Imagine your first tournament game and you have a titan standing on the other side of the table

Glad you gave that young warboss an amazing game!

Full props for sportsmanship and prioritizing "fun" over "victory". I especially like how you showed Alex how screening and move blocking works, then stood aside to allow the epic final boss battle.

When you give a young warboss a good fight and tutor a young of imperial guard commander at the same time. I like your style sir.

The only shame about the war hound is it’s 1100 points instead of 1000 so we can take two!

How do you transport that thing around? I'm just imagining Mordian Glory entering the tournament venue with his comissar cap on and two dudes behind him carrying the titan like the Ghana pallbearers.

Yeah when you were describing the Warbosses army list and mentioned the Morkanaut it raised an eyebrow (general wisdom is to take the Gorkanaut) especially once you mentioned the dakka jet i was like "huh, that isnt your standard tournie Ork build" then you mentioned that it was a young warboss and it all made sense. So glad you gave him a fun game.

Mordian went from making a woman cry at her first tournament to helping a boy have a good game experience. Well done man!

So cool you got a Titan to support your Straken

Dear God! What a legend and a great story for game 1. "Make sure my opponent had a great time", "custodian of the hobby". I so wish more people were big enough to see it this way. WELL DONE!

28:35 Couldn't agree more--making the first experience a fun one is a surefire way of getting new people invested in the hobby. I remember my first proper match of a wargame; it was a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battle with the Island of Blood starter set, circa 2011-2012. My brother and I had split the box for Christmas, and one night he let me bring both armies to our FLGS and do a game against another player there, me playing my Skaven and the other guy using my brother's High Elves. The guy was super nice, helping explain the game and rules as we went along, but he pulled a bit of a cheeky maneuver; he added a Wizard's Tower to the board, something which gave his wizard a full slieu of spell options, but was wothless to my Skaven. Most of the game was pretty typical, our forces marching up to partake in glorious combat, but early on he used that Wizard's Tower to use a particular spell--a meteor. Every turn, we rolled a die. If it rolled high enough, the meteor hit the initial target; if it didn't, it'd wait another turn, and grow larger. He targeted the meteor at around where he expected my army to be next turn (which I dutifully marched into, being not a coward), and expected it to land the next turn or so and deal some damage. Queue: Round after round of the meteor delaying another turn, growing larger and larger until its eventual blast radius would encompass the entire board. When it finally did land, we discovered an interesting side effect of the meteor hitting the entirety of our armies--namely, due to how it allocated wounds and pierced armor, the meteor dealt damage such that it was extremely effective against small units with high armor, but was rather weak against swarm units with weak armor. By the time the dust settled, his army was in ruins, while mine was barely scratched. To this day, I still remember the hubris of that Elf Wizard, who summoned a meteor that destroyed his entire army; my brother, who had been watching, even gave him a name, "Mud the Team Killer," and painted him as a ghost to commemorate the occasions. It was the sort of awesome moment that sticks with you through the years, and has remained one of my all-time favorites in the hobby. I have a feeling Alex over there will have a similar memory of the time his Ork Warboss charged a Warhound Titan, *and lived.* It's the stuff this hobby is made of.

Mordian being a gentleman and a scholar in game 07

Mate, the way you handled that first game speaks volumes to your character. So glad you made that game a fun one for that lad. I’m sure it’s something he’ll remember for a long time. Bravo!!

I played in a tournament as a 13 year old, got tabled every game, didn’t play warhammer again for 20 years. You’re a good sort

Gotta say I'm glad you were such a good sport to the kid in your first game because it sucks when your first ever game is pure destruction. My first ever game of 40k back in 9th was against Tzeentch demons and the dude brought so many pink horrors... he ended the game with more models then he started. I still haven't gotten the motivation to go play another game in a game store yet just sticking to playing tabletop sim with one of my friends.

Outstanding job giving a good experience to the young lad! That, above all, is what makes you a good wargamer brother!

Growing and building the community is by far the most important thing period! Good on you

100% agree with you regarding being the custodian. So important to be aware of this. Chapeau

I can distill the first (wonderful) game down to a simple lesson: We're all there to have fun, so let's have some fun! Wonderful stuff!

