I think you know this already but I saw it and was like wait a second At 26 seconds in the video shows a clip of another game that didn't have anything to do with the tournament.... Astral claws vs Aeldari..... Fun Easter egg maybe? Don't get me wrong I absolutely love this channel just saw that and wanted to say something. Go Steve!
This 40k in 40 minutes format is absolutely amazing. Always had such a hard time watching battle reports when so many of those posted are, like, 3 hours long. Takes me the better part of a week to get through a 3 hour battle report start to finish with what time I've available for it. A whole lot of watching, pausing and picking up the next day or whenever there's a window. So cheers for that!
I feel bad for Steve’s luck, I was playing a game of kill team today, charged my Ork breacha boy (good in melee, 5 attacks hitting on 3 that each do a ton of damage) into a tau shas-ui and missed. all. 5. attacks. Then to add insult to injury, the tau KILLED MY ORK IN MELEE. fml
@@kyoukan91 i can agree with that. He plays the wrong armies for his style of play. He also is way to conservative when opening his matches. But man, when Ultramarines get a new codex, he is going to see his luck change quite a bit. They are going to make pre-faq admech feel like an army of bb guns. Tau too. My orks are stronger than they have ever been, even post nerf, and now my Tyranids are top tier, which is insane.
I'll say yes and no, while he does make tactical oversights there are points where it feels like rngjesus has a hard on for fucking him over Like... Fuck man his strategy ain't the best but you can't tell me barely doing any hits on the first round is a thinking problem
I just wanted to thank yall for getting me into this hobby. I just picked up my first box of minis today. Nick will be happy to know it was a box of pathfinders.
@scolack123 I haven't counted since the drop of the latest balance dataslate. My GSC and Space Marines are in the 2,000 point area, my T'au, CSM, and Necrons are in the 1,000 point area, my Kruleboyz are at the 2,000 point mark, My Stormcast and Kharadron are less than 750 points each, and 12 Dwarf Blood Bowl models.
Steve is the tabletop player I aspire to be. Not necessarily winning every game, but having fun doing it and learning a thing or two along the way while having great sportsmanship.
Love how James just smelled blood in the water and went for it. It's the best way for anyone to learn when the consequences of their actions are unfolding real time. A great game for a couple of mates
A big thank you play on, the games are fantastic, the minis are awesomely painted, the table is a candy eye. And it's filmed so well I can't watch any other warhammer Channel expect yours. You are the best guyz. In the grim dark future I will continue watching you!
I personally think that Steve's list needs more heavy hitters, like volkite contemptors, eradicators and maybe some roadblock units like bladeguard vets.
Oh, its a terrible list, but its due to stock availability when he had them painted. But also, James Ork list is not very good. He could be destroying steve with rukkatrukks, scrapjets, and snazzwagons, and hordes of warbikers, with two dakkajets as freebooters. Steve would have been tabled end of turn 2 if James had even the low end of average lick.
Steve's list sucks, for sure, but that's not really his problem, and in fact I think it's masking Steve's fundamental lack of understanding 9th edition fundamentals.
The commentary and fast paced action makes this my favorite BatRep channel! Another great example of commentary making the video is 3DBotMaker channel, of hotwheel racing (I know, wtf, popped up randomly on UA-cam for me) but the commentary makes the videos amazing to watch. Same great commentary on here, keep up the great work!
I have no idea how to play really as I am new to this maybe 2 months.. but I am loving the presentation and matches are very engaging ! Cheers to all the players and people behind the scenes working to make Play On Tabletop happen.
That moment when you're rewatching this on a lazy evening and notice part of the tense battle music seems to really closely resemble the "you're running out of air" music from sonic 2. love it.
I love watching these two play no matter what it's always fun and James is a great sport and player. War mistress and James are my favorite guests on the show. Steve if not this year next year brother. Happy holidays everyone!
I felt so bad for Steve. Aside from some rough target choices in the first game, I felt his strategy was really sound for both of them. Keep the dice you used and paint them lamenter yellow
As a reasonably suspicious man, I would have paused the game just long enough to set my dice on fire and replace them with backup dice after all the ones that came out for Steve in turn one
being new into warhammer i find it very intressting the tabletop unfortunatly i live in a rural area where im very certain nobody plays tabletop and would look at me weird when i ask them to play so maby in the future i get to play but for now im just looking at the armies wich i will commit to for now its the orks
I’m not a competitive player, but just from what I can tell from watching a few of these, Steve deploys like a gunline, but doesn’t have enough of a gunline, but then can’t be pro/reactive to board state. He’s way to defensive, but lacking the firepower to be good at that. He should have eradicators, another redemptor AT LEAST, and ditch the impulsor and reivers.
