Tabletop Teacher

I don't intend to do other games apart from 40K, but after slogging my way through this learning curve, I thought I'd help others through it. I'm a teacher after all! Here's the ship in question: In all her (slightly rusted) glory! And boy is she a pain in the backside to play. For someone who mostly plays in Destroyers and light cruisers, a battleship can seem like a death sentence. The acceleration is terrible, the guns take forever to reload, you can't dive in and out of islands, and God-Emperor knows that torpedo spread will get you every damned time. At least you have the big guns... except the Myogi's armament feels like you're shooting airsoft pellets pretty much anything. With a 30-second reload time in between them, you feel like you'll never sink that thice-damned cruiser pelting down your hit points. And just forget about going toe-to-toe with other battleships. Well, here's my guide for winning games. It may not work for y...

This is it. The first battle report of the club! In hindsight, throwing every piece of terrain we had on the board was probably a mistake. A little overzealous on the part of the students involved, but we were all young once! The armies were the school club's Tau against the Tau Empire army which we have as a reserve for students who can't afford their own models. It was kindly donated by a friend of mine, and frankly is far better painted than anything I could make. The armies: Teacher's Tau - Run by the teacher (me) School Ta: 1 Ethereal, 4x Six man Firewarrior squads, Riptide with Heavy Burst Canon and Smart missile launcher - Run by the students The Mission Eternal War: Purge the Alien. Deployment: Vanguard Strike So good, an easy kill mission. The students won the roll off, and decided to force teacher to deploy first. The Teacher Tau ended up strung along their deployment line, eager to get all their guns on targets in the first turn. The studen...

Just a quick picture post to show the progress out the Tau Army I listed earlier. Here's the Commander (with drones): The two crisis suits (with drones): The Riptide (still unpainted but based): The army all together. And a sneak peak of my personal project! Thanks for reading. If you liked what you saw, and you want to help out, please visit and donate at my  Patreon . Every Little helps!