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Adeptus Mechanicus vs Necrons Warhammer 40k battle report

When I grow up, I want to make battle reports like Winters SEO. Seriously, this is my favorite bat-rep channel and I really look forward to each of his videos.

On Warhammer Fantasy Battles

Since I went to Austin and played in the 2013 WargamesCon Fantasy tournament, I haven't played a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. It used to be my favorite game. I had plans to finally paint up my Night Goblin army. Then, I couldn't find anyone to play. 7th Edition wasn't the most popular edition of Warhammer but it became increasingly hard to find gamers in my area to play and it was even harder to argue that it was a balanced game, or even a good game. The flavor of Warhammer was still at it's core but there were so many rules hangups that favored too few armies that it became a game of asterisks. Oh, we'll you're playing Wood Elves,* you weren't going to win so good job with your loss. Then came Age of Sigmar. I want to play a fantasy game but AoS isn't the game. It has a tiny bit of the familiarity of Warhammer Fantasy, but it's a different beast and that's not the kind of beast I want to hitch my wagon. I've purchased the f