Hey All, Welcome back to Episode 20 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. We finally got the last Dataslate of 9th Edition! We dedicate the majority of this episode on discussing the impact on the meta from the various changes in the dataslate and go through why we think it didn't do quite enough to really mix things up (How did Desolation marines survive?!). We also do a dive into our games at the London Open, a UKTC Major from last weekend as well ...
Apr 22, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Hey All, Welcome back to Episode 19 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. With no Dataslate just yet (though hopefully due shortly after this episode releases!), our lists are submitted for the London Open - a 150-person Major event hosted by the UKTC. Dave's bringing his Astra Militarum and Vik his Aeldari. We run through our lists and how we've adapted to the Desolation marines that have created quite the hostile meta for both of our factions. We a...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Hey All, Welcome back to Episode 18 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. We're joined this episode by our good friend and founding member of Team Ignite, Brian Siepp, to discuss his incredible run to Top 4 at the Manchester Super-Major with Iron Hands (including the newly-infamous Desolation Marines). We go through what makes the Desolation Marines so strong and the tactics Brian used to get through his first 5 rounds before the cut with 497/500 bat...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Hey All, (Dave apologizes for his mic - had a little toooo much gain!). Welcome back to Episode 17 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard. This week saw Dave win another Super-Major (making him the only player in the UK to win 3!), the 200-player Southampton Super Major (UKTC). This episode focuses on his 7-0 winning run at the event with Astra Militarum. We'll be dissecting his list design philosophy as well as the tactics he used in each of his games, including a d...
Mar 15, 2023•57 min
Hey all, Welcome back to Episode 16 of the Fireside 40K podcast. We've just come back from the International Team Tournament, a 320 player (64 x 5-Person Teams) event with fixed terrain each round (making the results more relevant to singles), where our team (Dice Down) came in 5th place taking our loss to the amazing Team Poland. In this episode we focus on sharing our thoughts on what we feel the strongest armies in the game are and some potential solutions on how to counter them. The 23/24 se...
Mar 05, 2023•57 min
Hey all, Vik and Dave back again with our main podcast series talking about the first event of our 2023 40K Season - The Internation Team Tournament (ITT). This is a huge 5-man teams event, with 320 players in attendance including multiple national teams (England, Poland & Netherlands). We're bringing a selection of our finest from Dice Down to form a team trying to cause an upset and take the event. We discuss our team and the lists that we're bringing (Dave= Astra Militarum & Vik= Aeld...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Hey all, We're joined today on the Fireside 40K podcast by one of the most lovely and talented 40K players to have hit the scene, Boris Michev (Also the owner of the incredible Bad Moon Cafe in London). As one of the members of Dice Down, we've had the pleasure of playing with and against Boris over the years. Boris' story will resonate with many competitive 40K players as a few years ago he dipped out of tournament play to manage the increased time constraints that having children can bring to ...
Feb 22, 2023•51 min
Hey All, Vik and I are now focussing our efforts on Arks of Omen! We haven't really had the time pre-LVO to look at anything else but we've been keeping out ears to the ground and looking at what has been performing well. Ontop of that, we've been chatting in our team and have some first impressions that hopefully will be a fresh take on all the AOO content that has already come out! So if you're late to the train like we are, jump on board with us in this Fireside episode :) Enjoy!...
Feb 05, 2023•32 min
Hey All, Vik finished #2 ITC in the world this season and Dave finished #4 overall! We both placed 28(?) 17(?) respectively which gave us enough points to stay in the top 4! We're chatting about our experience at LVO this episode, it's a bit of a rant so we apologize for some of the negativity upfront :) Overall we've both had an amazing season, we're looking forward to playing this year, keeping the podcast going and taking some Dub's over the next 12 months. Would we go back to LVO next year? ...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Hey All, We've taken a little break from 40k over the holiday period but we're back! We've had such a fantastic time doing the Fireside in 2022 where we recorded our first 10 episodes and 2023 is going to bring even more content, new guests and hopefully some more wins! Vik (ITC Rank #1) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) are here for episode 11 of the Fireside 40K. We're chatting about the recent Nottingham Super major (~390 players) where we took 4th place and 11th place. We were both playing indentical t...
Jan 19, 2023•48 min
Hey All, Vik (ITC Rank #1) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back again with episode 10 of Fireside 40K. We're SUPER excited to be joined by our good friend Anthony Vanella from the Art of War. Recently Anthony came to the UK and played in the Coventry 3 day super major and we wanted to get him on to not only talk about his experience at Coventry but also his plans for LVO and thoughts on the meta in general. In this episode we talk about the differences between the UK and USA competitive Warhammer scene, ...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Hey All, Vik (ITC Rank #1) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back again with episode 9 of Fireside 40K. In the last episode we discussed what we'd both be bringing (Thousand Sons souped with Chaos Daemons) to the 240-Person Leicester Super Major and we're back in this episode to discuss how we got on! We attended this event with 5 of our Dice Down teammates who we just want to give a little shoutout to: all of them ran through to a positive win/loss at the event. Malik took his GSC to 25th place 4-1, Alex ...
Dec 07, 2022•54 min
Hey All, Vik (ITC Rank #2) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back with episode 8 of Fireside 40K. We've got our energy back to peak levels as we approach the final super-major event of the 2022, The Leicester GT. As we're attending this event with 5 of our Dice Down teammates we wanted to go through a couple of their round 1 pairings at the event and give an example of the kind of pre-game tactical talk we often have as a team before each round of an event. We also pick out an interesting Votann list from ...
Dec 02, 2022•56 min
Vik (ITC Rank #2) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back again after a short hiatus, with our 7th episode of 40K Fireside. We've been a bit down in the dumps following a shaky performance at the Coventry Super Major, but we've had some time to gather our thoughts, pick ourselves up and get our motivation back for competitive 40k. In this episode we're going to discuss what happened at the Coventry Super Major and our thoughts on how to keep up motivation when things don't go to plan in an ever-changing com...
Nov 23, 2022•53 min
Vik (ITC Rank #2) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back again with our 6th episode of 40K Fireside. After getting in some practice games and gathering our thoughts following the changes in the latest balance dataslate, we've got some more considered ideas on what the strongest factions are, how the meta is likely to shape up for the rest of the year and what army concepts you are likely to have to deal with at your next event (as well as some ideas on how to actually deal with them!) Following some great ...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Vik (ITC Rank #2) and Dave (ITC Rank #3) are back again with our 5th episode of 40K Fireside. We're recording this episode straight after the release of GW's latest Balance Dataslate and we'll be discussing our immediate impressions/hot takes on the impact it's likely to have on the competitive meta. Did they make changes to the right things? Did those changes do enough? Are there any changes that we expected but didn't receive? We answer all those questions and share our thoughts on how we feel...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Hey all, David Gaylard (ITC Rank #1) and Vik Vijay (ITC Rank #2) back again with the second episode of 40K Fireside! In this episode we briefly discuss the tournaments that we attended last weekend before diving into the main topic for the episode - The Leagues of Votann, the upcoming new faction being released into the 40K universe, which we’ve both been able to run a few test games with. (Warning - we do get a bit ranty about the power level that we feel the army is going to be at, based on th...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 30 min