21:37 Teach the young lad a good lesson, NEVER RETREAT (unless it's the best option but that's no fun)

as a parent of young kids, i feel that alex's dad would have been very happy that you were his sons first opponent. top marks that man !

The fault was not mine, sir. Colonel Straken must answer.

What’s that sound? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH *STOMP* *STOMP* ITS KEVIN!!!!!

When the indexes first came out i was looking at a CSM list of : 6x20 cultists 3x10 traitor guard And then the Titan.

Angron in the lore: Literally jumps from his capital ship and shoots down through the atmosphere, slaughtering hundreds of Space Marines and thousands of soldiers. Angron in table top: Wrecked by some good rolls.

A Warhound Titan is capable of a travel speed of 58 kilometers per hour or ~36 mph for us across the pond. This gigantic, tank crushing titan is able to SPRINT.

Always great to hear when fellow hobbyists can just come together and enjoy playing their game.

i respect your approach to that first game sounds like a hell of a lot of fun being thematic and getting into the factions while also helping him out as a new player very good to hear about

There was a guy a few years ago (9th ed, I believe) who brought a Warhound to a tourny, but he also brought a Sky shield landing pad and a Shield Generator. Stood the titan on the pad with the shield generator behind him. Made the titan almost un-killable.

i love the warhound's tiny hat :)

Are you telling us you literally did the Saving Privet Ryan thing where Tom Hanks points his pistol at a tank? That Kriegsmen earned himself a name with that one.

for game 1, thank you for going easy on the kid, I went against a more competitive guy my first tournament with an absolutely garbage list I had scrounged together, and got tabled like T3, but it was basically over by T2. I'm surprised I didn't go to any more tournaments after that but I'm glad I did

These stories are wild!!! Sounds like alot of fun!

15:15 this brought tears to my eyes

Been trying to learn about table top for my friends. I never watched you before, I love how civil and respectful you were to Alex the young adult you played round one. You rock and know how to warrrggh

this is epic, congrats and salutations to you good sir!

I did this back in November 2009 for the "Tanksgiving Day" event at my local GW shop. The event had a restriction - no troops, just armored vehicles and walkers. Exploded, Wrecked, or Immobilized units with no weapons remaining counted as kills. The board was packed with tanks, transports, dreadnoughts, etc. It was a VERY target-rich environment. My Warhound was armed with a Turbolaser Destructor and Plasma Blastgun - it never moved and the void shields kept regenerating (very good rolls that day). I won the event for destroying the most vehicles & walkers in 6 turns = 38 kills.

Well done on the first game, that alone should've given you the sportsmanship award if there was one. As for supporting the Warhound, in that config, you need anti tank, pure and simple. I'd probably drop one of the krieg units and marshal and either grab a trio or scout sentinels, or even try and fit in a Leman Russ demolisher... Either that or change the load out on the titan to include the turbolaser! :-P

I'd be terrified fighting a behemoth accompanied by an army of Luigis

Congrats for your sportsmanship ! It's what keeps war games such a cool experience !

kudos for the good sportsmanship and giving a new player a fun time for the first match

Hey man, like most other people are saying, good job for prioritizing the experience over just having a win. I played 40k as a kid in a warhammer store in the early 2000s and an older guy did the same thing for me. It means a lot to a kid....i still fondly remember that experience as an adult.

You did the right thing in game 1! If you throw the game, the kid would be upset if he realised your deception, but by giving him a brilliantly played and roleplayed experience you set a precedent. Absolute respect mordian, fair play.

In Geelong, Victoria. We have a 3K end of year "bring the big toys out" fun event it has been going for 15 yrs. Certain things can be allowed with consultation with TO. I took 3 scratch-built heirophants and scuttlebugs

5:44 So that's where Attack on titan "fix bayonets" mem is from.

