@@tbomb69that must have been a pain to transport, I personally wouldn’t like it if I had to put something like that in the back of a car, even worse if you use a bus or subway, or god forbid, a bike
Full props for sportsmanship and prioritizing "fun" over "victory". I especially like how you showed Alex how screening and move blocking works, then stood aside to allow the epic final boss battle.
I was so happy to hear that because I dabbled in 40K because my friends played all of the GW games. They always trounced me and it killed my love for the game. I'm just thankful that they loaned me armies instead of my spending on them myself.
Yeah when you were describing the Warbosses army list and mentioned the Morkanaut it raised an eyebrow (general wisdom is to take the Gorkanaut) especially once you mentioned the dakka jet i was like "huh, that isnt your standard tournie Ork build" then you mentioned that it was a young warboss and it all made sense. So glad you gave him a fun game.
Dear God! What a legend and a great story for game 1. "Make sure my opponent had a great time", "custodian of the hobby". I so wish more people were big enough to see it this way. WELL DONE!
How do you transport that thing around? I'm just imagining Mordian Glory entering the tournament venue with his comissar cap on and two dudes behind him carrying the titan like the Ghana pallbearers.
Its actually not that big. I just use a medium sized box and plenty of bubble wrap for each of my two, same for the bigger knights. Now, the two Warlords and the Nemisis, THEY are a little bit more problematic but they do break down into manageable pieces but I definately need seperate boxes for the legs and the carapace weapons and another for the body and arms.
I got my Warhound to break down into sections and transported it in two cases. Case 1: Torso, head, one weapon Case 2: Legs, one weapon. I used neodymium magnets to hold the head and weapons in place, and also to help stabilize the torso on the pelvis so it wouldn't accidentally topple over or fall off. later, I added a small, thin base to the model to help with stabilization. I want to build another Warhound, but I want to add electronics: targeting lasers, LEDs, cockpit lighting, etc. If it works the way I intend, then I'll retrofit the other Warhound so they're a matched pair.
28:35 Couldn't agree more--making the first experience a fun one is a surefire way of getting new people invested in the hobby. I remember my first proper match of a wargame; it was a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battle with the Island of Blood starter set, circa 2011-2012. My brother and I had split the box for Christmas, and one night he let me bring both armies to our FLGS and do a game against another player there, me playing my Skaven and the other guy using my brother's High Elves. The guy was super nice, helping explain the game and rules as we went along, but he pulled a bit of a cheeky maneuver; he added a Wizard's Tower to the board, something which gave his wizard a full slieu of spell options, but was wothless to my Skaven. Most of the game was pretty typical, our forces marching up to partake in glorious combat, but early on he used that Wizard's Tower to use a particular spell--a meteor. Every turn, we rolled a die. If it rolled high enough, the meteor hit the initial target; if it didn't, it'd wait another turn, and grow larger. He targeted the meteor at around where he expected my army to be next turn (which I dutifully marched into, being not a coward), and expected it to land the next turn or so and deal some damage. Queue: Round after round of the meteor delaying another turn, growing larger and larger until its eventual blast radius would encompass the entire board. When it finally did land, we discovered an interesting side effect of the meteor hitting the entirety of our armies--namely, due to how it allocated wounds and pierced armor, the meteor dealt damage such that it was extremely effective against small units with high armor, but was rather weak against swarm units with weak armor. By the time the dust settled, his army was in ruins, while mine was barely scratched. To this day, I still remember the hubris of that Elf Wizard, who summoned a meteor that destroyed his entire army; my brother, who had been watching, even gave him a name, "Mud the Team Killer," and painted him as a ghost to commemorate the occasions. It was the sort of awesome moment that sticks with you through the years, and has remained one of my all-time favorites in the hobby. I have a feeling Alex over there will have a similar memory of the time his Ork Warboss charged a Warhound Titan, *and lived.* It's the stuff this hobby is made of.
Gotta say I'm glad you were such a good sport to the kid in your first game because it sucks when your first ever game is pure destruction. My first ever game of 40k back in 9th was against Tzeentch demons and the dude brought so many pink horrors... he ended the game with more models then he started. I still haven't gotten the motivation to go play another game in a game store yet just sticking to playing tabletop sim with one of my friends.
thats how my first game went as well, i got in at the tail end of 9th with a friend, and we decided to have a "practice" game. unfortunately i didnt know he was gearing to get into the game hyper competitively. i like the people at my store, but people are too cutthroat there
Mate, the way you handled that first game speaks volumes to your character. So glad you made that game a fun one for that lad. I’m sure it’s something he’ll remember for a long time. Bravo!!
A Warhound Titan is capable of a travel speed of 58 kilometers per hour or ~36 mph for us across the pond. This gigantic, tank crushing titan is able to SPRINT.
