The Bad Dice Podcast - A Warhammer Age of Sigmar Podcast

Since the last episode we have moved house, had 2 babies and a 3rd on the way, been too half a dozen events, built 200 bits of terrain and painted a ton of models. Sounds impressive eh! Check out the latest episode for our update in the last few months of the hobby for Ben, Steve and Mark. Also listen out for our GHB 2017 hopes and predictions and see if we got them right! We talk about the Element Games EGGS event too and give a sound out and apology to Rob Bradley. Finally we wrap up talking about Blood and glory. Get Blood and Glory tickets at bloodandglory.baddice.co.uk Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry  You can post your comments on the Bad Dice forums at The Grand Alliance Community

Team Bad Dice get together to talk about the SCGT event. We start with the event overview and quickly get into the painting competitions and overall standard at the event. There were some amazing entrants in both the single miniature contest but also the tournament itself. Next we cover the gaming and talk about how we played and our armies performed over the 6 games at the event. Ben played with Stormcast and used 2 Star Drakes, Steve used 4 Lords of Change and Mark used a Disciples of Tzeentch army. We talk about all our highlights from the games and give thought on the various things we learned. The show is wrapped up by final thoughts from SCGT 2017 and what we are looking forwards to next year. Photos from the event Links Things we talked about on the show: Heelanhammer Podcast SCGT Coverage Scenery Dice Bad Dice AoS 6 Nations and Doubles   Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry  You can post your comments on the Bad Dice forums at The Grand Alliance Community

Ben, Mark and Steve get together for another episode of Bad Dice and we are joined by a few different guests from around the community. Gamers, Hobbyists, veterans and newbies all going to the South Coast GT. Adi Mac talks about his choices between Death and Stormcast Eternals. Steve Foote fills us in on the race for the coolest army. Joe Purcell is taking 27 Skyfires and chats about winning best sports with Clan Skryre Mikey T tells us how he is looking forward to his first SCGT and 5th every tournament. If you are on the road to the event let us know you are listening and we will see you there! Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry  You can post your comments on the Bad Dice forums at The Grand Alliance Community

Mark and Steve return to the Bad Dice Podcast to chat about the disciples of Tzeentch. We recorded on the same day that the Karadron Overlord photos were released so gave our thoughts on the new toys. In this episode we didn’t want to go down the route of a battletome review where we talk about all the abilities and Warscrolls in the book.  Instead we talk about our actual in game experiences and how we have all found the Disciples of Tzeentch so far. We start off talking about the lists that Steve and Mark played at recent tournaments then move in to talking about the various Tzeentch units that we have tested. Marks Sheffield Slaughter List Lord of Change General – Magical Supremecy – Wellspring of Arcane Might The Changleing Tzaangor Shaman 2x 10 Pink Horors 20 Tzaangor 3 Tzaangor Enlightened 6 Tzaangor Skyfires Tzaangor Coven 280 Reinforcement points Steve’s Alliance List Tzaangor Shaman (120) – General – Trait: Magical Supremacy – Tzeentch Daemon Hero – Artefact: Aura of Mutability – Lore of Fate: Glimpse the Future – Lore of Change: Tzeentch’s Firestorm The Changeling (140) – Lore of Change: Tzeentch’s Firestorm Archaon (700) – Lore of Change: Arcane Transformation Battleline 10 x Pink Horrors Of Tzeentch (140) – Lore of Change: Tzeentch’s Firestorm 10 x Kairic Acolytes (140) – 7x Cursed Blade & Arcanite Shield – 3x Cursed Glaive 20 x Chaos Warriors (360) – Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch – Lore of Change: Arcane Transformation 10 x Chaos Marauders (60) – Axes – Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch – Lore of Change: Arcane Transformation 6 x Tzaangor Skyfires (320) Total: 1980/2000 Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry  You can post your comments on the Bad Dice forums at The Grand Alliance Community

