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Going over 5 important changes for the April update!
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40K Fireside
Fireside Podcast · Leisure & Travel · English
Current rank 1 and 2 ITC David Gaylard and Vik Vijay have begun hosting the 40K Fireside Podcast! We're both multiple super major winnings and we tell our perspectives on the game in our conversation-based podcast.
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11 Jun 2026 · 23 min
Guard Disposition Breakdown
Hey everyone! The Guar detachments + dispositions have been released so I'm giving it a read through and giving my initial impressions :) Enjoy! let me know what you think is strong, what you're interested in testing too!
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28 May 2026 · 14 min
What's looking GREAT for early 11th edition
Here's a quick video I've done after a game I've played recently. These shooting change are massive, the mission changes and the terrain changes are all making for good fast shooting being powerful!
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11 May 2026 · 15 min
Part 1: Summary of 11th Edition Warhammer Changes
In this video I go through the key 11th Edition Warhammer 40,000 spoilers confirmed so far by Games Workshop.I cover the new detachment points system, changes to list building, enhancements becoming unit upgrades, character updates, asymmetric primary missions, force dispositions, terrain-based objectives, and the changes to secondary scoring.This is part one of my 11th Edition breakdown, aimed at getting you quickly up to speed with the biggest changes and what they could mean for competitive 40K.Chapters:00:00 Welcome to 40K Fireside00:57 11th Edition Spoilers Overview01:30 Detachments and…
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1 May 2026 · 12 min
Using GW's revealed rules to demonstrate the fight phase
Play Hey everyone, we're back! David and Vik are excited about 11th edition launch so we thought we'd do a segment on the fight phase. We've had the majority of the rules shown by WarCom already, and it's easily enough to demonstrate some of the new things you can do. The key takeaways are: - no mention of base-to-base requirements - engagement range is now 2" - you roll your charge before performing the charge move - models need to end within 1", or 2" of the charge target - the OVERRUN ability is game changing becuase it allows a second pile in, so your units can move REALLY far! Let us…
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3 Apr 2026 · 26 min
Can Machines Simulate 40k?
Can Warhammer 40,000 actually be simulated?In this video, I break down one of the hardest problems I’ve been thinking about for a long time: whether it’s possible to simulate 40k to a meaningful standard, and where you would even begin.I cover a bit of my own background in machine learning and competitive 40k, some of the previous work I’ve done with Atlas, and why I think this is such a fascinating challenge. We look at earlier game-solving milestones like chess, Go, and StarCraft II, what made those problems solvable, and why 40k is awkward in a completely different way.In particular, I…
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1 Apr 2026 · 19 min
NEW Ceramite Sentinels Detachment
Hey everyone, April fools, SM gets a new detachment - not a joke it seems! A quick recap on the new Ceramite Sentinels detachment. In short, it gives more-or-less your entire army, when it activates, RR1's to hit and wound - pretty nice effeciency buff. But that comes at the cost of not playing blades/gladius to get combat doctrines. Bobby G seems pretty sweet with RR1's to hit and wound, one of his big downsides (same as C'tan really). There's a few good enhancements, 2+ get back up on Gravis Cap, fallback shoot and charge on something like terminators perhaps? The stratagems are pretty…
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27 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
Analysing the NEW EDITION reveals!
Hey everyone, I've done some more editing on our podcast video - hope it comes out good. Vik and I sat down to discuss 12 important points of the new 11th edition reveals. We're happy to see codexes roll onto 11th, and we think that means the datasheets will stay basically the same. The new detachments (70) leave a lot of room for inbalance, and we're curious to see how all this new game content will interplay with the new scoring mechanisms that are impacted by your faction of choice. Terrain and objective markers, David is not a huge fan but Vik is, what's your thoughts on this? The fight…
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24 Mar 2026 · 20 min
Atlas Overview
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24 Mar 2026 · 22 min
Can Starcraft TMG succeed?
A little video about the SC2 game, my perspective on it :)
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16 Mar 2026 · 32 min
How to build CONSISTENCY
Hey guys, after a few recent tournaments, I thought I'd put my thoughts down on how to develop some consistency. If anyone recalls I talked about this a few episodes back, talking about choosing better lists for tournaments, and playing things in my ballpark that I know well.So I thought I'd do some content around how I've built consistency in my tournament runs, and go through my BCP for the last year on what I've been up to.I've worked through the importance of memorizing strong deployment patterns and opening moves. I try to deploy in similar ways every game because it removes mental load…
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