WTC Squadcast

Işık interviews Heiðar, captain of Iceland; for this episode of Squadcast: Into the Squad. Iceland is making a return in WTC after almost a decade of not showing up and this time they come with higher ambitions than ever before. Listen to learn about this new/old team! https://www.facebook.com/groups/WarhammerIceland

Team Finland Captain Sami joins the podcast to tell his wargaming story and talk about the finnish 40k community. The general topics for this episode is more about the challenges of creating a team with a small but dedicated roster of players and keeping the community hyped for 40K in general.

Işık interviews Team Austria captain Andreas about his story on how he became the captain of his team, how he started the hobby and his ETC/WTC journey. The conversation also covers how to be a proper captain and how to act with pool of limited players while creating a team.

Işık interviews German's interim captain Fred in order to learn how one of the most successfull WTC teams to date is preparing for the event. Official Team Germany Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/teamgermany40k Team Germany Ranking: https://breakingheads.de/team-germany-ranking/ German content creators supporting Team Germany: BreakingHeads https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingHeads/ Target Priority https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhbUXK_ZrY1eJxIO2QNl_A Kings of the Hill https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdRj0HmmFGon0nj_E48FSjg BlackHydra Wargaming https://www.youtube.com/c/BLACKHYDRAWARGAMING WhiteFariyTV https://www.youtube.com/c/WhitefairyDeTV Würfelbar https://www.youtube.com/c/W%C3%BCrfelbar

Işık interviews the young captain of Nikolas, whose Team Greece adventures started at 2014 when he was only 14 years old. The conversation mainly takes place on how the greek team is building itself with the leadership of nikolas and how modern 40k gaming effects it. You can find more about Team Greece here; Greekhammer; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Greekhammer40k Discord: https://discord.gg/4QPAaQwMtf Acropolis Open; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AcropolisOpenTournament Website: https://acropolisopen.com/

Innes Wilson returns to the squadcast for a hearty and fun discussion about his captaincy of Team Scotland. The talk takes place about captaining a team of 8 players in general and peculiarities of WTC compared to other type of tournaments in particular. If you want to catch up with Team Scotland you can fin them here; https://www.facebook.com/teamscotlandwh40k

Işık interviews captain of Team Spain Gabriel to learn more about how the Spanish community works. The conversation also includes how to handle what can be considered bad actors in the community, such as active cheaters or people that one wouldn't want to be associated with in a political context. You can find more about the WTC Spanish 40K Team from here; https://www.facebook.com/Team-Spain-40k-542150542581322

For this episode of Squadcast, Zach from warhammer-tournaments and London GT, joined by Piotr, the captain of Team Poland; have a talk with Işık regarding the differences between singles and team events. Along with that the discussion also gives some insight regarding tournament organising in general, what is the best for player experience and the challenges of organising an event during the global crisis. You can find more about Warhammer Tournaments and Coventry Team Tournament from this link; https://www.warhammer-tournaments.com/ctt #wtc40k #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammer40000

Işık interviews Gaz, the captain of Team Wales. Gaz talks about his WTC/ETC history, how the times have changed since the inception of the tournament and how he is planning to form the team in these challenging times. You can find more about Team Wales and Gaz here; https://www.facebook.com/Teamwales40k https://www.facebook.com/AOCPodcast

Işık has a lovely chat with the captain of Team Canada, Chris; about the intricacies of the team from great white north. We learn how team canada came to its current state, their training regiment and the local community. You can learn more about Team Canada from these links; https://www.facebook.com/40kCanadianWorlds/ https://www.facebook.com/CanHammer

Romanian captain Bogdan joins Işık on a conversation about the 40K community there, the past events where team romania attended and what should we expect from Team Romania in the future. You can connect with Team Romania 40K through their facebook page and the War Games Store page; https://www.facebook.com/groups/395396803983600 https://www.facebook.com/wargamesstore

Ukraine captain Svyatoslav and ex-captain Dmitry join Işık for a chat on the history Team Ukraine, how it came and how the competitive community has steadily grown over the years. You can find more about Team Ukraine on their facebook group here; https://www.facebook.com/groups/1778413549112085

