Canadian Nationals 2015 #1 – Round 1

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After some production delays, The Tactical Squad is pleased to finally present video coverage of the 2015 Canadian Nationals for Warhammer 40,000: Conquest that took place on September 4, 2015 at Fan Expo in Toronto. Liz and Travis provide the commentary of the first round match-up between Michel playing Eldorath Starbane and Norm playing Zarathur, High Sorcerer. Over the coming weeks we will be releasing further videos from all rounds and the top 8. Please let us know what you think. We are still learning, on both the production and the commentary side, so any suggestions on how we can do it better are welcome.

Episode 14 – Spooky Dreams!

On our podcast Liz “Swamp Thing” Malette, Jon “the Crypt Keeper” Yeo, Travis “the Executioner” Provick and Alex “the Umbral Preacher” Cybulski preview the freshly spoiled Tau warlord. We also discuss our hopes and dreams for the planetfall cycle and our team discusses damage resolution effects so you can better predict what will happen on the battlefield!

 

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War Journals – That’s a Lot of Tokens

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Rotation 2 – Sept 29th to Oct 13th

Two more weeks have passed and my experiences with three new warlords has been interesting, to say the least. This rotation I played Old Zogwort for the first time, revisited Commander Shadowsun, and started playing “The Swarmlord” – a deck I will continue playing into the next rotation. I played Zogwort eight times, Shadowsun five times and Swarmlord four times for a total of 17 games. Eight of those games were against “Old One Eye”, who seems to be quite popular in my local meta at the moment. Read More

War Journals – Ethereals and Torture

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After playing in nationals at Gencon this past summer I spent a few weeks taking a break from playing conquest. During that time I caught up on a bulk of conquest podcasts and spent a lot of time thinking about results at nationals and the possible shape of the meta to come. I realized that I have spent nowhere near enough time playing as many of the warlords in this game. I resolved to work through the list and wrote down a schedule of what warlords I will play when. The War Journals blog series will serve as an open space for me to talk about this exploration, my findings, and really anything else I find to be relevant to the process of playing with the full breadth of different deck options available to this game. Read More

Revisiting The Scourge

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In the first Warhammer 40,000: Conquest War Pack re-review I mentioned one of the main draws of the Living Card Game format is the slowly growing card pool that is expanding with new releases introduced at regular interviews. I’m going to continue the re-evaluation of the cards we’ve seen so far. After having reviewed the card in the game’s first War Pack, The Howl of Blackmane, it only makes sense to continue on with the second set of cards released. Today I’m going to look at the second War Pack, The Scourge.

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Episode 12 – Tyranid Attack!

In the latest episode of The Tactical Squad podcast, Liz and Alex are joined by Mark and Travis for a four person cast. We discuss Alex’s second place finish at Canadian Nationals, the recently announced fifth War Pack in the Planetfall cycle, Wrath of the Crusaders, and dive into a detailed analysis of the new Tyranid cards released in The Great Devourer.

We also announced a new contest. We are starting The Tactical Squad deck club. Every month we will be selecting a different warlord and challenging listeners to come up with the own decks for that warlord. We encourage you to try those decks out in your local scene and then submit your best decks in the comments on this post – with your thoughts on how they play – for a chance to win a Warhammer 40,000: Conquest promotion card from previous Organized Play events.

For our inaugural month, we are going big and asking listeners to contribute decks for either of the two new Tyranid warlords from The Great Devourer. After Worlds in early November we will be going through the list of submitted decks and selecting one submitter for each warlord to receive a copy of the promotional Fireblade Kais’Vre, which was given out for competitors at national events this year. We will also discuss some of our favourites on the podcast.

2015 Canadian National Championship 9/4/2015

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Two weeks ago the 2015 Canadian National Championship for Warhammer 40:000: Conquest took place in Toronto at Fan Expo Canada. We had 21 players sign-up for a full day of Conquest. Two players had byes from regionals events so they went straight through to round 2. There were plenty of temptations on the convention floor, but our entrants were there to conquer the Traxis Sector.

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Episode 11 – Great Devourer Core Units Review

This week on our Warhammer 40,000: Conquest podcast: We welcome Liz back, she fills us in on her Gencon experience. We quickly go over the FFG preview for the 4th warpack, What Lurks Below then jump straight into the core factions from the Great Devourer deluxe expansion. Finally, we end it off with a brand new contest.

Update: The conclusion about subdual is that target card must be in play. Rules Reference Guide page 8 under “In Play and Out of Play”

Interview with Brad Andres

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The Tactical Squad, much like our Space Marine brethren, are not fond of losing, but sometimes we’re definitely pulling some Lamenter’s luck with the technical mishaps we deal with as a podcast. We were hoping to bring you an hour-long interview with conquest designer Brad Andres that was recorded over a month ago, but the machine spirit was weak and the interview was mangled like some horrible Tzeentchian fiend, twisted beyond all recognition into a hideous chimera of Brad, Liz, Jon and Alex’s voices.

Emperor willing, we will prevail by releasing the contents of the interview as a full length-article on our website. Apologies to Brad, as he shared some great stories about his experiences in designing and developer the game as well as his history with Warhammer 40,000 universe.  Let’s get right into it. Read More