The Independent Characters | Warhammer 40k Podcast

Episode 197 of The Independent Characters present you with a new Show of Force episode! This time we double stack it and take a look at both the Imperial and Chaos Knights in an episode we like to call Show of Force: Engines of Faith and Ruin.

We're sorry, but we thought you said you LIKED long episodes... so this one clocks in at nearly four hours in length! Not only that, we have the return (some would say long overdue) of Justin to the show.

After all of that great content, we have an interview with Kat and Caleb of CK Studios, talking about their experience teaching airbrushing at Warhammer World and what they have coming up for 2020.

So sit back and get some hobby progress done while we talk all about Knights in 40k.

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:09:40 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 00:55:20 - Show of Force: Engines of Faith and Ruin (Part 1)
• 02:24:30 - Show of Force: Engines of Faith and Ruin (Part 2)
• 03:09:30 - Interview with CK Studios
• 03:43:30 - 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 196 of The Independent Characters takes a close look at what happens when you have to move. How do you take your hobby with you? How do you ensure that everything transports safely? And how do you join a gaming group or form one once you arrive?

We have our usual Hobby Progress section followed by a solid two hours of discussion around moving with your hobby. Then we launch into an interview with Todd from Tablewar, who is talking about the new Tablewar Charities foundation.

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 00:15:00 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 01:05:00 - Moving With Your 40k (Part 1)
• 01:49:00 - Moving With Your 40k (Part 2)
• 02:38:30 - Interview with Todd from Tablewar
• 03:00:20 - 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
• Tabletop Minions Baking Soda Bases
• Black Magic Craft

Episode 195 of The Independent Characters is back and to celebrate we have three guest hosts! Adan comes into town and joins, Josh and Jody to discuss Kill Team. We take a close look at where it came from, how it has evolved, and where it is going! At least where we HOPE it is going.

We return with a lengthy hobby progress section, then launch right into our exciting coverage of Kill Team!

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 8:28:00 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 1:11:50 - Kill Team: Evolution (Part 1)
• 1:58:00 - Kill Team: Evolution (Part 2)
• 2:53:00 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Command Roster GW
• Kill Team Editable PDF
• Coin Protectors (with case!)

Episode 194 of The Independent Characters is a bit of a train wreck. We aren't going to lie.

When Carl was going to be doing so much traveling in September, we expected that he would be able to fit in a couple of interviews. Justin Hill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, maybe even Robin Cruddace. However, delayed flights, jetlag, expired Drivers licenses... all kinds of things conspired against him to toss those plans right out the window.

In the end we wound up with a great interview (with mediocre sound quality in Bugman's Bar) with Justin Hill and then an extensive Hobby Progress and rambling intro section with Jody and Carl. This is NOT our strongest showing, but we do think it IS a fun episode. It's just not particularly well structured.

Our next episode will have us back on track and back on schedule. No more traveling and just a lot of gaming. But until then we hope this episode tides you over and you enjoy it as much as we did recording it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 0:38:50 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 1:34:50 - Show and Tell: Tactica Imperialis
• 1:51:45 - Interview with Black Library's Justin Hill
• 2:23:20 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

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

Episode 193 of The Independent Characters arrives delayed by about two days since Carl had to deal with majore work issues all weekend.

This episode we are discussing how to get some extra life out of all of your old hobby publications. Be they old campaign materials, old codexes, old mission books, or just old anything - we discuss ideas for how you can look at these things at the changing of an edition and still make them useful in your gaming experience!

This episode again comes in at about two and a half hours. We know folks like the longer ones and we have some things coming up which are going to fill your time at great length. But this is a solid two hours of content and discussion... and it will also be of value to how long you get to use all that old stuff you bought.

Carl and Justin are heading off to the NOVA Open after this and the month of September is incredibly busy with travel and other activities, but we will fit in new episodes where we can. Expect a lot of interviews with people in the industry and some other surprises coming up. We hope you enjoy!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Elite Choice
• 0:13:30 - Hobby Progress and Games Played
• 0:46:30 - The Warrior Lodge - LIVE!: Part 1
• 1:42:00 - The Warrior Lodge - LIVE!: Part 2
• 2:11:45 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

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

Episode 192 of The Independent Characters where we run our second ever Warrior Lodge LIVE Episode!

For those worried that Justin and Adan had been fired, you can put those rumors to rest as Adan flies into the area to record and Justin finally DOESN'T have to fly somewhere to teach airbrush classes!

The episode comes in at a much more reasonable two and a half hours - but it's a solid two and half hours featuring some guest callers from our Patreon as well!

We hope you enjoy!

