Worlds 2023: A Spanish invasion
By Theo Kik-Jansen and Eduard Puig, Edited by Theo Kik-Jansen Ok, so I promised a report on Worlds singles last week. Like many people I spent a good portion of my Amsterdam trip with my pants down, but unfortunately not the fun kind. It meant I had to drop out of day two and the…
Sydney Slaughter list review
We’ve got a long weekend coming up for the King’s Birthday (suck on it Poms), and if you’re an Age of Sigmar player here in Australia, King’s Birthday weekend means Sydney Slaughter weekend. Ran like a well-oiled machine by the Mortally Wounded team, Slaughter is known for its unorthodox event packs, with Chris even writing his…
HITTING ON 4’S IS A CURSE
“I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be borne completely naked.” Jimi Hendrix by Patrick Nevan TLDR: Avoid anything that hits or wounds on 4’s unless it throws a lot of dice or does other stuff. I put up a Khorne list the other day and some well intentioned soul…
Your Regiments of Renown Lists – and the June Listbuilding Challenge
Tina Turner singing at rugby league games. Pedantic little books about grammar. Basically crunchy mashed potatoes. Every now and then, something comes along that captures the zeitgeist more than you could have hoped, and the Regiments of Renown Listbuilding Challenge really got you guys fired up. I was swamped with submissions for this one, so…
Hobby Champions of Gallet
We are nearing the end of this GHB, which (hopefully) means that we’re seeing the end of the Galletian Champion holding an iron-fisted rule over our Battle Tactic selection. So I figured what better way to show revere and disdain for the Galletian Champion than to have a hobby exhibition & contest. This will be…
Road to Worlds: A Pilgrimage from Madrid to Amsterdam
By Theo Kik-Jansen and Eduard Puig, Edited by Theo Kik-Jansen Any AoS player with a Twitter account will have noticed the buzz: It’s almost time for the AOS Worlds Teams event. Like its predecessor the ETC going back as far as 2006, Worlds revolves around 8- player national teams battling it out for the title.…
HOBBY AESTHETICS: BUILDING A FOUNDATION AND TOOLING UP
By @seanzor Hobbyheads, we’ve been down the rabbit hole of nostalgia, childhood trauma and social media. It’s time to take our floaty, airy fairy ideas and put them into physical application of force. It’s time to grab some sweet, beautiful plastic and make some bad decisions that will lead you to a second mortgage. Stare…
Interview with Michael Clarke, Winner of Two Games with Kruleboyz at Masters
Interview by Peter Atkinson Clarkey is among the most high-profile players on the Australian scene: renowned for his analytical playstyle, Michael has been pushing out consistent results for many years and is an absolute fixture on the top tables over here. Clarkey took the Kruleboyz to Masters a couple of weeks ago, and backed up…
The Sunday Sessions: 21st May
Tweet of the Week I love a good call out video. And this, my friends, is a good call out video. Off Topic: Parkrun A few years back, some people at work started doing 5k runs on Saturday mornings through Parkrun, and you know how that goes – we’d be talking about it in the…
YES, THEY ARE ON CRACK
Age of Sigmar’s most bewildering unit costings (Part 1) “Cocaine is a wonderful drug.” ~ Rick James by Patrick Neven Effective costing of units in wargames is a difficult job requiring a comprehensive understanding of a range of different factors. Points per wound, resilience, ranged output, melee output, battlefield role, movement speed, allegiance abilities, price…
CraicGPT: Rise of the Machines
“Look at what ChatGPT came out with” is some lazy-ass content. I’m talking Tier List lazy. Well ya know what? I love Tier Lists – I’ve never done em here on PC but I quite enjoy watching other people’s and yelling at the screen about how dumb they are. I set ChatGPT the task of…
Carnage (Noun: Great damage, utter defeat, or chaos…)
Pete Brizio writes: Newton’s third law states “for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction”. This means that for every event you’ve been to where the TO is quiet, anonymous, just gets on with it and you see him just at the start and end of the event there must…
The Sunday Sessions: 14th May 2023
by @plasticcraic Tweet of the Week Nico is a well-known rules expert and has famously been playing Mostly Grots since early 1st edition. How good is it that he’s still finding new creative energy in these little fellas? This Setting the Scene There’s a street in Carlton called Lygon Street, which is famous for its…
Interview with Dave Kerr, Three-Time Australian Master
