Art of War - The Competitive 40k Network

This week, the lovely Fraiser Parry joins me to take us through his and his team's amazing run at the recent Canhammer teams event!

This week we are joined by undefeated Rocky Mountain Open Champion Cody Jiru who ran a murderers row of opponents in the Defiler Meta to win with Spectacle of Spite Drukhari.

This week Mitch Beard from Sister Act 40k joins me to conduct another codex retrospective into one of the most detachment maligned armies in the game with only 5 in total for the edition but heaps of new models added to the mix! Which makes for an interesting dissection. 

Hope you enjoy

This week amazing Tyranid specialist Ron Eliyahoo tells us how he went 9-0 with Subterranean Assault tyranids to win a near 300 player event!

On this weeks show, Lukas Troller joins me to review all the new Orky goodness (Just Wazdakka) and the rest of the pile of goodies (Still just Wazdakka) from the latest Armageddon book!

On this week's episode, German WTC team captain Malte Hofs joins us to talk about his undefeated run at Pyra with Emperor's children!

This week the delight that is Jawn Lennon joins me to review all the new detachments and units for Astra Militarum!

This week we dive into the wild story and journey of the 2024 world champion taking Imperial Agents to one of the world's biggest events!

Tucker Rickey, the newest top player personality from art of war joins me to delve into the mine shafts of the GSC and retrospectively review this book!

This week Nick Jagiello joins us to talk through TWO undefeated runs with the Astra Militarum at Chimera Gaming Teams and the Barrie Bash.

On this weeks show, Richard Siegler, Brian Jones and John Lennon join me to review their respective mainline factions new goodies in the Eye of Terror supplement. 

On this week's show the amazing Ben Neal joins us having crushed the Colorado cup with a Hammer of Avernii list!

This mighty week a new supplements worth of detachments arrive and we are reviewing all the things and stuffs that chaos got in this spicy release.

Matt Morosoli joins me for the CSM detachment reviews with John Lennon himself demanding the spotlight for the chaos knights.

Hope you enjoy!

This week, on the request from the Patrons, Sam Pope, the hive master himself, joins us to tell everyone about his undefeated run at a GT with Vanguard Onslaught Tyranids.

This week the pactbound master himself Sascha joins me to review the best constructed and balanced faction of the edition (in our opinion). Hope you enjoy. CSM hot takes below------>

They all look great, very very points dependant. Defiler datasheet is amazing, but dinner plate for a base means things are still rough unless it's sub 200 points which hey, victrix are a thing, so who knows. Mutilators are amazing if you can deliver them, but points will make or break big time. New character is ace and kind of slams in combat with quality buffs, so hoping...

This week we are joined by a gent from the South Island of New Zealand, Michael Stewart who recently won the Warzone Wellington GT with Haloscreed Admech!

My mate Lukas Troller joins me as we attempt to stay out of the salt mines and look at the Ork faction and codex this edition from an objective viewpoint. 

We talk the journey of the faction through the index days, the launching pad and circumstances of the codex launch, it's development, treatment and outcomes thereafter!

This week, Ronnie Kinney, brand new face to the top of competitive 40k joins us to go over his undefeated Votann run through the Cherokee Open!

Hello everyone and welcome to what may be the last slate and MFM balance pass of the edition!

Matt Morosoli and myself go through all the changes (and lack thereof) to the game going into the next 3 months of 40k goodness!

Innes Wilson joins us this week to give us the lowdown on his 7-0 run at the Manchester Super Major with Deathwatch!

Space Marines
Deathwatch
Strike Force (2000 points)
Black Spear Task Force

CHARACTERS

Captain in Gravis Armour (105 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Boltstorm gauntlet
1x Power fist
1x Relic blade
• Enhancement: Thief of Secrets

Judiciar (95 points)
• 1x Absolvor bolt pistol
1x Executioner relic blade
• Enhancement: Beacon Angelis

Lieutenant with Combi-weapon (70 points)
• 1x Combi-weapon
1x Paired combat blades

Watch M...

