you how much you’d save compared to buying it all separately. Those articles can be useful and I do…
Winning games with Moonclan
I’ve been bouncing around Grot Spam lists over the last week or two, and a big part of that has been considering how much output you can get from jacked-up Stabbas: as the proud dumb owner of 200+ Grots I’m motivated to give the Moonclan side a fair old crack, and I reckon Gloomspite are…
Ghyranite Treasures Hobby Contest – The Results Are In!
Let’s go! A lot of AOS players around the world have been making little tokens to represent their Ghyranite Treasures from the Intercept and Recover battle tactics card: And then Grant (Farmhammer) planted the seed for this contest when he asked our Discord to name his own kitbashed Treasures: So we ran a kitbashed Ghyranite…
September 2025: A Month in Plastic
Geez that was a big month. The Battlescroll landed and shook things up a fair bit – but the other big news was a well-sourced rumour about a massive Ogors range refresh1. Whitefang doesn’t get much wrong and so I’d say it’s all but confirmed that all the remaining Failcast will be consigned to the…
Display Boards – Worth It?
G’day gamers! There’s been a bit of discussion over in the PC Discord about display boards, their value and how tournaments should approach them. There are conversations to be had around whether and how display boards should impact on tournament scores – for example how it can disadvantage people travelling longer distances. But for today…
Battlescroll Sep 25: Destro Perspective
We all know exactly what needs to be done, but we don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it – Jean-Claude Juncker on the 2008 financial crisis Well what have we got here! The Battlescroll hit overnight, sending filth chasers around the world into blind panic as they frantically retool their tournament lists,…
Short Angry Men – First Impressions on Helsmiths of Hashut
It’s finally upon us: The Honest Wargamer has splashed the full Helsmiths of Hashut rules all over the internet. Check out Rob’s video below, and today we’ll be highlighting some neat combos for the angry Short Kings of the Realms that have jumped out to us. What we’re doing here today This isn’t a full…
Back next week
Morning all, Just a very quick note because we pretty much always publish on Fridays, so I know a lot of people check the landing page today to see what’s going on. We won’t have an article this week because I’ve been unwell (a bout of food poisoning) so there are a couple of articles…
Pat Goes 4-1 with SBGL: A Bathurst GT Review
Bathurst GT is a two-dayer in Central NSW run by the Crutchhammer boys. For those unfamiliar or flat out indifferent to Australian motor racing, Bathurst is home to the biggest race on the V8 Supercar calendar, which is a sort of street race circuit for cars that look like American drive-round-in-circles NASCAR things as opposed…
August 2025: A Month in Plastic
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” Empires rise, and empires fall, all within the space of a few weeks. Since the last monthly update we’ve seen the Khorne book come out, seen Gorechosen sweep all before it, and seen it get smacked back down with…
Nighthaunt: Is it all Doom and Gloom?
Well, just like the books before and a certain Kardashian video, the new Nighthaunt book has been leaked all over the internet and nerds have gone wild over this one. This book has caused quite a change up in the Nighthaunt playstyle and a lot of Nighthaunt players have grabbed their pitchforks and taken to…
5-0 with Gorechosen at Nashcon: Event Report
CALVIN TOOK OUT A 5-0 with the notorious Gorechosen at Nashcon last weekend. In this article, Calvin will address what made the army so cooked, run through his games at Nashcon to give you a feel for what it was like to play with and against, and deliver his verdict on the recent….”updates” the army…
TTS Dispatch: August 2025
Let’s hear it for Peter Kreitl aka ORKMANN, making his PC debut with this article. You can read more about Peter K and his background and achievements here. Welcome to our first TTS Dispatch, which will be a regular column presented by Peter Kreitl, aka ORKMANN moving forward. A lot of the world’s best players…
Listbuilding Challenge: The Results Are In!
