The Independent Characters | Warhammer 40k Podcast

Episode 167 of The Independent Characters brings you about two and a half hours of overdue entertainment! This episode we are focusing on our new four part series; Chaos Resurgent. In this series we will discuss all aspects of each of the four Chaos Gods. To get us started we have Nurgle. We will do a 'Deep Dive' into all things Nurgle, from the concept of the God themselves, all the way to their worshippers and how they are best represented on the tables of Warhammer 40,000.

The episode is well overdue as a result of Carl getting quite sick over the last few weeks. But we are back in action and back on target. We have already laid out plans for our next episode.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:05:55 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 0:59:00 - Chaos Resurgent: Nurgle (Part 1)
• 1:42:25 - Chaos Resurgent: Nurgle (Part 2)
• 2:24:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• AK Interactive weathering materials

Episode 166 of The Independent Characters comes in at around three hours as we go back over all of the releases from Games Workshop of 2017 and complete our annual retrospective.

During our Hobby Progress section you will get to hear how much of our 2017 Commitments we failed to accomplish and what we did instead.

Then it is on to two full hours of discussion around releases and what they meant to the game of Warhammer 40k, the community, and the company.

We hope that all of you are having a wonderful holiday season and we look forward to seeing you in 2018. Thank you for listening all throughout 2017. We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:08:15 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 0:55:00 - 2017: The Year in Review (Part 1)
• 2:06:45 - 2017: The Year in Review (Part 2)
• 2:42:15 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library

Episode 164 of The Independent Characters is late. Super late in fact. Let us explain:

As you will hear in this episode we have an interview with Steel Wool - a video game company working on a great new game for Warhammer 40k. Unfortunately, we also talked a lot about this interview and its contents. Their announcement was subsequently delayed due to… reasons. As a result, we could not release the episode or even just remove the interview and release it on time, and in fact released it out of order (Episode 165 dropped a few days ago).

We apologize for the delay and we have learned our lesson to never again tie an episode to a PR Announcement of a release!

So with that out of the way, let’s talk about what this episode actually contains! First we have a fairly long and meandering Hobby Progress discussion which also weighs in on a few new announcements from GW and other thoughts and ideas about the community.

We then move into our (delayed) interview with Steel Wool about their new Betrayal at Calth video game! Trust us when we tell you that this thing is VERY cool. Listen to the interview and you will see why.

We then have an interview with returning guests Kat and Caleb of CK Studios. They have some amazing events coming up and we get some insight into what they have going on.

Last but certainly not least, we have a short discussion about our home campaign The Permutation of Arasys, which we have been playing through. We talk about the structure of the campaign, how it is going so far, and what our expectations are going forward.

Again we apologize for the delays in releasing the show, but we really hope you enjoy what we have for you.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:07:15 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:04:15 - Steel Wool Interview
• 1:45:45 - CK Studios Interview
• 2:34:40 - The Permutation of Arasys Campaign
• 2:59:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• The Permutation of Arasys Campaign Files
• Betrayal at Calth Website
• Steam Page for Betrayal at Calth
• Betrayal at Calth Facebook Page

Episode 165 of The Independent Characters is a super-sized, nearly four hour episode! The first thing you need to know though, is that this episode is being released in ADVANCE of Episode 164 as a result of a PR announcement tied to that episode which was delayed. This forced us to delay the release of 164, so we hurried up and released 165 as soon as we could. This episode is our Show of Force covering the Grey Knights!

(I know. It's confusing.)

To help us through this episode, we have brought on two guys who are incredibly passionate about the Grey Knights. Aaron (also known as Magneto) and Adan. I want to thank them very much for joining us on short notice so we could get this episode out to you guys and not make you wait even longer for Episode 164.

Our Show of Force episodes are some of our most positively reviewed content - but just when you think it cannot get any better we top it by bringing on Aaron Dembski-Bowden and Geoff Hummel to complete our Forbidden Lore segment on Black Legion. Aarons follow up to Talon of Horus! It's an hour long interview full of spoilers and fanboy gushing, but we think you will enjoy that!

Thank you for your patience as we have dealt with this fumble of timing. We hope you enjoy the show.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:08:15 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 0:55:00 - Show of Force: Grey Knights (Part 1)
• 2:06:45 - Show of Force: Grey Knights (Part 2)
• 2:42:15 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing
• 2:48:50 - Forbidden Lore: Black Legion with Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Black Legion the Novel by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Episode 163 sees The Independent Characters return after a short delay due to illness of one of the guest hosts. When we come back though, we come back strong! This episode is an extended "Warrior Lodge". The Warrior Lodge segments are a moderated discussion about topics which are relevant to the Warhammer universe and community in which we all participate.

To help us through this episode, we have three special guests who have joined us on previous episodes. Colin, Jody, and Josh join Carl to talk about topics which have been on our minds and possibly the minds of others throughout the community.

Then we launch into a special interview with Ross Watson. You may know the name from all of the work on the RPG Warhammer 40k games from Fantasy Flight Studios. Ross is working on a new Warahammer 40k RPG, called "Wrath and Glory" with a brand new publisher. We get a bit of the inside scoop on what is going on with this new game and what we can expect!

We hope you enjoy the show.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:07:15 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:04:15 - Warrior Lodge Part 1
• 1:45:45 - Warrior Lodge Part 2
• 2:34:40 - Interview with Ross Watson
• 2:59:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Wargames for Warriors Charity Event
• Link for Bran will go here once I have it - sorry

Episode 162 of The Independent Characters takes campaigns to the next level by incorporating other systems into your campaign to represent the different scales of conflict.

NOTE: If you are reading this - the times in the shownotes may be slightly off. We will correct that with an update soon.