Welcome to the Age of Sigmar Daily from the Bad Dice Podcast. A Daily podcast all about Age of Sigmar and the Age of Sigmar community. This is a re-launch of the old Bad Dice Daily show where 5 days a week I will be chatting about Age of Sigmar and the Age of Sigmar community. Age of Sigmar Masters lists In this first episode I announce the release of the Age of Sigmar masters lists for the UK Masters 20016/17 Listen to the episode to hear an overview and my thoughts on the Age of Sigmar Masters lists and download the lists at our Army List Archive This masters is this coming weekend and is held at Warhammer World.  If you are local feel free to pop in and check out the event in progress.  I will be posting all the event coverage to The Grand Alliance forums. Grand Alliance Death Byron Orde – Death Vampire Lord On Zombie Dragon General – Vampiric Sword & Shield & Chalice Ruler of the Night – Artefact: Cursed Book Vampire Lord On Abyssal Terror Vampiric Sword & Shield 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Spear & Crypt Shield 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Spear & Crypt Shield 10 Zombies  4 Morghast Archai  Mourngul Reinforcement points  – 240 2000 Russ Veal – Death  Settra The Imperishable General Royal Warsphinx Venom Spike Tail – Artefact: Cursed Book Necrotect Tomb Herald 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Spear & Tomb Shield 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Spear & Tomb Shield, command 6 Necropolis Knights 6 Necropolis Knights 10 Zombies Screaming Skull Catapult Screaming Skull Catapult  2000 Tony Moore – Death Heinrich Kemmler, The Lichemaster  Necromancer Varghulf Courtier Cloak of Mists and Shadows 10 Zombies  10 Zombies  10 Zombies 12 Crypt Horrors Crypt Haunter General – Ruler of the Night Mourngul  Mourngul  2000 Rob Perrin – Death Settra the Imperishable General Royal Warsphinx Bladed tail – Cursed Book Necrotect Necromancer 6 Necropolis knights 6 Necropolis knights 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Blade and Tomb Shield 10 Zombies 10 Zombies Screaming Skull Catapult Screaming Skull Catapult 2000 Daniel Ford – Death Settra The Imperishable General Royal Warsphinx Bladed Tail – Cloak of Mists and Shadows Isabella Von Carstein  Necromancer Nightmare Vampire Lord On Abyssal Terror Vampiric Sword & Shield 6 Necropolis Knights 6 Necropolis Knights 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Blade & Tomb Shield 10 Skeleton Warriors  Ancient Blade & Tomb Shield 10 Skeleton Warriors Ancient Blade & Tomb Shield 2000 Grand Alliance Destruction Kieran Harper – Destruction Orruk Megaboss Battle Brew Orruk Megaboss Battle Brew Orruk Warchanter Orruk Weirdnob Shaman 15 Orruk Brutes Brute Boss General – Bellowing Tyrant Command  -Boss Klaw & Brute Smasha – 3 Gore-Choppa – Jagged Gore-Hacka’s 6 Orruk Gore Gruntas Pig-Iron Choppa’s 10 Orruk Ardboys 10 Orruk Ardboys 10 Orruk Ardboys Ironfist (60) 1980 Darran Palmer – Destruction Frost lord on Stonehorn Artefact- Battle brew Huskard on Thundertusk Huskard on Thundertusk Moonclan Shaman Gitmob Shaman 40 Gitmob Grots  20 Gitmob Grots 60 Moonclan Grots Netters x9 – unit champion General – bellowing tyrant

Facehammer and Clash events and new army projects – Episode 151 Over the last moth there has been half a dozen tournaments around the UK using the generals handbook.  the 3 of us went up to the Facehammer GT and had an awesome time. In this episode we also talk about Clash of Swords and Fast and Furious. Check out the events calendar at TGA Community for a full rundown of upcoming events. New Projects  We have all been painting new armies here are some photos.     Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast   You can post your comment over at The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

The Warlords Event Report – Episode 150 The Warlords is the first matched play event from games workshop.  In this episode we talk about our experiences at Warhammer Worlds for the event. Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast   You can post your comment over at The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

Age of Sigmar Open Day and Golden Demon We kick things off with some Warlords Preparation Chat.  Ben and Mark are going to the event and talk a little about the meta and what to expect from the power level at the event. Steve played at Alliance so we have some thoughts on the games, armies on display and the feel of the event under the generals handbook. Age of Sigmar Open Day Ben and Steve went to the Age of Sigmar Open Day and manages to have a good look round at everything on display there. – Overall experience, the line up,what was at the event and what we thought of it. – Forge World Dragon –  our thoughts on that along with the other new releases at the event. – New White Dwarf , we managed to talk to the team and it all sounds very exciting! – Displays – the new sylvaneth display with the realistic wood was amazing and we got some top tips on using unusual hobby materials. Golden Demon (55mins) Golden Demon (discuss some of the winners – golden-demon.com) What was it like to enter How do we win a golden demon? – Categories to enter – some are more popular than others (unit, duel) – Display Bases – get one! http://www.modeldisplayproducts.co.uk, http://miniature-heroes.co.uk, http://www.wampstore.com/store/plinths – Choice of model – don’t enter just an army model (with exceptions), look for cool new models – The rules! some models falling foul of the diorama rules! Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast You can post your comment over at – The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

