The Independent Characters | Warhammer 40k Podcast

Episode 206 of The Independent Characters takes a look at how the hobby is getting older, what the drawbacks and benefits to that are, what we as a community can do to bring new life to it, and how Games Workshop may be approaching an aging player base.

A couple of notes however: We obviously had to record remotely, which isn't ever my first choice, but we made the best of it. Once the Shelter In Place orders are lifted, we will go back to recording in the studio while observing safety precautions.

I really want to thank our Special Guest - Dave Taylor for joining us in a lengthy discussion on this topic. We meant no offence inviting him to join us on the "old guys episode"!

Also do NOT forget you can use the coupon "ICMay2020" with your Tablewar purchases of FatMats, MacroMats, and GeoMats all throughout the month of May for an additional 10% off your purchase! These guys have been incredibly generous to the community over the years and as small businesses are hurting right now, go over there, take advantage of the coupon code and order something for yourself or a friend if you can do so!

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:09:40 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 00:35:45 - The Greying of Warhammer 40k - Part 1
• 01:32:35 - The Greying of Warhammer 40k - Part 2
• 02:07:35 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Tablewar Charities - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library

Episode 205 of The Independent Characters brings you something familiar, but at the same time, totally new.

Welcome to the Community Warrior Lodge! In our continuing effort to make people feel like they are a part of our gaming group, we have invited three special guests from our Patreon group to participate in a Warrior Lodge Episode. You will get to meet Liz, Dave and Rob. Three of our most active and engaged community members!

As mentioned in our last episode - we are recording all of this remotely as everyone is observing shelter in place rules. But I think we have some great topics for discussion for you. We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:15:00 - Hobby Progress
• 0:56:30 - Community Warrior Lodge - Part 1
• 1:47:00 - Community Warrior Lodge - Part 2
• 2:18:30 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• https://www.tablewarcharities.org
• Adepticon

Episode 204 of The Independent Characters is as late as we have ever been with a show. The current situation around the world has impacted us here as well (as you will hear on the show), but we finally were able to work out a time to record.

A couple of notes however: We obviously had to record remotely, which isn't ever my first choice, but we made the best of it. Additionally, we had to pivot away from our initial topic to a Warrior Lodge for this go around. Without the ability to be with each other in person, we miss out on some of the sharing factor of the previous topic. That's ok though, we will bring it back when things return to a stable state.

That being said, I think we have some solid discussion here with Carl, Jody, Justin, and Josh (The three Js!). We hope you enjoy the show and we fully expect to be back on schedule soon, and in fact we have some new ideas we think you are going to enjoy.

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:10:50 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 00:41:20 - Warrior Lodge: Part 1
• 01:07:20 - Warrior Lodge: Part 1
• 01:40:20 - CK Studios Interview
• 02:25:10 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Tablewar Charities - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Jeremy Woods YouTube Channel

Episode 203 of The Independent Characters tackles the subject of Necromunda Campaigns and their various iterations. Now that Josh, our Specialist games Correspondent has returned from his illness, we take a deep dive into this topic.

Additionally, we couldn't address this topic without pulling in a couple of experts. Namely Dan and Campbell from the 40k Badcast. They join us for a thirty minute interview about why Necromunda Campaigns are so exciting.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:15:00 - Hobby Progress
• 1:14:00 - Necromunda Campaigns - Part 1
• 2:18:00 - Interview with The 40k Badcast
• 2:50:00 - Necromunda Campaigns - Part 2
• 3:28:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• https://www.tablewarcharities.org
• Adepticon

As Josh, our Specialist Games correspondent is still out sick, we felt we couldn't delay any longer. So we bring you a bit different episode of The Independent Characters. Jody and Carl pivot to discuss The Challenge from Episode 202 and discuss the lore behind each of their creations and how they would interpret their play on the Tabletop.

It's a bit short for an episode of The Independent Characters - but still comes in at about an hour and a half of fun discussion. Our intention is to get Episode 203 out hopefully before Adepticon.

It's a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:11:00 - Hobby Progress
• 0:43:00 - Heroes of The Challenge
• 1:16:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• https://www.tablewarcharities.org
• The Narrative Guys FB Page

Episode 202 of The Independent Characters takes a look at Extreme Narrative Gaming!