Great job. I think it's important to do this sort of thing anytime there is someone new. make sure they have fun, and that way, in the future, we have more players. :D

Hey mordian, I was thinking, how the heck did you transport a titan? Like, they’re so big and unlike tanks they have a lot of parts that are only connected on one point, I’m just interested how you do this, since my own AOS army is already a pain to transport

People treat that "the orcs muscles are weaker than ours!" as if it is silly propaganda and it might actually be in setting but an odd bit of trivia is that humans with the "double muscle" gene mutation, the one that causes you to grow roughly twice as much muscle mass as a normal person, are actually weaker than a normal person because despite having roughly twice as much muscle it is only roughly 40% as effective. They're also due to weakness in connective tissues more prone to injuries. A harsh cosmic joke.

Finally played a game on tabletop 4 years after my last one in 8th edition. My opponent hadnt played in 3 years either, so it took us 5 hours to finish a game with just fighting over 5 control points and no missions. I rocked up with 90 infantry, a leman russ, two platoon squads, two deathkorps marshals, Ursula, and Strakken for a 20 stack of catachans. The other 70 infantry were 3 20 stacks of DKoK and 1 infantry for home defense. Opponent ran Blood Angels with two 5 tactical marines, a captain in terminator, a chaplain, 10 stack of assault intercessors, a Baal Predator, a razorback, 5 sanguinary guard, and one other squad of 5 I cant remember the name of but they had swords and a hand bolter with 1 inferno pistol in the squad. I got Strakken and the catachan blob into 8 inch charge range, landed the charge, and after 3 rounds of combat Strakken killed the 5 stack of sanguinary guard at the cost of the entire 20 stack of catachans. The catachans, even with fix bayonets and the charge melee ability, did not land a single wound for any of the combat turns. The first 10 catachans got cut down in the initial combat, where one sanguinary was out of range to attack. I'm really glad I bought Strakken. Lotta mistakes made on both sides but it was a good learning experience to get back into the groove. Took 5 hours for 4 rounds, then we called with with me having a 10-9 point victory.

I really appreciate the point about creating a good game for new or inexperienced players. I started warhammer in my early 20's and a lot of my first games in my local scene were terribly one sided, like 15-85. I nearly stopped playing because of it, but luckily found a great group of people to play with and have been enjoying my time since then.

Imagine the dad. seeing his sons first tournament. hes been checking on him while building and painting his army over the coarse of weeks or months. his sons been exited to try a tournament so he goes with him to support him. then sees this MASSIVE UNIT on the other side of the table! then he just starts singing "leaves from the vine" lmao

The way you handled the first match, I took instant liking to you.

Ok if we go Meme-ish with Titans heres my Take: Ad-mech with Rad Zone Cohort Characters Cybernetica Datasmith [60pts] with Radial Suffusion as Warlord Allied knights: 3x Armiger Helverinw [450pts] Allied Inquisition: 2 inquisitors [110pkt] (blessed wardings) 2 x Henchmen with 2 Mystics, 2 Servitors and 100 Henchmen [280] Allied Titans: 1 Warhoundtitan with 2x turbolaserdestructors [1100pts] Its an almost entire Allied Units list with the advantage of a bit radiation! Also Murder Chickens!

That titan looks fantastic!

The little hat on the titan was amazing.

Your first game was nice to hear. Competition comes second to fun!

I actually did this 😂 I took a revenant titan to a tourney. Supported him with a load of windriders, farseers on jetbikes and then a few pew pew vehicles. I drew chaos knights for the first two rounds. Won one, lost one, but I didn't actually care about the results. The revenant was blowing apart two karnivores a turn before kicking a third to death, while my small units casually took objectives. Every turn. I've never had so much fun.

"that's my style sir!" sharpe reference duly noted

you seem really chill and cool to play with, good sport!

Because of your attitude and behavior towards Alex, I bet that dude is likely to stick in the hobby for a long time. Big props, Commissar!

YES! I own a warhound titan as well, and i'm curious about it. Up til now i've fielded it only in a couple of apocalypse games in 9th. Its damage output was underwhelming, but the aggression and pressure it was able to put on the table were unmatched.

"NO MY SON! THEY HAVE EARNED IT!" KORN TO ANGRON in the Battle of the Baugeee

I just got an Eldar Phantom Titan for Christmas. So it'll be stck in the pile of shame for a while but when its buit itll be so fun if i ever get to use it.