by @plasticcraic Dave Kerr just smoked the competition to win his third Australian Masters. Over the years, he’s won mountains of trophies with new-book filth, old-book flexes and everything in-between. Dave has come out on top against the best players running the best armies – time and again. He’s been there, seen it, done it,…
HeroHammer Challenge: Battle of the Blogs
by @plasticcraic, @seanzor, Theo Kik-Jansen Would you say Gally Champs fulfilled their brief? I’ve quite enjoyed this Handbook, but I don’t know that it’s entirely achieved what it was supposed to. The whole fighting in the Hero Phase thing didn’t take off, and while GCs have certainly enjoyed their extra tech, it’s mainly movement stuff…
Countering the Double Dogma
by Theo Kik-Jansen A story of nuance and the mechanics behind the priority roll Let’s get controversial baby! The AoS community loves to trot out the priority roll as their favourite feature, that elevates AoS from just a wargame to a 200-IQ-4D-Chess experience, that you’re just not enough of a connoisseur to be able to…
All Blood, No Brakes: 4-1 with Blades of Khorne
by @aoscalvin Spring time means new chances, new opportunities, and new means through which great carnage can be spread–so when the Charlotte Karnage GT was announced I knew I had to jump in. After spending 18 months playing Bonesplitterz to pretty good success (which you can read about here on the blog) but enough was…
Regiments of Renown
We’ll have another go, shall we? GW tried to dump a load of obsolete junk from their warehouse introduce mercenary units a few years ago with…um, limited success. The pregame move Marauders were popular but the rest sank without trace, so today we’ll be taking a look at the recent Regiments of Renown release, and…
The Sunday Sessions: 7th May 2023
Tweet of the Week Gets you right here, doesn’t it? Do You Think You’ll Make It? Fans of James Joyce will know all about Bloomsday on 16th June each year, and since 2022 marked the 100th anniversary of Ulysses’ publication, the commemorations in Melbourne got some coverage. Now I’d never read Ulysses, but people love…
Mastering the Priority Roll
You know what people love talking about right now? Red flags. People love banging on about those things. It’s a bit like the whole pineapple on pizza thing – a silly enmity that we can wallow in, to release the steam from the genuine hostility that stalks social media. Well frankly that sounds like fun,…
YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS OURS, WE JUST HAVE A BLOG TO POST IT ON
Examining the Malign Portents 2.0 reveals from Warhammer Fest So the Warhammerfest reveals just dropped for AOS and it looks like they are rounding out the edition with a major narrative arc similar to Broken Realms, called Dawnbringers. The first book seems to be doing a Malign Portents 2.0 routine with a new hero for…
Doing Lines in Manchester: A Review of WarhammerFest
This weekend saw Manchester host Warhammerfest, the premier event in GW’s event calendar, and as it’s 10mins from where I live it was a no-brainer for me to go. I signed up and paid £70 to take part in the AOS tournament, advertised as a 3 day GT. I briefly considered paying the additional cash…
HOBBY AESTHETICS: THE INSPIRATION PHASE
Welcome to Hobby Aesthetics 101. This the place where we take aim at making our tabletop miniature armies look really neat and stuff. First things first, I’m Sean, just a dude who loves the hobby and has gotten a couple awards for painting and hobby here and there, but it’s all just part of a…
The Sunday Session: 30th April
Tweet of the Week Hot damn! Would you look at the state of that. An incredible paintjob in its own right, middle-aged nerds wargamers “of a certain vintage” will be reminded of the classic cover of Deathtrap Dungeon by the legendary Ian Livingstone (co-founder of a certain FLGS in London, in case you weren’t aware).…
May Listbuilding Challenge: Regiments of Renown
Whether it’s beer, chips or your mate’s sister, we’ve all got something that we like that little bit more than we should. Well in my case it’s the Regiments of Renown – I’ve got a bit of a thing for universal options in general, as long-term followers of the blog will be well aware. Other…
Plastic Craic: Don’t Call It a Comebaic
Why bother? Why spend hours and hours writing about Age of Sigmar, when you could be attacking the grey plastic or playing more games? Why put yourself out there time and again? We do it because we love it. And put simply, I don’t think there’s enough good-quality writing about Age of Sigmar right now.…
Is the Mirebrute dead as an ally for Gitz?