Gorechosen Review – How it plays – Ep 148 Gorechosen is the latest boxed game from Games Workshop.  On this episode I talk about how the games plays, whats in the box and my thoughts on Gorechosen from initial impressions and my revised view after playing the game. Myself and 3 meets got together one night last week and played the game.  To give an idea of the time frame, I left my house at 7.30pm and was home by 11pm.  This included a 40mins drive each way to the pub we were meeting at to play, the usual chatting and socialising that starts and ends a games night, reading through the rules, setting up the board and playing 2 games. In real terms thats around 40-60 mins for a 4 player game.  2 players should play even faster. Unboxing It goes without saying that the game is amazing value when compared to buying the models alone.  If you have a Bloodbound army and fancy picking up any 2 of the characters in this box then it is cheaper to buy the game than buy the characters directly. from Games Workshop Glory to Khorne! The Bloodbound – these are the lunatics who have passed the trials of Khorne, proving themselves worthy of his violent gifts. Since the dawn of the Age of Chaos, they have destroyed kingdoms and empires in a stunning tide of ferocity, reaping blood and skulls for their god. The most devoted, those who have trodden the bloodstained Path to Glory, are the Gorechosen. True glory for these elites of Chaos lies in offering the mightiest skulls to Khorne – and what skull mightier than that of another Gorechosen? The Game Gorechosen is a game of brutal, fast-paced arena combat for 2-4 players. In this game, four champions of Khorne are thrown into the pit, fighting bitterly against each other to prove who is the most worthy of the Blood God’s gifts! Fight every man for himself, or team up against the strongest player to decide who is the most favoured of Khorne – lots of variations and tweaks to the bloodthirsty core game rules are included. The Contents – 4 Gorechosen Champion miniatures, each with their own ultraviolent playing styles and signature moves: – Redarg Bloodfane, Exalted Deathbringer; – Kore Hammerskull, Skullgrinder; – Heldrax Goretouched, Slaughterpriest; – Vexnar the Reaper, Aspiring Deathbringer; – a double-sided arena board with hex grid; – 4 Fighter Reference cards, with rules and health trackers; – 52 Action, Initiative and Critical Injury cards; – 16 page rulebook; – assorted tokens and dice necessary to play. Setting up and playing a game of Gorechosen should take around an hour – quick enough to please the Blood God. Let the carnage begin! What the official list of accessories doesn’t mention is that you also get a plastic insert to the box that holds all your accessories and playing pieces for both storage and also game play including places to keep your assembled models. Gameplay The game is easy to set up and begin playing with 2 decks of cards to determine the order you take your turns and the things you can do in your turn.  The playing board, a player sheet to track abilities and damage and also a ‘Wrath tracker’ as the other main items to set up, this takes only a few seconds. Each round you compile the initiative deck with each player getting 1 card put in the deck relative to their current level of Wrath.  Each player is dealt 5 action cards. The game play continues by turning over the top initiative card to see which player gets to take a turn. A player take a turn by choosing an action card from thie hand and performing one action on that card, usually a move or attack but there are also other special actions available to be used. Once that player has resolved their action the top card in the initiate deck is ...

Age of Sigmar Tournament Army Lists – Alliance – ep 147 In this episode I talk about the winning  Age of Sigmar tournament army lists at Alliance. The winner was Rob Symes with Order. * 9 Kurnoth Hunters * 3x 10 Glade Guard * 3x Gryph Hounds * 3x Hurrinaums with Wizard 2nd place was Paul Whitehead with Destruction * 3x Frostlord on Stonehorn * 1x Thundertusk Beastclaw Riders * 3x 10 Savage Orruks 3rd place was Andy Bryan * 2x Great Unclean One * 2x 10 and 1x 20 Plage Bearers * 2x 6 Plague Drones All the other lists can be found in the Age Of Sigmar Tournament Army list archive   Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast You can promote your comment over at my new website – The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

