The Generals Handbook – Our experiences visiting Games Workshop – episode 131




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Summary: <br>  The Generals Handbook – Our Experiences visiting Games Workshop<br> The Generals Handbook is an awesome new release from games workshop that includes 3 new ways to play Age of Sigmar including Open, Narrative and Matched play.<br> Open play is pretty much Age of Sigmar as we know it now, Narrative is story driven along the line of the realm gate wars books and the 3rd version is Matched play which includes a FULL POINTS SYSTEM for all Warscrolls in the Age of Sigmar.<br> Ben Curry (Bad Dice Podcast), Dan Heelan (Heelanhammer), Wayne Kemp and Russ Veal (Facehammer) were invited into games workshop to, and i quote, “Help make it great”<br> This episode is our experiences on this fantastic weekend and a first look at what is coming in the Generals Handbook.<br> In the show, in addition to talking about the fantastic time we had meeting Jervis Johnson and other members of the studio, and getting to play stet some of the ideas and scenarios in the book and we also release more information about the contents of the book.<br> <br> * First thing, its a book and will be release in the summer.<br> * There are 5 new campaigns including path to glory,<br> * 22 new battle plans from small games all the way up to epic battles between the games biggest characters.<br> * 6 new ‘Pitched Battle’ scenarios<br> * Multi-player and team play and of course,<br> * full points values for every Warscroll in Age of Sigmar.<br> <br> Listen to the full episode for more information<br>  <br>  <br> Feedback<br> If you have anything 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.<br> You can also contact me on<a href="http://baddice.co.uk/twitter"> Twitter</a> and <a href="http://baddice.co.uk/facebook">Facebook</a><br> Episode Transcription.<br> I’ve been asked a few times for more in-depth show notes as people do not want to/can’t listen to the eispode so here is the full transcription of the show.<br> (I have only just received this back so it is the raw file, I will tidy up the text over the next few days)<br>  <br> <br> <br> <br> Dan:<br> Hello. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a very special podcast this evening. A nice round table discussion with some superstars of the Warhammer community and the podcast community, or at least we like to think so anyway. I’m Dan from Heelanhammer, and with me, as always, is Wayne from Heelanhammer. Hello, Wayne.<br>  <br> <br> <br> Wayne:<br> Hello.<br>  <br> <br> <br> Dan:<br> We’ve dialed in some superstars. We’ve got Ben Curry from The Bad Dice Podcast. Super power gamer of old and reformed character. How you doing?<br>  <br> <br> <br> Ben:<br> Certainly a reformed character, I’d like to have you all know. I’m doing fantastic. Thanks for having me.<br>  <br> <br> <br> Dan:<br> No worries. I’m excited to talk to you. And of course, the main man, Russ. The Face from Face Hammer. Tournament legend. How you doing?<br>  <br> <br> <br> Russ:<br> I’m really good, mate. It’s great to be here.<br>  <br> <br> <br> Dan:<br> It sounds it. I love it. Welcome, one and all. We’re super excited to be talking tonight to you about this. We’ve been sitting on this for a while and we’re now officially allowed to come and talk to you, so we’re going to. I’m going to start off, and we’re going to tell this in a story mode for you and get to the meat and the bones a bit later on.<br>  <br> <br> <br> [00:01:01]<br> First off, Wayne, I want to talk to you about where you were when you heard. An email came through the system. My email and Ben’s and Russ’. We all received an email. Wayne, not being quite as tech-savvy didn’t quite get it,