Steve is still my favorite person on the channel. Everyone on it is great, but watching Steve soldier on and keep going just shows how much character he has
Great game Steve, I believe in you, and believe you got robbed by the dice. Remember: just because something works doesn't mean it was the right choice, and more importantly, just because something doesn't work it doesn't mean it was the wrong choice either.
man, it hurts my heart seeing steve roll. i get bummed for him because hes such a likeable dude but also because i can totally relate! good luck steve!
You’ve successfully managed to properly waste 200 minutes of my time with these badass videos. I don’t say this lightly it was exactly what I’ve been looking for lol
To be fair, even though i whole-heartedly agree with you, Play on Tabletops' channel is only 2 years old. So to have almost 200k subscribers is quite impressive, even if this channel if by far one of the hardest working channel on UA-cam 😁
Can we get Steve some awesome chrome style dice to match his army, because if the dice are going to be that cruel to him, it might as well be done in style!
13:23 doesn't he shoot through the forest there? (Tankbustas had -1 to hit, but the redemptor doesn't?) 18:10 the tankbustas would have hit on 4+ not 6+ (if the forest isn't counted as a forest like for the redemptor) If it would count as a forest they would hit on 5+ (+1 -1 =+0) 19:40 redemptor dreadnought takes a mortal wound (overcharged plasma and rolled a 1 in Overwatch)
So is this the official end of the Year of Steve? Poor guy. He must have defiled some ancient burial ground by accident or something, to account for his luck. (Then again, he DID win that Thunderhawk...)
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I think you know this already but I saw it and was like wait a second
At 26 seconds in the video shows a clip of another game that didn't have anything to do with the tournament.... Astral claws vs Aeldari..... Fun Easter egg maybe?
Don't get me wrong I absolutely love this channel just saw that and wanted to say something.
Go Steve!
The TAU KV128 fell lol, what did u do to him ?
@@nathanm5376 Thats a game from earlier in our season :)
Where are the lists actually posted? Anywhere?
Great game! Steve get some custom astral claw dice, maybe you'll roll better lol
"Steve should have had those models painted as Lamenters."
Sir, that is an Exterminatus-Level burn.
The savagery of the Orks is unmatched.
@@jayknmallard430 lol
Steve's Lamenters have a really unconventional color scheme, they almost look like Astral Claws.
hahahahahaha true cruel but true
Oh, that hurts! 🤣
Oof 🤣
They are Red Corsairs, sir!
Right?
Patreon support got Tau Nick his Manta, I think it's time for Patreon to get Steve some new dice.
Blue dice.
"7 inches is more than you think sometimes." Is up there in my favorite Nick quotes
JT's face hahaha I love it
@@builder969channel6 I was going to say the same thing… JT was left speechless.
That’s exactly what I came to the comments to say! Their faces 😂😂
And sometimes 4inches is all you need.
😂
This 40k in 40 minutes format is absolutely amazing. Always had such a hard time watching battle reports when so many of those posted are, like, 3 hours long. Takes me the better part of a week to get through a 3 hour battle report start to finish with what time I've available for it. A whole lot of watching, pausing and picking up the next day or whenever there's a window. So cheers for that!
Same man!
If more channels did what 40K in 40min did I would watch more bat reps. Honestly these last few have had me super hyped, like watching a sport.
Steve might not win this year but surely He's winning our hearts
#IBelieveSteve
I stand steve
There's always next year #IBelieveInSteve
When will the dice gods give him a break? 😆
I feel bad for Steve’s luck, I was playing a game of kill team today, charged my Ork breacha boy (good in melee, 5 attacks hitting on 3 that each do a ton of damage) into a tau shas-ui and missed. all. 5. attacks.
Then to add insult to injury, the tau KILLED MY ORK IN MELEE. fml
Meele tau! Let's go
We've all been there
Steve has consistent 'bad luck' which really just translates to bad decision making in game. Flame me all you want.
@@kyoukan91 i can agree with that. He plays the wrong armies for his style of play. He also is way to conservative when opening his matches.
But man, when Ultramarines get a new codex, he is going to see his luck change quite a bit. They are going to make pre-faq admech feel like an army of bb guns. Tau too.