Angron in the lore: Literally jumps from his capital ship and shoots down through the atmosphere, slaughtering hundreds of Space Marines and thousands of soldiers. Angron in table top: Wrecked by some good rolls.
Imagine the dad. seeing his sons first tournament. hes been checking on him while building and painting his army over the coarse of weeks or months. his sons been exited to try a tournament so he goes with him to support him. then sees this MASSIVE UNIT on the other side of the table! then he just starts singing "leaves from the vine" lmao
Are you telling us you literally did the Saving Privet Ryan thing where Tom Hanks points his pistol at a tank? That Kriegsmen earned himself a name with that one.
Well done on the first game, that alone should've given you the sportsmanship award if there was one. As for supporting the Warhound, in that config, you need anti tank, pure and simple. I'd probably drop one of the krieg units and marshal and either grab a trio or scout sentinels, or even try and fit in a Leman Russ demolisher... Either that or change the load out on the titan to include the turbolaser! :-P
for game 1, thank you for going easy on the kid, I went against a more competitive guy my first tournament with an absolutely garbage list I had scrounged together, and got tabled like T3, but it was basically over by T2. I'm surprised I didn't go to any more tournaments after that but I'm glad I did
i respect your approach to that first game sounds like a hell of a lot of fun being thematic and getting into the factions while also helping him out as a new player very good to hear about
Hey mordian, I was thinking, how the heck did you transport a titan? Like, they’re so big and unlike tanks they have a lot of parts that are only connected on one point, I’m just interested how you do this, since my own AOS army is already a pain to transport
They really arent that big, I use a box and plenty of bubble wrap. I thought it'd be bigger but it actually only comes up to a Warlords crotch, not even 10 inches.
There was a guy a few years ago (9th ed, I believe) who brought a Warhound to a tourny, but he also brought a Sky shield landing pad and a Shield Generator. Stood the titan on the pad with the shield generator behind him. Made the titan almost un-killable.
You did the right thing in game 1! If you throw the game, the kid would be upset if he realised your deception, but by giving him a brilliantly played and roleplayed experience you set a precedent. Absolute respect mordian, fair play.
I did this back in November 2009 for the "Tanksgiving Day" event at my local GW shop. The event had a restriction - no troops, just armored vehicles and walkers. Exploded, Wrecked, or Immobilized units with no weapons remaining counted as kills. The board was packed with tanks, transports, dreadnoughts, etc. It was a VERY target-rich environment. My Warhound was armed with a Turbolaser Destructor and Plasma Blastgun - it never moved and the void shields kept regenerating (very good rolls that day). I won the event for destroying the most vehicles & walkers in 6 turns = 38 kills.
People treat that "the orcs muscles are weaker than ours!" as if it is silly propaganda and it might actually be in setting but an odd bit of trivia is that humans with the "double muscle" gene mutation, the one that causes you to grow roughly twice as much muscle mass as a normal person, are actually weaker than a normal person because despite having roughly twice as much muscle it is only roughly 40% as effective. They're also due to weakness in connective tissues more prone to injuries. A harsh cosmic joke.
Another example of that process are bodybuilders: They can have very big, well defined muscles and yet their builds look nothing like that of a professional weight-lifter who can look much smaller, even slightly out of shape even, but they can lift alot more weight.
@@Makorze That's not quite the same thing. The reason why powerlifters and especially WSM competitors look like giant ham planet blobs who're on the verge of dropping from heart attacks is because growing muscle requires a calorie surplus. Any time you're losing weight, you're losing muscle (because it is easier for your body to metabolise the muscle than it is the fat). Bodybuilders because being cut is part of their sport have to have a very tight regime around building mass while minimising fat during the bulk period and then losing as much fat as possible while minimising muscle loss. Powerlifters on the other hand weight doesn't matter for them beyond the weight classes, and even there if they can reach the higher end of a new weight class there's no downside to gaining, and WSM/SM doesn't even have weight classes generally. So in both of those sports there's no incentive to manage fat gain and so they just keep the maximum amount of calorie intake possible. In actual muscle mass however those powerlifters and strongman guys are actually really muscular, as muscular as a bodybuilder would be, just they have the fat mass that it is not easily visible.
It *is* silly propaganda. Mycelium has a tensile strength 21× that of human muscles. I don't know about ork bones though, but I'd hazard they'd probably make human bones look as if they were made of rubber.
@@Fisthammet Orks dont feel pain the same way humans do either so can literally push thier muscles to the point of absolute destruction and (provided they arent killed in combat) heal from it.