By @theokik Before the new Gitz book came out, the different options for allies into Gitz were all the talk on the Gitz forums (all 7 of us that still hung around). Option number one was the Marshcrawler Sloggoth: with its +1 to hit aura for all friendly units, that scroll was written as an…
Half-Assed, Mean Spirited and Out of Date.
A 3rd Ed Khorne Battletome Review. By Patrick Neven “Well Fuck a Doodle-Doo” Pete, Shaun of the Dead After four long years the new Khorne battletome has finally arrived. Meaning the week before release stuff that filters out has finally arrived. I was expressing my initial thoughts on the book to my gaming buddies who…
Solving the Gobbapalooza Problem
Well I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year – I had a blast on my trip to the UK, with the gaming highlight being an MCP session with the legends from Newcastle Warlords. I managed to retain uncharacteristically tight discipline on my hobby spend – came home with just one box of…
December Listbuilding Challenge – Your Herohammer Lists
The Best Kind Of Relevant Well we all know what’s in the GHB, and we have for some time, but it’s not officially out until this weekend – which honestly feels kinda weird at this point. What I will say is that I’m super hyped for having Warscroll Builder being ready to rock, because list-building…
Christmas Break
Occasionally when you follow a podcast or YouTube channel you’ll hear about a mystical Lost Episode, where the recording crashed and it was gone forever. I’ve had a similar outcome with the How To Beat Ogor Mawtribes piece I’ve been working on: a version conflict that left the whole thing as a mangled mess, and…
Your New Improved Lists – and the December Listbuilding Challenge
As soon as I saw the points drops for Gits, I was pumped, because it was targeted at units you take anyway – or at least the units I already liked taking. It was unabashedly pitched at externally balancing the army upwards, and quite rightly too – we can worry about internal balance once our…
Ogor Mawtribes: The Skew Lists
Before we get into it properly today, can I make a wildly off topic observation? My socials for the past two months have been full of two comments time and again: Just my thoughts, but has anyone considered that point 1 might be feeding into point 2 in some way? It’s boosted combat and it’s…
Maw Better: A Celebration of Ogor Mawtribes
You know why I don’t want the assorted moaners and filth chasers to get Ogors nerfed? Because I’ve currently got four Ironblasters on the painting table there are so many cool people who’ve supported this army through thicc and thin that deserve a bit of joy from them. I’ve invited a few staunch Ogor stans…
Ogor Mawtribes: Beyond the Basics
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.~ General George S. Patton So whaddya reckon? Hot takes on this book are all over the place, from lacklustre to Plz Nerf and everything inbetween. Personally I love it – I think it’s interesting and quite competitive. My own idea…
Listbuilding Challenge: Your Gnomad Feastmaster Lists
They’re stumpy! They’re plumpy! At dinnertime, they’re grumpy! I must admit I wasn’t sure how many responses I would get to this one, given that I spend most of my time on this blog shit canning the Order crowd and insulting their armies at every opportunity. Well it looks like some of you are at…
Dalton Copeland’s 5-0 Bonesplitterz
Well done that man! My long-term sparring partner and fellow Megaboss Dalton Copeland has picked up his first event win at Bathurst GT and we’re here today to celebrate that. Bonesplitterz just got worked over pretty hard with the nerf bat so I think this is likely a swansong for the army – we have…
Sons of Behemat: Building Competitive Lists
