For the Anima Tactics fans

Here is another little Black Sun sneak peek. You are free to repost it and discuss it, just be sure to mention you saw it here first!

The Hunter: An Anima Tactics sneak peek

I got the permission from the guys at Cipher Studios to show this beauty off!

What do you think?

Presenting: Maria

The latest addition to my Church force is Maria, and the latest addition to my useful Samael advantage cards is Chaos!

Home from a long day of work

and look what I got in the mail!

Samael Tactics evolved

I thought I would update my earlier writing on My Samael Tactics, since they have adapated and evolved since then. Most Samael teams need Janiel to handle stealthed units and so they never get to take Aoi who is one of the best supporting characters in the game because it leaves them open to ambushes from Stealthed prowlers. I've not played it against a full Azur prowler team, but they're very rare and I've found Momiji alone is enough of a prowler assassin to force other prowlers to be on the defensive or be exposed.

I painted something

and just recently go around to finishing a video of the pictures so others can see it.

Better late than never?

I intended to get this game and the battle report in last week for Anima Tactics week... oops. Life happened. But you can still enjoy it now at least!

More from Anima Tactics week

With my crazy work schedule last week I didn't get to repost as much as I wanted to. Like the review of the Black Sun ruleset I did for Warmonger, or the interview I did with Cipher Dave.

Most importantly if you like painting contests where you can win Anima Tactics stuff as prizes... then you need to enter this one:

Battle Report

Samael team shooty continues a losing streak. But I think it is still one of my best Battle Reports yet!

My Samael Tactics

While I'm primarily a Church player, sometimes I just want to try something different or try new tactics to beat difficult opponents for my Church forces. For this reason I use my wife's Samael force for playing a lot. Working with this I've found a group almost as effective as my main Church force (and for a long time was more effective till it taught me a different way of playing Church). I like to call this team and the tactics I use with it “Samael Toolbox”.

Statistically there are two unifiers to Samael forces. First they all have ranged attacks, but the ranged attacks largely aren't as powerful as the ones that groups like Wissenschaft get so it can be very hard to compete with Ranged. If you're watching my Battle Reports this week you'll see my “Samael Shooty” team losing to Wissenschaft. Second, they get average stats with no exceptional weaknesses or strengths. It doesn't seem like much does it? But it is enough that in the European Anima Tactics tournaments recently held in Spain 4 of the top 5 teams were all Samael teams.

Super Natural!

My Samael overview is finally here in time for Anima Tactics week!

Natakue's AT reviews

I wasn't going to include other people's content on my blog, but Natakue did a great job reviewing Anima Tactics in general and his special review of the Type-005 blister.





If you enjoy the videos, please give them a "Thumbs-up" at Youtube or leave a comment for him!

Black Sunrise

Black Sun unboxing! This is an awesome new faction, of course you'll have to stay tuned to Warmonger Gameday this week for more on them like a review of how the new rules for them work.

IT HAS BEGUN

Anima Tactics week begins. All be posting all of my videos here, some of them before they get to the Warmonger channel. But for complete coverage you should be headed to the Warmonger Gameday blog, or join in on the forum discussions there.



I'll be posting my Black Sun starter unboxing in the morning and you can look forward to a review of their rulebook later in the week. Then we've got what I think is a real nice surprise to announce at the end of the week!

It isn't THAT time yet

Anima Tactics week at Warmonger Gameday is almost here. I will be posting all my blog entries on both blogs, but you'll see more over there as there will be other bloggers going on about Anima Tactics.

You can look forward to Battle Reports, faction reviews (I'll be doing an Overview of Samael and Black Sun), product reviews, sneak peeks and A LOT more! I've got a little tease here just to wet your appetite for next week:

To Create or to Steal my Questions

So this week I'm going to be conducting an interview with one of the guys at Cipher Studios for Warmongergameday's Anima Tactics week. But I want to be lazy and not have to think up a ton of questions on my own. So I started a thread on Warmonger's forums asking for interview questions. Feel free to either make a post there or leave a comment here with interesting questions you'd like to see answered and I'll consider using them.

But you have to be quick, by this Friday it will most likely be too late.

Anima forums are down, long live the Anima forums!

The most popular Anima Tactics forums by Edge Entertainment are once again down. A second major crash in two consecutive weeks. Doubtless some of the increased blog traffic I'm seeing right now is a result of it.

So I'd like to remind everyone that there are two other official Anima Tactics forums. The Cipher Studios forums and the Fantasy Flight Games forums.

In addition I would recommend stopping by the Warmonger gameday Anima Tactics forums as a lot more is going on there.

In other news to compete with the news below my post, my 1 year old son got a hold of our (my wife's and mine) work in progress tray for miniatures and shook it out all over the dining room floor. All but one miniature I had assembled was broken (Jerome was saved). Even pinned joints came flying apart. Several models already in various states of being painted (Claude Valmore, Arkeid) came apart. But even at the worst at least there are no infectious diseases involved.

Maybe if I'm lucky enough to get laid off this month I'll have time to get caught back up :(

AT Week is coming at Warmonger!

So over at the other blog site, Warmongergameday we have a special Anima Tactics week coming up. There is sooooo much special material coming up for that week that I'm really excited to be a part of it. In the meanwhile things unfortunately are going a little slow on my solo blog.

We'll be reviewing models, faction overviews, product reviews, battle reports, and some extre-special stuff still under wraps. But meanwhile I did manage to get a video for AT week prepared to show you some of the models I'll be showing off for the upcoming Anima Tactics week:

Anima Eclipsed... Black Sun Rising

"AGAIN? Blogging again?" Yes, despite my wife's protests I'm back due to the email messages I keep getting. It appears people don't want me to wait till the end of the week to talk about Black Sun again. So based off the first 3 undead units and the first two mystics here is my initial proposed strategy for Black Sun:

(Pictured at left is the alternate body for the Type-005 which will be sold individually in blister)

How I got to Sakuracon!

So some people have wondered, why did you get to go to Sakuracon and see all this fun stuff and get all these spoilers? The answer is simple and comes in two parts. First I'm in Seattle at the right time (I live there, eh?) and second I'm part of Cipher Studios Free Agent program.

I really have to strongly recommend this program (or others like it for other games). If you really like a game then you want more people to play against or with. But people aren't like to try a game they haven't seen or played before. This is where demo-ers come in. It is easy to get people playing a game if they see it and enjoy it.