(Edit) I realize I neglected to edit out the portion where we drop network connectivity for live viewers. By the time I realized this it would have required pulling back the episode and just wasn't worth it.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro, Host Introduction, and Hobby Progress
• 1:06:45 - The Warrior Lodge - LIVE!: Part 1
• 1:56:30 - The Warrior Lodge - LIVE!: Part 2
• 2:25:00 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon - Join us!
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Scharff Brushes Justin referred to

Episode 191 of The Independent Characters has us doing a deep dive into the ideas, fiction, fact, and fantasy that spawned the lore of Warhammer 40,000. If you hate long episodes, this one might not be for you as it is over 4 hours of content. But that's what the timestamps below are for!

We include our usual Hobby Progress section and then we leap into an interview with none other than Miniwargaming Dave (or Chaos Dave as some call him!). We discuss some exciting things he has done lately and the new Mini Wargaming Bunker you can visit!

Then we leap into the main topic of the show for about an hour and a half of solid conversation.

This is followed up by an interview with Kat and Caleb from CK Studios where we discuss the entry for the NOVA Open Charity Foundation. An amazing Warlord Titan assembled and painted by some of the best in the industry. Find out how it can be yours!

You may also notice fewer advertisements this episode. Thanks to our Patreon we are dropping most advertisers with two exceptions as we move forward. Tablewar and soon, Miniwargaming. We hope you enjoy the show.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:09:40 - Hobby Progress
• 1:13:30 - Interview with Chaos Dave
• 1:52:30 - Foundations of 40k - Part 1 (Cont.)
• 2:58:00 - Foundations of 40k - Part 2
• 3:35:30 - Interview with CK Studios
• 4:02:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• Miniwargaming.com - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Josh's Contrast Paint Video
• NOVA Open Raffle
• Warlayer Kickstarter
• Splintermind Podcast Episode with Jody

Episode 190 of The Independent Characters has a return to our Show of Force series - and this time it's all about The Insidious Curse... We take a deep dive into the horror that is The Genestealer Cults!

To help us out with this, we have brought in our resident Genestealer Cult player, new guest host, new member to our gaming group, AND new 40k Player (since January!), Matt Bruner! He is a long time friend of Jodys and we think you will love him as much as we do! We kick off the show getting to know Matt, then launch into a lengthy hobby progress and games played section with Jody talking a little bit about his experience at the Boise GT. You can hear even more about that on the Splintermind Podcast (link below).

Then it's time to launch into our coverage of The Genestealer Cults. What an amazing army this is! While the concept isn't new, the army IS, and you will hear all about it here.

Finally we have a short interview with Facebook Group fan-favorite Jeremy Wood. If you aren't a member of the group, you are really missing out on some incredibly work Jeremy does with his dioramas.

Then it's time to say goodbye as we close out another episode. We hope you enjoy it. We couldn't figure out why it was taking so long to record... until I put it together and it is nearly four hours of content!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:16:30 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:22:10 - Show of Force - The Insidious Curse: Part 1
• 2:42:50 - Show of Force - The Insidious Curse: Part 2
• 3:37:10 - Interview with Jeremy Wood
• 3:52:10 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Objective Secured Events and Podcast
• Splintermind Podcast
• Creature Caster

Episode 189 of The Independent Characters sees us diving headfirst into the incredible game that is Adeptus Titanicus!

We include our usual Hobby Progress section and then spend the rest of the evening doing our best to tempt Jody into joining Josh, Carl, Austin (both of them), Thom and a couple others of our group to investing in and playing Adeptus Titanicus.

And to help Josh and I convince him we brought out the big guns! Specifically, we invited game designer James Hewitt for an interview. If you don't know what James has worked on here are a couple of tastes: Age of Sigmar, Silver Tower, Blitzbowl, and of course Adeptus Titanicus. We think you will love this interview!

We really hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction and Hobby Progress
• 0:57:15 - Adeptus Titanicus - Part 1
• 1:41:00 - Interview with James Hewitt
• 2:12:00 - Adeptus Titanicus - Part 1 (Cont.)
• 2:32:45 - Adeptus Titanicus - Part 2
• 3:17:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• The ICs Patreon
• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• The Terrain Essentials Kickstarter

Episode 188 of The Independent Characters is our very first LIVE show! And this time around it is an episode of The Warrior Lodge!

Our new equipment (thanks to our Patrons) has allowed us to make you a part of our gaming group more than ever before. This time around we are able to have a few luckly listeners join us to give their points of view on some of the topics we discuss. This won't be the last time we do something like this, so we hope you become just as excited about it as we are!

We tackle quite a few topics and struggle our way through some new technology, but overall I think we are very pleased with how the entire thing came together. We hope you agree.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:13:40 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:00:00 - The Warrior Lodge - Live!: Part 1
• 1:35:00 - The Warrior Lodge - Live!: Part 2
• 2:31:00 - Final Thoughts and show closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• CK Studios - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Objective Secured Events and Podcast
• Live Twitch Stream of Ep188