Apps, Bases and Alliance. In this episode I talk about the Age of Sigmar App, Shattered Dominion Bases and the tournament I ran last weekend. I’ve started a daily video series on Facebook Live. See all the videos at baddice.co.uk/facebook The Shattered Dominion bases are out now and I have seen people using them. They look great when finished but i’m not sure they are a 1 stop solution and need a bit more effort than a single dry brush. I’ve been rebasing my Dark Alves and like how they are turning out but will be adding grass tufts, leaves and snow. The AoS App. I’d love to get together a features list to send in to games workshop. Let me know what you would like to see from the Age of Sigmar app and how your would like it to work. If you have anything else to say about this episode feel free to let me know by leaving a comment below or sending an email to bencurry@baddice.co.uk. Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast You can promote your comment over at my new website – The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

South Coast GT lists in Generals Handbook Ben, Mark and Steve get together to compare their South Coast GT lists to how they come out with Generals Handbook points. On the sow we talked about the lists that we all took to SCGT, how money points they came in at under the generals handbook and how the scenarios would effect the choices we made n our lists. A big change is the ‘sideboard’ as its become known, where, in South Coast GT lists, you get to take 150 pool points and use 100 per game.  This is not included in the Generals Handbook so we would have tough choices to make when writing lists. Marks Moonclan army: Skarsnik 3 shamans 2 bolt throwers 2 doom divers 80 night goblins 20 squigs 10 herders 12 fanatics 1 mangler 2140. Steven Chaos Alliance 1 x Archaon – 700 points 3 x Lord of Slaanesh on Daemonic Mount – 420 points 2 x Chaos Warriors (Battleline) – 360 points 1 x Chaos Warshrine – 200 points 1 x Varanguard, Nights of Ruin – 360 points 2 x Hellstriders of Slaanesh – 200 points 2 x Daemonettes of Slaanesh – 240 point 1 x Mutalith Vortex Beast – 220 points 5 x Chaos Marauders (Battleline) – 300points Ben’s Legion 1 Drazhoath The Ashen 1 Bull Centaur Taur’uk 3 Daemonsmith 1 Infernal Guard Castellan 1 Infernal Guard Standard Bearer 6 Bull Centaur Renders 30 Infernal Guard Fireglaives 40 Infernal Guard Ironsworn 2 Magma Cannon 1 Death shrieker 1 Iron Daemon 119 pools vs 2500 GHB We also talk about our current painting projects, recent and upcoming events and thoughts on new releases. The episode art for this week is quite topical as it is Bens wedding anniversary. Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast

Beastclaw Raiders Battletome review Beastclaw Raiders are released this week and I have an early copy of the Battle Tome to review in this episode. The Beastclaw Raiders have an awesome new backstory to suite their new home in the mortal realms. The faction is lead by the Frostlords riding Stornhorns and Thundertusks and lead a nomadic life riding the edge of the overwinter bringing destruction to all who stand in there path and leave nothing but ruin in the wake of the storm. Frost lords are supported by their Huskars and backed up by packs of Mournfangs. Beastclaw Raiders Battletome includes rules for Allegiance abilities, command traits and artefacts of power. Similarly to the Flesh Eater Courts, the Stonehorn and Thundertusk kits have been re-imagined to create 6 separate war scrolls from the single monster kit. Frostlord, Huskar and Beastclaw Rider. Along with the battletome there is a new army box released. The contents include 2 Stornhorn/Thundertusks, 4 Mournfangs, 3 Yetis, a Hunter and 4 Frost Sabers. Its priced at £135 and comes in at around 1600 Pitched battle points. With some discount from any of the independent retailers you should be able to pick up this and another Stornhorn to get a 2000 points matched play army for less than £150. Allegiance Abilities. Since the generals Handbook was released every new battle tome has included these fantastic new rules for changing how a faction plays.  Beastclaw Raiders are no different and they have a couple of great abilities. Beastclaw Stampede: When a Beastclaw Raider unit charges they can re-roll 1’s to wound in the combat phase. The Everwinters Blessing: Roll on a chart in each hero phase for a chance to preroll failed saves of a 1, get and extra move or dish out mortal wounds to nearby enemy units. Command Traits * Massive Bulk – +1 Wound * Overwinters Master – Reroll on the Overwinters Blessing Chart * Avalanche Voice – +8″ to Command ability range * Famed Hunter – retools Hit rolls of 1 o n your general * Beast-eater – Reroll wounds vs Monsters * Fearsome Leader – -1 Braver to nearby enemy units Magical Artefacts There are 6 new magic artefacts in the Beastclaw Raiders battletome. The Elixir of Frostwyrm deals damage to an entry unit in 9″, Th eBleeding Skull Dagger lets you unbind spells, Pelt of Charngar heals wounds, Blade of All-Frost Adds 1 damage to a melee weapon and can stop a hero or monster from fighting, Tokens of the Everwinter are amazing! The bearer can use them to preroll hit, winds and saves for a turn, and the Ice Mammoth Skull Plate lets the wearer re-roll all saves against – Rend attacks. Overall its another really cool battletome that re-imagines an existing faction and breaths new life into them with only a few new war scroll combinations and some new rules.  The highlight for me is the brand new backstory that suits the Beastclaw raiders in the Mortal Realms. Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast You can promote your comment over at my new website – The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