How good is this book! Man I’ve been buzzing with list ideas for Sons of Behemat all week, so today I’ll be going through my process for putting lists together with Giants; and then putting it in practice with three competitive lists, each exploring a different theme of the army. Again, this article assumes you’re…
Battletome Sons of Behemat: My Top Five Power Plays
If you’re a dedicated Giants player, you’re going to go through a few stages of grief with this book, so let me help you get through it more quickly: the Gatebreaker is dogshit. What they’ve done to him is just sad, and what worked for Sons before won’t work now; but once you work through…
Metawatch Analysis: In Defence of Arcane Tome
Don’t mess about, hey? The AOS dev team have put out a really meaty Metawatch article with a whole bunch of insights into their current vision for the game. I’ll be running through what was covered, why I like it, and begging for my crutch to be left alone chipping in my own two cents…
Your MSU Lists – and the October Listbuilding Challenge
I know, I know. It’s been a while. The articles came out thick and fast over the last few weeks – none of which were your entries for the Listbuilding Challenge. But don’t worry, we’re going to circle back round and jump into them today. As reminder of the challenge for August September, I was…
Splitting Bones Like a Big Boss
Thanks to Calvin Rarie, aka Shirtripper, for this review of his excellent recent run at NOVA. Calvin is the brains behind the popular Guide to Bonesplitterz in AOS 3.0 that I was proud to publish here on Plastic Craic, and as 3rd edition continues to evolve, Calvin has jumped back in on the Boyz in…
Staring is Caring: Drakkfoot at Snake Eyes GT, Part Two
Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!~ Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes After banging on at length about how much I loved my current Bonesplitterz list, I promised I’d do a write-up on the tourney itself.…
How to Collect Gnomad Feastmasters
You’ve seen the background. You’ve seen the rules. You’ve seen Sam’s artwork. Now how do you do an army of the little blighters? 3D Printing Well the first thing to say is that Dan C has performed a huge service for the community by creating a host of Gnomad-specific STL files for you to enjoy.…
Battletome Gnomad Feastmasters: Download it now!
Here it is! Battletome Gnomad Feastmasters is ready to download right now: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-q4z4uhGnDBYAlvcuyygbXgHlqR7YZUB?usp=sharing Don’t forget that this is a Beta edition of the tome, and the design team welcomes all feedback. You are cordially invited to proactively break this book and feed back all your FAQs to: GnomadFAQ@hotmail.com So download it, read it, play it…
Battletome Gnomad Feastmasters: Interview with the Designer
Darren! How the devil are you, man? Tell us about yourself! Well, I’m a 41 year old, 5ft 11.5” (I say 6ft at parties, sounds better) chap from Portsmouth (South of England) and I’m still trying to grow a half respectable beard. I’ve been playing GW games in various forms since I was 13 and…
A couple of Friday shout outs
Happy Friday folks! As you’ve seen I’ve been pumping out the Gnomehammer Community articles this week, which has unfortunately put back my plans to complete the write-up on Snake Eyes GT. My DMs have been going crazy over that one and I’m rapt to see so much excitement for the Boyz in Green right now,…
Battletome Gnomad Feastmasters: Rules Preview
That rumbling sound in the distance may be growing, but what you hear is not rolling thunder, nor the coming of the God of Earthquakes – it’s the pot-bellied stomachs of the Gnomad Feastmasters, as their Battletome is set to hit the Mortal Realms. We’ve recently looked at the background to the Gnomads as well…
Battletome Gnomad Feastmasters: Gnomad Trails and Mighty Heroes