In this episode Işık talks with the captain of Team Czech Republic Jakub to learn about the central european countries 40k community and their challenges on trying to improve the team from its poor performance in recent years. You can learn more about the Czech WTC Team here; Team Czech Republic Page: https://www.facebook.com/CzechW40KETC Rubikon Store: https://www.facebook.com/rubikondeskovky/ https://www.gamemat.eu/

For this episode of Into the Squad; Işık hosts Hungary captain Peter. The talk is a good introduction to the Hungarian 40K community and how it prepares for the upcoming WTC events. You can find more about the Hungarian 40k community here; Grim Hussars - Hun 40K https://www.facebook.com/hun40k HammerTime Cafe https://www.facebook.com/groups/745647929641279 https://hammertimecafe.hu/ Tuan https://tuan.hu/

For this episode of the Squadcast, we go to the land of the windmills and talk with the Netherlands captain Ruud. He tells us about the 40k community of the lowlands and how is planning to form the Dutch 40K WTC Team. You can find more about the community and Ruud here; https://dutchwargamerankings.nl/wordpress/ https://www.facebook.com/TeamNL40K https://www.facebook.com/ruud.steenbakkers.5

Işık and Tony Chew ,the long time veteran, recent Co-Captain of Team England; discuss the challenges of forming a squad where there are many strong players in the community. You can find Team England here; https://www.facebook.com/TeamEngland40KCommunity

In this episode Switzerland's new captain Big Fred talks about his plans on how to assemble a Swiss WTC team in his captaincy and how the Switzerland 40K community works in general. You can find the Swiss WTC 40K Team here; https://www.facebook.com/War40KSwissTeam

Into the Squad hosts multiple time guest, a WTC ref, ex and current interim captain of Poland Piotr for this episode. The discussion this time focuses on how the Polish 40k community shapes itself around WTC and how they get to be the most succesfull team so far. You can find Team Poland here; https://www.facebook.com/40kteampoland

In an episode where Işık interviews the rookie captaincy squad of Team Norway discussion generally takes place on the contrast between Norway and other countries. While the limitation on other countries might be economical, in Norway the main challenge to overcome to form a team is familial obligations and the balance that needs to be found between time enjoyed with friends and time enjoyed with family. Team Norway 40K; https://www.facebook.com/wh40kteamnorway Two upcoming tournaments in Norway; https://norsehammer.no/ http://www.invasion.no/ Fluffbunny Gaming; https://www.instagram.com/fluffbunnygaming/ Victory Point; https://victorypoint.no/

For this episode of Into the Squad we have Sean Nayden, the captain of Team USA to give insight on how the USA team came to be in its current state, how he selects the team and what are the challenges of being a captain in a highly competitive meta. You can find Team USA here; https://www.facebook.com/TeamAmerica40k

In this episode of the Squadcast, Işık reaches across the Atlantic to meet with Tony, the captain of Team Argentina. The discussion revolves around how hard it is to attend WTC for some events, economic and logistical challenges and the difficulties around everything when the event is so far away. You can find more about Team Argentina here; https://www.facebook.com/arg40kcomp/

In this episode of Squadcast, Işık joins captaincy squad of Northern Ireland. The discussion gets a bit emotional when reminiscing John Stowe and then gets into intricacies of the NI 40K community. You can find them here; Team NI 40K; https://www.facebook.com/TNI40k Norn Iron 40K Podcast; https://open.spotify.com/show/4SjWlrWChQJvKctBqpXqh6?si=7a40SjYRTcGfAy6-qGOhDg&fbclid=IwAR0tg7oR3-Z1XZCtw5JLyIJOwXx5Ns9uwV2b894NY_irm4oh5TjnqOfKPdY&nd=1

In this episode of Squadcast, Işık interviews the captaincy squad of Luxembourg. The discussion gets into the challenges of hardships encountered when the community is small and how to cultivate it. Team Lux Discord Server https://discord.gg/YEyeXjs Team Lux Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/40kWTCLux Gaming Store in Luxembourg; Games Tower https://gamestower.lu/