Well we certainly put our money where our mouths are, didn’t we? Let’s hear it for PC writer Calvin Rarie who went and took the Gorechosen AOR to a cracking 5-0 last weekend. Calvin had the hardest run imaginable – three of his four opponents went 4-1 themselves – so it’s a fantastic result. Calvin’s…
The Listbuilding Challenge is BAIC! Gorechosen x Herohammer
Morning Craicheads! It’s been a while since we ran a Listbuilding Challenge: Indexhammer put a real squeeze on the noble art, as a lot of factions had an observably correct way to go about winning games1. I know a lot of people find daily tinkering with lists to be an important way to keep plugged…
July 2025: A Month in Plastic
I think we all knew the classic red ‘n’ yellow Games Workshop logo would go one day – it’s not like you see it in action a lot, tucked away there on the back of boxes as the Warhammer branding is pushed to the front. Whenever the axe did swing though, it was always gonna…
Farewell to Bonesplitterz
I close my eyesOnly for a moment and the moment’s gone Dust in the Wind, Kansas So Da Boyz have gone to the Great Hunt in the Sky. It’s taken me while to rustle up the energy to write about this: Splitterz are my all-time favourite army and the one I’ve played right through the…
Fostering Creativity in the Busyness of Life
Thanks to our guest writer The Aussie Wargamer for this article. “I’m just not a creative person,” she said, glaring at me with the kind of look that might have turned ancient Greek adventurers to stone. It’s 2:30 pm, and I’m trying to draw out an idea from a student, who is as enthusiastic about…
The Genius of the New Battle Tactics
It’s a common thread that I’ve seen in a lot of early-GHB list discussion: which Battle Tactics do you reckon I should take in this list? Which ones do you like? Which ones are a trap? And as people have started playing games, it’s one of the biggest talking points: how did the BTs go…
Who’s Down With OCC?: The Road to the Oceanic Championships, Part One
If you don’t get the reference, that’s on you. The Oceanic Championships of Warhammer are the brainchild of Josh Diffey, owner of Melbourne’s Gaming Arena. It’s a pretty standard 2 dayer, with the main attraction on offer being a Golden Ticket to the Warhammer World Championship for the first place. In Australian AOS terms, a…
Which unique characters do we need to see in AOS?
Express yourselfYou can’t be wrongWhen something’s goodIt’s never gone ~ New Order, World in Motion Whether it’s a favourite character from a Black Library novel that you need to see represented on the tabletop, or that girl you knew in your 20s that you still regularly bang one out over, we’ve all got “the one…
June 2025: A Month in Plastic
Can you feel the energy? AOS4 is backerer than ever! Since the last monthly recap we’ve had a full suite of Scourge of Ghyran updates – the power level was all over the place (classic GW) and the armies that needed the most help didn’t always get that. But what it did bring back was…
List Building is FUN Again! New Lists for Every Order Army
It’s been a while since the pre-game part of AoS has been enjoyable. Last season, tactics were so open and freely available that list building became exclusively an exercise in building the most violent lists possible. Linear, sledgehammer-type lists were strictly better because just straight up killing your opponent was more efficient than basically any…
Drokk! Farewell to Warlord Games’ 2000AD Range
This article is a rare departure from our normal dedicated Age of Sigmar coverage – so if you’re strictly here for the AOS, you’re welcome to skip this one. Maybe check out ROCKMAN’s Nighthaunt list write-up in the meantime. Well all good things must come to an end, and if history teaches us one thing,…
Nighthaunt: The Revenge of the Sith
Oh baby, Nighthaunt was one of the most broken armies at the start of fourth edition – in fact probably one of the most broken armies in the history of our game, with its 80% win rate. People really thought they were the shit when they1 managed to do well at events with such a…
So Universal Manifestations Cost Points Now. Are They Worth It?
