Forge the Narrative - Warhammer 40k Podcast 6t2l6z

There is no easy way to put this – you’ve been conscripted into the Guard, Soldier.  This book changes a LOT about what we knew before but still manages to stay familiar.  We might see a different look, visually, to what we’ve seen on tables past but some generals might not like mixing up Regiments.  The book is modernized and brings power to the faction. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. Games Workshop is not afraid to mix things up when it comes to core factions.  I’m still trying to process it a bit but I do like the idea of being able to choose to mix in some different visual themes on the tabletop and that be ‘ok.’ Units in the book received a much needed power adjustment to bring it into modern standards.  We highlight a couple of core things about the Blast rule later in the show too.  What does this keyword actually bring to the AM now?  Is it a liability? Are you paying points for it or is it just something thematically tossed on to the weapons that look blasty?  How generals rationalize this will be something to examine as players get reps in with the book. There are big changes to the Psychic Powers and these seem cool. I can see a lot of lists packing in a psycher now or at least taking a really spicy relic that might help protect against the opponents scoring secondary points. The epic Rogal Dorn tank is good, really good.  There are ways to make it and the Super Heavy tanks an Officer.  I’m not sure if this just sounds good or if it will really be a force multiplier.  These vehicles already have giant targets on their backs.  Is investing more points into them the thing to do?  I hope so… We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment will be back next week! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

The Libre Imperium is up for pre-order this week for the Horus Heresy game world.   This book adds 4 new playable factions back to the game for this edition.  The book looks and feels elegant with tons of flavor ready to hit the tabletop. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. We talk a bit about the new Horus Heresy book in the front part of the show.   If you haven’t checked out the Horus Heresy game yet you really should if you have a craving for ‘historical’ battles.  There is a gritty feel to the entire game that feels both nostalgic and new at the same time. After that we just have to talk about Blood Angels taking the top spot at the Games Workshop US Open event in Kansas City MO last weekend.  Zaak K put on a clinic with a fresh army list beating out Mani C in the finals.  Zaak will no doubt be giving inspiration to a whole new raft of Blood Angel players.  Mani also showed the world exactly what the Thousand Sons are capable of when paired with powerful new daemon allies. After the break we do a little Astra Militarum wish listing. We know the codex is just around the corner and since we’re all Guard players it is hard not to have our eyes focused on that. Is there anything you’re hoping for as a player or possible opponent?  All the new artillery has me licking my chops.  I’ve always enjoyed painting tanks and armor pieces. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment will be back next week! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

There has been a lot of chatter on the internet on how some folks don’t think the meta is healthy, balanced or diverse enough.  That’s really subjective and I don’t want to say tournaments, traveling or organized play is for everyone but I can tell you there is a WIDE variety of what people are having success with out there. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. This episode is a little late but please go check out the coverage from the Kansas City Open Event from games workshop on the Warhammer TV Twitch page.  TONS of interesting games to showcase. Some of you know that Adam and I do a show on the FLGN where we talk about tournament meta and attendance.  Attendance is going up and up and the diversity of the field is on the same trajectory.  The faction make up is all over the map.  It’s great! Of course this way to enjoy the game isn’t right for everyone.  This leads us to the question of – what makes someone a Warhammer fan. We break it down to the smallest part.  Any and all enjoyment from any bit of Warhammer from any sort of property – comics, games, an old codex, a one off game or whatever, can make you a fan of Warhammer and that’s ok! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment will be back next week! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

