004 - The Big Red Book

Newbie Dice Podcast

Join Adam Ballard of Omaha Nebraska, USA and 2022 US Master, Yan Zhi Lai of Melbourne Australia, Jeff Traish of Sydney Australia and 3-time Australian Master, and Page Neo of Singapore as they discuss about the changes to the game with the release of the Big Red Book - Kings of War 3.5.

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Big thanks to Michael C Carter and his blog "Until Somebody Loses an Eye" for the compilation of changes to the game in the big red book. You can check it out at https://blog.untilsomebodylosesaneye.net/2022/10/one-book-to-rule-them-all.html?m=1

Do check out https://hammerhouse.com.sg/ if you're from the Asia-Pacific region as they stock a lot of hobby games and products.

*Update* There was a commonly mistaken change that Kingdoms of Men's Beast Cavalry can take both flying and TCVic options and it was repeated in our podcast. That is not true. Sorry for any confusion caused.

00:00 - Intro

01:40 - Adam's Origin Story

02:34 - Yan's Origin Story

05:07 - Jeff's Origin Story

07:00 - Page's Origin Story

08:57 - Overview of General Changes

10:43 - Smart Charges

16:10 - Withdraw is Optional

40:22 - Flat Terrain Rules

42:22 - Withdrawing and Shooting

46:35 - Difficult Terrain Height

47:00 - Random attacks multiplied

47:31 - Auras

49:12 - Ignores Obscured and Concealed

56:17 - Allies not recommended for competitive

1:03:09 - Magic Items Changes (Abbetshire, Caterpillar, Jboots, Elvenkind)

1:11:05 - Spell Change (Host Shadowbeast)

1:18:22 - Redeployment, Siege Game Rules, Legendary Game Rules

1:18:53 - Ambush Game Rules!

1:23:17 - Abyssal Dwarves

1:33:16 - Ratkin Slaves

1:34:19 - Basilea

1:42:10 - Order of the Brothermark

1:42:52 - Dwarves

1:46:17 - Ignores Concealed is Garbage!

1:48:54 - Free Dwarves

1:51:54 - Elves

1:57:27 - Sylvan Kin

2:01:26 - Empire of Dust

2:08:20 - Forces of Nature

2:14:41 - Order of the Green Lady

2:15:30 - Herd

2:17:10 - Forces of the Abyss

2:20:40 - Goblins

2:28:00 - Halflings

2:32:39 - Kingdoms of Men

2:35:40 - League of Rhordia

2:37:08 - Nightstalkers

2:44:36 - Northern Alliance

2:46:49 - Varangur

2:48:58 - Ogres

2:52:52 - Orcs

2:55:03 - Riftforged Orcs

3:00:30 - Ratkin

3:02:00 - Salamanders

3:07:45 - Trident Realm

3:10:04 - Undead

3:18:44 - Typos in book

3:19:48 - Ending discussion