Finally played a game on tabletop 4 years after my last one in 8th edition. My opponent hadnt played in 3 years either, so it took us 5 hours to finish a game with just fighting over 5 control points and no missions. I rocked up with 90 infantry, a leman russ, two platoon squads, two deathkorps marshals, Ursula, and Strakken for a 20 stack of catachans. The other 70 infantry were 3 20 stacks of DKoK and 1 infantry for home defense. Opponent ran Blood Angels with two 5 tactical marines, a captain in terminator, a chaplain, 10 stack of assault intercessors, a Baal Predator, a razorback, 5 sanguinary guard, and one other squad of 5 I cant remember the name of but they had swords and a hand bolter with 1 inferno pistol in the squad. I got Strakken and the catachan blob into 8 inch charge range, landed the charge, and after 3 rounds of combat Strakken killed the 5 stack of sanguinary guard at the cost of the entire 20 stack of catachans. The catachans, even with fix bayonets and the charge melee ability, did not land a single wound for any of the combat turns. The first 10 catachans got cut down in the initial combat, where one sanguinary was out of range to attack. I'm really glad I bought Strakken. Lotta mistakes made on both sides but it was a good learning experience to get back into the groove. Took 5 hours for 4 rounds, then we called with with me having a 10-9 point victory.
Hey man, like most other people are saying, good job for prioritizing the experience over just having a win. I played 40k as a kid in a warhammer store in the early 2000s and an older guy did the same thing for me. It means a lot to a kid....i still fondly remember that experience as an adult.
Been trying to learn about table top for my friends. I never watched you before, I love how civil and respectful you were to Alex the young adult you played round one. You rock and know how to warrrggh
In Geelong, Victoria. We have a 3K end of year "bring the big toys out" fun event it has been going for 15 yrs. Certain things can be allowed with consultation with TO. I took 3 scratch-built heirophants and scuttlebugs
Great job. I think it's important to do this sort of thing anytime there is someone new. make sure they have fun, and that way, in the future, we have more players. :D
I really appreciate the point about creating a good game for new or inexperienced players. I started warhammer in my early 20's and a lot of my first games in my local scene were terribly one sided, like 15-85. I nearly stopped playing because of it, but luckily found a great group of people to play with and have been enjoying my time since then.
I actually did this 😂 I took a revenant titan to a tourney. Supported him with a load of windriders, farseers on jetbikes and then a few pew pew vehicles. I drew chaos knights for the first two rounds. Won one, lost one, but I didn't actually care about the results. The revenant was blowing apart two karnivores a turn before kicking a third to death, while my small units casually took objectives. Every turn. I've never had so much fun.
YES! I own a warhound titan as well, and i'm curious about it. Up til now i've fielded it only in a couple of apocalypse games in 9th. Its damage output was underwhelming, but the aggression and pressure it was able to put on the table were unmatched.
Ok if we go Meme-ish with Titans heres my Take: Ad-mech with Rad Zone Cohort Characters Cybernetica Datasmith [60pts] with Radial Suffusion as Warlord Allied knights: 3x Armiger Helverinw [450pts] Allied Inquisition: 2 inquisitors [110pkt] (blessed wardings) 2 x Henchmen with 2 Mystics, 2 Servitors and 100 Henchmen [280] Allied Titans: 1 Warhoundtitan with 2x turbolaserdestructors [1100pts] Its an almost entire Allied Units list with the advantage of a bit radiation! Also Murder Chickens!
....and the Guardsman surrounding the Death Korps Marshall raise their shovels in the air as a muffled cheer raises over the battlefield! I always enjoy your battle reports mate, keep up the good work 👍
I think this is what warhammer was always meant to be and that is people having fun battles that bring the world to life in a reenactment sort of way. When you see people at serious tournaments they bring army lists that wouldnt normally make sense but they are only doing it to exploit some dumb rules that were overlooked and are overpowered if used in a specific way or against an entire faction and its just dumb and takes the fun out of the game for me.
Respect for going easy on the little dude. I agree. It's your responsibility to make it fun. Without a doubt you were part of the reason why he had a good time. The best insurance agains this hobby dieing off at some point.
Good on you for not crushing a young teen. I also had a similar set of experiences over the decades playing, at tournaments and not. Not saying let them win, but giving them a chance to have fun is key.
This sounds like it was a blast. Bring your non-meta fun stuff. Also, thank you for not totally reaming the new kid a new one. You could have killed his passion for the game entirely and that's appreciated.
I just got an Eldar Phantom Titan for Christmas. So it'll be stck in the pile of shame for a while but when its buit itll be so fun if i ever get to use it.
I love the Warhammer 40k lore and the RPGs, but I typically avoid the tabletop for multiple reasons, one of which being the community I have run into having enough bad eggs. I have subbed to this channel because of how amazing the stewardship you showed toward the game is. Well done.