Welcome, weary traveller! Join us by the campfire as we enjoy a hearty repast, and…no, not that pot you cretin! That’s MINE! Having been introduced to the Gnomad Feastmasters in our first Gnomehammer Community article, it’s time today to tuck into a smorgasbord of delectable details on their key characters and how their society is…
Rolling Stones and Breaking Bones: Drakkfoot at Snake Eyes GT, Part One
About time! While Bendigo and Geelong forge ever onward, Melbourne’s AOS tourney scene has been desperate for someone to light a fire under it. Well cometh the hour, cometh the man and Smorgan has stepped up (along with Gerard and Hayden) to get things pumping – Sam definitely has the firepower to make it all…
Your New Shiny Lists – and the August Listbuilding Challenge
Stepped into the hallAnd saw all my friends were thereA neon sign was flashing “Welcome come on in”It feels so good feelin’ good again~ Robert Earl Keen, Feelin’ Good Again Well that didn’t take long. In a few short weeks, the Gloomspite community accumulated a whole bunch of competitive players excited to give them a…
Countdown to a Countdown
Remember the notorious “countdown to a countdown”? Well I’m afraid this is pretty much an article to tell you that there’s no proper article this week. I’ve had no time to compile the results of the Listbuilding Challenge, so I’ll be pushing that one back to next Friday, and directing you towards some other stuff…
GH23-1: A Guide to Endless Spells
Hey, you wanna know something cool? Purple Sun is really good now. Don’t tell anyone though, it’s a secret. You’re welcome. Well the actual good news is that there’s plenty of life beyond that thing – so when the nerfhammer inevitably crashes down upon it, there are plenty of Endless Spells that are worth a…
AOS Objective Markers: Comparing the Options
Once you’ve played a game with them, you won’t want to go back. I’ve already reviewed the OG clear objective markers from THWG (big fan, big fan) but now that there are a few more options on the market, I’ll be reviewing them comparatively. The first thing I would say (as someone who bought them…
AOS FAQ, Bonesplitterz Bullshit and an Update to the Site
Ah, thanks for noticing! Yes, the site has an updated logo which has been paid for by your kind Ko-Fi donations. So a big thank you to everyone who has contributed along the way – it really is appreciated – and also to Sean Benson for the graphic design work. Sean is an AOS player…
Your BINO Lists: and the July Listbuilding Challenge
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.~ WB Yeats You know who’s been writing BINO lists these last couple of weeks? Everyone. Welcome to the brave, new world of GH22-23 Season 1, where every arsehole with a keyboard is spending a quarter of their points on…
GH23-1: Using Galletian Veterans In Your Lists
Only a Sith Deals in absolutes~ Obi Wan Kenobi, himself dealing in absolutes Well by now we’ve all seen the leaks, reveals and reviews, and GH23 has smashed the doors of this game wide open. What we have before us is a brand new list building puzzle, with a lot of moving parts. We’re all…
Lukewarm Takes on Gossamid Archers
Although it’s been overtaken by more recent announcements, it’s fair to say this warscroll caused quite a stir when it first leaked, with my own Twitter feed hosting part of that debate. While it’s no longer the hot topic that it was a few weeks ago, now that I’m back behind the keyboard I do…
June Listbuilding Challenge, and Your Serafun Lists
German army officer, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in Picasso’s apartment: “Did you do that?” Picasso: “No, you did.” Hello, stranger! After a quiet few weeks, I’m firing the keyboard back up and aiming to post regularly again. I’ve got loads I want to discuss over the coming weeks, but first of all I owe you…
What’s Next for the Blog; and Vale, Gates of Antares
Luke Skywalker : What is it? Obi-Wan Kenobi : Your father’s light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.~ Star Wars Recently I’ve been posting regularly, so I thought it was worth dropping a quick note to let…