In this very first episode of our new series, Işık interviews captain of Team: South Korea. The discussion gets into how the captain "Su Hun" started playing the game and how the 40K hobby in Korea is currently progressing. Notes: The mentioned Warp Report Podcast: https://youtu.be/HGXyBtQNt8s Team Korea public forum: https://open.kakao.com/o/gU7SUVzc

Innes (Scotland) and Tom discuss about Team Scotland in general and the lists for Clan Wars Team Series that took place in September 11-12. It was a 3 person team tournament and more information can be found here; https://www.facebook.com/teamscotlandwh40k/

Michael Duda (Poland) talks Tom and Neil through some of the interesting lists his team used to take 2nd place at the recent Apline Cup Team Tournament in Austria. Team Polaks army lists: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0JujrFFRs5S1m-C4kP4atFPPs8LyIwZw1PVhbTVr64/edit?usp=sharing

We're back! After a nice summer holiday, Tom and Neil return with an episode focusing on the recent Master & Commander team tournament held in France. Joining us are Liam Vsl and Guillaume Dusaussois to talk about how they led their team, Espace Schengen, to victory. For lists and other information on the tournament : https://miniheadquarters.com/tournaments/team/details/master-and-commander-2-2021-07-10

This episode we are joined by Arne Zerndt (Germany) and Guillaume Dusaussois (Belgium) who are 2 members of the TTS super team "Hottest Takes." Arne and Guillaume talk us through the big changes with the new Sisters of Battle Codex and tell Tom why he is wrong... PSA - There will be no episodes for the next 4 weeks as Neil and Tom enjoy a nice summer break. But we will be back in August!

Sorry for the episode being 1 week late - Neil had some family business to attend to in Ukraine. Nonetheless, we are joined this week by the Omnissiah Rickard Nilsson to have a chat about what the new Admech Codex means for Team Play.

We're back! After a short hiatus, Squadcast returns with Neil and Tom breaking down stats from the Greekhammer Team Tournament with assistance from Piotr / Typhus of team Poland. LINK TO SLIDES IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ALONG: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nJ2HXOwA7j-2YvUorgW3TtNk2C1bHJT9/view?usp=sharing

We are finally there, the final pairings discussion for the Greekhammer TTS Team Tournament, and of course, we saved the best for last... with Poland and the Hottest Takes drawing it is all down to the match between Germany and Poland to decide the overall winner. ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeN1v90fgdxf6qVK3VShkqYFCTvakHKm88pXo9_ECi4/edit

The final round of Greekhammer Team Tournament has begun, and we break down the pairings between 2 of the top-ranked teams; Poland vs The Hottest Takes. The winner could literally take the whole tournament. We will be going live again this Sunday (18th April)at 20:30CET / 19:30GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeN1v90fgdxf6qVK3VShkqYFCTvakHKm88pXo9_ECi4/edit

This week we finish off our round 4 coverage of the Greekhammer Team Tournament by taking a look at top seed Ukraine vs The Polish Jackstraws (the 3rd Polish team in this event). We will be going live again this Sunday (11th April)at 20:30CET / 19:30GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeN1v90fgdxf6qVK3VShkqYFCTvakHKm88pXo9_ECi4/edit

We start our round 4 coverage of the Greekhammer Team Tournament off in style by inviting Tony Chew, the team England Captain to talk about 9th Editon, Tournaments, and (eventually) England's pairings vs Canada. We will be going live again this Sunday (4th April)at 20:30CET / 19:30GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeN1v90fgdxf6qVK3VShkqYFCTvakHKm88pXo9_ECi4/edit

Finishing off round 3 of the Greekhammer Team Tournament, we join Rob from The Honest Wargamer to break down the pairings between The Hottest Takes vs German Trolls We will be going live again this Sunday (28th March)at 20:30CET / 19:30GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYTwduxY0OUGbRI5Zxytnessh5PgYAfSHuRx89rdMB4/edit?usp=sharing