We also have a couple of interviews. First up is a discussion with Todd Kinkade from Tablewar about their new Kickstarter for the GEOMat. We also speak to Greg Rizzer of FanKicks about their Warhammer 40k themed shoe line.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:10:00 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:05:00 - Interview with Todd Kinkade of Tablewar
• 1:30:00 - Multi-Tiered Campaigns (Part 1)
• 2:00:00 - Multi-Tiered Campaigns (Part 2)
• 2:30:00 - Interview with Greg Rizzer of FanKicks
• 2:56:00 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Tablewar Kickstarter
• FanKicks 40k Shoes
• Narrative Wargaming Site

Episode 161 of The Independent Characters brings you our latest episode in the "Show of Force" series. This time it's The Angelic Host! More commonly known as The Blood Angels.

To help us out with this episode, we have brought Chris Morgan from the Forge The Narrative Podcast and Brian Harvey, who is just starting out with a Blood Angels army, from The Splintermind Dark Eldar Podcast! Additionally we have a remote interview with Paul Murphy, Chris' co-host on Forge The Narrative.

Be warned that these types of shows tend to make people buy armies. We're just saying...

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:07:05 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 0:43:35 - Show of Force: Blood Angels (Part 1)
• 1:56:40 - Show of Force: Blood Angels (Part 2)
• 2:46:40 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Forge The Narrative Podcast
• Splintermind Dark Eldar Podcast

Episode 160 of The Independent Characters covers part 2 of our revisit to the question “What army should I play?”. We hope you are relaxed or have a lot of painting to do, because this episode clocks in at over four hours!

Back in Episodes 42 and 43 we ran two linked shows which explored each of the faction (on the surface) and sought to answer just that. At the time, the show notes were so long the hosts decided it would be better to break it up into two episodes. One which was an Imperial Edition, and the other which was a Xenos Edition.

Those are some great episodes, but that was all the way back in 5th edition and SO much has changed since then (and some things have stayed the same!) that we felt it was time to update this series.

We aim to provide you the definitive guide for looking at all your choices for Warhammer 40,000 armies and making the right one for you.

This is part two of these revised episodes, the Xenos and Chaos Edition.

On top of all of that great content, we have our Forbidden Lore Segment near the end of the show. This is an hour long discussion with Black Library Author John French about his latest book, Horusian Wars: Resurrection! I was lucky enough to be joined by Geoff Hummel, our original co-host for this great interview. WARNING: Spoilers abound in this episode though! If you are interested in reading this book - you may NOT want to listen to this interview until you have completed it.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:07:35 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:08:25 - Which Army should you choose? Xenos Edition (Part 1)
• 2:10:10 - Which Army should you choose? Xenos Edition (Part 2)
• 2:58:00 - Forbidden Lore: The Horusian Wars: Resurrection
• 3:57:35 - Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Geek Nation Tours UK Minis trip
• Forge The Narrative
• Fan Kicks 40k Shoes
• SplinterMind Podcast Facebook Page

Episode 159 of The Independent Characters revisits the question “What army should I play?”. Strap in because this is a long episode with some great pieces!

Back in Episodes 42 and 43 we ran two linked shows which explored each of the faction (on the surface) and sought to answer just that. At the time, the show notes were so long the hosts decided it would be better to break it up into two episodes. One which was an Imperial Edition, and the other which was a Xenos Edition.

Those are some great episodes, but that was all the way back in 5th edition and SO much has changed since then (and some things have stayed the same!) that we felt it was time to update this series.

We aim to provide you the definitive guide for looking at all your choices for Warhammer 40,000 armies and making the right one for you.

The first of these episodes, the Imperial Edition, is this one. But don't worry, we are going to follow up episode 159 with an updated version of the Xenos Edition in episode 160, by the end of the month.

Additionally, we have a couple of AMAZING interviews. The first is with Jes Bickham of the Warhammer 40k Design Studio! We ask him a bunch of questions around the development of the game and gain some insights into what the thinking was on many of the questions that have arisen since it’s release. THEN we talk to Dave Taylor, who tells us all about the NOVA Open Charitable Foundations efforts to raise money for those in need, and how you can get a chance to win some amazing prizes by helping out.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:08:45 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 0:58:50 - Which Army should you choose? Imperial Edition (Part 1)
• 2:03:00 - Which Army should you choose? Imperial Edition (Part 2)
• 2:58:00 - Interview: Jes Bickham Warhammer Studios
• 3:29:00 - Interview: Dave Taylor for NOVA Open Charitable Foundation
• 3:48:30 - Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Geek Nation Tours UK Minis trip
• Forge The Narrative
• The NOVA Open Charitable Foundation
• Dave Taylor Miniatures

Episode 158 of The Independent Characters see us discussing the evolution of the Warhammer 40,000 lore. We have seen the timeline move forward a bit and we spend some time talking about what that all means. Taking a look at the various factions and what the impact of the changes are on each of them.

Additionally, we have an interview with Jay Wilson. He was the original creative director for Dawn of War 1. We spend some time talking about that much beloved video game and how it all came to pass.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Time Stamps:

• 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction
• 0:10:00 - Workbench and Hobby Progress
• 1:01:20 - Updates from the 41st Millennium (Part 1)
• 1:48:00 - Updates from the 41st Millennium (Part 2)
• 2:22:00 - Interview: Dawn of War 1
• 2:47:30 - Show Closing

Relevant Links:

• KR Multicase - SPONSOR
• Tablewar! - SPONSOR
• Wargamma - SPONSOR
• Forge World
• Games Workshop
• The Black Library
• Geek Nation Tours UK Minis trip
• Invested Painting
• Forge The Narrative
• The 40k Badcast
• Masters of The Forge