“We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.” ~ Steve Maraboli There’s a whole bunch of changes to universal Manifestation Lores that were kinda skipped over in the excitement of all the new GHB stuff. I know I certainly flicked straight past them in sweaty-palmed excitement when the PDFs started landing…
No, Shooting in AOS4 is Not Dead. And Here’s Why
Patrick Dangerfield will slow down and have less impact on AFL games. Tariffs will make the American middle class rich and stick it to the foreigners. Shooting is dead in Age of Sigmar’s new GHB. Life in 2025 is full of big, hollow promises, but it’s that last one we’re here to examine today. What’s…
May 2025: A Month in Plastic
Well I don’t know about you, but this is most excited I’ve been for AOS in years. AOS4 has frankly died on its arse round here so far – tournament attendances might be holding up fine, but I talk to a lot of people around the world about this game on a daily basis, and…
Cities of Sigmar – A New Hope
Ohhh baby this Scourge of Ghyran has got me so RILED UP! Cities is a new army for me, one that I was getting excited to paint and play – a more laid back option for your classic filthy meta chaser1 and now good old Gee Dubs has decided to make it super powerful right…
Feed Me Maw: Ogors Scourge of Ghyran Review
So as a long-term Ogors player, I went into this update with a long shopping list. The army has a huge amount of needs, well in excess of what an update of this scale can possibly deliver, but a few near the top would include: Beyond the individual warscrolls, this is an army with few…
Krule Summer: Scourge of Ghyran Kruleboyz Review
Well similar to our friends who are clad in pigshit armour, the Kool Boyz get two Formations, three Monster Traits and a couple of warscrolls. And also similar to the Ironjawz, they’re pretty good. Shall we take a look? The Formations The first one is definitely competitive, and the second is interesting. Gangin’ Up Gutrippaz…
Sex, Drugs and Sausage Rolls: The Ironjawz Scourge of Ghyran Update
What would make Ironjawz players happy? I could write you a whole article on what we want and need, but we ain’t getting everything this side of a new Battletome. In terms of realistic hopes for a set-piece update, I reckon Maw Krushas that feel like real Maw Krushas would be pretty high up the…
From Pointless to Sort of OK? Blades of Khorne and the Scourge of Ghyran
So the Blades of Khorne update for the Scourge of Ghyran landed and, well, it’s a bit of head scratcher. I’ve been at this caper way too long to expect much from Gee Dubs when it comes to my favorite faction, and with the option of actively making things worse being off the table, this…
Tag ’em and Bag ’em: The new Fanatics break AOS, and here’s how
This is probably the most excited I’ve been to play AOS in years. Flavour is back and Battle Chores are being completely rethought, so the next GHB is looking up already. The Scourge of Ghyran rules that are being dripped out right now include some really bold updates to the game. GW are having a…
Cool mini, shame about the rules: Top 5 models you don’t see enough of
Not those type of models We’ve all been there. A unit craps out. Whiffs all its attacks, launches a special ability that does nothing and dies to a hit from a strand of wet lettuce and you have this conversation. “What? Is that all it does?” “Yeah, they’re pretty shit.” “Damn, such a cool model…
The Greatest Warhammer Fantasy Art: The Final Showdown
Welcome to the final showdown in our quest to find the greatest work of art in the Warhammer fantasy canon! With 14/16 of your nominations eliminated, we move on to the grand final between Karl Kopinski’s Breton Bowmen and Geoff Taylor’s White Dwarf 250: If you missed the original article, you can catch it right…
April 2025: A Month in Plastic
Buff Wagons acting as mobile portals through reality? War Pigeons switching off tap ‘n’ go objectives? To quote the great Flava Flav, Yeah BOY. There’s some real passion – and a lot of novel tech – in the rolling Scourge of Ghyran updates, and hopefully the Devs can keep up that momentum. My own number…
Hey GW, I did the warscroll rewrite, please get back to making models.
Congrats to Zak who just recorded a superlative 6-0 at AOS Worlds last weekend! With Adepticon in the rear-view mirror and the warscroll rewrite imminent, we can look back on what were some interesting announcements for Age of Sigmar. On the one hand, if your interests include: …then Adepticon was for YOU. If you’re not…
The Greatest Warhammer Fantasy Art: Top Four
The votes are in! We’re closing in on 3,000 votes total, so thanks to everyone for getting around it. Welcome to the semi finals of our contest to find the greatest work of art in the Warhammer fantasy canon; and if you missed the original article, you can catch it right here: As well as…
Triggered! Is Crit Roulette with the Wight King Good Design?
