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Episode 177 of The Independent Characters brings you nearly three hours of entertainment! As usual we have our hobby progress section in which we introduce our guest host, Austin Lin. Austin is an incredibly talented airbrush painter, a Space Wolf (and Tau) player, and all around good guy. Then we finally get to the meat of the episode - our Show of Force episode on The Executioners of the Emperor: The Space Wolves! Many people have waited a long time for this, and here it is. We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:12:00 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 0:56:00 - Show of Force: The Space Wolves - Part 1 2:03:10 - Show of Force: The Space Wolves - Part 2 2:46:00 - Final Thoughts and show closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! - SPONSOR Wargamma - SPONSOR CK Studios - SPONSOR Forge World Games Workshop The Black Library Architects of Destruction  

Episode 176 of The Independent Characters is finally here! We bring you nearly three hours of content... and yes, as some of you had feared, we have a slight echo in the new Astronomicon. We will have that fixed before next episode though and it isn't terrible. This episode we are discussing the "Pillars" of the Warhammer 40k Hobby. These are the components that, in our mind, make up the hobby as Games Workshop sees it. It's an episode full of opinions and deeper thoughts. We hope you enjoy! We then take a look and give our opinions on a recent New York Times article titled "In praise of mediocrity". An interesting article about hobbies and what drives us. We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:03:10 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 1:05:50 - The Pillars of the Hobby: Part 1 1:11:30 - The Pillars of the Hobby: Part 2 2:06:20 - Final Thoughts and show closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! - SPONSOR Wargamma - SPONSOR Forge World Games Workshop

Episode 175 of The Independent Characters brings you over three hours of entertainment for your earholes! After our standard Hobby Progress section, we spend some time discussing Chapter Approved 2017 - and where we think and hope it would go in 2018. Adan did a lot of research on this one so you are in for a treat. We then have a couple of interview for you that we think you might enjoy. Last, but certainly not least, after the final music we have an hour long interview with Black Library Author (and all around gentleman) John French. For our Forbidden Lore segment, we cover everything about his latest book: Horusian War - Incarnation. Spoilers abound so be warned! We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:03:10 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 0:47:50 - Chapter Approved 2017: Part 1 1:11:30 - Chapter Approved 2017: Part 2 1:41:30 - Architects of Destruction Kickstarter Interview 1:57:25 - Interview with Greg Dann 2:06:20 - Final Thoughts and show closing 2:11:15 -

Episode 174 of The Independent Characters compares two of Games Workshops skirmish game offerings. It's Necromunda vs Kill Team! A lot of discussion has revolved around whether or not Games Workshop has made the right decision in releasing another skirmish game. Is there enough room for both of these games in the 40k Universe? We discuss the ins and outs of both of these games, their systems, and how they are released and give you our final opinions on what GW has done right, and wrong. Carl is joined again by Jody and Austin as guest hosts as we take a deep dive beneath the hive cities of Necromunda and wage war across the tight confines of Kill Team. Don't forget, if you are looking for the best surface to play your Kill Team Encounters on - you can find them at Tablewar.com where their new Kill Team sized mats will blow you away. Use the Tablewar code for The Independent Characters (IC201808) in the month of August for a further 10% off your order! We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show I

Episode 173 of The Independent Characters introduce a new guest host, Austin! Carl met Austin at Adepticon just before he moved to the area and has already become a fantastic member of our gaming group. So after we introduce you to Austin, we have Jody and Josh join as well for a long Warrior Lodge episode. For those who don’t already know, The Warrior Lodge is a moderated discussion around several topics. We get various opinions and thoughts on things related to Games Workshop, Warhammer 40k, and the community in general. This episode was recorded on several different days so I apologize now for some of the disjointed feel of each segment. In a couple of places I reference segments that come later - however, they actually came PRIOR to me mentioning them on the show. Either way… deal with it! The topics and conversations are great. Not only do we have all of that for you, we also include an interview with Joe from Firmer Terra, the makers of The Alpha Gaming Table, as well as Dave Taylor about the current NO

