Reminder: DSR casting call voting

Reminder about the DSR casting call.  I believe the deadline for listener votes is Friday night midnight Eastern time, so from this writing about 31 hours.  More than double the expected life expectancy of a guardsman in a warzone; should be plenty of time!

Send your votes to: deepstrikevox "at" gmail.com

Part 1  (4 auditions - I'm at the end of this one - Kamil/Jordan/Kristina/Jim[me] )

Part 2  (4 auditions- Don/ Lee /JR/ Dee )

Part 3  (1 audition - Snorre )

Recently I recorded a mini-sode with Big Jim and Chase from Deepstrike Radio as part of their casting calls for people who might be interested in joining the show as co-co-host.  

There are two recordings, each with several candidates.  I'm on the first one at the end, but check everyone out.  There will also be a third with one person due to a recording snafu.  Be prepared to hear a lot about bolters!  A lot is similar, but there is different info and some different insights in each segment.

Check them out, and email DSR about who you think would make the best new host.  Having heard a few of the others so far, it sounds like they've gotten some great auditions in, and I don't envy them making the final decision!

After you go through the audition shows, if you haven't already been following them, check out some of the earlier shows!  They've covered a good deal of background already, so you should be able to find something that interests you!

Prognostication: Offense vs. Defense

And they still didn't hit anything

Two of the big changes in 6th ed 40K are how flyers and psychic powers work, and both have become more prevalent as a result.  Partly due to their being harder to stop.

For flyers there are some counters, but they're generally limited outside of just bringing more of your own, which only makes flyers more prevalent.  You can take pot shots with your non-Skyfire units, but your chance of success is low.

Deepstrike Radio Casting Call recordings live

Recently I recorded a mini-sode with Big Jim and Chase from Deepstrike Radio as part of their casting calls for people who might be interested in joining the show as co-co-host.  

There are two recordings, each with several candidates.  I'm on the first one at the end, but check everyone out.  There will also be a third with one person due to a recording snafu.  Be prepared to hear a lot about bolters!  A lot is similar, but there is different info and some different insights in each segment.

Check them out, and email DSR about who you think would make the best new host.  Having heard a few of the others so far, it sounds like they've gotten some great auditions in, and I don't envy them making the final decision!

After you go through the audition shows, if you haven't already been following them, check out some of the earlier shows!  They've covered a good deal of background already, so you should be able to find something that interests you!

Army Profile: Space Sharks!

My Space Sharks are actually two armies - a Deathwing-rules terminator force, and a regular Codex: Space Marines force.

Back when I first came back to 40K in mid-3rd edition, I started gathering models for an all-beakie space marine army.  But which chapter to do?  I wanted a chapter I remembered from the early days, and not one of the big ones like Ultramarines or Blood Angels.  Eventually I narrowed it down to the Space Sharks and the Silver Skulls, and the Silver Skulls narrowly won out.  But the sharky itch never fully went away and as you can see I ultimately got back to them.

 

Battle Reports Page Updated

It had been a while since I really updated the Battle Reports tab, but I have now done so!  If you haven't been following along you can catch up there now if you wish.

I've added nineteen links, some of which discuss multiple battles.  Some more detailed than others of course.  Aside from random battles, you can also follow the Space Sharks' journey through the foul foes of their league games.

Of course feel free to check out earlier reports too, just be prepared for possible edition confusion!

Review: Pegasus Hobbies Technobridge

I purchased this bridge kit a while back, to complement a sectional river I bought even further back.  I just got around to opening it up and putting it together, and I am very pleased with it.

Pegasus has made a very simple, functional kit here.  It was a breeze to assemble, taking me about two minutes total to clip off the very few extra bits from the molds and snap it together.  It holds together pretty well so I'm not going to even bother to glue it together, which will make storage and transport a lot easier and allow for alternative configurations.

Black Ops Friday: Imperial Guard Reinforcements

While looking at what to add to my Merkan Imperial Guard list for the league's bump to 1250, plus any changes I wanted to make, I knew I wanted some back-field capability.  The initial obvious answer is the IG's very own boogeyman, Marbo.  After working on the list, including Marbo, I had 90pts left over, and while I initially was going to just toss in another missile launcher squad, I thought about more guys to hang out with Marbo, and noticed that five stormtroopers with a flamer fit in at just the right budget.

But I didn't really have good models for those that fit in with the Merkans.

Yet.

Non-league and League Report: Merkan IG vs. Orks, Chaos Marines

Leonard down at Gaming Underground has been thinking about starting up an Imperial Guard army for himself, so I volunteered mine for a demonstration game.  We ended up with Big Guns Never Tire and set up the IG and Leonard's Orks for a throwdown.