Your Pepsi Subfaction Lists – and the May Listbuilding Challenge
Well I hope that everyone who had a crack at this one enjoyed it as much as I did – I’m a firm believer that exploring the diverse subfactions is a big part of mastering any given book, and what’s more it can really freshen things up. If you want to use your favourite army…
How to Smash Face with Big Waaagh Part Two: The Lists
Have you ever been overpromised and underdelivered? Across the Easter break we witnessed a dog dash, which is a staple of certain Australian country fairs. Now bear in mind that these aren’t professionally-trained greyhounds: they are family pets, and they “race” as such. A bunch of kids line up their poodles, cavoodles, labradoodles and assorted…
How to Smash Face with Big Waaagh!: List Tech
Waaagh! What is it good for? Plenty, as it turns out. Big Waaagh is definitely having a moment in the minds of the listbuilders out there, and when Joel Graham tells me that it’s ready to pounce on the meta – I listen. The first thing that springs to mind is combining the melee power…
Incarnate of Ghur Revealed: Full Rules and Analysis
Praise Gork for the leakers! Thanks to some kind soul with a heart of gold and a camera phone that looks like it was at least produced this century, we now have the full rules for Krondspine, Incarnate of Ghur: First thing to note is that this thing has the Behemoth Battlefield Role, but is…
Your KO Combat Lists – and the April List Building Challenge
Why bother? Why the hell would anyone waste their time making a melee KO list? I mean, it’s a fair question, but also overstates what we’re doing here. The core premise is lists combining KO and a melee element – it absolutely can be a combined arms list (not pure combat), and in fact it…
Reflections On The AOS Balance Update
Opinions are like arseholes, and I’m here today to share mine with you. OK let me rephrase that… The reaction to the latest balance patch for AOS has been – in a word – divisive. There’s an extensive discussion over on TGA, which I would encourage anyone with the time on their hands to have…
Vic GT 2022: Power Picks and Coolest Lists
If you snooze, you lose. This 60-player Measured Gaming event sold out quicker than a content creator offered free review copies, cementing Bendigo’s reputation as a world-leading regional centre for Age of Sigmar. Seriously, if you know a town of similar scale that has produced this many Masters-level players, and can sell out events of…
Insatiable and Unstoppable: The Gnomad Feastmasters Are Ready To Feast Upon Third Edition
Lock up your pantries and hide your geese! The Gnomad Feastmasters may soon be bringing their caravan to a Free City near you – but who are they? Are they just dwarves for losers? And are you sure the faction’s name doesn’t rhyme with John Wayne Bobbit? Join us as we feast on this new…
Your Curse Lists – Plus the March Listbuilding Challenge
I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I’m sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.~ Anna Kendrick BAM! Turns out you guys really…
Going 4-1 with Bonesplitterz and Kragnos
Calvin Rarie of Atlanta, Georgia has been playing Age of Sigmar for 4 years now. Calvin is an enthusiast for under-represented armies and has followed up on his guide to Bonesplitterz by putting it in action at a GT! Over to you, Calvin. Bonesplitterz has for the duration of 3rd Edition been an army written…
Your Spiderfang Lists – plus the February Listbuilding Challenge
I asked for your Skitterstrand Arachnarok lists, and after the absolute deluge of Kragnos lists I received…it’s fair to say this challenge was a bit more of a niche interest. You have to be pretty fucking brave to play Spiderfang, but it’s still the coolest army bar none on the tabletop and we’ve selected a…
Revealing Missions in Event Packs: Yay or Nay?