My orks are stronger than they have ever been, even post nerf, and now my Tyranids are top tier, which is insane.
I'll say yes and no, while he does make tactical oversights there are points where it feels like rngjesus has a hard on for fucking him over
Like... Fuck man his strategy ain't the best but you can't tell me barely doing any hits on the first round is a thinking problem
I just wanted to thank yall for getting me into this hobby. I just picked up my first box of minis today. Nick will be happy to know it was a box of pathfinders.
After a year where are you at? I just started a month ago
@Kenny Willey Because I am incapable of making decisions, I now collect 5 armies for 40k, three for Aos, and I'm starting a Bloodbowl team.
@@gavinboyer4634 how many points of each
@scolack123 I haven't counted since the drop of the latest balance dataslate. My GSC and Space Marines are in the 2,000 point area, my T'au, CSM, and Necrons are in the 1,000 point area, my Kruleboyz are at the 2,000 point mark, My Stormcast and Kharadron are less than 750 points each, and 12 Dwarf Blood Bowl models.
Can we get an episode where it’s just Steve melting down all the dice that betrayed him?
It could make for a great new dice reveal.
Seriously. All the 1s CP rerolled into more 1s is pretty sus
That was the day steve gave up his soul for the chaos gods
@@xXAkitokunXx indeed.
Grots didn't kill any marines: Good. That would have been embarrassing for everyone.
Best One Liner of the Day Award.
In the distance, Ork chanting can be hear:
_Gery! Gery! Gery!_
*GERY! GERY! GERY! GERY!*
Jerry Jerry Jerry
@@JimJones-ur3el **JERRY! JERYY!**
Steve is such a great sport, no one I know could take all those rolls without tilting out of their minds...
I don't know if I'm rooting for Steve because I like him as a person, or I because his army looks amazing
I never root for space marines! Imperial filth!
Both?
@@stonehorn4641 hahaha -_- says the Xeno loving scum!!! Lol
Steve is the tabletop player I aspire to be. Not necessarily winning every game, but having fun doing it and learning a thing or two along the way while having great sportsmanship.
Also his resilience in the presence of Murphy’s law is astounding.
We aim to be good ambassadors for the hobby and glad this is your takeaway. Go Steve!
This is how every game of 40k should be shown. You guys are killing it and GamesWorkshop should take notice.
oh no, last thing you want these days is for GW to take notice
Can you pass me that dice back? Or wait actually don’t touch it. 😂😂
Lamentors Steve still wins our hearts!
It's about fighting, win or lose!
GO STEVE!
This entire video I was screaming "I BELIEVE IN STEVE!".
Dude had the ROUGHEST ROLLS in both games.
Love how James just smelled blood in the water and went for it. It's the best way for anyone to learn when the consequences of their actions are unfolding real time.
A great game for a couple of mates
32:29 the comedic timing then the smile at the end makes this so enjoyable. Had to keep rewatching the charge for sheer pleasure
Maybe Steve needs to run a lamenter army to see if it turns his luck
The additional charge and fight arrows were awesome! Really helped follow the action better.
A big thank you play on, the games are fantastic, the minis are awesomely painted, the table is a candy eye. And it's filmed so well I can't watch any other warhammer Channel expect yours. You are the best guyz. In the grim dark future I will continue watching you!
I don't care what the dice say, I still believe in Steve.
Too bad he lost twice.
I personally think that Steve's list needs more heavy hitters, like volkite contemptors, eradicators and maybe some roadblock units like bladeguard vets.
I guess it's not meant to be an ultra competitive list, but rather a fun "one of each unit that I had commission painted" 😅
Even so, he just has horrible luck on camera. I personally don't think this was his list so much as his luck just as never in his favor.
Oh, its a terrible list, but its due to stock availability when he had them painted. But also, James Ork list is not very good. He could be destroying steve with rukkatrukks, scrapjets, and snazzwagons, and hordes of warbikers, with two dakkajets as freebooters. Steve would have been tabled end of turn 2 if James had even the low end of average lick.
Steve's list sucks, for sure, but that's not really his problem, and in fact I think it's masking Steve's fundamental lack of understanding 9th edition fundamentals.
@@patliao556 give him time to learn it.
Steve, Steve, Steve. Papa Nurgle wouldn't let these things happen to you. You should write to him for Christmas.
