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Hi everyone today is the first day for a long while I’ve had a moment or to to relax and reflect on what was a fantastic weekend of gaming, drinking and chat.

Death or Glory Episode 31: Death or Glory 2 Preparation Podcast!

Hello one and all!

Wellcome to death or glory episode 31, the Tournament Preparation podcast for DoG 2!

The guys run through the tournament and the first round match-ups

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Dark Eldar: Brighton GT Heat 2

Fresh from my good showing at woking weirdboyz, I approached the GT in good spirits and my dark elder working pretty well. So how did I do?

All levels of megh… but I’ll get onto that in a bit.

The GT took over from the GW run event a while ago and has been going on ever since. It copies GW in that it’s a heat to final form and we went to Heat 2 held in Brighton.

Dark Eldar: Desperate Allies: Choices!

So as the veritable storm of new Codex’s appear to have ground to a halt for now and the next one rumoured to be tyranids, it seems like a good time as any to revisit Allies. Allies, initially controversial, now are an excepted part of the game. It allows a better variety of armies and isn’t the overpowered game breaking mechanic many people thought it was.

Dark Eldar can ally with A LOT of armies. Unfortunately these are mainly desperate allies except of course Eldar. However considering how popular this duo is, I’ll leave the rest of the internet to tell you can get fortune on a beast pack and the baron and that gives him a 2+ reroll able invulnerable save. The more interesting choices are the desperate allies. Are these useable? If so which ones? Well let’s have a look shall we?

Dark Eldar: Woking War Tournament

So obviously with our tournament around the corner, I’m busy organising and meeting and greeting, sorting out the final details with my brother with Ru and the rest of the Death or Glory team. So I popped into Tolworth first founding to sort out the boards and Ian Courtney came up to me and asked whether I’d like to play at Woking war…. It was a 1 day event and my girlfriend was away all during the week, so I thought what the hell! And packed my Dark Eldar and off I went!

Woking War is held at the Maybury centre in Woking and is an offshoot from the Tolworth first founding. A lot of people use this tournament as attest for the mayhem tournament and the DoG tournament. A lot of tournament regulars were testing out their DoG army lists and so I was up against a few tough opponents.

The system was at a net victory points plus fifteen to a maximum of 30 points, so a margin of victory tournament… I had no idea what to expect!

Dark Eldar: Brighton Warlords Tournament

Hey guys and welcome along to the next chapter of my Dark Eldar blog. I love tournaments and this next one is definitely one of the best. Brighton Warlords was a 1650 pt., forge world allowed tournament in which secondary objectives didn’t count for who won the game, but contributed bonus points each round. I was quite sceptical about this rule but stormed on regardless. I was coming off a 5th place from Aldershot and the only way was up right?

Dark Eldar: Aldershot Ardboyz - June 2013 – Part 2

So back to Aldershot. I had 3 more games to play, 3 awesome opponants to face and a lot of coke zero to drink as the temperature was incredibly high! I was well placed on two wins and went into game 4 ready and willing!

Dark Eldar: Aldershot Ardboyz - June 2013 – Part 1

So as I said last time, I was on my way to my first tournament with the new Eldar. This was my first tournament in a while due to weddings and pull outs meaning my last tournament was back in March. So once more unto the Breach my friends! I went with the Dark Eldar army from last times blog. This is part 1!

Dark Eldar: Eldar Allies take 2 – Part 3 (Troops and first list)

Lets finish of the Eldar Allies review quickly with a look at troops and there incredibly awesome troop transport! I’ll then tell you what army I made with these new allies . The next blog weill tell you exactually how I did and what changes I will make to the list!

Dark Eldar: Eldar Allies take 2 – Part 2 (Fast Attack and Heavy Support)

So with a cheeky review of Elites and HQ in the bag, today I’m focusing on 2 very strong areas Fast Attack and Heavy Support. I’ve decided to separate troops from this countdown and include it in the next blog focusing on how a dark elder can use eldar allies. Let’s face it Fast attack and heavy support are a bit more exciting than troops!!

 

 

 

Dark Eldar: Eldar Allies take 2 – Part 1 (HQ and Elites)

So for the first time since the start of the rollercoaster ride we call 6th edition we have something that allows for a realistic choice in allies. The Eldar dex got me very excited…. A new way to play? Maybe! Certainly a few options really makes me wanna do a mushkilla style reserve army with jet bikes and so on. New options really make this ally much better than before. Below I’ll take a look at the units in the codex and have a go at rating them in the context of an ally. I’ll use the xx/x/-/+/++ scale when rating each unit. Unfortunately with the sheer size of the book this will have to be in 2 instalments but I’ll try and get the second instalment out early for everyone!