I am not that familiar with the lore, but I imagine that one day there will be an Emperor's class titan on the battlefield. The one with Church on his back. I can't even imagine how big it would be. Actual raid boss event
Lets face it, it takes more skill to control the flow of the game and the other person not knowing then it is to win or crush them. After that game you have probably created a die hard fan who was buzzing for the whole week😄
RTT stands for Rogue Trader Tournament which is just an old name for it that's stuck around An RTT is usually a single day 3 game event, as compared to GT's (Grand Tournaments) which can be 2-3 days and 5-7 or even more games
RTT stands for Rogue Trader Tournament. Each tournament level has a set of guidelines to follow like player count and how many days the tournament is. I think RTT is below 20 something players and is a 1 day tournament. Other levels are GT: Grand Tournament, Major, and Super Major. Details may be a bit off but that's the main difference I believe.
I would be intersested on seeing a list focussed on Cadian units, with lots of shock troops and creed. Either that or a list with lots of light armour, so sentinels, hellhounds, tauroxes and the like without any russes or other main battletanks. Even though that wpuld probably boil down to sentinel spam, I'ld still like to see it
Imagine being a kid around all these old heads in a tournament. Now imagine your first match is against a god damn Titan. Now imagine going toe to toe and getting a draw. That’s how you plant the next generation.
21:43 I dunno, sounds like Orks to me. Whittle them down enough and they lose morale against a larger force until they're absorbed by a larger group and get caught up in the bloodlust of the WAAAGH again. But maybe I've just read too many accounts from the Black Library's Cain Archives. 😆
I was that kid 20 years ago and got absolutely stomped by a really weird dude playing Slaanesh demons (with the old daemonette models that my 12 year old brain could not comprehend), took me out of the hobby for over a decade, thank you for doing better.
At the end of the day, even in a proper tournament, this is just a game. There is zero reason to get bent out of shape and not be a sportsman or woman; some people take it way too seriously. Good for you for what you did for the younger player. I would probably do what you did with the support units: field as much mobile meat fence as possible to hold off the other units from the titan and let it do its work. As much as I love the Titans, personally, I'd rather field the 2-3 knights you could for its price, makes the other player split the focus of the fire, lets you have more guns to fire with, and more angles that they can fire from. take 3 of them with a little less meat fence over a titan any day. But that titan would be dang fun.
Imagine your first tournament game and you have a titan standing on the other side of the table
This wasnt at a tournament but I saw some dude rock up to a match with a warlord titan.
@@tbomb69that must have been a pain to transport, I personally wouldn’t like it if I had to put something like that in the back of a car, even worse if you use a bus or subway, or god forbid, a bike
@@art-games6230 i have no idea how that guy transported it. If it was me i’d be terrified it would break on fall on the way to the shop.
@@tbomb69 yeah same
Probably had it strapped in a carseat.
Glad you gave that young warboss an amazing game!
His paint job is great. Very orky.
@@Stuffandstuff974 Hy Dunno. Hy is tinking dey needz more red. Faster!
@@RedwoodTheElf URE ZOGGIN ROIT, YA GIT!
@@Stuffandstuff974 Snakebites too. What a choice!
Good enemies're 'ard to find!
Full props for sportsmanship and prioritizing "fun" over "victory".
I especially like how you showed Alex how screening and move blocking works, then stood aside to allow the epic final boss battle.
I'm imagining the dad was standing in the background grinning
I was so happy to hear that because I dabbled in 40K because my friends played all of the GW games. They always trounced me and it killed my love for the game. I'm just thankful that they loaned me armies instead of my spending on them myself.
When you give a young warboss a good fight and tutor a young of imperial guard commander at the same time. I like your style sir.
Good enemies're 'ard to find!
The only shame about the war hound is it’s 1100 points instead of 1000 so we can take two!
Two, two titans?
@@art-games6230 2200 point game?
@@BenBell-fc8cm Pretty sure he typo'd the word Can instead of Can't
@@kr-bl9hw just suggesting the idea of such a game (it would be super cool)
Wouldn't you need some points left over for an HQ? Or are these things their own HQ?
Yeah when you were describing the Warbosses army list and mentioned the Morkanaut it raised an eyebrow (general wisdom is to take the Gorkanaut) especially once you mentioned the dakka jet i was like "huh, that isnt your standard tournie Ork build" then you mentioned that it was a young warboss and it all made sense. So glad you gave him a fun game.
Mordian went from making a woman cry at her first tournament to helping a boy have a good game experience. Well done man!
Dear God! What a legend and a great story for game 1. "Make sure my opponent had a great time", "custodian of the hobby". I so wish more people were big enough to see it this way.
WELL DONE!
How do you transport that thing around? I'm just imagining Mordian Glory entering the tournament venue with his comissar cap on and two dudes behind him carrying the titan like the Ghana pallbearers.
This 100% accurate
You do it very carefully! Or, if you're like me, you magnetize it so that it's easier to transport. Like I did in Tacoma last year.
Its actually not that big. I just use a medium sized box and plenty of bubble wrap for each of my two, same for the bigger knights. Now, the two Warlords and the Nemisis, THEY are a little bit more problematic but they do break down into manageable pieces but I definately need seperate boxes for the legs and the carapace weapons and another for the body and arms.
