Cast Dice Podcast

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This week Brad is joined by the Tim, the tournament organiser for the recent Bolt Action Tactics event that Brad played in, and Doug, another player at the event.

We are back to explore how to represent and play Danish forces on the Bolt Action tabletop. Along the way we discuss history, list theming and keys to approach minor power list building.

The guys are back to discuss their recent experiences with new characters, after the update and how those experiences shaped their time at the recent 32 player Shadowland event.

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This week we are joined by one of our favourite Bolt Action authors, Rob Vella, to discuss his newest game, Going The Distance: Boxing In The Golden Age.

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After discussing the newest expansion to Konflikt '47, Invasion Amerika, in our last episode, we had to come back to discuss all of the awesome new units, platoon structures and changes that it brings.

I am joined by, one of my favourite digital terrain designers this week, Scott from Tired World Studios. We discuss how he turned his hobby into a full time living, his inspirations as a designer, his newest armoured train terrain and so much more.

We are back this week to explore the newest expansion to the Konflikt '47 universe, The Rift War Volume 2: Invasion Amerika. This epic tome truly expands the K'47 universe in number of ways, some of which are surprising and change the way we see the nations in the game.

The guys are back to discuss which of the new character updates sound exciting before digging into their experiences at the recent Secret Wars Marvel Crisis Protocol Team Event. We need to change the name of the podcast after this one!

The guys are back to discuss New South Wales's first MCP GT with special guest Steven Drury.

We are back to table about one of my favourite miniature skirmish games, 7TV, the game that turns literally any intellectual property and allows you to turn it into a playable episode of a 70's, 80's or 90's television series or movie sequel. It is such a clever game idea and the man behind the game, Karl, is back to talk about the upcoming Steel Justice expansion/scenario pack for the game that b...

Over the last couple of episodes, we have gone into depth about the six nations covered in the new Bolt Action Armies Of The British Commonwealth book and the units they can use but you wanted more! By popular request, we are back to explore some of the exciting and unique army lists that you can build using this book.

The guys are back to discuss our recent experiences at events and with the characters that we have been using in them. We briefly discuss this weird interlude time in the game before launching into a discussion about how that shapes what we are bringing to the upcoming Secret Wars Team Tournament.

There has been a lot of discussion about what the Bolt Action Australian Team Championships might look like. I am joined by the organisers to break down what to expect and why you will definitely want to attend this epic event!

The guys are back to discuss the upcoming MCP event, Demon In a Bottle.

We are back with the massive second part of our deep dive of the upcoming Armies Of The British Commonwealth for Bolt Action. We not only discuss the national rules, we also dig into how the unique unit selection for each army list interacts with those rules to give you a more complete feel for how these armies will play on the tabletop and, yes, that means that we are working from the unreleased...

This week, I am joined by Tony from the Gergen Gaming Youtube channel to discuss terrain, independent and lesser seen games and the hobby in general.

Warlord Games has been doing a fantastic job of sharing the six sets of national rules for all SIX ARMY LISTS in the upcoming Armies Of The British Commonwealth book on their community webpage. We go deeper than this though by looking at the actual units in these lists and how they work with those new sensational national rules. Today we will explore the first three of these nations: The Australia...

Luke Alvin, the author of the newest expansion to Pike And Shotte, joins to discuss the Highest Throne. We explore the conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and their European adversaries through the 1500 and 1600's. This book includes a record number of new army lists for players to use. There is a lot to discuss!

I am joined by our old friend Ruebs this week to talk about the MEGA game convention. What is it? How can you sign up as a player? How can you organise your own event within it? This is such a great community building event. This is a fantastic listen for possible attendees or for those who might like to grow gaming in their own cities.

Ausvengers Assemble! The guys are back to deep dive the new crises pack for Marvel Crisis Protocol.

One of my favourite gaming narratives has always been the Badab War. And I am not alone! Our old friend Nick Beattie and his 3rd-A-Palooza crew have been working hard to create a slim format codex, popular in the late 90's that captures the units and forces that fought in the most exciting conflict over taxes for Warhammer 40k 3rd edition. Today, he joins us to discuss his love of Badab, some of t...

We are joined in the episode by Zach, who recently played Yugoslavia at the Adepticon Bolt Action event to talk about how to create effective and more niche Bolt Action forces using historical research, model conversions and some creative list writing using existing lists. Along the way we also discuss the Armies of Greece and how to adapt existing lists into something new, balanced and original.