This week on twitter we’ve seen some lively discussion around missions for events, and specifically whether they should be revealed in advance. You can catch up on the conversation below: https://twitter.com/CheekyBNOC/status/1485342515435872260?t=VMpvvCBHjmrupiDXKNhLyA&s=19 I’m here today to chuck my 2 cents into the discussion, but the short version is, I’m all for knowing them in advance. The…
Your Kragnos Lists – Plus The January List Building Challenge
I asked – you answered! I put out the call for some Kragnos lists and I got loads of responses – and it turns out you guys really like Kraggy in Ogor Mawtribes. You can have a lot of fun now with the synergy and combos on offer, so let’s take a look at some…
2021: A Year in Plastic
2021 has been a weird old year; and although some of us will be glad to see the back of it in many ways, it’s still a year in our lives and time we’ll never get back. So let’s take a wander through the highs and lows, and value what we have by awarding “The…
December List Building Challenge: Kragnos
We’ve all been there. Christmas is great – I am emphatically a Christmas person – but fuck me, it gets a bit much sometimes. We all need to slope off for a bit, and I don’t know about you, but for me that means finding somewhere quiet and whipping out the phone for a few…
Shirtripper’s Guide to Bonesplitterz in Age of Sigmar 3.0
(Or how I learned to stop wearing pants and learned to love the Waaagh!) It’s the community that makes wargaming such an important part of our lives, and although they’re a small faction, Bonesplitterz has a really cool community. Seriously – people love this army, and there is a band of dedicated players who keep…
BoneSpiderz: Back in the Saddle
Tonight, I am staying at the palace of Prince Kaunitz, where I shall sleep two or three hours. The Russian army is not only defeated, it is destroyed. I kiss you,Napoleon~ Excerpt of a letter from Napoleon to Josephine, 1805 Well hello there! I want to say a big thank you to everyone who reached…
Taking a Break
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.~ Samuel Johnson Just a quick word to say that I will be hanging up the keyboard for a while. I’ve been unwell with food poisoning, and although I’m up and about again, it did knock me around a bit. Unwell I ate virtually nothing for…
Battletome Orruk Warclans: Kruleboyz, with Corey Papinniemi
Corey Papinniemi is, along with Joel Graham, current co-holder of the Australian Master title. Corey writes his own lists, plays with scrupulous table etiquette and barely ever drops a game. He’s a gentleman on the table and away from it, a paragon of winning games the right way and – let’s be honest – not…
Battletome Orruk Warclans: Bonesplitterz List Tech
Well here we go then! I’ve already had an extended moan about the overall state of my favourite army, so rather than go back over the same ground, you’re welcome to read my thoughts over on Goonhammer where I penned the Bonesplitterz section. I did also contribute briefly to the Ironjawz Warscrolls, and that was…
Coverage of Orruk Warclans
Without a gun and a badge, what do you got? A sucka in a uniform waiting to get shot.~ Eazy-E Major. Fucking. Hype. I’m an orcs guy first and foremost, so Warclans weekend is bloody big deal in my world. I launched this blog shortly before the last Warclans book burst into the world, two years ago…
Sons of Behemat White Dwarf Update Part Two: The Lists
He’s done it again! Tony P delivering the goods, smashing out those elegant Warscroll Builder updates and making everyone’s hobby that little bit better. Legend. 25 years of heavy drinking has atrophied my brain to the point that I can no longer add up in chunks of 500 or keep track of three artefacts, and…
AOS Core FAQ – Translated from German
Well what do we have here! The Core FAQ is up on the GW website: I do have some language skills – my French happens to be pretty strong because I lived there for a while, but my German is much weaker. Where that’s relevant is that I can chuck it into Google Translate, and…
Sons of Behemat White Dwarf Update Part One: The Rules
Oh boy! If I had a dollar for everyone who said they did not want to see Faction-specific Battle Tactics, I could buy myself a Bentley, a private jet or maybe even an authentic Mega-Gargant kit. Well fuck you all, because here they are anyway, with some army-focused “Core” Battalions too. Today’s article will look…
How To Beat Archaon In AOS 3.0, with Stuart McCowan
Yeah, I said it! That motherfucker is going DOWN….and we’ve got just the lad to lead us on the path to Valhalla. Our boy Stuart McCowan commented on a Twitter thread that caught my attention, and Stuart certainly has the credentials to chime in on this subject. As a veteran of TTS, he’s faced off…
Reflections On Comp