I’ve been thinking about this one a lot, ever since it was revealed at LVO: That Ancient Barrow Curse is something fresh, and I really like what they’ve done here. Let me explain why. How it works You’re chucking 5 dice and need to hit at least one Crit. The maths of hitting one or…
Hogtied & Handsome: Chris Riley’s Meta-Crushing Bonesplitterz
Interview by Peter Atkinson Chris Riley is a long-term Bonesplitterz aficionado, and he’s been smashing it with this pig-heavy list. A 19-game winning streak incorporated a 3-0 RTT result and culminated in a powerful 4-1 result at the Warhammer World AOS GT, Chris’s only defeat being a Table 1, Round 5 loss to World Champion…
The Greatest Warhammer Fantasy Art: Top Eight
Article by Peter Atkinson If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint ~ Edward Hopper The votes are in! About 2,000 of them in fact, so thanks for the fantastic response. Welcome to Round Two of our contest to find the greatest work of art in the Warhammer fantasy…
The Miniature Painter’s Guide to Photography
by Seanzor Hey there, fellow hobbyists! So you’ve kitbashed, converted and painted away at your masterpiece. Now you’re seething for some positive reinforcement so you take a pic of your miniature and ugh, it looks like trash. So you fiddle around with your lights for a bit and wow, it still doesn’t look right. Why…
March 2025: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson Happy Battlescroll Gnashtoof Points Drop Day! Anyway. Welcome to our monthly roundup of what’s been going on in March for the game generally and the Craichouse in particular, with a hitlist of what’s been published here on the blog plus a look ahead to what’s coming up in April. I understand that…
Has Anybody Seen My Old Friend Johnny?: List Building in AOS 4
“Good Night Johnboy.” The Waltons One Big Bad, one or two support heroes, 2x reinforced hammers, 2x throwaway units for Take the Flanks and whatever else you can fit into a 2-drop. That’s the recipe for an AOS4 army. Be’lakor and Chosen, Kroak and Kroxigor, Karazai and Longstrikes. Not everybody has the units to do…
New Kruleboyz Model Leaked!
Morning legends! If you thought the Sigmar reveals at Adepticon were lacklustre, don’t worry because we’ve got great news – our inside contact in the industry, Betoota Gaming Store owner Cam Grundbuch has got the inside track on a new Kruleboyz release and he’s spilling the beans today! Cam’s AOS4 leaks at this time last…
Hobby Saws and Giant Roars: An Award-Winning Mega-Gargant Army
by RussellCroweAOS. Not that Russell Crowe though, Russell Crowe the AOS guy G’day Destrosexuals, and welcome to another episode of “How to overcommit to an over-large project on too small a timeframe”. I’m your host RussellCroweAOS and let’s dive into what it takes to convert monsters in the Mortal Realms! I thought I would try…
Swine and Punishment: Bonesplitterz at Vic GT
by Peter Atkinson I’ll be repping the Bonesplitterz at Vic GT this weekend, including a couple of custom minis. GW has never released anything for this army1, so I’ll just make my own models – and use them with existing Warscrolls. Conversion 1: Squeals on Wheels How do you make a centrepiece unit for an…
Born in Fire, Bound by Blood: Concluding Our Secrets of the Agloraxi Campaign
Article by Peter Atkinson The battle for the Secrets of the Agloraxi was a storm of blood and ambition. The Drakmire Lords in Exile waged war to reclaim their stolen birthright, the Cult of the Agloraxi sought to resurrect the lost empire of their ancestors, and the Free Ghur Corsairs brought fire and ruin wherever…
4 Models, 4 Wins and 357 Mortal Wounds: Meet the Belfast Giants
Interview by Peter Atkinson Hayden McMurray took King Brodd’s Stomp to a powerful 4-1 at a recent GT in Northern Ireland, playing off for the event on Table 1, Round 5 and coming within a whisper of winning the whole damn thing. Today we’ll catch up with Hayden in our “Six Questions For…” format, finding…
February 2025: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson What happened in February? Well Gitmob launched, and that went about as well as England’s ICC Trophy campaign. There’s already reports of discount stickers being slapped on those Gitmob boxes at retailers, and that’s not where anyone wanted this whole thing to end up. I haven’t bought one myself – I’m riding…
Oops! The Feb 25 FAQ in all its horror and glory
by Peter Atkinson In the word of the great Brian Taylor: Wowee! GW slipped in an update alongside the Gloomspite and Warclans Battletome tidy-ups. There’s no points changes1, but a fair smattering of faction stuff plus one big Core Rule change that I reckon they’ll be walking back sooner rather than later. We’ll go through…
Secrets of the Agloraxi Campaign, Round 3: Does Drinking Gonster Count as Hobby?