Once more we join Rob from The Honest Wargamer, as well as Typhus from Team Poland, to review the ongoing Greekhammer TTS Team Tournament. This week start by looking at the stats and meta emerging from the event, followed by a deep dive into the pairings between Poland and Hellas. We will be going live again this Sunday (21st March)at 20:00CET / 19:00 GMT / 13:00EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Bmjn2zBbv8rI1F_nMV7KG-D75NZwzF5u-EV5UNNihk/edit?usp=sharing

Continuing our live coverage of the ongoing Greekhammer WTC TTS Team Tournament with Rob from The Honest Wargamer, we look at the round 2 match between Team Canada and Team Australia. Be warned, Tom has a LOT of strong opinions this week! We will be going live again this Sunday (14th March)at 20:30CET / 19:30 GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer Greekhammer: https://www.facebook.com/Greekhammer40k ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GeAL8_SJM7PG6Di7lbqwv1LYaUF0ipTkECRMTncvqQ0/edit?usp=sharing Team Canada: https://www.facebook.com/40kCanadianWorlds Team Australia: https://www.facebook.com/ANZ40K

Once again we went LIVE with our awesome media partner Rob from The Honest Wargamer! We discussed the ongoing Greekhammer WTC TTS Team Tournament and specifically focused on the 2nd round match between the Semi Croustillants vs Germany Scouting. We will be going live again this Sunday (7th March)at 20:30CET / 19:30 GMT / 13:30EST, so be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer Greekhammer: https://www.facebook.com/Greekhammer40k ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3WUJDaKBSW4KJyrkzxjaAd5iOTzzjfrAlunTyOP7ew/edit?usp=sharing

This week we did something a little different... We went live with our awesome media partner Rob from The Honest Wargamer! We discussed the ongoing Greekhammer WTC TTS Team Tournament and specifically focused on the match between the Semi Croustillants vs the Stonks. We will be going live again this Sunday (28th February) at 20:30CET (19:30 Brexit) to talk about the results from round 1, and what is happening in round 2. So please, be sure to check us out live and show your support over on The Honest Wargamer's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thehonestwargamer Greekhammer: https://www.facebook.com/Greekhammer40k ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JcqhkGAYIGl58VU3LqAHHh5MF16vURxrN_EGukbI0Uc/edit?usp=sharing

This week we take a trip to China to talk to David Foster and Lawrence Chi about the burgeoning WTC Team China and their recent Shanghai Invitational tournament. For more information on the tournament, including lists, please check out BCP: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/r/jbh2txy6

Innes Wilson joins us this week to walk through the army lists that Team Scotland used in a recent TTS scrim. We focus on the design philosophy behind the lists, how they are used within a team environment, and what changes Innes could see going forwards. For more information on Team Scotland: https://www.facebook.com/teamscotlandwh40k Army Lists: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAprx_gJMw5WKtgDb-MY3tL-7U35q2qZSw5NS8SgCP4/edit?usp=sharing

Joining us this week are Gaz Jones, Captain of Team Wales, and Daniel Hesselberg, Captain of Team Sweden. Together they walk us through their philosophies' on captaining and picking world-class WTC teams. For more information on Team Wales: https://www.facebook.com/Teamwales40k For more information on Team Sweden: https://www.facebook.com/TeamSweden40k

Kicking off 2021 we are joined by Typhus and Kuba from Team Poland to talk about the scrim they recently played on TTS vs Team England. We focus in on the lists the Poles ran and the design philosophy behind them. For more information on Team Poland: https://www.facebook.com/40kteampoland Army Lists: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ibCMWT5AiSVUSLijT40ujjsK9GyppitAScTsO1IL6k8/edit?usp=sharing

For (most probably) the final episode of 2020 we have a chat with one of the teams looking to make their debut at WTC 2021: Team Japan. We discuss wargaming in Japan, the challenges of having a community divided by both culture and language, as well as the great things Toma is doing to build the competitive scene as part of Tokyo Tactical. For more information, you can find Tokyo Tactical on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TokyoTactical

