Episode 10 – Long Overdue Spoilers Review featuring Mark Tang

This week on our Warhammer 40,000 Conquest podcast: Liz plays hooky while Mark, Jon and Alex act a fool about the upcoming Tyranids deluxe expansion, The Great Devourer and new spoilers from the Planetfall cycle!

 

Show highlights:

1) An exclusive audio spoiler for an as-yet un-revealed Tyranid synapse unit!

2) Mr. Mark Tang – Nazdreg player extraordinaire makes a guest appearance while Liz prepares for GenCon!

3) Alex sings 80s hits by Lionel Richie and Survivor!

4) 1 hour and 30 minutes! A behemoth of a podcast!

The Great Devourer Spoiler – Venomthrope Polluter

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The Tyranids will soon become a playable faction in Warhammer 40,000: Conquest, baring their unrelenting hunger down on planets within the Traxis sector. As we get closer to the release of The Great Devourer deluxe expansion Fantasy Flight Games has been previewing more cards from the set. We already know that this release will contain two Tyranid warlords and five synapse units. Of those five synapse units, we have seen full spoilers for two (Savage Warrior Prime and Gravid Tervigon) as well as an obscured card (Stalking Lictor) from the fan for the preview article for Ol’ One Eye.

The Tactical Squad is happy to be able to spoil the fourth Synapse unit from this expansion.

Venomthrope Polluter

Compared to the two spoiled Synapse creatures, the Polluter doesn’t allow you to be as aggressive in fighting battles or to quickly overwhelm your opponents with swarms of Termagant tokens. venomthrope-polluterIt does, however, allow you a certain amount of mobility in terms of getting certain units to where you need them for future battles, or moving a unit back to an earlier planet if you have to commit your warlord to a later planet. This is especially advantageous with units who have the Hive Mind specialization. Moving a unit with Hive Mind turn the tables in an important command struggle or give your units abilities which can change the tide of a battle. The Venomthrope Polluter will require a bit more finesse and planning ahead to get the best use of its ability, but I think a player who decides to put in the effort to think a few turns ahead may reap the reward and surprise their opponents.

The Tactical Squad thanks Fantasy Flight Games for letting us share this Tyranid spoiler with the Warhammer 40,000: Conquest LCG community.

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Toronto Meta: 401 Games Tournament 7/19/2015

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This is the first article in what we hope will be a series about the local Warhammer 40,000: Conquest meta in Toronto, Canada.

This past weekend saw the first tournament of the Summer Kit season at 401 Games, a gaming store in downtown Toronto with a huge upstairs play space. We had a strong turn-out of 17 players, which was great. But it was also the hottest day of the year and the place was packed with players for a half dozen other events. The humidity was brutal and things got a bit “fragrant” by the end of the fifth round of swiss, but we persevered.
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Revisiting The Howl of Blackmane

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One of the main draws of the Living Card Game format is the slowly growing and ever expanding card pool that is released. At regular intervals new cards are introduced that change the meta of the game and expand on existing cards. Because of this it is always important to re-evaluate previously released cards and think about how their standing has changed. We’ve now seen all the cards in the Warlord cycle released and the dust has begun to settle. Now is a great time to look back and re-consider the cards that came in each pack. Today I’m going to look at the cards we received in the very first War Pack, The Howl of Blackmane. Read More

Episode 9 – Planetfall Preview and Deckbuilding Archetypes

There is a lot to talk about this episode.  First we take a look at the upcoming Planetfall Cycle.  Then we discuss some of the recent Regionals tournaments.  We finish things off by taking a look at some of the most common archetypes in Warhammer 40,000: Conquest deckbuilding.

Episode 8: Descendants of Isha

It is two warlords for the price of one in our review of Descendents of Isha, the sixth and final War Pack from the Warlord Cycle.  Baharroth is the new Eldar warlord and our hosts try to decide whether his Mobile keyword is enough to make up for what feels like a lackluster signature squad. On the other hand, Urien Rakarth flips expectations on their heads with only two units in his signature squad.  The team is skeptical about whether he will dethrone Packmaster Kith as the reigning champion in Dark Eldar players’ hearts.  This episode is MAMMOTH in length!