It transports him
I got my Warhound to break down into sections and transported it in two cases.
Case 1: Torso, head, one weapon
Case 2: Legs, one weapon.
I used neodymium magnets to hold the head and weapons in place, and also to help stabilize the torso on the pelvis so it wouldn't accidentally topple over or fall off. later, I added a small, thin base to the model to help with stabilization.
I want to build another Warhound, but I want to add electronics: targeting lasers, LEDs, cockpit lighting, etc. If it works the way I intend, then I'll retrofit the other Warhound so they're a matched pair.
So cool you got a Titan to support your Straken
28:35 Couldn't agree more--making the first experience a fun one is a surefire way of getting new people invested in the hobby.
I remember my first proper match of a wargame; it was a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battle with the Island of Blood starter set, circa 2011-2012. My brother and I had split the box for Christmas, and one night he let me bring both armies to our FLGS and do a game against another player there, me playing my Skaven and the other guy using my brother's High Elves. The guy was super nice, helping explain the game and rules as we went along, but he pulled a bit of a cheeky maneuver; he added a Wizard's Tower to the board, something which gave his wizard a full slieu of spell options, but was wothless to my Skaven.
Most of the game was pretty typical, our forces marching up to partake in glorious combat, but early on he used that Wizard's Tower to use a particular spell--a meteor. Every turn, we rolled a die. If it rolled high enough, the meteor hit the initial target; if it didn't, it'd wait another turn, and grow larger. He targeted the meteor at around where he expected my army to be next turn (which I dutifully marched into, being not a coward), and expected it to land the next turn or so and deal some damage.
Queue: Round after round of the meteor delaying another turn, growing larger and larger until its eventual blast radius would encompass the entire board. When it finally did land, we discovered an interesting side effect of the meteor hitting the entirety of our armies--namely, due to how it allocated wounds and pierced armor, the meteor dealt damage such that it was extremely effective against small units with high armor, but was rather weak against swarm units with weak armor. By the time the dust settled, his army was in ruins, while mine was barely scratched.
To this day, I still remember the hubris of that Elf Wizard, who summoned a meteor that destroyed his entire army; my brother, who had been watching, even gave him a name, "Mud the Team Killer," and painted him as a ghost to commemorate the occasions. It was the sort of awesome moment that sticks with you through the years, and has remained one of my all-time favorites in the hobby. I have a feeling Alex over there will have a similar memory of the time his Ork Warboss charged a Warhound Titan, *and lived.* It's the stuff this hobby is made of.
Gotta say I'm glad you were such a good sport to the kid in your first game because it sucks when your first ever game is pure destruction. My first ever game of 40k back in 9th was against Tzeentch demons and the dude brought so many pink horrors... he ended the game with more models then he started. I still haven't gotten the motivation to go play another game in a game store yet just sticking to playing tabletop sim with one of my friends.
thats how my first game went as well, i got in at the tail end of 9th with a friend, and we decided to have a "practice" game. unfortunately i didnt know he was gearing to get into the game hyper competitively. i like the people at my store, but people are too cutthroat there
My first game was against the shop owner himself and he pulled out mortarian on me. Took it like a champ but lost horribly
Mordian being a gentleman and a scholar in game 07
Mate, the way you handled that first game speaks volumes to your character. So glad you made that game a fun one for that lad. I’m sure it’s something he’ll remember for a long time. Bravo!!
Outstanding job giving a good experience to the young lad! That, above all, is what makes you a good wargamer brother!
as a parent of young kids, i feel that alex's dad would have been very happy that you were his sons first opponent. top marks that man !
100% agree with you regarding being the custodian. So important to be aware of this. Chapeau
Growing and building the community is by far the most important thing period! Good on you
I played in a tournament as a 13 year old, got tabled every game, didn’t play warhammer again for 20 years.
You’re a good sort
I can distill the first (wonderful) game down to a simple lesson: We're all there to have fun, so let's have some fun!
Wonderful stuff!
A Warhound Titan is capable of a travel speed of 58 kilometers per hour or ~36 mph for us across the pond. This gigantic, tank crushing titan is able to SPRINT.
The fault was not mine, sir. Colonel Straken must answer.
STRAKEN ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE!
Always great to hear when fellow hobbyists can just come together and enjoy playing their game.
21:37 Teach the young lad a good lesson, NEVER RETREAT (unless it's the best option but that's no fun)
When the indexes first came out i was looking at a CSM list of :
6x20 cultists
3x10 traitor guard
And then the Titan.
What’s that sound?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*STOMP* *STOMP*
ITS KEVIN!!!!!
Angron in the lore: Literally jumps from his capital ship and shoots down through the atmosphere, slaughtering hundreds of Space Marines and thousands of soldiers.
Angron in table top: Wrecked by some good rolls.
