Hello and welcome back to The Art of Caesura!  This week I'm going to do something that I've never done on the blog before: discuss tactics! My decades in this wonderful hobby have very much revolved around painting and modelling. But in the past year or so (since our FLGS, The Guildhall opened) I have been playing more and more games of Warhammer 40k. Now with the league having started, I'm playing a game every three weeks or so! I've never played so much Warhammer in my life! I'm really approaching my games with a mindset for learning and improvement. From having started the league as an absolute noob who had never played a 2000 point game before, I would like to come out of the league as a half decent player; a real challenge for my opponent. And, it's not for any other reason than I'm really enjoying the game ! Having listened to tons of 40k strategy podcasts and YouTube videos (something I had never done pre-league) most experts recognize three areas in...

  Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes  certain items to be  attracted to refrigerators. - Dave Barry  Hello one and all and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Boy, howdy! It has been a LOOOOOOooong time ( three and a half years , in fact!) since I've had one of these "semi-regular" tutorial posts, I really must do more of them! Today, we're going to learn the very best way to magnetise our bases.  But first, why would we want to do that? Well magnetising the bases of our models is the best way to store and transport them. Having magnets in the bottom of the bases allows us to pop them onto a metal tray and they won't move. There are other storage solutions (foam cases being a common one - but, having used these for years as well, they do rub the paint off the edges). For years I have been trying to perfect this method but it seemed like the magnets I was using were the wrong depth or not strong enough or would just pop o...

Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Autumn has arrived, my favourite time of year. The mornings are crisp and bright and the days haven't yet shortened to their winter stature.  With the arrival of autumn, comes my second game in our Warhammer league! You can check out last week's game in the previous post . With our ability to change one thing in our list after each game, the only change that I made after game one was to turf one of the Crusader Squads in favour of a Scout Squad and a squad of Assault Intercessors. This would give me more utility to have multiple units to complete objectives / actions etc. My next change would be to get more ranged anti-tank fire-power which, as you will see, would have been useful in today's game.  My second league game (and second ever 2000 point game) was against Robin, a consummate tournament player who has literally hundreds of games of 10th edition under his belt. In my eyes, Robin is the one to beat in this league ...