The sky churned with thick columns of smoke clawing toward the void, as if the Gods themselves recoiled from the spectacle below. I staggered through the shattered remnants of the Eyes of the Prismatikon, clutching the sacred shards of the Agloraxi close to my chest—a futile gesture now, in the face of such crude, relentless…
8-0! Liam’s Cancon-Crushing Idoneth
Liam Burnett-Blue interviewed by Zak Rockman Let’s hear it for Liam! Mr Burnett-Blue, The Villain of Australian AOS, recently took out Cancon with a scintillating 8-0 performance, and he’s here today to spill the beans. Hang on, didn’t Joel McGrath win Cancon? Well. Cancon has a huge playerbase generating multiple 5-0s, and as such it…
Southern Smash GT: A Journey Through Whine Country
All lists shitcanned reviewed by Peter Atkinson (PA), Pat Nevan (PN) and Zak Rockman (ZR) PN: The South Australian boys have stepped up their game and are moving to host two GTs a year, with Southern Smash kicking off on February 15th and joining the venerable South Australian GT. Good for them, although I can…
Secrets of the Agloraxi, Round 2: The One Where 3″ Was Just Too Much
Welcome back – as we hit the halfway stage, our teams have conquered the map, they have wracked up glorious victories (and crushing defeats) and now they’ve started unleashing gigantic sun-lasers to blast each other’s territory. As a reminder, Secrets of the Agloraxi is a Matched Play campaign where our players are logging their own regular competitive…
Top 5 Honor Guard Sergeants
“Private Pyle I’m gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you! ONE! TWO! THREE!” ~Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket The December Patch introduced some impactful and interesting new rules for Honor Guards: Field Sergeant and Prized…
January 2025: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson Sooooooooooo what’s happened since our last monthly update? How about Plastic Craic writer Joel McGrath winning Cancon, did we mention that yet? OK then, better reset the clock. I won’t labour the point any more1 but geez it’s a big win, and good on him for doing it with Giants. A victory…
Joel McGrath’s 5-0 Sons of Behemat: Best Overall at Cancon 2025
Pete writes: G’day Motherfuckers! PC writing team member, Overlord of Measured Gaming and legend of Australian AOS Joel McGrath took his Sons of Behemat to Cancon 2025, and of the 157 players on the day…he only went and finished Best Overall! Joel wracked up a 5-0, plus Best Destruction and a nomination for Coolest Army.…
Gitmob incoming! Hot takes on how they’re shaping up
This is my army. I love Gloomspite and I’ve played them for years – dammit I’ve even played full Gitmob armies in 2nd Ed, before they got squatted. And going one step further: I’m not only a Gloomspite guy, I’m not only a Gitmob guy, I even have a particular love for Gitmob chariots. The…
A Trogg Called Leroy Jenkins: PC Global Campaign 2025, Round 1
BAM! That’s Round 1 in the tin. Our players around the world have been playing games and logging wins, cracking out the paintbrush and capturing territory for their alliance. As a reminder, Secrets of the Agloraxi is a Matched Play campaign where our players are logging their own regular competitive games against their own opponents,…
The Road to Cancon: 2025
Images courtesy of Capital Country Wargaming1 Cancon, Cancon, Cancon. The tournament so nice they named it thrice. Or something. Regular visitors to the House that Craic built should be familiar with this mainstay of the Australian Gaming Calendar, but for those who came in late: Cancon is the annual convention held in our nation’s capital…
2024: A Year in Plastic
by Seanzor and Pete A Pete Writes: Whenever a new Orruk Warclans book lands, I know that one way or another, I’ll be needing a box of tissues to hand. I do of course have all the opinions on this shambolic mess1, and they will be dumped on a grateful world in due course. I…
The Ultimate Guide to Friendly Unit Tech in AOS4
by Peter Atkinson “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends” ~ W.B. Yeats Regiments of Renown have replaced Allies as the “other stuff” you can put in your armies – I guess the theory is that because it’s a walled garden, permitting only specific units in…
A Man for All Seasons: The Return of the Daemon Prince
“You’re filthy cute and baby you know it.” Prince and the New Power Generation – Cream For followers of legitimate Chaos Gods, the best news in the recent Slaves to Darkness battletome was the return of the Chaos Daemon Prince. In 4th Ed he has become the Godmarked Ascendant Regiment of Renown available only to…
Order Winners and Losers in Q4 Battlescroll
By Zak Rockman Considering all the changes … Order was arguably hit the least? A lot of the Order Wanker armies have been doing well and yet it feels like not many of them got hit over the head with a chair (like they deserve). Winners Cities of Sigmar A big change up for Cities…
Chaos Winners and Losers in Q4 Battlescroll
by Zak Rockman Fuuuuuukkkkkkkiiinnnnngggg hell – What the fuck is going on in this Battlescroll? There’re some good changes, some bad changes and some completely wild changes.1 Winners Beasts of Chaos Bestigor went up in points! But only 10!?!! So that list only lost like 10 of the fuckers?!?! So the meta netlist of spamming…
Building on a Budget: A Cheap-As-Chips Ironjawz Army
Christmas boxes are usually a steal, and we already know that the Orruks Battletome is next cab off the rank. So is the Ironjawz Wrekkamob a good jumping-on point for the Faction? The short answer is yes, it offers a really solid core at a decent price point. So how about we see what kind…
New Battlescroll, New Combos!
