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Merry Christmas and a Safe and Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you in the chat or on the forums in 2011.

Jeff

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Title: Podhammer Leviathan Recap
Location: Podhammer Live Show
Link out: Click here
Description: Kendall and I chat about the Leviathan Weekend. Come join the fun!
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-04-15
End Time: 22:30

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As you all know 2009 was a very “memorable” year for me personally. I have been broken and fled towards the table edge. Rest assured that I have rallied and I will be declaring a charge on the world in 2010. Podhammer has filled me with pride and joy over the years and the support of the fans and guests during tough times has been something I will never forget. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support.

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Next year is expected to be a big one for the great game….Beastmen, Tomb Kings, maybe even 8th edition – and that means a massive year for PODHAMMER. So I hope you will be able to join us for another year of fun.

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So I would like to wish you and your family a very merry christmas and a happy new year from the Podhammer team and you will hear from us soon in 2010!

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Thanks again

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Jeff Carroll

Seasoned vet Lachlan Macwirter will be joining me on the show Thursday 10th of September at 7pm AEST for a Tomb King Army Review. Come watch us record live and listen to some words of wisdom from the master himself.

Call us using Skype or join the chat to ask your Tomb King Questions. Or just sit back and enjoy the show.

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well after much dicking around here is the info for Castle Assault as promised at ConVic earlier this year. We have a new venue, awesome prizes and much fun to be had (Tits on Toast anyone?!!) With only 26 (to be confirmed) spots this year, places will be filling up fast!

Any questions please ask here or email me.

Cheers,
Matty

CASTLE ASSAULT
– 2nd ANNUAL WARHAMMER FANTASY TOURNAMENT IN NEWCASTLE!!!!

That’s right the Newie Boyz are putting on another Warhammer Fantasy tournament in Newcastle.

Details:
Tournament Organiser: Matty Cole
Where: The Outpost Games Bunker (Wallsend Army Disposal, 79 Cowper St
Wallsend,  NSW  2320)
When: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of September 2009
Start time: Registration/setup 8:30am, Game starts at 9am
Army lists: To be submitted by September 12th 2009. Please send army lists in .pdf, .xls, .doc, .txt, .htm format.
Send all army lists to stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com.
Cost: $35.00 or $40 (Includes Breakfast ‘Tits On Toast’ Saturday morning. Sorry over 18s only)
How to enter: Email stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com to confirm attendance and payment.
Army size: 2250 points
Payment options: You can direct deposit the money into the
following bank account. (If this is an issue contact me)
Bank:Newcastle Permanent Building Society
Account: 960423422
BSB: 650‐000
Account name: Matthew Cole
Please put your name and the acronym ‘CA’ in the payee detail

General Tournament Rules:
• The tournament will have 5 rounds played over 2 days.
• There will be 2.5 hours allocated to each battle.
• No back‐of‐the‐book lists.
• No Special Characters or “Named” Characters are allowed. Special or “Named”
Character models may be used to represent ‘normal’ characters.
• All armies must use an Army book that has been published and released in
Australia by or on the 31 August 2009. If no such Army book exists, you must use the most recent work‐in
progress list, published either in White Dwarf or in a Warhammer
Annual/Chronicles, released. If no work‐in‐progress list is available, then armies must use the appropriate list from the Ravening Hordes booklet (that means you Chaos Dwarf players!)
• Beastmen armies will be restricted to the requirements from the 2008 Q&A thus
can only use the items/options exclusively from the Beastmen book
• Storm of Chaos lists will not be used
• Any items/options from the Albion campaign will not be used
• Dogs of War armies may be used as published in the Chronicles 2004, including all Regiments of Renown published in the Chronicles 2004 and in White Dwarf, and released in Australia by 1 May 2006.
• Non Dogs of War armies may include Dogs of War or Regiments of Renown as Rare choices as indicated in the appropriate DoW unit description. Note that the Ogre Rhinox cavalry are allowed and will use up the stated 2 rare slots in non DoW, non Ogre Kingdom armies.
• Dogs of War units of Pikemen, Heavy Cavalry and Paymaster’s Bodyguard can
carry a magic banner up to a value of 50 pts.
• All models used must be painted miniatures of the appropriate type for the
troops they represent. Minimum painting standards are three colours on each
model in an appropriate scheme. Models should also be appropriately based.
Suffice to say that an under‐coat is not enough! Weapons, armour options and
upgrades chosen from the army list must be shown on the majority of the models in a unit.
• Deathfang, Asarnil’s Dragon, has a 3+ armour save and is worth 330 Victory
points. Asarnil himself is worth 130 points
• Even though they have names Deathfang, Cachtorr and Bologs do not count as characters.
• All games will be played using the pitched battle scenario, there will be no
scenarios

Scoring:
Battle (100 Points)
Five games will be played by each player with a maximum of 20 battle points being gained per game
(massacre). The first round will be random. Opponents for the 2nd & subsequent rounds will be
determined by the rankings of the players (Swiss chess format).
The following VP table will be used to determine the points received by each player per battle.

