Tacticus

Just a short note of jealousy.

I've been reading the site: http://belloflostsouls.blogspot.com/

They offer a lot of good 40k tactical advice, in addition to news and such. Go ahead and take a look; I won't be offended. Just come back here and finish reading this after perusing their site.

Done? Good.

Man, I'm jealous of the tactical articles.

It's not really that easy to write a good tactical article. Far too many times I've read stuff like "make sure you use your Assault Marines in hand-to-hand, or you're not getting much value out of them." REALLY, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS? WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE? Writing tactics articles for players who actually have a good amount of tactical acumen is certainly more difficult than for 12-year-old dice monkeys who play lists they heard about on the net that "pwn @ll"

So I'm impressed when I read an article that makes me think "Huh. That's a pretty different approach." Or, in the case of a few on Bell of Lost Souls, "Shit, I never would have seen that coming, but forewarned is forearmed..."

I do note that I have a number of new ideas for my Witchhunters thanks to the site. I'll let the reader go figure out what I've stolen from them.

On the other side of the spectrum we have sites like the Privateer Press forums that alternates between really good tactical tips and ones so mind-bendingly bad that the poster deserves to have their junk put into a blender on puree. On film. Then give them a copy of that film for posterity's sake.

(No, I don't feel that's too extreme - sometimes one needs to make a statement.

Our oh-so-many-readers are welcome to post sites that they think do a good job with tactics articles. I'll peruse and any that are deemed stupid will get summarily mocked.