by AOSCalvin and Rockman Howdy friends! Normally, when a Battlescroll comes out we try to do just a broad overview of what’s changed and some sweeping discussions about winners and losers regarding points changes. Not this time. This is the single biggest shake-up mid-edition we’ve seen in years. Maybe ever? So much has changed that…
Secrets of the Agloraxi: The PC Global Campaign 2025
by Peter Atkinson If you don’t think Map Campaigns are for you – READ ON – because you are precisely the target audience. Secrets of the Agloraxi is a global Matched Play event bringing all the best aspects of a map campaign to a competitive wargaming audience. Three cultures each unite under a banner of…
LLGT Review: Pete Gets a Desmond
by Peter Atkinson First we had Samuel Pepys and Doctor Johnson. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole was a publishing sensation in the 80s, and soon after we learned you don’t even have to be good to be successful in this genre; Bridget Jones was abysmal but it still made a lot of people very…
Grotmas Regiments of Renown: The Plastic Craic Review
BAM! When an avalanche of new rules hits the game like this, you feel like an artist given a new primary colour to work with. Some of them have strong competitive rules, others don’t, but when you get handed this pdf you can see that it’s teeming with opportunity. In case you hadn’t heard, GW…
November 2024: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… or is it in the saddle of a giant wolf? We can argue whether that was the best reveal ever, but Gitmob is certainly the one that got my blood pumping: I haven’t gone balls-deep into a new release for years, but I’ll be…
The Worst Christmas Gift of All Time?
Growing up in the 90s, Sitcoms1 were a cultural juggernaut. An absolute staple of the genre was the annual Christmas episode, where someone would receive a cataclysmically shit gift, quite often along the lines of “A donation has been made in your name….”2. Well, tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999. If you’ve got a…
Lost Legion ’24: Power Picks and Coolest Lists
by the Plastic Craic team – intro by Peter Atkinson Long-term readers will know we like to open these List Reviews with a roast of whatever shit tip we’re visiting this time, but I won’t bang on about Geelong’s status as the Rust Belt of Victoria, not least because there’s actual gun play in and…
Plastic Piles and Pointless Problems: A Faction Terrain Review.
by Zak Rockman Faction terrain rules range from “Eh, that’s cute” to “Oh, my whole faction relies on me getting a second mortgage to afford the basic rules of my army.1” You’ve got OBR players who have a 50/50 chance of doing the thing, while Sylvaneth players are over here summoning their Ikea flatpack forests.…
Brewdog GT ’24: Power Picks and Coolest Lists
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I say “Scotland”? I lived in Edinburgh for about 4 years and I’ve still got family in Glasgow and Inverness, so let me tell you: if you thought of Groundskeeper Willie, that’s a hopelessly unfair stereotype. That bloke is in no way reflective of modern Scotland,…
Nauseous Revulsion: A Nurgle Index Diatribe
“It’s a huge shit sandwich and we’re all going to have to take a bite.” Lt Lockhart – Full Metal Jacket Well it finally happened, I took my beloved Nurgle army to a 4th edition event. It was against my better judgement and as one of Papa’s most loyal grandchildren I felt I owed it…
What’s the Greatest Work of Fantasy Art? You Decide!