Imagine the dad. seeing his sons first tournament. hes been checking on him while building and painting his army over the coarse of weeks or months. his sons been exited to try a tournament so he goes with him to support him. then sees this MASSIVE UNIT on the other side of the table!
then he just starts singing "leaves from the vine" lmao
Are you telling us you literally did the Saving Privet Ryan thing where Tom Hanks points his pistol at a tank? That Kriegsmen earned himself a name with that one.
Well done on the first game, that alone should've given you the sportsmanship award if there was one. As for supporting the Warhound, in that config, you need anti tank, pure and simple. I'd probably drop one of the krieg units and marshal and either grab a trio or scout sentinels, or even try and fit in a Leman Russ demolisher... Either that or change the load out on the titan to include the turbolaser! :-P
i love the warhound's tiny hat :)
for game 1, thank you for going easy on the kid, I went against a more competitive guy my first tournament with an absolutely garbage list I had scrounged together, and got tabled like T3, but it was basically over by T2. I'm surprised I didn't go to any more tournaments after that but I'm glad I did
i respect your approach to that first game
sounds like a hell of a lot of fun being thematic and getting into the factions while also helping him out as a new player
very good to hear about
Hey mordian, I was thinking, how the heck did you transport a titan? Like, they’re so big and unlike tanks they have a lot of parts that are only connected on one point, I’m just interested how you do this, since my own AOS army is already a pain to transport
Put him in a booster seat in the back.
They really arent that big, I use a box and plenty of bubble wrap. I thought it'd be bigger but it actually only comes up to a Warlords crotch, not even 10 inches.
There was a guy a few years ago (9th ed, I believe) who brought a Warhound to a tourny, but he also brought a Sky shield landing pad and a Shield Generator. Stood the titan on the pad with the shield generator behind him. Made the titan almost un-killable.
You did the right thing in game 1! If you throw the game, the kid would be upset if he realised your deception, but by giving him a brilliantly played and roleplayed experience you set a precedent. Absolute respect mordian, fair play.
I did this back in November 2009 for the "Tanksgiving Day" event at my local GW shop.
The event had a restriction - no troops, just armored vehicles and walkers. Exploded, Wrecked, or Immobilized units with no weapons remaining counted as kills.
The board was packed with tanks, transports, dreadnoughts, etc. It was a VERY target-rich environment.
My Warhound was armed with a Turbolaser Destructor and Plasma Blastgun - it never moved and the void shields kept regenerating (very good rolls that day).
I won the event for destroying the most vehicles & walkers in 6 turns = 38 kills.
People treat that "the orcs muscles are weaker than ours!" as if it is silly propaganda and it might actually be in setting but an odd bit of trivia is that humans with the "double muscle" gene mutation, the one that causes you to grow roughly twice as much muscle mass as a normal person, are actually weaker than a normal person because despite having roughly twice as much muscle it is only roughly 40% as effective. They're also due to weakness in connective tissues more prone to injuries.
A harsh cosmic joke.
Another example of that process are bodybuilders: They can have very big, well defined muscles and yet their builds look nothing like that of a professional weight-lifter who can look much smaller, even slightly out of shape even, but they can lift alot more weight.
@@Makorze That's not quite the same thing. The reason why powerlifters and especially WSM competitors look like giant ham planet blobs who're on the verge of dropping from heart attacks is because growing muscle requires a calorie surplus. Any time you're losing weight, you're losing muscle (because it is easier for your body to metabolise the muscle than it is the fat). Bodybuilders because being cut is part of their sport have to have a very tight regime around building mass while minimising fat during the bulk period and then losing as much fat as possible while minimising muscle loss.
Powerlifters on the other hand weight doesn't matter for them beyond the weight classes, and even there if they can reach the higher end of a new weight class there's no downside to gaining, and WSM/SM doesn't even have weight classes generally. So in both of those sports there's no incentive to manage fat gain and so they just keep the maximum amount of calorie intake possible.
In actual muscle mass however those powerlifters and strongman guys are actually really muscular, as muscular as a bodybuilder would be, just they have the fat mass that it is not easily visible.
It *is* silly propaganda.
Mycelium has a tensile strength 21× that of human muscles. I don't know about ork bones though, but I'd hazard they'd probably make human bones look as if they were made of rubber.
@@Fisthammet Orks dont feel pain the same way humans do either so can literally push thier muscles to the point of absolute destruction and (provided they arent killed in combat) heal from it.
Finally played a game on tabletop 4 years after my last one in 8th edition. My opponent hadnt played in 3 years either, so it took us 5 hours to finish a game with just fighting over 5 control points and no missions. I rocked up with 90 infantry, a leman russ, two platoon squads, two deathkorps marshals, Ursula, and Strakken for a 20 stack of catachans. The other 70 infantry were 3 20 stacks of DKoK and 1 infantry for home defense. Opponent ran Blood Angels with two 5 tactical marines, a captain in terminator, a chaplain, 10 stack of assault intercessors, a Baal Predator, a razorback, 5 sanguinary guard, and one other squad of 5 I cant remember the name of but they had swords and a hand bolter with 1 inferno pistol in the squad.