The Balance Dataslate has a few people shaking their heads and expecting more.  Is that justified?  Is the game in such a good spot right now that dramatic updates aren’t needed?  Should the codexes routinely holding down the bottom spots at events be getting more attention and better buffs?  We talk about it. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. The Balance  Dataslate has a lot of players feeling like it let them down.  Maybe the routine updates the game is getting is setting some unrealistic expectations. Should we be wanting our armies to go through quarterly revisions?  It’s like sometimes we forget that we have to hobby around and towards these changes. With that said it is fair for players to think these slates are coming from a place that sees and hears their concerns.  This one doesn’t seem like it fits that bill for them.  I argue on the show that the game is in such a good place that these little nudges might be all the game ‘really’ needs or wants to keep healthy.  I can tell you without a doubt that what people are bringing to events right now is extremely diverse at the moment.  We have increasingly higher numbers of factions you didn’t see anywhere near podiums six months ago. That is just one stat though… the designers keeping this game as exciting as we want it to be are looking at multiple things like win rate, , attendance and likely a host of other things. Adam mentions that we’ll look back on this time as some of the best of this edition and I kinda feel like a lot of players feel that way too as record setting attendance is happening all over the world. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is about Adam finally getting to work on his Knights with some cool new techniques he’s challenging himself with. Tanya asks some great questions about how and why to start a custom color scheme as well.  LOTS of hobby here. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

The Preview last week gave us our first tastes of new Astra Militarum stuff and I personally didn’t realize how thirst I was.  Yum.  Gimme some of that new Guard stuff ASAP. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. There is something pretty satisfying about painting Astra Militarum tanks and weapons platforms.  I continuously make pew pew and boom boom noises with every brush stroke.  These new model reveals have me jazzed, if you couldn’t tell. Every single member of this podcast plays Guard to some capacity.  The army lends itself to many styles of play and basically every single one of us is on the edge of our seats with anticipation. We get our hands on the models from the latest Kill Team set – Shadow Vaults which GW has generously provided to us for review and first looks.  Wow.  With the new Kill Team sets the preview also announced new ways to play with your 40k figs.  I don’t get tired of that! We recap the Chicago Open by Games Workshop and give a little details about the Harlequins list that won along with the runner up – Emperor’s Children of all things.  Chaos is back, baby! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is a cautionary tale about not rushing and forgetting your recipe.   Keep those log books folks! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

The answer is pretty simple.  If you like Magic The Gathering and Warhammer then of course you should!  The decks are well designed and seem like a hoot to play.  Pleasant Kenobi s us to talk about it from someone who knows both of the games very well. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. When I saw these decks teased it was an automatic buy for me.  When I found out they were actually good – ohh heck yeah.  These are getting hard to find at MSPR at the moment so you want to make sure and pick them up soon if you expect to want them in the future. Later in the show after talking with Vincent the rest of us get a little silly and try our best not to give spoilers on the latest book.  We don’t so its a safe listen. We talk about the US Open series events as well. About halfway through the show we figured out it was October – where has the year gone?  Later this month we’ll smash out some Orktober content. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is a cautionary tale about not rushing and forgetting your recipe.   Keep those log books folks! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

Yep.  We keep track of these things around here.  Our eyes are on the prize. The Scoreboard doesn’t lie.  You get the drift.  When all else fails and you feel outmatched at the table its time to control what you  can control. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. We lead off with a message about keeping people focused on the scoreboard. We lose the thread a little bit when we start talking about terrain but that just goes to illustrate how important terrain is.  If you haven’t invented or invested in it then you really owe it to yourself.  We’re at a point in the game and the lethalness of each army where it is vital that you give yourself and your opponents the best  chance at having a good time. We find the thread again in part two where we talk about how to hang onto those points and recognize when you might be falling behind too fast to keep the game tight. It may seem risky but sometimes you do have to sacrifice units – giving them a one way ticket to deadsville – just to stay ahead or close on the scoreboard.  If you can force a few rounds where your opponent only gets 4 points for Primary you are giving yourself a huge advantage even if they have a strong secondary game – like Necron players. Each release has us going back to the drawing board but that is pretty much how the game works.  Each time we rock up to the table we don’t exactly know what our opponents have in store for us.  We have an educated guess about what we can expect in certain ratios – like 50% assault and 50% shooty or whatever but what each and every opponents will do is present us with a set of challenges.  In some instances they are gonna have us beat at list design so what comes next?  You have to get super focused on what you can accomplish. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is a cautionary tale about not rushing and forgetting your recipe.   Keep those log books folks! We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