Episode 172 of The Independent Characters is our Show of Force episode on Deathwatch! We have been unable to schedule time to record for nearly a month so we play a little catch up with each other and see how things have been going on the hobbby front before moving into our lengthy coverage of The Deathwatch. After that, we have a short interview with CK Studios to hear how their trip to the UK (and Warhammer World of course!) went, as well as the class they taught there. We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:03:20 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 0:55:45 - Show of Force: Deathwatch (Part 1) 1:49:50 - Show of Force: Deathwatch (Part 2) 2:23:00 - Interview with CK Studios 2:47:40 - Final Thoughts and show closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! - SPONSOR Wargamma - SPONSOR Forge World Games Workshop The Black Library Geek Nation Tours  

Episode 171 of The Independent Characters sees us return for the final installment of our Chaos Resurgent series. This time around we talk everything Tzeentch! Prepare yourselves for a lengthy and productive hobby progress and games played section and then prepare to be mystified as we cover the topic of our fourth and final Chaos God in a descent into madness! We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:06:00 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 1:11:00 - Chaos Resurgent: Tzeentch (Part 1) 1:58:35 - Chaos Resurgent: Tzeentch (Part 2) 2:38:45 - Final Thoughts and show closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! - SPONSOR Wargamma - SPONSOR Forge World Games Workshop The Black Library Armies & Legions & Hordes Gamefor App Geek Nation Tours Ft Worth ICs Meetup Email address - Lucas.w.lyon@gmail.com  

Episode 170 of The Independent Characters has us discussing Adepticon 2018. It was through the generous purchases of listeners such as yourselves that we were able to make it possible for all of us to go and meet with various guests that you will hear over the next few episodes (including this one!) After a lengthy Hobby Progress section we will move into a discussion about Adepticon 2018. This is followed up by three separate interviews. The first is with Dave Taylor in support of his Armies & Legions & Hordes kickstarter. You should really check this thing out as it only has a couple of days left as of this recording. Then we move into an interview with Uncle Atom of Tabletop Minions fame to speak about his companies app 'Gamefor' which you may find interesting. And last, but certainly not least, we have an interview with Teras of Geek Nation Tours We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:04:22 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 1:13:00 - Adepticon 2018 2:07

Episode 169 of The Independent Characters continues our four part series looking into each of the Chaos Gods. This episode, we are covering Slaanesh. While this Chaos Gods future is somewhat up in the air at the moment, we have high hopes that GW will embrace the deity for all it is worth, and in all aspects. We think you will enjoy this Chaos Resurgent episode! We also include in this episode two different interviews. One interview is with Colin Ward, from Legalized Mischief Productions and the other is from Kat & Caleb of CK Studios. We think there is some great information in both of these pieces. We really hope you enjoy what we have for you in Episode 169! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:04:30 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 0:51:30 - Legalized Mischief Interview 1:15:30 - Chaos Resurgent: Slaanesh (Part 1) 2:05:40 - Chaos Resurgent: Slaanesh (Part 2) 2:31:40 - CK Studios Interview 2:47:30 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! -

Episode 168 of The Independent Characters brings you the second of our new four part series; Chaos Resurgent. In this series we will discuss all aspects of each of the four Chaos Gods. This time around it's all about Khorne! We will do a 'Deep Dive' into all things Khorne, 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. We hope you enjoy the show! Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Show Intro and Host Introduction 0:04:55 - Workbench and Hobby Progress 0:43:30 - Chaos Resurgent: Khorne (Part 1) 1:31:20 - Chaos Resurgent: Khorne (Part 2) 2:03:35 - Final Thoughts and Show Closing Relevant Links: KR Multicase - SPONSOR Tablewar! - SPONSOR Wargamma - SPONSOR Forge World Games Workshop The Black Library  

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 Wo

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 gam

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

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 an

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 4

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 Segme

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. Addi

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