I got Strakken and the catachan blob into 8 inch charge range, landed the charge, and after 3 rounds of combat Strakken killed the 5 stack of sanguinary guard at the cost of the entire 20 stack of catachans. The catachans, even with fix bayonets and the charge melee ability, did not land a single wound for any of the combat turns. The first 10 catachans got cut down in the initial combat, where one sanguinary was out of range to attack. I'm really glad I bought Strakken.
Lotta mistakes made on both sides but it was a good learning experience to get back into the groove. Took 5 hours for 4 rounds, then we called with with me having a 10-9 point victory.
Hey man, like most other people are saying, good job for prioritizing the experience over just having a win. I played 40k as a kid in a warhammer store in the early 2000s and an older guy did the same thing for me. It means a lot to a kid....i still fondly remember that experience as an adult.
I'd be terrified fighting a behemoth accompanied by an army of Luigis
Been trying to learn about table top for my friends. I never watched you before, I love how civil and respectful you were to Alex the young adult you played round one. You rock and know how to warrrggh
Because of your attitude and behavior towards Alex, I bet that dude is likely to stick in the hobby for a long time. Big props, Commissar!
5:44 So that's where Attack on titan "fix bayonets" mem is from.
These stories are wild!!! Sounds like alot of fun!
In Geelong, Victoria. We have a 3K end of year "bring the big toys out" fun event it has been going for 15 yrs. Certain things can be allowed with consultation with TO. I took 3 scratch-built heirophants and scuttlebugs
"NO MY SON! THEY HAVE EARNED IT!"
KORN TO ANGRON in the Battle of the Baugeee
*Khorne scatting to the breakdown*
Great job. I think it's important to do this sort of thing anytime there is someone new. make sure they have fun, and that way, in the future, we have more players. :D
I really appreciate the point about creating a good game for new or inexperienced players. I started warhammer in my early 20's and a lot of my first games in my local scene were terribly one sided, like 15-85. I nearly stopped playing because of it, but luckily found a great group of people to play with and have been enjoying my time since then.
Congrats for your sportsmanship ! It's what keeps war games such a cool experience !
I actually did this 😂
I took a revenant titan to a tourney. Supported him with a load of windriders, farseers on jetbikes and then a few pew pew vehicles.
I drew chaos knights for the first two rounds. Won one, lost one, but I didn't actually care about the results. The revenant was blowing apart two karnivores a turn before kicking a third to death, while my small units casually took objectives. Every turn. I've never had so much fun.
YES!
I own a warhound titan as well, and i'm curious about it.
Up til now i've fielded it only in a couple of apocalypse games in 9th. Its damage output was underwhelming, but the aggression and pressure it was able to put on the table were unmatched.
The little hat on the titan was amazing.
Ok if we go Meme-ish with Titans heres my Take:
Ad-mech with Rad Zone Cohort
Characters
Cybernetica Datasmith [60pts] with Radial Suffusion as Warlord
Allied knights:
3x Armiger Helverinw [450pts]
Allied Inquisition:
2 inquisitors [110pkt] (blessed wardings)
2 x Henchmen with 2 Mystics, 2 Servitors and 100 Henchmen [280]
Allied Titans:
1 Warhoundtitan with 2x turbolaserdestructors [1100pts]
Its an almost entire Allied Units list with the advantage of a bit radiation! Also Murder Chickens!
this is epic, congrats and salutations to you good sir!
"that's my style sir!" sharpe reference duly noted
The way you handled the first match, I took instant liking to you.
kudos for the good sportsmanship and giving a new player a fun time for the first match
....and the Guardsman surrounding the Death Korps Marshall raise their shovels in the air as a muffled cheer raises over the battlefield! I always enjoy your battle reports mate, keep up the good work 👍
When you said 0 wound to angron I felt like….. 1100 points for this ? X) : great video
I think this is what warhammer was always meant to be and that is people having fun battles that bring the world to life in a reenactment sort of way. When you see people at serious tournaments they bring army lists that wouldnt normally make sense but they are only doing it to exploit some dumb rules that were overlooked and are overpowered if used in a specific way or against an entire faction and its just dumb and takes the fun out of the game for me.
Your first game was nice to hear. Competition comes second to fun!
Khorne is just like: Angaron, do you really want to go back to collect skulls for the skull throne, or because that little human made you look bad?
Respect for going easy on the little dude. I agree. It's your responsibility to make it fun. Without a doubt you were part of the reason why he had a good time. The best insurance agains this hobby dieing off at some point.