It sure seems like folks are legitimately up in arms about the power level of the Leagues of Votann or they are just piling on the internet fury.  We don’t know at this point.  In situations like this I don’t get pulled into the hype but instead look deep into my favorite Codexes and figure out what can I do? Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. You can clearly see the Leagues of Votann are going to rocket out of their corner with both fists flying. This codex will be strong.  There is no denying that.  Right now the vocal crowd on the internet think it’s too much.  Is that true?  Has their been enough time between the previews and now for people to start finding things in their Codexes to give them a fighting chance? That remains to be seen.  Right now folks are using their ‘old standard’ lists to try and combat something totally new.  When in the history of ever has that actually worked?  Not often and you’re more lucky if that’s happened at all. We talk a little bit about that and some alternative ways to enjoy the game if the ‘Competitive’ side of things is a little exhausting or bad for you right now.  That’s completely valid.  Thankfully there are tons of ed ways of playing this game right now and it’s something we can’t talk about enough.  We all love this hobby.  Its cool to take a step back every now and then and take a deep breath. Later in the show we talk about getting up and running with a Necromuda campaign and then later than that we close the show out talking with our second favorite Canadian Skari from the SkaredCast.  He is always a pleasure.  He brings some insights on Crusade play to the show. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment will be back next week!  We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

What a banger we get to do for Episode 450..  The Leagues of Votann reveals are pretty exciting. Many are claiming these will instantly slot in as one of the most powerful armies in the game.   Is it all hype? Come check it out. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. The Leagues are gonna be tough!  They have an amazing amount of new rules and weapon types the game has never seen.  Are they the best?  That’s such a hard question.  They are certainly going to bust out of the gate as heavy hitters.  The army has powerful shooting and durability without compromising anything in the close combat department. The League’s powerful Judgement mechanic takes a little bit of the dice rolling out of the equation.  This smooths out variance by a TON! Everything in the starter box is playable and good.  You will not regret picking it up.  You will use every single model on the table.  Not because there aren’t a ton of kits out for this faction yet.. it’s because everything has functional rules and abilities for the tabletop. The Pioneers are a stand out choice.  For not a ton of points you get a massive amount of utility. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby Segment this week is basically about priming with a smooth primer if you’re looking to take advantage of Contrast paint.  We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

After an action packed weekend we’re back to our normal schedule.  We talk a little about the NOVA Open and the incredible hobby on display that weekend.  The Necrons took the crown and it’s hard to even consider them being stopped at this point.  The back half of the show has us asking ‘what makes a Codex good?’  What are your thoughts on that? Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. It’s just Tanya, Adam and Paul this week.  Red should be returning next week.  We know we’ve been missing some Chaos hot takes without him. Paul hit Dragon Con in ATL and the NOVA Open in DC last weekend.  It was a whirlwind but still amazing on all counts. The armies on display at NOVA might have been better pound for pound than you see at any tournament anywhere in the world. Later in the episode we ask ‘What makes a Codex good?’  Like how do you judge is the book is awesome and what is your criteria?  Is one good list enough?  Is a unit to underpin your entire army list all you need?  Do you need 4 or 5 ways to build a competitive list to tickle your fancy? I definitely like to see books with several build options and archetypes available before I call a Codex great. With that said I know I’ve certainly been more than satisfied as long as I could play my faction and win more games than I lost and occasionally take hope a top prize at an event. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby Segment this week is about how to get by with limited colors for highlighting. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

