In the last few days I've received several emails that I think show a far sweeping issue. Many people haven't updated their link to dicelikethunder.com!

If you're still using the old libsyn site you're getting the news feed, but nothing else. So reset that bookmark to dicelikethunder.com!

Also, several people have asked where they can donate. The Donate button is right there on the left side of the screen, near the barrel of the bolter! All donations are VERY MUCH appreciated, and anything we get over the amount needed to keep the show going (about $40 a month) goes to prizes and fan support!

So feel free to donate a buck or two or 20... or eleventy million if you feel motivated and able. We really appreciate the vote of confidence!

It's just how we roll.

Just a quick correction from last weeks show.  The venue for "War4TheCure" is a fantastic game store known far and wide as Renaissance Games.

I have been informed that Renaissance Games has donated their venue for the tournament.  As well all prizes for the tournament have also been donated.  That means 100% of your entry fee for the vent is going to help a worthy cause, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

I'll be clarifying this on the show this week as well.

Check out war4thecure.org!

These are gamers near Baltimore putting on a KICK ASS tournament to help fun Leukemia research.  If you're in the area (or want to plan a super fun weekend) give them a holler!

Help support a good cause and have a fun day killing little plastic army men!

We are going to see the 7:00 Showing at the Hollywood Blvd Theatre.

It's great, we can get booze & food in theatre and watch Star Trek!  Let me know if you want to join us by emailing me at mack@dicelikethunder.com!

Well it's been a lot of testing and effort but the Dice Like Thunder Missions Book is now available!

It includes a new 6 Deployment & 6 Objective random mission creation system!  It's also got 2 missions for every army!  We had to cut it down from 3, as the original list just had to many repeats and not enough originality.

But it's out, and it will hopefully bring a lot of fun to a lot of people!

Sorry for the short delay, had some technical difficulties getting this out the door.  Here it is, Fluid40k Rev4

Changes in this edition:

New rule for abilities that create new units.

Updated Kill Points Rules

Revision on Tau Gun Drones that come as part of another vehicle.

C'Tan removed from the "Daemons" list.

Blood Angels Rhino Cost corrected.

Witch Hunter Transport Changes.

Many small typo's found and corrected!

So please come on over to our forums and help us make the next edition even better!

We have started running a banner box on Bell Of Lost Souls this week, and with all the new traffic coming to the site it is probably a good idea to give new users a quick tour for what we are all about.

We are a group of crazy gamers who really want to push our hobby to the next level.  We don't know what that level is yet but we sure want to find out!

The Fluid 40k section is our attempt to make the best of the current game rules.  Many people are disappointed with the current Games-Workshop errata and F.A.Q. system.  We have decided to take a positive spin on things and this allows us to keep the game fresh and updated on our own.  Fluid 40k is our living document system.  It updates at pre-published intervals with the goal being more intuitive game play.  Every change is tested as much as possible while being discussed at length on our forums.  This means that our users guide production!  Find out more about it by downloading it today!

We have started writing rules "conversions" amongst our friends, trying out new things and having a good time in the process.  To that end we tidied them up a bit and put them out for others to enjoy.  Hopefully you can help give us feedback and make them even better.  Our newest release is Firefight, a Kill Teams style game designed for faster game play, usually under half an hour!

Our forums are a great place to chat with people about your newest army, or get involved in our contests!  We are also starting up a new Gaming Club (The DLT Hammers) here in the Chicago Area, but you can also setup a Hammers chapter in your city!

As always, there is our weekly podcast.  You can subscribe to it on iTunes or listen to it here every week!

We hope you enjoy our site as much as we do running it, so come on into the forums and digitally hang out in the coolest place in the Imaterium!

They still need a smidge of work (mostly color correction) but Our new forums are officially online!  Much nicer than the old ones!

So click on that link to the left, or www.dicelikethunder.com/forums to join us!

Here and miraculously on time, we have the next version of Fluid 40k!

Changes include:

Clarified Kill Points

Storm Shield point cost revisions

Blood Angels Overcharged Engines

Dark Eldar Updates!