Hello golden lovers, this week I have the big Pyle (Folger Pyles) himself join me to delve into what the emperors finest of finest and doing great currently custodes!

We give this book the medical examination, going through it's reception on release and evolution since!

This week, the amazing Luis Stiemerling joins Adam after taking Chaos Knights to a 5-0 run for Team Germany at the recent Pyra Cup! Catch him in action over at contact lost in Round 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALrKCI55dg&t=9179s)
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FACTION KEYWORD: Chaos - Chaos Knights + DETACHMENT: Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge) + TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 2000pts + TEAM NAME: Team Germany + WARLORD: Char1: Knight Despoiler + ENHANCEMENT: Bestial Aspect (on Char3: Knight Despoiler) + NUMBER OF UNITS: 10 + SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (5x2) + (3x6) - Assassination: 3 Characters +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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This week we finish off the review of detachments that came out in the Maelstrom expansion with review of the new Mercenary Band of short kings and some freeboota good stuff with separate segments and guests for each!

Team Viezla joins Adam this week for a rundown of their championship run at the International Team Tournament!

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Hello my lovely dumplings, this week my good mate Uncle Tuck (Tucker) joins me to review all the new hotness for Aeldari with 2 corsair detachments and a bunch of new datasheets! 

Nick Nanavati joins Adam in his last appearance as the host of the show for the time being. Nick is here to tell us all about his journey to Thailand for the Asia team championships!

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Apologies for the late show but I am here with Matt Morosoli to delve into the Maelstrom of new rules for the Chaos Space Marines! My lord is that Renegade Warband good, how good? Tune in and find out!

We also review the new datasheets for CSM and have a look over the changes to Scintillating Legion.

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Hello you soulful delights, this week we dive into the world of the tuna-beef and have 3 amazing guests on to discuss the journey of Tau through this 10th edition. With Durante Bozzini, Will B and Kyle Grundy giving us their thoughts about the codex and all things greater goodness.

Hope you enjoy!

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Hello one and all and welcome back to another AOWdu Faction Tier list. As we do every 3 months I have reeled in some talent from over on Statcheck (go give them some love) with the adorable Nathan jumping on to bring us the stats we need to update the rankings, with data harvested from the Victrix and now C'tan centric metas!

This week, we are hearing about another esoteric detachment that ran undefeated in New Mexico. Sisters of Silence have quite a shocking ruleset, and we're here to learn that they do.

In part 1, we go over exactly how this detachment and army play. 

Then, in part 2, we go round by round through the event with Jon. Subscribe on patreon.com/aow40k. to learn more!

Hello everyone, sorry for the late post, only just got home from Palm Springs Open (hope you enjoyed the coverage).

This week Richard Siegler joins me and we review all the detachments and datasheets for the metal mans in the lates 500 worlds book!

This week, we are hearing from the other perspective about the Glass City GT. Brian Dougherty talks about his 4-1 run with the brand new detachment Nightmare Haunt

In part 1, we go over exactly how this detachment and army play.

Then, in part 2, we go round by round through the event with Brian. Subscribe on patreon.com/aow40k. to learn more!

Hello you awesome people. I'm at the airport about to head off over to Palm Springs for the GW Open.

But this week I'm joined by the fantastic David Gaylard to discuss and review everything that came out for the space marines this past release!

Here is the bonus episode! I just lined up too many awesome individuals and had to get them all on for the end of year episodes. Enjoy the amazing insights of Ben Jurek and Andrew Gonyo!

We are back in 2026 with another victorious run from Folger Pyles, this time with Spectacle of Spite Drukhari! In part 1 Folger and Nick break down exactly how Spectacle of Spite works and its unique play patterns!

In part 2 Folger goes game by game through all of his rounds at the Glass City GT. Get the play by plays and discord access by subscribing on patron.com/aow40k 

Spectacle of Spite
Lady Malys
Lilith
Succubus w/ AP+DMG
10 Wyches
10 Wyches
10 Wyches
1 Raider
1 Venom
1 Venom
1 Venom