Article by Peter Atkinson If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint ~ Edward Hopper I’m a great believer that the art of Warhammer (or any great setting) is a huge part of what draws us in – I’ve got youthful memories of staring at mind-blowing fantasy artworks for…
Endless Bullshit: The Aftermath
Well that was eventful. Our last article on Endless Spells really kicked the hornet’s nest and I want to follow up today for a couple of reasons: Ready? Let’s go. What’s actually going on here? I just want to lay out this interaction in less technical language than the original, so in a nutshell: Manifestations…
Introducing Our First Annual Painting Contest: The Sticky Brush 2025
by Seanzor We all had a real buzz going after our Spearhead Hobby Challenge, so thanks again to all the Craicheads who took part – and we’ve now got another challenge to look forward to! Today we’re launching The Sticky Brush, our first annual Single Model painting competition. This is about really pushing your own…
October 2024: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson BAM! GW swooping in with the stealth FAQ. Rivers were cried because Foxes only get to move 2D6 after shooting you up, and in Lumineth lala land that apparently makes them unplayably shit. Boo frikkin’ hoo. Is a monthly tidy-up FAQ too much? I can see why a lot of people don’t…
You’re Playing AOS Wrong: Endless Bullshit
Welcome to the first in a new series where we bounce around a topic that’s causing confusion in the community, underneath an unnecessarily-confrontational headline. This one came up in our Discord last week, and here’s a shoutout to Graal for raising the topic – it caused a flurry of discussion involving some very experienced players,…
Fat Guys Get The Whale: A Sydney GT Review
I’ve never been much for Sydney. Sure they have the Harbour Bridge, the beaches and the occasional race riot but the beer is ordinary, the traffic is terrible, the streets are narrow and the place always seems kind of dirty. As for the people? There is something about the place that makes its inhabitants trend…
SAGT List Review: Power Picks and Coolest Lists
by the Plastic Craic team, with one special guest! BAM! Saggy T is one of the big beasts on the Australian AOS calendar – we’ve had some bloody good nights at the Hilton RSL over the years, and although none of the Plastic Craic team will be in attendance this year, we’ll be cheering you…
Hobby Showcase: Craig Boyle’s Multi Award-Winning Gloomspite Gitz
Today we’ve got a very special army for you: Craig Boyle’s award-winning Gloomspite Gitz. Craig recently scooped the double at Rotten Seagulls GT 2024 in the UK, picking up both Best Army (player voted) and Best Painted (judged) at the same event! This army is sensation and I hope you enjoy it. I’m Craig –…
Spearhead Hobby Challenge: The Final Results Are In!
by Seanzor and Pete Well folks – made it! The Craicheads have poured their hearts into this competition, and we’ve got a bunch of fantastic completed projects (plus a couple still partway through their journey) to show for it. This was a major undertaking to kick off 4th Ed – bigger than most of the…
A Walk in the Woods: Sylvaneth Are STONKS
by Zak Rockman A big welcome to Zak Rockman, who makes his debut today as the latest member of the Plastic Craic writing team. We introduced Zak in our monthly round-up but the short story is that Zak is a top competitive player, having won loads of events (including the Misfits GT last weekend) and…
So It’s Come to This: Destruction Tier List, October 2024
Urgh, clickbait. Well if talking about Bonesplitterz is clickbait, then I look forward to watching the clicks pour in. I do enjoy other people’s Tier Lists (regardless of how much I agree or disagree) so it’s about time I had a crack, and today we’ll be focussing on Team Green from top to bottom. We’ll…
September 2024: A Month in Plastic
by Peter Atkinson Well that was quite the rollercoaster, wasn’t it? Since the last update we’ve had paywalled Warscrolls in the app (boo!) and a balance update (yay!). Hot takes are all over the place on whether the top armies got nerfed enough (LRL, NH) or were even directionally correct (Tzeentch), but I think most…
Well I guess they had it coming: An AOS4 Khorne Index Review
by Pat Nevan “Yeah, well I guess they had it coming.” The Schoefield Kid “We all got it coming, kid.” William Munny Unforgiven Khorne glorious Khorne, first faction in my heart, last in my win percentage. Unlike my last Khorne Battletome review I made the decision to actually get some games in before reviewing the…
4th Ed’s First Balance Update: Winners, Losers and WTFs
by Calvin Rarie It’s everyone’s favorite time of year–rules and points updates! A lot of things have changed in this first balance updated for 4th edition, and most of it is pretty awesome! For each Grand Alliance, we’re going jump into what I think are: We’ve got one particularly huge update that I think everyone…
Team Australia AOS: Insights from Captain Jordan Rees
Today we’re talking Hammer with Team Australia AOS captain, Jordan Rees. Jordy was part of the Aussie team that returned an outstanding 5-1 result at Worlds a couple of months ago, and we’ll be going through the present and future of that team as well as Jordy’s thoughts on AOS4, life in the world’s most…
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