I'm a big fan of Nick's addition of a tie. Looking sharp commentary team
The commentary and fast paced action makes this my favorite BatRep channel! Another great example of commentary making the video is 3DBotMaker channel, of hotwheel racing (I know, wtf, popped up randomly on UA-cam for me) but the commentary makes the videos amazing to watch. Same great commentary on here, keep up the great work!
I havnt watched yet, but Mr. Initiative will always have my undying loyalty 🤙
Thx Dave!
Love the charge effects makes it really clear and nice.
I want to believe in Steve! I really, really want to...
Out of curiosity, what if two player scores tie for first? Will there be a tiebreaker match?
If both players tie. We would have to have a tie breaker for sure!
Tau Nick on commentary continues to prove that he's my favorite 40k personality
I have no idea how to play really as I am new to this maybe 2 months.. but I am loving the presentation and matches are very engaging ! Cheers to all the players and people behind the scenes working to make Play On Tabletop happen.
Wooo!!! New game! Hope Steve's dice are better this time cause this is gonna be awesome!!
The dice were in fact, not in his favor.
@@Ace_011 Cause he was cheating quite abit... Good ole karma
@@jsicario6763 how so?
Steve’s command point roll from a 2 to a 1 is warhammer comedy gold.
It's so Steve too
@@PlayOnTabletop Exactly. Steve’s reactions are hilarious.
That moment when you're rewatching this on a lazy evening and notice part of the tense battle music seems to really closely resemble the "you're running out of air" music from sonic 2. love it.
The ties are brilliant 🤣 Love you Tau Nick! 😁
If it makes you feel better Steve, your army looks great! 🙂
I think steve needs his own set of dice
the fucking shoulder rub, this is the best 40k channel on youtube, on anything even. absolutely ace.
I love watching these two play no matter what it's always fun and James is a great sport and player. War mistress and James are my favorite guests on the show. Steve if not this year next year brother. Happy holidays everyone!
Wow thanks!
Wait this tournament seems unfair, after all don't the Orks win automatically cause they got to fight a whole lot?
Yes!
Laughing so hard every time Steve knowingly looks into the camera 😂
I felt so bad for Steve. Aside from some rough target choices in the first game, I felt his strategy was really sound for both of them. Keep the dice you used and paint them lamenter yellow
7:50 - I didn't think hit modifiers could be + or - more than 1, so shouldn't they be hitting on 5s?
The maximum net change is +-1
So they did it correctly. The overall change at the end of the sequence was only still -1.
@Some Geezer They normally hit on 5s unless they are shooting at a vehicle which gives them +1 to hit making it 4s.
In a game of so much goodness, “Emperor take the wheel!” followed by the Emperor giving Steve a hand was glorious.
As a reasonably suspicious man, I would have paused the game just long enough to set my dice on fire and replace them with backup dice after all the ones that came out for Steve in turn one
8:13 I though that -1 to hit doesn't stack in 9th edition, or am I wrong? I though that those Tankbusta should hit on 5 instead of 6
Tankbustas hit on 5's by default. +1 to hit because it's a vehicle. So on 6's is still only net -1 to hit.
Just found this channel and absolutely love this style makes it fun exciting and so much more interesting , real good job guys
being new into warhammer i find it very intressting the tabletop unfortunatly i live in a rural area where im very certain nobody plays tabletop and would look at me weird when i ask them to play so maby in the future i get to play but for now im just looking at the armies wich i will commit to for now its the orks
I feel so much with Steve. He should paint his models by himself to get his luck back
I’m not a competitive player, but just from what I can tell from watching a few of these, Steve deploys like a gunline, but doesn’t have enough of a gunline, but then can’t be pro/reactive to board state. He’s way to defensive, but lacking the firepower to be good at that.
He should have eradicators, another redemptor AT LEAST, and ditch the impulsor and reivers.
30:58. 'Nuff said
Steve, please make a Lamenters force for your 2022 army, it would fit too well
Love the 2ed grotz.
Thanks
10:29 Jame was really feeling good about himself after staring down the camera and unleashing that Fight Club quote.
Another great episode. Looking forward to the next 1.
Er we go Boyz! Dos crunchy umies lookin for a good Krumpin! Waaaaaaaagh!!!