Take a metal legs only list! Sentinels, Titan, tarantula battery, enginseers ,😂
Good on you for not crushing a young teen. I also had a similar set of experiences over the decades playing, at tournaments and not. Not saying let them win, but giving them a chance to have fun is key.
Nice work giving Adam a fun game. My first was horrible and i never played again. Still follow it though. I hope Adam keeps playing!
That titan looks fantastic!
I raged as a titan showed up in a tourney, but brought it down with my Storm Sword turn 5. What a relief
15:15 this brought tears to my eyes
For some reason I’m disappointed this Titian isn’t wearing a gas mask…
This sounds like it was a blast. Bring your non-meta fun stuff.
Also, thank you for not totally reaming the new kid a new one. You could have killed his passion for the game entirely and that's appreciated.
I just got an Eldar Phantom Titan for Christmas. So it'll be stck in the pile of shame for a while but when its buit itll be so fun if i ever get to use it.
When I heard you got the red angel to 1 hp I was really hoping that a 25 point suicide truck would take him out.
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"MEN OF TANITH! STRAIGHT SILVER! DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!"
I love the Warhammer 40k lore and the RPGs, but I typically avoid the tabletop for multiple reasons, one of which being the community I have run into having enough bad eggs.
I have subbed to this channel because of how amazing the stewardship you showed toward the game is. Well done.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A KIND SOUL that is all i gotta say man
I wanna see you run like a 1000-1500 pt game with a bane blade lol
I am not that familiar with the lore, but I imagine that one day there will be an Emperor's class titan on the battlefield. The one with Church on his back. I can't even imagine how big it would be. Actual raid boss event
day 2 notitcing how much this man memes on Sharpe
That's my style sir!
Plasma Pistols have sights? I thought SOP was to turn your face away when firing lmao
True, that way it'll (probably) only burn your arm off.
I feel like when angron got back to khorne, khorne just laughed at him cause he got killed by mortals, and got a time out
That first game is far more fun to listen to than the sweat games where everything is meta'd to hell.
😅he thought we wouldn't notice the sharpe reference, but we did....
Lets face it, it takes more skill to control the flow of the game and the other person not knowing then it is to win or crush them. After that game you have probably created a die hard fan who was buzzing for the whole week😄
that first game is honestly my ideal game i think. I prefer more narrative fun battles over competitive ones.
This might sounds like a stupid question, but what’s an RTT tournament? And what’s the difference between other kinds of tournaments?
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@@rileyjessup2414 following what?
RTT stands for Rogue Trader Tournament which is just an old name for it that's stuck around
An RTT is usually a single day 3 game event, as compared to GT's (Grand Tournaments) which can be 2-3 days and 5-7 or even more games
@@nanakakitano9724thank you!
RTT stands for Rogue Trader Tournament. Each tournament level has a set of guidelines to follow like player count and how many days the tournament is. I think RTT is below 20 something players and is a 1 day tournament. Other levels are GT: Grand Tournament, Major, and Super Major. Details may be a bit off but that's the main difference I believe.
DRIVE THEM MEN! DRIVE THEM!
If you maximise fun in your list instead of efficiency you will have more fun - who would have guessed ;-)
I would be intersested on seeing a list focussed on Cadian units, with lots of shock troops and creed. Either that or a list with lots of light armour, so sentinels, hellhounds, tauroxes and the like without any russes or other main battletanks. Even though that wpuld probably boil down to sentinel spam, I'ld still like to see it
Imagine being a kid around all these old heads in a tournament. Now imagine your first match is against a god damn Titan. Now imagine going toe to toe and getting a draw.
That’s how you plant the next generation.
Thanks for giving Young Warboss a fun game 🫡
That’s very Chad of you to do
The mad lad did it
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I dunno, sounds like Orks to me. Whittle them down enough and they lose morale against a larger force until they're absorbed by a larger group and get caught up in the bloodlust of the WAAAGH again. But maybe I've just read too many accounts from the Black Library's Cain Archives. 😆
you seem really chill and cool to play with, good sport!
is there a report with a baneblade instead of theTitan? And why no skitarii?
Good Job keeping the game fun is the most important thing
I was that kid 20 years ago and got absolutely stomped by a really weird dude playing Slaanesh demons (with the old daemonette models that my 12 year old brain could not comprehend), took me out of the hobby for over a decade, thank you for doing better.
That sounded like a cook tournament good stuff🎉
At the end of the day, even in a proper tournament, this is just a game. There is zero reason to get bent out of shape and not be a sportsman or woman; some people take it way too seriously. Good for you for what you did for the younger player. I would probably do what you did with the support units: field as much mobile meat fence as possible to hold off the other units from the titan and let it do its work.
As much as I love the Titans, personally, I'd rather field the 2-3 knights you could for its price, makes the other player split the focus of the fire, lets you have more guns to fire with, and more angles that they can fire from. take 3 of them with a little less meat fence over a titan any day. But that titan would be dang fun.