Victory Points Margin Battle Points
(Win/Loss)
0-150 10/10
151-300 11/9
301-500 12/8
501-700 13/7
701-900 14/6
901-1100 15/5
1101-1300 16/4
1301-1500 17/3
1501-1700 18/2
1701-1900 19/1
1901+ 20/0

Round 1 Grudge matches will be allowed both players must contact stromnifirebeard@hotmail.com before September 12th 2009.

Sportsmanship (25 Points)
The intent behind the sports criteria is to encourage people to play in an acceptable manner.
This doesn’t mean being fun and lively – it simply means playing by the rules and not cheating, throwing dummy spits or sulking. As such the system will ensure that people who play nicely get about the same points – but people who are poor sports will be hit big time in terms of sports At the conclusion of each round you will be required to complete a simple 1-4 sports sheet according the following criteria.

4pts Everything you expect in a tourney game, I look forward to a rematch
3pts This player was a reasonable sport but could have improved in some area
2pts Some aspect of this game left me wishing I’d drawn a different opponent
1pt Frankly this person was one of the worst opponents I’ve ever faced. I hopeI don’t come across them again for a while!

For most of your opponents you will give a maximum score of 4. However at the end of both
days you will be able to give one of your opponents a bonus point. You do not have to give out
this point but if you do it must be for only one opponent. Please write down the name of the
player you wish to give the bonus point to in the space provided.

Composition (25 points)
Castle Assault 2009 will be a pier judged tier based composition system.

The player will apply a modifier to his opponents list before the game starts. They determin whether it should be moved up or down in the tier scale (or remain the same with a 0 modifier).  Modifiers can be as low as a -2, and as much as a +1.  Modifiers are applied in 0.5 increments.  Your final composition score will be applied to each game round. This system is to discourage list design that will impede on the enjoyment of the game.

NOTE: Abusive lists will be returned to the player with feedback for change..

Army Tiers are as follows –

Tier 1 – 2/5 (Vampires, Daemons, Dark Elves)
Tier 2 – 2.5/5 (Wood Elves, Bretonians)
Tier 3 – 3/5 (Tomb Kings, High Elves, Empire, Lizardmen, Warriors of Chaos, Skaven)
Tier 4 – 3.5/5 (Orcs & Goblins, Chaos Dwarves, Dwarves, Dogs of War)
Tier 5 – 4/5 (Beastmen, Ogres)

Painting (10 points)
The painting score is designed to make players paint their armies to a minimum standard and encourage the better painters amongst us to strive to do their best. You don’t have to be a golden deamon winner to score full points. Most armies if they have had some effort put into them will score well.

1pt All models painted with a minimum of 3 colours
1pt All models based and flocked
1pt Bases have been based with 2 different materials or above average effort has been made
1pt All models inked/highlighted
1pt Army has a consistent feel.
1pt Some models have had minor conversions
1pt The army has a major conversion or a large number of minor conversions.
1pt The characters are unique and umm….full of character!
1pt The army has painted/flocked movement trays
1pt All models represent their troop type (conversions/non GW minis are ok, it just needs to be obvious what they are being used as)

PRIZES
Best Sport: The person with the best sportsmanship score. Tie breaker will be position overall
Best army: Person with the highest combination of painting and composition. Tie breaker will be position overall.
Player’s choice: Before the 1st  game on day 2 begins players will be asked to setup their armies in a pleasing manner and players will be asked to vote for their favourite army. The person who receives the most votes will be awarded the players choice award
1st, 2nd 3rd overall: Self explanatory. Tie breaker will be battle score followed by composition

Conclusion:
Castle Assault marks the return of Warhammer fantasy tournaments to
Newcastle. We hope you have a great time and come back for 2010.

Be sure to check the Podhammer site (podhammer.net) or listen to the world’s first Warhammer fantasy podcast, Podhammer for more information.

Hope to see you there!!

Cheers,

Matty

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These days there are many wargaming podcasts out there, and I don’t promote all of them. However it is my pleasure to give a shoutout to a fellow novacastrian (a person from newcastle) Nathan Russel and his brand new general gaming podcast HERE BE GAMERS

The show is 5 episodes old so he is still finding his feet, but quickly gaining confidence. The show covers many aspect of nerd gaming, from wargames to RPGs.

