40K Skirmish possibly inbound, and new podcast finds

Via Natfka at Faeit212 via Tastytaste at Blood of Kittens:

You heard that right. It appears one of the biggest surprises this year is not going to be the re-release of Bloodbowl, but something that is much more insidious.......Warhammer 40k: Inquisition.


This will be a skirmish sized game of 5-10 models per side, and may end up becoming more than a limited edition run. It seems that seeing all the skirmish sized game out there, Games Workshop is capitalizing on their 40k universe and peoples drive to want a smaller game. Rather ingenious if you ask me.

Definitely if a game like this was the same scale models as 40k, and was expanded upon as more than just a limted release, count me in. Might have to count me in regardless.

Please remember that this is a rumor, some salt is always required. This breaking rumor comes from TastyTaste and more can be found here on his site.
http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2013/07/15/rumor-it-blood-bowl-come-inquisition/

via TastyTaste on Blood of Kittens
GW is about to enter the skirmish scene with the release of
Warhammer 40k: Inquisition

Inquisition is designed for 2-4 players and each side will use custom cards and dice. Army sizes consist of about 5-10 models per side. A whole new set of models drawn from Blanche artwork will accompany. The game should be flexible as you can make and design your own Inquisitorial retinue. As for rules complexity that is anyone's guess, but the general marketing goal for Inquisition is a gateway game into the greater Warhammer 40k universe.

Beyond that GW, seems to be taking cues from Kickstarter projects like Sedition Wars and home-brewed rules like Inq28 for Inquisitor. This also might not end up as a limited edition run, but that all depends on sales, and if any support is continued will be done through digital expansions and updates.

Could be interesting!  Given how much they pack into the 40k/WHFB starter sets, I can just imagine 60+ inquisition/arbite/cultist/ganger/genestealer cultist figures packed into a starter box sized kit.  Yum.  We'll see if this pans out!

In other news, I found a couple more 40K related podcasts that I enjoyed:

Veterans of the Long War - Out of the northeast US.  Sounds like a fun gaming group; I hope they keep the releases coming!

The 2nd Wave - Out of Oz,  sounds like another good group.  One of the players is a Death Korps of Kreig player, which makes for interesting perspectives at times.  Again, hope to hear more!

Pre-league tryout - Shark Angels vs. Dark Eldar

I recently got hold of the new Dark Angels book and decided to try out making a Deathwing-heavy force to use for the next 40K league.  For the first round of games at 1000pts, the army consists of Belial (with twin claws, what I currently have modeled), three terminator squads and with the leftover points, a five-man tac squad with flamer.

At Gaming Underground Sunday I got a practice game in with Jim Bowen's Dark Eldar.  He took a very mobile force - three squads of hellions with the Baron, two squads of bikes and a small wrack unit in a venom.  We rolled up Big Guns Never Tire, which basically meant we played Crusade since neither of us had any Heavy Support units!

Above are my tac squad and Belial hanging out by one objective.  

SMILE! Loaner terrain

Players down at Gaming Underground had been bemoaning the lack of variety in terrain, so I made up a couple of pieces to leave there for a while.  First up is a rocket-shaped birdhouse I picked up a while ago at Michael's at a discount as one fin was broken off.  I figured it just saved me work, since I would probably have it as a crashed rocket anyways, and the broken fin makes it easier to lie down.

At first I thought of doing it as an ork rokkit, some kind of giant pulsa, but decided to make it imperial.

Dangerous Fever - Battle Report: Space Sharks vs. Nurgle CSM plasma-spam

Sorcerer and fellow sickos hanging out by their objective.

This Sunday the local players got together to discuss our next league and get some games in.  If everyone sticks with it, we should have around a dozen players for the league.  Still debating what to bring.

While there, I played Scott's Nurgle CSM (as opposed to his Khorne CSM or Iron Warriors CSM).  He's big into Apocalypse games, and it shows with his collection.  He was pulling guys from a box labeled "74 PLAGUE MARINES"!  It was an accurate label.  You can check out his blog HERE.

We played 1850pts, Emperor's Will, Vanguard Strike deployment.  I took my regular sharks plus 8 terminators to bring them from 1500 to 1850.  Scott took a terminator lord with the burning brand, three squads of three terminators with combi-plasmas, a sorcerer with combi-plasma, three squads of plague marines with twin plasma, a squad of PM with melta in a rhino, a squad of PM with flamers in a rhino, and a vindicator.  Everything that could had Mark of Nurgle.

WIP Eldar and BONES BONES BONES!

Some more work done on the Void Phantoms.  My main stumbling block at this point is not wanting to assemble guardians.

I also got my Reaper Bones Kickstarter package yesterday, and checked out the various goodies inside:

Call your Apothecary!

Poor Vespid - even in the new book they can't get a break.

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40K League Army?

So this weekend the store settles on rules for the next 40K league and we see who's in.  I was originally planning on running the Void Phantoms (Eldar/DE corsairs), but have been having potential second thoughts, and wondered what folks might like to see in action.

Scythiak Usurped! 40K Batreps, IG vs. Necrons, IG vs. Space Wolves

Down at Gaming Underground today, got in a couple of games with the Scythiak Usurpation.  First against Patrick's Necrons at 1850, one objective each, with 50 warriors, a bunch of AV13 skimmers and some other stuff.

The highlight for me was getting the powers I wanted for the Primaris Psyker, namely Endurance and...whatever that Telepathy one is that makes your guys Fearless.  Great options for the Ogryn mob, who led the advance on my left, while other units scampered up to occupy the annihilation barges.