Not one but TWO community spotlight segments this week where we talk to two amazing Daemon faction specialist.  It is great to sit down and hear their thoughts on one of the most unique factions any game has ever seen. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. Extremely sorry for the late release of this episode but travel got in the way.  Nurgle Snurgle and Scott LaFountain us to talk about their hot takes on the pre-release information about Chaos Daemons. Nurgle Snurgle is up first in the show with Paul and Tanya to talk about how she’s been approaching the faction to this point and what shes looking forward to once she has the book in her hands. Adam and I gibber jabber in the in between segments. Next up in Scott LaFountain who you might from placing highly in mega events using the previous version of the Daemons.  We see what he’s thinking about going forward. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment  this week is about the hobby handles from GW and how useful they are. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

The Daemons will be different but that’s okay right.. Especially if they get tons of upgrades and army wide Warp abilities to use every turn.  I don’t think any unit gets what you might call a downgrade outside of overall squad size.   Almost everything in this book has some utility that Chaos Daemon Generals might be looking for to give them the claw up on the battlefield. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. The next big 40k event we have coming up in the NOVA Open. You definitely want to check out our coverage in a couple of weeks.  There will be some top 40k play and the smooth stylings of Paul and Nick. We kick the show off talking about Horus Hersey and specifically the Mechanicum vs World Eaters from a game Paul played over the weekend  The World Eaters had some serious lop sided rolls so the outcome wasn’t totally their fault.  The Mechanicum has some tricks for sure but might struggled due to their lower Init score. The Daemon players will have to come to grips with the fact their basic troop squad is listed to a squad size of 10 now but that is about the only ‘huge’ downgrade. Everything else in the book is jammed packed with potential and there are some spicy things for every one of the factions.  If you were a fan of a daemon faction before you will still be. The Warp Storm is basically another set of free Command Point like abilities that effect your entire army based on the faction you use them for.  This will seem absolutely back breaking to opponents on some turns. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment  this week is about the hobby handles from GW and how useful they are. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

Games Workshop is best mini maker in the world, no doubt about that.  We get super technical and ask a few questions about the models we’ve seen so far from the World Eaters and the League of Votann. Are they doing it for you? Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. The next big 40k event we have coming up in the NOVA Open. You definitely want to check out our coverage in a couple of weeks.  There will be some top 40k play and the smooth stylings of Paul and Nick. Speaking of Paul, Adam C (for AoW Down Under) and Nick, you can find them over at the Art of War Podcast page and on YouTube here.   Tayna Gates has her own channel called Be Nice Roll Dice and appears on the SkarredCast as well.  There are LOTs of ways to hang with the crew throughout the week. For the Tournament show you hear Adam and Paul talk about from time to time – it’s called the  Thursday Show on the Frontline Gaming Network.  They do that with Dustin Henshaw.  I’ve you’re curious to what you’re gonna see coming up each in the meta look no further.   You can find these things in podcast form wherever podcasts are found.  Check us out! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment  this week is about the hobby handles from GW and how useful they are. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

One of the coolest things about the Heresy is the ability to play whatever force you want for whatever side you want. This edition has just been Marine on Marine so far but NOT ANYMORE! The Liber Mechanicum is up for order today and we give a little teaser for it. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. Back on track with an on time release this week.  We start by talking a little bit about GenCon and how cool it is to be around all of those games.  Of course we talk about Games Workshop’s presence there and all the cool things you can do over the course of the weekend with all the Warhammer stuff. If you have done Kill Team Live yet I fully endorse you making time for it if you’re ever presented with the opportunity to do so.  It’s an immersive experience and tons of fun.  If you’re a Warhammer+ Subscriber it’s one of the things you can do for FREE too. I feel like I’ve used a lot of capslock in this post.. Sometimes you just gotta.  In the second part of the show we talk about stress painting – or event driven painting as the case may be.  Whatever it takes to get those battle ready figures on the table. I’ve had some models on my desk for a LONG time and through some encouragement from recording this show I’m back to painting them.  It’s easy to get stuck at the ‘my models look like crap stage’ but everyone gets there and having confidence in yourself and your process is critical to get over this hump.  One brush stroke at a time. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is built into the show this week. We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