So check it out and you won’t be dissapointed.

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The people cried out in anguish when they learned of his departure. The abscence of his words left the masses distressed and disorientated. Hours turned into days, days turned into weeks and the silence became louder than the roar of the mightiest dragon.

Brave heroes stepped into fill the breach, the Warpuppy and his band took up the challenge to fill the insatiable need of the Podhammer nation.

He continued to remain silent, straining against the lure of microphone, his desire to return to his domain became stronger and stronger…..

To bring Jeff back go to twitter.com/podhammer for details….:)

I would like to graciously thank the many people who have enjoyed and supported the show over the past year and a half.  The show has been a source of great enjoyment for me and the others involved. I walk away proud of my acheivements and the knowledge that I was one of the trailblazers in Wargaming podcasts.

One the best things that this podcast has done has brought more people to the game aswell as tournaments. In Australia in particular we have seen increase in tournament attendance increase dramatically over the last 2 years. Many factors have contributed to this however I would like to think what we have done has been a major factor.

I would especially like to thank my guests, advertisers and Inner Circle members. Without your support the show would not exist.

The website and existing episodes and files will continue to be available as normal and this will not change.

I hope the things going on in my life can be resolved quickly and the show can continue however I would be being overly optimistic to expect this to happen quickly. So please be patient and once again thanks very much

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Regards

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All my bags a packed Im ready to go….

Thats right folks I am on holidays at the moment in Sunny California. So I wont be available to respond to emails or other queries as quickly as I normally do.

I will be checking on things when I can but don’t worry I will be back with more great podhammer content

See you when I get back

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Its about time I did this. Far more professional than the crappy gmail account

My new email address is

jeff@podhammer.net

Of course the old one still works and they both go to the same inbox

Happy new year

Many of you are probably wondering where the Thunderdome video is. The answer? its not ready yet for two reasons.

The first is that real life work is really busy at this time of year. The christmas rush takes alot of my energy. I have been working long days lately and what little time left is spent with my family and other real life things.

The other reason, Podhammer takes alot of my time and energy I spend alot of time working on the show, website, forums etc. I have burned out a little and I really need to take a break. Its like painting an army if you force yourself you end up not enjoying it, and then it never gets done.

Podhammer is a passion of mine but it is a hobby and sometimes we all need to break from our hobbies so that we enjoy them more.

So don’t panic! Podhammer is not going anywhere, I am not throwing it away. I just need a break for a little while and I will return refreshed and ready to do the show in early january. Thunderdome will be released just not straight away.

I apologise for the inconveniance and would like to wish everyone out there that has supported the show over the year a safe and merry Xmas and a fantastic 2009

Jeff Carroll

Well I tried to fight it, but I can’t anymore I have succumbed to the need to tell everyone everything I am doing all the time. So I started a Twitter account for Podhammer.

Become a follower and get up to show announcements aswells an insight into what Im doing in the hobby.

Go to twitter.com/podhammer to be involved.

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If you have listened to episode 35 you would have heard me mention our newest venture, the Wargamer Radio Network(WRN)

The Wargamer Radio Network(WRN) is the home of the worlds premier Wargaming Podcasts.

Since late 2007 the world of wargaming podcasts has continued to grow, we decided to create a place where only the best podcasts can be found.

If you listen to a podcast from the WRN you know it will focus on the following things

1. Experienced Hosts and guests – When someone on a WRN podcasts gives an opinion it comes from an experience in that game system. WRN hosts and guest are regulars gamers just like you who love the hobby.

2. Quality Audio. – WRN podcasts strive to provide the very best audio quality available. None of the WRN podcasts are recorded in flashy radio studios but all of the Podcast creators have invested considerable time and money into equipment and continue to do so.

3. Consistent Content. – Some WRN shows are weekly, some are bi-weekly. Whatever the schedule you can count on regular updates from any show in the WRN.

4. Bonus content. – All WRN podcasts are committed to provding extra material outside of the main episode structure. From premium members only forums, to contests or extra content from special events. WRN podcasts give more than the average podcast.

5.Entertainment. – WRN shows are not only informative and helpful, they are entertaining! WRN podcasters have great personalities and will make you laugh aswell as learn.

To sum up, if its a WRN podcast – you’re in for a good time!

To find out more about the specific WRN shows. Follow the links below

Podhammer – The Warhammer Fantasy Podcast

40k Radio – All 40k, All the time

The D6 Generation – Dice are our Vice

Worlds End Radio – Welcome to the End of the World

Stop by and check out the site it is still in its infancy however we will be doing some cool stuff there soon.