Well this past week has seen quite the shit storm over one particular event pack: Specifically, Facehammer have chosen to alter the rules of the game for their event. They are hardly the first TOs to do so, but it does carry a bit more oomph when it’s playtesters who are doing it. Let’s take…
Australian Masters List Tech, Part Two
I’ve booked the hotel, because I’m gonna be in no state to drive. I’ve painted the army, because I’m taking something new and fun. Next question – is Masters even happening? By the time this is published we’ll have the answer, but given the COVID outbreak in Queensland and Victorian snap lockdown since my last…
Australian Masters List Tech, Part One
Part One? PART FUCKING ONE? How much does one self-involved flog need to bang on about his own army? Don’t worry, we’ll be keeping it punchy; this isn’t going to be a Lumineth Hero Phase of an article. Today I’ll run you through my road to Masters and talk about the kind of army I’ll…
AOS 3 List Tech: Ogors, with Mick Wendel
Welcome back Mike! How’s AOS 3 treating you? I want to start this with the fact that AOS is outstanding and well done to all those involved. This blows the history of fantasy wargaming out of the water! Why? They have given every army something to play for and they have made tactical thinking part…
Early AOS 3 List Tech: Archaon, with Joel Graham
Joining us for the first in a series on AOS 3 List Tech is Joel Graham. Joel G is well-known competitive player in Australia, and if you play top tables you’ll be very familiar with Joel’s achievements. This motherfucker beat me on Table 1, Round 5 TWICE last year, but more relevant to this article…
Winning Games in AOS 3: Battle Tactics
Battle tactics are a Very. Big. Deal. There are generally fewer VPs up for grabs on Objectives now: it’s hard to run up a huge gap on primaries alone. What we’ll probably find is that for the next 6 months or so, a lot of games at events will be decided by Battle Tactics; and…
AOS FAQ: Every Faction in 5 Words or Less
We’ve got the Core Rules. We’ve got the General’s Handbook. And now we’ve got the third pillar: the FAQ. We know what we’re working with, so let’s dive in and pick the bones out of it. We’re gonna bash through everything in alphabetical order, snarking over analyzing the key takeaway for each faction with a…
AOS 3: Unleash Hell
The third and final article in my current run for Goonhammer explores Not Overwatch: how it works, and what you can do about it. I do discuss whether or not I like this particular rule (could you take a wild guess?), but the heartbeat of the article is really focused on finding practical solutions from…
AOS 3: Coherency Rules
The picutre is rapidly coming together for how 3rd Edition will look and feel, and we’ve already got people posting up Batreps and the like. Fair play to them, and I love that enthusiasm, but we have still only seen two thirds of the picture: Core Rules are in the bankThe new General’s Handbook (including…
Dominion Warscroll Reviews: Kruleboyz
Remember how I said I’d be contributing to Goonhammer’s AOS 3 coverage? Well here we go! First up we’ve got my thoughts on the Destruction half of the starter set. This is a tricky one in a lot of ways – if you think you’re going to take on full Battletomes with half an army…
Coverage Leading Into AOS 3rd Edition
Happy Friday, you Maniaks! Just a quick word on where we’ll be heading with the blog in these exciting times: The plan is that I’ll be collaborating with Goonhammer on their coverage, as well as publishing here on Plastic Craic. Why Goonhammer? Because they have the integrity to actually review the bloody things. I think…
AOS 3.0: Why I’m Glad The Priority Roll Is Staying
FUCK ME this is moving quickly. In the time it takes to have an extended whinge about Kragnos, we’ve had not one but four waves of AOS 3.0 reveals. Today’s Monsters ‘n’ Heroes drop might be the best and most exciting of the lot, but rather than regurgitate what’s already out there, I’ll be picking…
Kragnos: Buffs and Synergy, and Overall Verdict
OK don’t overthink this, just answer with the first thing that pops into your head. What are your two favourite things about Age of Sigmar? If you just said “Running overcosted monsters” and “Losing games”, then boy are you in for a treat! For the low, low cost of 540 points you can run Gordrakk…
Kragnos: Warscroll Review
The big fella’s Warsrcoll is out now, and this one is already incredibly divisive. Points guesstimates range wildly for this guy: I’ve seen some top players saying they’d run him at 800, whereas (spoiler alert) I wouldn’t touch him above 500 myself. I said in my last article that we’d either end up with another…
Tactica: Playing Around Sentinels
Here’s a question for you: can Auralan Sentinels shoot you without line of sight? If you just answered yes, you might want to read on, because there’s a bit more nuance to it than that. Their artillery-style range of 30″ and ability to (largely) ignore line of site can make them feel oppressive to face:…
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