Paul is heading to GenCon before recording this episode and talks a bit with the crew about getting ready to demo games of Kill Team.  We talk about the differences between 40k before the break and then coming back to talk about Horus Heresy. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. Very sorry for the delay getting the episode out this week.  It’s been a week! We do Kill Team chatting talking about the differences from 40k and how you might be able to get some good use out of the figs you already have. Paul’s getting ready to do demos at GenCon in Indy. Thanks for coming on this journey with us. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is built into the show this week where we talk about having some Narrative in your army design with some bonus content on how to approach Blood effects.  We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

Clubs and Teams are becoming more poplar in our hobby.  This is great! We talk about how to get one started and some of the characteristics you might look for when getting it off the ground or ing an existing one.  After that we talk about how to stop the Necron menace.  They score points like few others. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. As you know the Necrons are incredibly strong right now and a lot of that has to do with how effectively they score points during the round.  Its incredibly hard to stop them and for the uninformed player it may seem like there is nothing  you can do.  We break that down a little. At the end of the show we talk about getting out of a hobby slump. All these topics are a lot harder than it sounds like they should be but we hope to demystify them just a tad.  What are some of your experiences? Thanks for coming on this journey with us. We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is built into the show this week where we talk about having some Narrative in your army design with some bonus content on how to approach Blood effects.  We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

A couple of us were at one of the largest tournaments in the world this past weekend and we give a recap of the event and our performance there. Not too shabby….  After the break we talk about some Horus Heresy color schemes and how to go your own way in established lore environments. Hey folks, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. Red pulled down best Necrons and second best individual general at the ATC this past weekend.  Big ups to him. Team 40k is some of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had over the years and this year is no exception. This past weekend in TN was an amazing experience and we highly encourage you all to give it a shot if tournaments are your thing. After the break we talk about some of the cool paint recipes in this month’s White Dwarf magazine and a little bit about how it is completely okay to do your own thing lore wise in games like the Heresy. Sure, there are tons of established stories but those are just what the authors have chosen to tell us.  Warhammer is big enough for your own stories and the doors to that are right there in the lore already.  Don’t let anyone slow you down if you’re thinking about different color schemes or different approaches to established Legions.  Roll those dice! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby segment is built into the show this week where we talk about having some Narrative in your army design with some bonus content on how to approach Blood effects.  We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

We take the opportunity to look at the Fights Last vs Fight First mechanic in the game.  With the release of the Chaos Space Marine codex there are a bunch of ways to pull off a Fights Last effect on charging opponents.  It will definitely let the Chaos players control the momentum of combat.  This isn’t just about Chaos so there should be something here for all generals. Hey all, Please consider grabbing an FTN T-shirt to help us celebrate the shows anniversary. The link can be found here. Proceeds will go to doing something nice for cast of the show. The sticker is cool too and has been on my laptop for a year. We sort of center the conversation around Chaos Space Marines in this episode but the concepts aren’t limited to them.  There are a lot of ways to get Fights Last in the game but right now it looks like Drukhari and Chaos Space Marines do it best.  You do not want to go into them unprepared. Last episode we talked about Shadows Edge Miniatures and their project. He’s got a kickstarter going now for what are sure to be more awesome products and you can find it here. Even armies like Necrons and the Silent King have the ability to pull off a cheeky Fights Last.  Players need to ask themselves, how do they deal with it. It’s not all doom and gloom, it’s a great mechanic.  Players should be using this as the Fight Phase is extremely deadly and sometimes a difficult situation to navigate.  Why not give yourself a leg up by taking the wind out of the sails of the charging units? We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Hobby Segment is about storing your army with magnets. Do you go for realism or just what looks the best to you? We have some t-shirts a really cool sticker up for sale to celebrate us being nine years deep into this show. Check them out here. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

