A Return to Form

It's been a while since I've posted here and to be honest I've toyed with the idea of either deleting/archiving this blog and starting a new one, or just continuing on. If you're reading this, you do randomly read these posts and I appreciate it greatly so I'll stick with it for now. This is going to be the biggest update post I've made in some time so if you're interested, read on after the break!

Tau Didn't Win 2: Electric Boogaloo

Adepticon 2016 has come and gone! It looks like the event was amazing as usual, but let's focus on a very specific part of it for a sec, the 40k Championship...

Your army is broken, Waaaaa!

Man, oh man, what a ride! Very recently Tau was the center point of conversation in the 40k community thanks to the latest ITC FAQ (as I discuss here). Then that post happened to get linked to a Dakka thread where 20 pages later people are still whining about how OP Tau are and are being extremely childish about the whole thing. But hey, that's the internet! This isn't another post about that ITC ruling but rather about generalship, practice, and other things I talked about here. So let's dive in; are Tau really overpowered? Should we all call it quits because they can't be beat?

ITC vs TAU, Round 2

Here we are, another round of Tau rulings from the Frontline Gaming guys for their ITC tournaments. Let's just skip the intro and dive right in.

ITC Ruling

The ITC polls regarding the Tau Coordinated Firepower rule in the Hunter Contingent detachment are in. With only a 3% difference between the yeas and nays, the guys over at Frontline Gaming (the ones in charge of the ITC rulings) decided to rule with the majority and ban the sharing of special rules (codex or core rules) granted by the Rules As Written which I covered in my last post here. In a not-surprising sweeping majority people also showed they have little understanding of the English language by ruling against how Target Locks work (and other interactions including Gargantuan Creatures, etc) in conjunction with the Coordinated Firepower rule. So, what does this mean for YOU? Well the answer is not so simple...