Many many small wording clarifications and updates!

So please test it even more than we have and help us make Fluid 40k even better!

download it from our Fluid40k tab, or here

I have now received a total of 17 emails requesting a donate button.  I thought that it was silly, but now I think it's a good idea.

Why do I think it's a good idea?

New Website.  Not DiceLikeThunder either... a totally new one.  We haven't picked a site name yet but we are starting the process of building our own FAQ website.  Where FAQ's are updated and errata is produced to keep old codex's up to date.  I'll talk more about it on the show this week but in the mean time I thought it would be a good idea to explain why there is a donate button lurking on the right side of the site.

The Dice Like Thunder team is very excited about this new project.  It has become clear that GW would rather have us update and produce rules for their game so that is exactly what we are going to do.  I am even going to start running tournaments (once I can secure a location) using the new Errata.

Prize support will come out of the donations we recieve from members of the new site.  Basically we plan to have it up and running by December.  From there we will update the FAQ/Errata documents EVERY MONTH.  Seriously. 

This way players can choose to play by the "40k Mayhem" ruleset.  It won't be perfect right out of the gate, but it will change every month based on the feedback we recieve.  We think it will take about 2 months to get things to a "tournament shine".  From there it is off like a prom dress.

I'll talk about it more on the show though.  Foshizzle.

The next show is slightly delayed because I ran home to visit my family.  But we should have a new show soon.  We will be HOPEFULLY moving to a weekly show instead of bi-weekly.  In addition we will be tightening the format and maybe even getting a few business allies!  We call them that instead of sponsors!  I know... crazy!

The site will also be going through a few changes in the next few months.  It will serve not only as a podcast site but also a center for my Game Design and 3d art projects.  That's a bit down the line though.

Our new "tighter" hour format will be as follows:

-Big News of the Week from a "Tactics" standpoint.
-Tactical Discussion on a specific topic.
-In depth unit discussion of one or two random units. 
-Battle Report (shorter form).
-Rant of the Week

The changes are all done to make the podcast over all more professional.  News is self explanatory I think.  But we will focus on how this new information deals with specific armies.  This will probably be short every week.  I'll simply link the full article in the show notes for people to read on their own.

Tactical discussion will deal with topics like "Unit Footprints" and "Unit formations".  Things on the table top that really help make us all better tacticians.  The "pacing" show has been very popular and I think this needs to really be part of the overall podcast.

Unit discussion will focus around one or two units and how to best utilize them in an army.  Depending on the unit we could cover one (tactical squad) or two (sentinels) in a week.

Battle Reports will be recorded in a shorter form.  While I liked the two podcast system I felt that information was just being lost because to much time went between recordings.  Instead we will discuss all the same things in one session.

Rant of the Week... well it turns out people actually like it when I rant... who knew!  So the end of our show every week will be a rant... or an interview once we get things really swinging.

So our new show format promises to be much stronger and more professional.  We are going to shy away from doing any more "codex reviews" because other podcasts do that all the time.  We want to cover more armies in a week so it is more likely we will talk about something individual listeners want to hear about.  If the battle report is between Eldar and Necrons the Tactics will be about Deep Strike and the units discussed might be Assault Squads and Seraphim.  It all ties in together but deals with as many armies as possible.

Ok I've rambled on enough.  Look for the new show format soon.  Our update days will probably shift form wednesday too.  Maybe mondays instead!

I'm selling one of my armies (in this case my tau) and I figured... hey... I have a podcast page I can pimp it out on!  So shamelessly here I go, selling my Tau army on ebay and pimping it on the blog page.

Wow, really really shameless of me huh?  New show coming this week in which I will probably shamelessly plug it some more!  It's like a disease!

Ebay Listing

Hmm, I can't figure out how to make this not show up in the RSS feed.  Now I kind of feel guilty!

I'm not sure what went wrong with the upload, but it is now fixed and ready for you all to listen too!

Enjoy... or don't... who am I to tell you what to do?