We’re cracking open Octarius Book 2.  For Matched Play the book is focused largely on Orks.  The Blood Axe faction gets a pretty nice set of abilities.  There is an Ork Army of Renown in the book too!  If you’re an Ork player you’re definitely going to want this book and if you’re encountering a lot of Orks and tournaments you may be scratching your head and asking some of the same questions we do. Hi folks, Did the Orks actually need new rules?  I guess you can ask that about most factions but it’s very interesting to continue to see additional rules coming out for a faction that already got new rules in recent memory. For most players this might not matter but as tournament players where we see Orks continuing to dominate the scene with some pretty bonkers power only to see the faction get some additional abilities, it seems a little weird. The good news for folks concerned is that the Buggies and such are likely going to keep running the army the way they have been and not use this army of renown at the moment as it looks like a bit of a ‘side grade’ opposed to an upgrade.  I do like how this book offers another way to play an existing force someone may own. The Blood Axes get an actual upgrade which is cool and also a nice littler reward for folks who may be playing the faction and its some incentive to get ‘boyz’ on the table which we’ve heard is something some Ork players think they may be missing. The Imperial Agents in this book are…  in the book, ha!  They provide some cool flavor and I like the option of playing with great looking units and the opportunity to include a pupper! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Finishing Moves segment will be back next week. Let us know if there is anything you’d like us to cover. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn 

We’re cracking open Octarius Book 2.  For Matched Play the book is focused largely on Orks.  The Blood Axe faction gets a pretty nice set of abilities.  There is an Ork Army of Renown in the book too!  If you’re an Ork player you’re definitely going to want this book and if you’re encountering a lot of Orks and tournaments you may be scratching your head and asking some of the same questions we do. Hi folks, Did the Orks actually need new rules?  I guess you can ask that about most factions but it’s very interesting to continue to see additional rules coming out for a faction that already got new rules in recent memory. For most players this might not matter but as tournament players where we see Orks continuing to dominate the scene with some pretty bonkers power only to see the faction get some additional abilities, it seems a little weird. The good news for folks concerned is that the Buggies and such are likely going to keep running the army the way they have been and not use this army of renown at the moment as it looks like a bit of a ‘side grade’ opposed to an upgrade.  I do like how this book offers another way to play an existing force someone may own. The Blood Axes get an actual upgrade which is cool and also a nice littler reward for folks who may be playing the faction and its some incentive to get ‘boyz’ on the table which we’ve heard is something some Ork players think they may be missing. The Imperial Agents in this book are…  in the book, ha!  They provide some cool flavor and I like the option of playing with great looking units and the opportunity to include a pupper! We’re delighted to continue to represent Discount Games Inc as sponsor of our show. They are helping bring FTN to you. Please check them out and the organizations that us. Discount Games Inc. offers Games Workshop products at 15% off the suggested retail at their website here. You can send an email to the owner Jay. These guys run a podcast too! Check them out.   The Finishing Moves segment will be back next week. Let us know if there is anything you’d like us to cover. Don’t have iTunes? Use the player below to access the podcast directly, or add our feed to your favorite player. The player link is below. Please subscribe if you like what you hear. Podcast Link   Forge the Narrative is mostly a Warhammer 40k Podcast. Each episode is about an hour long. This ideally gives you something neat to listen to on your way to work, or on the way back home. Maybe you can even listen while you are painting or modeling! Please follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook! FTN mostly focuses on 40k, but again you will see in the first few episodes we take a severe deep dive into nerdom. These have been a blast to record and I hope they help the time for you. We are now on Pandora!! If you’re looking for another place to listen or you’ve shifted to that platform you can find us there. FORGE THE NARRATIVE (iTunes Page) Alternatively you can subscribe via your own iTunes, and it should update our podcast when we post a new one. Credits: Paul Murphy – Host @warmaster_tpm ist: Adam Camileri Red Powell Tanya Gates Honorific: Justin Troop – troopsmash Christopher Morgan – captain morgan Ricky Addington Josh Ginn