Hello, and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!   Wait a minute, wasn't my last league game against Astra Militarum? It sure was, I think we have 17 people in the league and there are 3 Astra Militarum, 2 Black Templars(!!), and only one generic Space Marines! Anyway, this game came hot on the heels of my second league game (where I had taken a big loss to a similar list) so I really wanted to improve.  As I detailed last week , my focus for improvement came in the form of deployment. I printed off the map and terrain layout in advance, and plotted and planned all of the elements that I discussed last week: where is safe to deploy without getting shot turn one, where are good staging areas etc.  Another element regarding deployment and gameplan that I studied was the idea of "flipping the board". Rather than throwing all your pieces to the floor in a huff, flipping the board refers to the idea of recognizing that the terrain layout is not optimal for your ar...

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...