This week we take a dive into a pair of Space Wolves army lists piloted by two of Sweden's best sons of Russ; Johan Nicolaisen and Niels Bordman Jonsson. We have a chat about the new Codex, how it has changed their army list and playstyle, and even talk a little about making your own mjöd. Army Lists can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NcQ1iVkVe--HXYVc8oP_HIsljBB1D5rjoVLscsjvPnI/edit?usp=sharing

This week we bring you a double episode focusing on the Western Australian Team Championships, the biggest Team Tournament, and one of the biggest 40k events globally since the inception of 9th Edition. First, we speak to the winning team captain, Mitch of the Devil Dogs, and his underling, Peter from Team Australia. We take a look at their team, the thoughts behind their lists and the tactics that went into pairings. After the jump, we are joined by Mike and Emma Basc from Objective Secured, the WATC TOs, and have a chat about how 9th Edition has effected things from a TO perspective. ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um2n-RC9lUmQ9CVHHOht92io0EYXsugKmrJohMbmcss/edit?usp=sharing

On this week's episode, Neil and Tom are joined by a truly international gang of Space Marine players; Brad Chester (Team USA, Art of War 40K, Gentlemen Gaming, Team Battle Brothers), Hayden Walduck (Team Australia, Normal Blokes Podcast), and Jonathan Sleigh-Johnson (Västerås Wargaming, Games of Westeros). Together we look at the 3 different armies the guys are running and take a deep dive into why they have made the choices they have. LINK TO THE ARMY LISTS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hb2TRKBSC1MMjxeH9zRchnfPqdNlfgxt0DOjMQOkNHk/edit?usp=sharing

This week Isik takes control again and is joined by Michael Basc (former Team Australia and co-founder of Objective Secured) and Michael McConkey (Team Northern Ireland) to take a long hard look at Harlequins in 9th Edition. For more information about Objective Secured and their tournaments: https://www.facebook.com/objectivesecured For the Objective Secured RSS: https://bit.ly/2TMwYGv For Team Northern Ireland: https://www.facebook.com/TNI40k For the Norn Iron 40k Podcast RSS: https://bit.ly/3erSI44

This week we take a look at the recent Hanseatic Alliance Open: a 100 player 5 round tournament in Germany which was run by the Tabletop Alliance team. We are joined by the interim Team Germany Captain, Fred Oho, as well as 2nd placed Matthias Bellmann (Harlequins) and 3rd place Rickard Nilsson (AdMech). We talk about the army lists each of our guests ran, the games they played, as well as a look at the German WTC team and how it has changed recently in reflection of the changes within the German tournament scene. For more infomation on the Tabletop Alliance and their events please visit: https://www.facebook.com/AllianceOpenTournaments/ For Team Germany: https://www.facebook.com/teamgermany40k For the Breaking Heads podcast (German): https://www.facebook.com/BreakingHeads40k/ And finally, please follow the link to join the Compeitive Pure Adeptus Mechanicus Facebook group: https://bit.ly/2HhxeL0

In this special episode of Squadcast Isik talks to Paul, one of the WTC Local Partners about all the developments and new information regarding the 2021 World Team Championships in Leoben, Austria. For more information please visit our website: http://worldteamchampionship.com/wtc-2021-dates-and-venue-revealed/

This week we invite Adam Camilleri, Erik Lathouras, and Josh Diffey from Team Australia (and Down Under Pairings, and Best Coast Pairings, AND Art of War Down Under - busy men these 3)to talk about the challenges of forming a WTC team in a country with such a widely dispersed population AND getting a team to travel halfway around the world to compete at the highest level of competitive 40k there is. Apologies in advance for Erik being a little quiet, technical issues with recording this week prevented me from editing the separate tracks. For more info on Team Australia: https://www.facebook.com/ANZ40K/ Art of War Down Under: https://www.facebook.com/ArtOfWarDownUnder Down Under Pairings: https://www.facebook.com/DownUnderPairings Best Coast Pairings: https://www.facebook.com/bestcoastpairings/