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Plastic Craic

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An Age of Sigmar Blog https://plasticcraic.blog/ We're AOS specialists and we've won a ton of Events, Best Painted and Best Sports We're creative-owned; so if you enjoy what we do, please consider joining our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/PlasticCraic

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Jan 28

Well that's another big Cancon for the Plastic Craic team 🥳

2024: Rockman 5-0 with Big Waaagh
Tops the leader board

Joel and Pat win the Doubles event too

2025: Joel 5-0 with Sons of Behemat

Wins Best Overall, Best Destruction and a painting nom 👑

Great job lads 👏
Keep smashing it!

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Xander @xanderbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Ionus Cryptborn finished for my Stormcast ⚡💀

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 1d

New article is live 🥳

Exploring Moonclan-heavy Gloomspite armies

With a blend of number-crunching, opinion and some painted minis to distract you from our wilder claims

We've got GRAPHS
We've got TABLES OF NUMBERS
We've got ARACHNAROKS

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Winning games with Moonclan

I’ve been bouncing around Grot Spam lists over the last week or two, and a big part of that has been considering how much output you can get from jacked-up Stabbas: as the proud dumb owner of…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 2d

New article is live 🥳

Announcing the winner of our Ghyranite Treasures hobby contest, and Showcasing the best entries

Check it out 👇

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Ghyranite Treasures Hobby Contest – The Results Are In!

Let’s go! A lot of AOS players around the world have been making little tokens to represent their Ghyranite Treasures from the Intercept and Recover battle tactics card: All rules credit GW A…

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The Redoubtable Mr Jennings @andyjennings314.bsky.social · 2d

This week on @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social...
I paint some treasure chests in really drab colours!
@brynston.bsky.social sneaks an entry into a Patron-only contest!
The best entry wins the prize!
And the last appearance of my Krondspine for a bit!
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Ghyranite Treasures Hobby Contest – The Results Are In!

Let’s go! A lot of AOS players around the world have been making little tokens to represent their Ghyranite Treasures from the Intercept and Recover battle tactics card: All rules credit GW A…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 6d

As the northern hemisphere heads into Autumn, here in Australia we're heading into Spring, also known as Agrellan Badlands Dries Nicely Outside Season

WIP Gatebreaker, getting ready to run 4x Megas in KBS at Bush Bash next weekend 🤘

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 8d

And secondly:

Aussie Wargamer with some thoughts (and illustrations) on what makes a great display board 👇

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Display Boards – Worth It?

G’day gamers! There’s been a bit of discussion over in the PC Discord about display boards, their value and how tournaments should approach them. There are conversations to be had around whether an…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 8d

We've got two new articles live on the site 🥳

First up: Our monthly round-up for September, with an index to the articles published, a catch-up on what's been happening in the PC community and some rumination on the nature of an Ogor 👇

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September 2025: A Month in Plastic

Geez that was a big month. The Battlescroll landed and shook things up a fair bit – but the other big news was a well-sourced rumour about a massive Ogors range refresh1. Whitefang doesn&#821…

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The Hogs of Waaagh!!! @hogsofwaaagh.bsky.social · 13d

The Outriders: MK GT signups are live!!!

5 games of AGE OF SIGMAR across 2 days in Milton Keynes

Brand new gaming space @ Players Paradice with Bar, Cafe, Shop and most importantly tonnes of Gaming Space!

More details in the event pack:

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 14d

You could be onto something, that Strike First really goes a long way.

I normally put one reinforced unit (plus one Gougers) into most lists, but it could def be time to go a bit harder on them 🤔

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah def inwards

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 14d

Defenders!

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 14d

Base looks pretty cool to me!

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 15d

Haha well they really are crying out for some cav

Hobgrots riding wombats, I'm telling ya!

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 15d

A fast, high-rend combat army, that's all they ever needed to be 🤷‍♂️

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 15d

New article is live 🥳

My verdict on the Battlescroll from a Destro perspective, with a rundown on what it means for all five factions, plus some new tricks you need to know about

Check it out 👇

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Battlescroll Sep 25: Destro Perspective

We all know exactly what needs to be done, but we don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it – Jean-Claude Juncker on the 2008 financial crisis Well what have we got her…

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Bare Naked Orcs @eshingrey.bsky.social · 20d

I'm terrible at full army shots, but here's the 2k points finished. Every model individually converted, everything 3d printed. Next will probably work on an infantry list. #nerdlings

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · 17d

New article is live 🥳

Rockman has some tricks and combos to look out for with Helsmiths of Hashut, and his early impressions on the book

Check it out 👇

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Short Angry Men – First Impressions on Helsmiths of Hashut

It’s finally upon us: The Honest Wargamer has splashed the full Helsmiths of Hashut rules all over the internet. Check out Rob’s video below, and today we’ll be highlighting some …

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's our monthly roundup!

With an index of the articles we've published on the main site and Patreon, unabashed boasting about the latest 5-0s for our writing team and a look ahead to what's coming up in September

Check it out 👇

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August 2025: A Month in Plastic

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” Empires rise, and empires fall, all within the space of a few weeks. Si…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article is live 🥳

Salvaging Nighthaunt:
Zak plays this army competitively himself, with some success, so take a look at the tech he likes in the new book

As well as a competitive list he's been running

Check it out 👇
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Nighthaunt: Is it all Doom and Gloom?

Well, just like the books before and a certain Kardashian video, the new Nighthaunt book has been leaked all over the internet and nerds have gone wild over this one. This book has caused quite a c…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Aug 29

New article is live🥳

Our guy Calvin went 5-0 at Nashcon last weekend with the notorious Gorechosen AOR 🎉

Find out how his games went, his thoughts on the nerfs to this army and what's next 👇

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5-0 with Gorechosen at Nashcon: Event Report

CALVIN TOOK OUT A 5-0 with the notorious Gorechosen at Nashcon last weekend. In this article, Calvin will address what made the army so cooked, run through his games at Nashcon to give you a feel f…

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Bare Naked Orcs @eshingrey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Big pig with hakkin' crew #nerdlings

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Aug 22

New article is live 🥳

How to beat the Gorechosen AOR:

The results of our Listbuilding Challenge for August 2025

We threw down the challenge, and here are your ideas on how to beat the bastards!

Check it out 👇

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Listbuilding challenge entries

Well we certainly put our money where our mouths are, didn’t we? Let’s hear it for PC writer Calvin Rarie who went and took the Gorechosen AOR to a cracking 5-0 last weekend. Calvin had…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Aug 17

New article is live 🥳

Let's hear it for @orkmann.bsky.social making his debut!

The first in an ongoing series:
A round-up of what's been going on in TTS, with a focus on what impact it may have on the tabletop meta

Check it out 👇

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TTS Dispatch: August 2025

Let’s hear it for Peter Kreitl aka ORKMANN, making his PC debut with this article. You can read more about Peter K and his background and achievements here. Welcome to our first TTS Dispatch,…

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Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Aug 9

Saw these guys selling their hardback book at the farmer's market today, seemed to be doing pretty good business. It looked like a crime novel / thriller, and there was another guy selling his children's book too

Has anyone sold their own boardgame (or seen someone else doing it) at markets?

Plastic Craic @plasticcraicaos.bsky.social · Aug 8

How come nobody uses push bikes in post apoc movies and games?

I reckon "Mad Max on Mountain Bikes" should be a thing