Master Shake

Most people don’t seem to understand how skyfire works when it comes to shooting with fliers.Typically people like to shoot them at anything without regard whether their target is a flier or not. That however, is wrong. At the start of the shooting phase, fliers must declare if they are going to use the skyfire […]

Most people are unaware of exactly how many types of terrain there actually are in the Warhammer 40k main rulebook.They seem to forget that there is a plethora of other types besides hills, ruins, and area terrain.   Let’s review a couple of the lesser known ones….  Ammunition Dump: Any model within 12″ of an […]

Welcome to Armies on Parade; Army Showcase where I display (in hopefully good detail) the best of the all great looking armies I’ve featured from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Army Showcase label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major […]

If 40k wasn’t truly a rock-paper-scissors kind of game, the new space marines hit the shelves and cemented it as such. Some of the most popular (and powerful) units in the game right now are broadsides, riptides, wraithknights, and wave serpents. There is one answer to all of them from the new book- centurions. Both […]

Eldar players have had it good for the last couple of months, between serpent shields and holo-fields they’ve been pretty hard to bring down. Space marines and their grav weapons are about to put an end to that. When a grav weapon fires at a vehicle and rolls a ‘6’ for its penetration roll, it […]

Everybody at some point or another has played with, or played against somebody with those goofy looking dice with a club symbol or something else engraved on a facing in lieu of the traditional 6 pips. When watching those dice roll, you likely noticed how they wobble and just roll funny. There is a reason- […]

Welcome to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where we go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for 6th Edition. Many players in 40k have odd characters and such that allow them to mix saves- say a wolf guard terminator in gray hunters, or Coteaz in an assassin unit. People generally do this to allow all saves […]

Welcome to a new segment on Grotzilla! where I discuss certain things people do to improve there game in an unusual manner (or so they think).I mean cause our gamer rituals are all very scientific and have of course been proven to work, most of the time. To kick it off, I’ll post up what I do […]

Is the honeymoon over for Grey Knight Paladins?  Since the release of the Grey Knight codex back in 5th edition, people have thought paladins were an extremely powerful unit.It wasn’t because people thought they were an insanely good close combat unit, or the level of firepower they could put out, but because of wound allocation […]

Let’s revisit one of my personal favorites, which if you remember my orkwisition, you know to be Death cult assassins. Death cult assassins are what I believe to be hands down the best close combat unit in the game when properly supported. With the release of 6th edition more and more people have shelved these […]

Welcome back to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where we go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for sixth edition 40k!I realize that we’re all still kinda learning all the nuances of this ruleset, so this should help all of us I hope. Plus with all the FAQ changes and recent Codex releases, it doesn’t get any Not […]

Welcome to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where I go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for 5th Edition. I realize that there may only be less than a year left for this rules set, but there is still tons of time for gaming! Not to mention there are a  few big tournaments left to attend […]

Master Shake has been at it again. Fresh off finishing the Orkquisition, his big Grey Knights counts as project, he’s back with the Zombie Guard. And who doesn’t like zombies? They are all over the TV and internets, so why not make a 40k army of them?  Well he did, and if this first veteran […]

Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major event yourself, all from […]

With the release of the most recent FAQ, Black Templars have become quite the force to be reckoned with.Since their storm shields now offer a 3++ save all the time rather than the 4++ in close combat they used to, they are indeed excellent. The best thing, however they have to offer is army wide […]

Welcome to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where I go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for 5th Edition. I realize that there may only be less than a year left for this rules set, but there is still tons of time for gaming! Not to mention there are a  few big tournaments left to attend […]

Today we have a guest article by Master Shake about a perhaps positive effect of the new Chaos Space Marine FAQ. From Shakes blog:“So are chaos dreadnoughts worth it? In short, yes. Now they are. I liked them before but nevr truly thought they were worth it due to the fire frenzy. The latest FAQ has made […]

Welcome to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where I go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for 5th Edition. I realize that there may only be less than a year left for this rules set, but there is still tons of time for gaming! Not to mention there are a  few big tournaments left to attend […]

Welcome back! Today I have a little lead into the Nova Open, happening this weekend, and a feature on one of the lists I am considering running in the Invitational. Today I’ll be playing in the Nova Open Invitational, and I’m thinking about playing Master Shakes’ Orkquisition Grey Knights.  I’ve been featuring a few of his conversions […]

Well here it is in all its orky glory, Da DeffKnight! This guy is part of a sweet “counts as” Grey Knight Orkquisition army that my buddy Master Shake is converting and painting up. Master Shake chose to paint up da DeffKnight in a triad of Red’s, (shaded like my blue Orks) over a basecoat […]