Death or Glory Podcast Episode 15

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Death or Glory Podcast!

This time the guys make a army out of the new Eldar codex! will Rich be using 3 Wraithknights? surely it's inevitable!

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Dark Eldar: Mathhammer part 2

Hi and welcome to path 2 of Mathhammer. Today I’m gunna build an army with mathhammer in mind. Dark elder are THE mathammer army, no other army can spam the way dark elder can. Why? Because splinter cannons will always put the same amount of wounds on any target it shoots and Lances will generally pen exactly the same amount for every target they shoot (av 10/11 aside here) and wound the same amount for the target it shoots (Wraithlords/Talos/New big elder thingy aside)

Dark Eldar: Mathhammer Part 1

Dark Eldar: Mathhammer Part 1

So with the introduction of the Tau Empire, I was looking at moving back to a pure Dark Eldar army. The tricksy tricks of eldrad don’t provide a solution to tau whose rate of fire can only be combatted with…. Rate of fire and possibly speed. The question I now have facing me is well….. what should the make up of dark light and splinter weaponry be? Well the answer may lie in a bit of Mathhammer!

Dark Eldar: List Reduction

Dark Eldar: List Reduction

So currently I’ve talked about my armies as if they are going to be 1850 pts. From the sounds of the noise coming from the GT final this weekend, a tournament I couldn’t get to due to food poisioning after the Stag do of Mr Luke Nurser, that tournaments are likely to decrease in points leave down to something more like 1500-1600 points. So the question is how does a dark eldar army need to change?

Tournaments: How does a Death or Glory gamer prepare?

Tournaments: How does a Death or Glory gamer prepare?

Tournaments for 40k have been going along for a long time. Brought to us initially by clubs such as Tolworth First founding. Tournament gaming has apparently survived Games Workshop’s attempt to kill competitive gaming and now name a month and two or three tournaments will be available for anyone willing to make the journey. If your new to tournaments or just thinking of going to them give it a go, there a great experience, you play generally 5/6 new opponents (who are normally very friendly!) and you see a large variety of new armies

Dark Eldar: Nemesis – Necrons

Dark Eldar: Nemesis – Necrons

So back to Nemesis this week and the big cheese at the moment, Necrons. I have a sad confession to make. I played in three tournaments with these guys and I have to say I still feel a bit dirty.

I was playing these guys end of 5^th just as my Dark Eldar were struggling on the tournament scene. There ability to cover every angle appealed to many tournament gamer and frankly after a while just put me off. Theres no doubt these guys are powerful but the question is how about now?

Dark Eldar: List Evolution

Dark Eldar: List Evolution

Ok so as I’ve said I went to the Caledonian uprising and from that I’ve learnt a lot about my army and what it needs to compete. Although I didn’t play Daemons, I played Necrons and I changed my mind about a few things. Building an army that can compete in the north and the south is a tough prospect but I believe I’ve learnt a lot about what it Is to be dark eldar.

Dark Eldar: Nemesis part 3 – Tyranids

Dark Eldar: Nemesis part 3 – Tyranids

So with thoughts swimming through my head and a new army forming in my head, it’s time to head back to nemeses. Thanks for your support for the nemesis blogs I’ve had huge readership for it and calls for army x and army y. So far I’ve concentrated on the poor matchups for dark elder. However let’s switch this around. The other end of the spectrum was…. Tyranids. So let’s have a look at them shall we?

Dark Eldar: The Caledonian Uprising

Dark Eldar: The Caledonian Uprising

So my first tourney of the year and what an experience it was! The northern tournament scene is very different to the southern scene. A lot of this is due to the major players and generally what they succeed with. In the north there’s always a shift towards the major list, the Meta list if you like. Whereas in the south, there is a weird aversion to this list time. When imperial guard ruled the north, space wolves ruled the south. When Grey Knights ruled the north, Necrons ruled the south.

So with this in mind I launched into my next tournament with a sense of apprehension. Thanks to Dave and Franco for letting me stay at there’s in Nottingham and on the Saturday I and Luke ventured into the eye of the storm.