Shattered Dominion and New bases The Shattered Dominion realm of battle board has finally hit the stores and is accompanied by a battletome: Dominion of Chaos that is on pre-order this week alongside a huge range of other Age of Sigmar new releases. On this episode i talk about the Start Collecting sets for Sylvaneth, Ironjawz, Bloodhound, Stormcast and Flesh Eater Courts. I like the look of this new style of starter kits and am really tempted to pick one up.   Hacking Golden Demon I recently asked if there were any ‘shortcuts’ to a Golden Demon and was told a resounding NO. But in receiving that no I also was given a lot of advice and that in itself is a shortcut (or hack) I decided to try and put this into action and 10X my painting by taking some tips and trying out some advanced skills for the first time. This is my results so far (more can be see on my TGA.Community painting blog) I’ve been painting with games workshop paints and water.  No Airbrush or mediums used.  I’ve been thinning y parts to the same consistency as the Glaze paints and applying in very thin layers using more water to blend the colours on the model. I’ve not been blending colours together, just using thin paint blended out with water to create the transitions. To get to the stage in these photos has taken less than 2 hours. He is still work in progress but I am aiming to get finished quickly and try the same techiques on a smaller model. Bases I’ve been keen to rebase my Dark Elfs and the new range of plastic bases had given me the ideal opportunity. You Tube Get the video of this episode here   Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast Chat with other Age of Sigmar players at The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community

Battletome Bonesplitterz review Battletome Bonesplitterz is the main topic in episode 142.  I also talk about the release of Shar’Tor the Executioner, Getting Started in Age of Sigmar and the new start collecting boxes that have gone on sale this weekend. Battletome Bonesplitterz The Bonesplitterz Faction are getting the full sylvaneth treatment.  A brand new huge battletome packed full of war scrolls, battle plans, Allegiance abilities, battle traits, Spell lores and lots more.  This is a signal for the future of Age of Sigmar.  A new battletome for an existing model range with a whole slew of new rules.  If every faction in Age of Sigmar gets a book like this then its going to massively change the shape of the game. The Bonesplitterz faction is themed around monster hunting and killing.  They are field buy the power of the Waaagh and driven wild by the power of Gorkamorka.  The Bonesplitterz believe that their god’s spirit is bound inside monsters and they can absorb the power by killing them. New allegiance abilities can be found in the battletome that are themed around killing monsters. Bonesplitterz battle traits give all bonesplitterz a 6+ save against Mortal Wounds and an armour save roll of a 6 before modifiers is always a pass. There are some fantastic battalions themed around the famed warclans and allow you to build armies with various bonus abilities. Shar’Tor the Executioner. Forge World have put Shar’tor the Executioner on pre order this weekend He is a Bull Centaur Hero model and the first in a new range of an Age of Sigmar Character Series. I posted a unboxing review when he went on sale at Warhammer fest a few months ago. Getting Started with Age of Sigmar Also released this week is a range of new introduction kits and a fantastic new magazine to get ne people into the game. The magazine is presented in an almost graphic novel format crammed cover to cover with information about Age of Sigmar and also includes a free plastic liberator. The new starter kits are like a cut down version of the original Age of Sigmar boxed game Questions? If you have any questions at all about this episode feel free to get in touch. You can contact Ben all over the web! Email – bencurry@baddice.co.uk Twitter @baddice_podcast Facebook – facebook.com/baddice Instagram – @bencurry Snapchat – @baddicepodcast Chat about the show with others over at The Grand Alliance Community. – TGA.Community