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A Warhammer 40K podcast about giving you tips, strategies, and analysis you can use in about an hour.
In this episode, the hosts talk about their tournament philosophies- how to approach a tournament, what to expect from yourself, and what to...
In this episode, we don't scream as loudly as possible into the microphone, deafening everyone who listens. You're welcome!
Being the best player you can be has many aspects, and one of the most important is being a good sportsman. In this episode, the hosts talk...
What's up with the new Sisters of Battle codex? We dip our toes into the water with the book, looking at the various orders, units, and stra...
Games Workshop is finally returning to running tournaments. The hosts discuss the format, rules, and what they think of the matter in genera...
In this episode, we look at playing defensively versus playing offensively- what that means, how it affects your strategy and list design, a...
When you are going to a tournament, it is worth considering what your goals for winning are when writing your list; this episode, we talk ab...
We've all been out of the game for a while thanks to COVID; this episode, we talk about how to get back into things.
This episode as part of our series on different phases of the game, we talk about the charge and fight phases together.
This episode, we look at a ways of approaching list writing that focuses on the sorts of threats that the enemy can throw at you and how you...
How do supplements affect the game, and are they good or bad? How should GW handle them in the future? Our hosts discuss the matter.
We interview our guest for the episode about Knights, how to play them, and how to beat them as well as their role in the meta.
Practice games (and tournament games) are important for getting better, but you won't improve from that practice unless you are able to accu...
Being able to write a good list is one of the most fundamental aspects of playing Warhammer 40K; your list is the toolbox that you bring to...
If you play at tournaments, sooner or later you are going to run into a bad matchup- the one army that you just aren't prepared to face. But...
As competitive players, we like to focus a lot on the upper strata of the game- what the best players are doing, which lists are finishing t...
The most recent FAQ for the rulebook and GT mission pack changed a lot of things- most notably including how missions are scored and the wor...
While most players are pretty familiar with the different phases of the game, one stands out amongst the others as being a common tripping-u...
The last ten years have seen a revolution in content production for many hobbies, including 40K, and reaching out to audiences and putting o...
Command Points are one of the most important resources that an army has access to in 9th Edition, allowing you to pull of a wide variety of...
If you play Warhammer competitively, you will inevitably end up on the wrong end of the nerf bat, an unenviable situation. It can suck a lot...
Although it hasn't gotten quite as much excitement drummed up for it as the Space Marine books, the Necron codex in 9th Edition is no joke-...
3D printing is a technology that has not only made immense strides over the past ten years but is also one that has the potential to complet...
We- and many other people- have talked a lot about the secondary missions in 9th Edition as well as many of the details of the primary missi...
More than any previous edition, 9E is a game of playing to the mission in order to win. In most games, that means trying to score points on...
Normally when we talking about improving as a competitive player, we talk about rules interactions, combos, decks, and that sort of thing. B...
Transports are on the upswing in 9th Edition, with armies from virtually every faction making use of them in a variety of ways. But the rule...
A little bit of a shorter episode this week, as Ben is occupied with other business so Sean and Shaylynn talk about her Grey Knights army in...
We've had enough time now to take in the changes and breadth of the new edition, so let's take a moment to examine just what it all means. W...
One of the biggest changes for 9th edition is the introduction of strategic reserves, a concept that will be familiar to players of 7th or p...
Those who played many of the alternative formats from last edition, such as ITC, NOVA, Renagade Open, etc, may already be quite familiar wit...
9th Edition has brought with it a whole host of major changes, not the least of which is the changes to how terrain functions. In this episo...
9th Ed is here, and we are back! With the combination of rules leaks and the official GW pdf out in the wild, Sean and Shaylynn give their f...
Some games can be won or lost practically before they even begin- not by the army lists, but in mistakes (or strategic plays) during deploym...
Playing at tournaments is an ideal way to practice and improve your 40K skills, but what about when you're stuck in non-ideal situations? Th...
One of the things we take for granted in 40K is the ability to move around the battlefield- you can move your units wherever you'd like, wit...
When we start out playing 40K, most players will experiment a bit before finding a faction they like and settling into that, mostly building...
Let's be frank here: there are some players out there who never really seem to get any better at the game, no matter how much they play or w...
40K, like every hobby, is filled with jargon- backfield, alpha strike, WAAC, wysiwyg, mech, soup, etc, etc. Why do we use terms like this- i...
We are back! After a bit of a hiatus, Finest Hour is up and recording new episodes again, now with our brand-new cohost Ben Jurek. We dive r...
Joined by special guests Eleanor Byler and Jeffrey Hanson, Shaylynn leads a discussion about the tool of goal making, achieving, and failing...
The Hunter has, up until now, gotten a very bad rap- possibly because it was in fact a bad vehicle. However, with the update to the Space Ma...
Are allies a good thing, or not? This week on the show, we do something a little different- Shaylynn and Josh go head-to-head in a discussio...
After the chaos of the printing presses quiet, there is a held breath as the Chief Librarian opens the New Codex. Once his eyes hit those lo...
First episode of its type, Josh and Shaylynn do an application episode where they talk about their latest tournament experiences and how to...
Starting off our examination of the ETC mission set to give our listeners context for what just went down in Europe and why its so important...
With all the pom poms and hype- Shaylynn and Josh bring you the Capital City Bloodbath Hottake! Straight out of Ottawa!! Aforementioned thin...
While the smell in the studio is somewhat under control now, this week we talk about the big stink: Plaguebearers! ‘Plaguebearers’ refers to...
We talk a lot on our show about the importance of information in this game- but how do you actually go about getting that information, and h...
The tournament is over, the laurels handed out, the victors taken their prizes- but the work of the competitive player has only just begun....