We take a deep delve into how we define Narrative Gaming, and why we think it is the best way to play Warhammer 40k. We have a discussion with the Narrative Guys, and then go into how you can get into Narrative Gaming, how to develop ideas, and finally we let our imaginations run a little wild with ideas for taking these things to the next level.

Event though Justin was unable to join us as planned, it's a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:10:00 - Hobby Progress
• 1:06:00 - Extreme Narrative Gaming - Part 1
• 2:21:25 - Interview with The Narrative Guys
• 2:55:00 - Extreme Narrative Gaming - Part 2
• 3:36:40 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• https://www.tablewarcharities.org
• The Narrative Guys FB Page

Episode 201 of The Independent Characters contains our coverage of the latest version of Apocalypse!

The latest iteration of Apocalypse is something both unlike we have seen before AND familiar to long time players of Games Workshop games. Jody and Carl talk about playing through the game, some of the changes and challenges, as well as what their final take on it all is.

A solid two hours and twenty minutes of content all about the most beloved... or hated... way to play a game of Warhammer 40k!

So sit back and get some hobby progress done while you enjoy the show.

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:07:15 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 00:45:00 - Surviving The Apocalypse: Part 1
• 01:19:40 - Surviving The Apocalypse: Part 2
• 02:15:10 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Tablewar Charities - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Goobertown Hobbies

We have finally reached our 200th episode (although somewhat late), and that means it is time to take stock of where we came from, what has changed, and where we are going.

We have spent nearly 10 years (April will be 10!) looking at this hobby and at times have planted our stake in the ground and made either predictions, or taken stances. We will see how many of those have held up over the years.

Where appropriate, we will provide some updates on some things that have changed.

We will also discuss some of our favorite episodes and why they are still relevant.

Additionally, we will take a look at where we are going from here.

It's a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:10:40 - Hobby Progress
• 1:19:20 - Retrospective - Part 1
• 2:24:50 - Retrospective - Part 2
• 3:31:20 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• https://www.tablewarcharities.org
• Victoria Miniatures Australia Bushfire Fundraiser

Episode 199 of The Independent Characters is our year in review episode. Now we talked about this before, but with so many shows out there going over everything that released last year, we felt like a change was in order. We were the first show to take that route and quite honestly we were feeling like it was a bit stale anyway. This year we do something different. We speak with most of the members of our gaming group, local friends, and others to get their insight on what were the highlights, lowlights, and thoughts on plans for the future of Games Workshop.

Probably our longest, and last episode of the year - this one clocks in at around four whopping hours!

So sit back and get some hobby progress done while we fill your ears with our final thoughts of 2019. 

Happy New Year to all! May it be better for you than the last year, and may all your hobby dreams (as well as others we suppose) come true!

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:09:40 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 00:46:50 - Year in Review with Jody & Carl
• 01:15:35 - Year in Review with Josh
• 01:36:30 - Year in Review with Adan
• 01:55:30 - Year in Review with Austin
• 02:20:40 - Year in Review with Brian
• 02:41:10 - Year in Review with Aaron, Thom, & Steve
• 03:06:35 - Year in Review with Matt
• 03:28:15 - Year in Review with Colin
• 04:01:15 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Tablewar Charities - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Splintermind Podcast
• Lords and Heroes Podcast
• Legalized Mischief Productions

Episode 198 of The Independent Characters is a return to an Extended Warrior Lodge! Unfortunately, Discord was having some issues with Google today and people could not log into Discord servers around the world. This prevented us from pulling in any live listeners during our live Twitch broadcast unfortunately. That's ok though, we WILL do this again!

Carl is joined by Justin, Jody, and Josh... the three J's all wearing different name tags just to mess things up further! We have some great discussion and a ton of fun recording. I think it comes through.

It's a fantastic episode, and we hope you enjoy it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:19:30 - Hobby Progress
• 1:03:40 - Warrior Lodge - Part 1 (Cont.)
• 1:26:45 - Warrior Lodge - Part 2
• 2:27:45 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Tablewar Charities