-also #yearofsteve know ya both had a good game
Krump em Boyz WHAAAAAGH
I like the idea of 5 burnas and 5 tankbustas in one trukk , gonna try that
5 Burna Boyz 7 tankbustas.
Steve is still my favorite person on the channel. Everyone on it is great, but watching Steve soldier on and keep going just shows how much character he has
I think the orks list is much stronger...... BUT...... those dice...... Steve is DUE some AMAZING rolls 😂
He (Steve) is up against Mr. Initiative though
Steve ought to play Orks.
Rolling buckets of dice make everything better.
James trying not to say "this will be an easy game" was amazing lol
Great game Steve, I believe in you, and believe you got robbed by the dice. Remember: just because something works doesn't mean it was the right choice, and more importantly, just because something doesn't work it doesn't mean it was the wrong choice either.
This dudes my spirit animal 🤣🤣 “thanks Nick, I willed that to happen with my initiative”
Yeah baby!
I think the Inquisition was Subtly sabotaging Steve in this match!!! Look what they did to the Celestial Lions during the Third War for Armageddon!!!
These burns are great. Michael tripped Steve over, James kicks him while he's down :) Fair play to Steve though, took it with good grace and humour.
WAAAAAGHHH! ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ!!
Gotta chop, stomp and dakka those stinking humiiies🤘💪
And we will
man, it hurts my heart seeing steve roll. i get bummed for him because hes such a likeable dude but also because i can totally relate! good luck steve!
I love watching these two play. ORKSSSS!!!!
Awesome. Thanks for the great content.
The Orks list is nice. It doesn't rely on flyer spam or hordes of Boyz like a lot of other lists.
Nobody is using boyz competitively anymore, its buggies, warbikers, and wazbombs
Thank you, buggy flyer spam isn't my style
You’ve successfully managed to properly waste 200 minutes of my time with these badass videos. I don’t say this lightly it was exactly what I’ve been looking for lol
Love these Vids! so much fun. also love them Ork models.
Thanks! Whaaaaaagh!!!
Another fantastic game! Keep up the great work! ;)
Steve really could've abused the reivers deepstriking to score objectives, secondaries, or harass light infantry
Steve has become the internet's underdog
I believe in Steve 🙏
I believe in Tycho.
I love the fact that the death roller is a 77-78 transam.
Good eye! Glad you liked it.
Why does this channel just have 180k subs? Clearly deserves more, so much effort in their videos.
To be fair, even though i whole-heartedly agree with you, Play on Tabletops' channel is only 2 years old. So to have almost 200k subscribers is quite impressive, even if this channel if by far one of the hardest working channel on UA-cam 😁
Just a heads up, you guys flipped the current scores for Michael and Tycho in the end graphic/wrap up! (Michael has 88, and Tycho 80).
Has anyone noticed how much Steve looks like Al from Al's toy barn!
Now I have ahah
That consecutive dice roll cuts 👌👌
Can we get Steve some awesome chrome style dice to match his army, because if the dice are going to be that cruel to him, it might as well be done in style!
Gonna need "Emperor, take the wheel!" on a T shirt, guys.
13:23 doesn't he shoot through the forest there? (Tankbustas had -1 to hit, but the redemptor doesn't?)
18:10 the tankbustas would have hit on 4+ not 6+ (if the forest isn't counted as a forest like for the redemptor)
If it would count as a forest they would hit on 5+ (+1 -1 =+0)
19:40 redemptor dreadnought takes a mortal wound (overcharged plasma and rolled a 1 in Overwatch)
I'm building an ork army, they are the most fun to play I think 😝waggghhh!! Love James lineup in this game.
Thank you
The real downfall of Steve's list is not paying to Make that Apothecary Chief and give him the warlord trait for the free revive.
So is this the official end of the Year of Steve?
Poor guy. He must have defiled some ancient burial ground by accident or something, to account for his luck. (Then again, he DID win that Thunderhawk...)
Great video as always!
James feels like a true orc player. He wills his rolls and his orcs slay because he believes.
All facts
I am so glad you guys don't run hyper competitive lists makes the games super fun to watch
James is the nicest bully ever on POT. Clear competion level player ^__^
Love how James looks at 📷 and nods wen he calls the d1,like yes I'm an ork I can believe shit into existence.
🤪
@@JimJones-ur3el WAAGGGHHHHH brother!!!
Whaaaaaagh
Thank the emperor you guys turned the dice box upright
19:46 Didn't Steve roll 2 ones with overcharged Plasma on the Overwatch?
Sweet gentle succulent Steve............. keep ya head up
i just love Nicks tie 'n shirt look xD he tried... :D