I think this is what warhammer was always meant to be and that is people having fun battles that bring the world to life in a reenactment sort of way. When you see people at serious tournaments they bring army lists that wouldnt normally make sense but they are only doing it to exploit some dumb rules that were overlooked and are overpowered if used in a specific way or against an entire faction and its just dumb and takes the fun out of the game for me.

THANK YOU FOR BEING A KIND SOUL that is all i gotta say man

Good on you for not crushing a young teen. I also had a similar set of experiences over the decades playing, at tournaments and not. Not saying let them win, but giving them a chance to have fun is key.

Good Job keeping the game fun is the most important thing

That sounded like a cook tournament good stuff🎉

Take a metal legs only list! Sentinels, Titan, tarantula battery, enginseers ,😂

I love the Warhammer 40k lore and the RPGs, but I typically avoid the tabletop for multiple reasons, one of which being the community I have run into having enough bad eggs. I have subbed to this channel because of how amazing the stewardship you showed toward the game is. Well done.

I raged as a titan showed up in a tourney, but brought it down with my Storm Sword turn 5. What a relief

The Madlad did it!!!

I would be intersested on seeing a list focussed on Cadian units, with lots of shock troops and creed. Either that or a list with lots of light armour, so sentinels, hellhounds, tauroxes and the like without any russes or other main battletanks. Even though that wpuld probably boil down to sentinel spam, I'ld still like to see it

The mad lad did it

....and the Guardsman surrounding the Death Korps Marshall raise their shovels in the air as a muffled cheer raises over the battlefield! I always enjoy your battle reports mate, keep up the good work 👍

When I heard you got the red angel to 1 hp I was really hoping that a 25 point suicide truck would take him out.

Wholesome player, 40k thumbs up

DRIVE THEM MEN! DRIVE THEM!

21:41 no clue why reminds me if the connor mcgregor clip when he said (you will do as you told )

For some reason I’m disappointed this Titian isn’t wearing a gas mask…

29:15 Yes I agree that the point of games is to have *fun.*

Khorne is just like: Angaron, do you really want to go back to collect skulls for the skull throne, or because that little human made you look bad?

15:22 "MEN OF TANITH! STRAIGHT SILVER! DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!"

Reporting in Commander!

I feel like when angron got back to khorne, khorne just laughed at him cause he got killed by mortals, and got a time out

I am not that familiar with the lore, but I imagine that one day there will be an Emperor's class titan on the battlefield. The one with Church on his back. I can't even imagine how big it would be. Actual raid boss event

You absolut legend, and your so right about the first game. I got in the hobby a few years ago in my mid 30's and I wouldnt have botherd if I didnt find the comunity just like that (inviting) What are those things under your troops? As my first 2k army im building swarm Nids and they look like lifesavers 😂

i really want either a tyranid or necron army and go to a tournament one day.

😅he thought we wouldn't notice the sharpe reference, but we did....

If you maximise fun in your list instead of efficiency you will have more fun - who would have guessed ;-)

I wanna see you run like a 1000-1500 pt game with a bane blade lol

When you said 0 wound to angron I felt like….. 1100 points for this ? X) : great video

Moderati full stride ahead, lets get first blood for our legion!!!!

that first game is honestly my ideal game i think. I prefer more narrative fun battles over competitive ones.

Thanks for giving Young Warboss a fun game 🫡 That’s very Chad of you to do

I'd love to throw my Konus Hegemony Kin at a list like that lol

21:43 I dunno, sounds like Orks to me. Whittle them down enough and they lose morale against a larger force until they're absorbed by a larger group and get caught up in the bloodlust of the WAAAGH again. But maybe I've just read too many accounts from the Black Library's Cain Archives. 😆

That first game is far more fun to listen to than the sweat games where everything is meta'd to hell.

This sounds like it was a blast. Bring your non-meta fun stuff. Also, thank you for not totally reaming the new kid a new one. You could have killed his passion for the game entirely and that's appreciated.

day 2 notitcing how much this man memes on Sharpe