That Old World Charm

That Old World Charm

A podcast covering the latest from Games Workshop’s The Old World.

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October 21, 2025 92 mins

The boys are joined by Val Hefflefinger from Square Bassed and go over a few of the new comps that have come up in the last couple of weeks to try to combat some of the more egregious stuff in the meta (see Cathay).  In our patreon episode, Val has to leave early so the boys discuss Australian TV and go really deep on Patreon questions. Edited by: Tech Priest Dickie Theme by: Steve Joll

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Thanks to GW for giving us an early copy of Settra's Fury! What's good? What's busted? Is it worth it? Edited by: Tech Priest Dickie

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Adam, Danny, and Peter cover the WTC, LVO and LGT results and go over the winning teams lists. Big congrats to Team England for a beautiful display big boooo to Cathay being so strong.

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In a quick turnaround episode, Adam and the Falcon go over a faction breakdown for the World Team Championships going on this coming weekend. In addition we give a breakdown of some of our favorite list archetypes and a quick crash course in what the WTC is all about from someone that has attended many of them (Adam) for 40k.

In our Patreon Exclusive episode, Adam and the Falcon go a step further and deep dive some of the more uniq...

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As a treat to our loyal listeners we are making our normally Patreon exclusive episode 51.2 live to the public. 

In this part two of our show Danny joins Adam and the Falcon as they answer questions about how they manage the highs and lows of their mental health and how the hobby interacts with it.

As a content warning this episode does cover aspects of ADHD, depression, and mental health issues in general. We are not specialists, ...

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On this week's episode, Adam and the Falcon are joined by Val Hefflefinger from the Square Based podcast to go over how the relationship between their respective mental health journeys and diagnoses and the hobbies that they love. 

In our Patreon episode, Val steps away and Danny tags back in to answer questions about how we all manage our hobby expectations and our own issues in order to stay engaged with the game in a healthy way...

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In this week's episode, the guys go over the top 3 lists from the last 9-10 larger Old World events that have happened since the big FAQ and Cathay launch. How have things been shaking out? What's been a surprise?

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On this week's episode, Adam and the Falcon go over the Dawn of the Dragon Arcane Journal. Our Patrons received this the day of release but Falcon forgot to upload it because he's rawdogging reality. Edited by: Tech Priest Dickie Theme by: Steve Joll

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In this episode Adam, Danny, and the Falcon try to agree on a tier list for the Old World. Falcon is a little less enthused about things at the top end but we'll get there.

 

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This week on That Old World Charm, Falcon has flown the coup to Nottingham to beseech the Lord at GW for assistance leaving Adam, Danny, and special guest host Auce to go over the good, the bad, and the ugly from the massive new FAQ and Matched Play guides that dropped on the Old World.

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In this episode the gang reviews Arcane Journal: Grand Cathay. They go over all of the units and Fal-Con discusses his experiences so far with how the units play on the table. It's quite the experience.

Over on our patreon, the guys go into detail on how they'd currently play the army and answer our listeners' questions.

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The boys have been sitting on this one for a long time. Join Adam, Danny, and the Falcon as they explore the newest arcane journal and discuss some of the games they've gotten to play with it.

Over on the Patreon, the guys get a little more in depth and also answer listener questions about the book.

 

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In this episode of That Old World Charm, Falcon walks the guys through his run as part of the Square Based Team's second place finish at CHTT. Falcon himself went 5-0 and the team as a whole had 4 wins and a draw.

 

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The guys spend this week going over the latest Wood Elf Arcane Journal and give their early takes based on the games they've gotten in. How does it stand up? Special thanks to Games Workshop for the preview copy as always.

Over on our Patreon exclusive episode we answer a handful of user questions and dig deeper into some of our early games.

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This week the guys finally give in and talk about arguably the strongest Arcane Journal GW has released for the Old World, Tomb Kings.

In part 2 for our Patrons, Falcon has to hold Adam back as he gets really sour for a hot minute and then Adam, Danny, and the Falcon go over a huge swath of Patron questions and strategies for playing as and against the Nehekharans.

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In this episode Falcon, Adam, and Danny go over their Adepticon experience including Falcon's win in the Old World Doubles tournament with Val Hefflefinger and a run close to the sun in the Singles event.

In our patreon episode we look at the new Cathay models and giggle.

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On this week's episode of That Old World Charm, Adam, Danny and the Falcon review the Renegade Faction pack produced by the Square Based podcast. Over on the Patreon, the guys answer your questions and deep dive some of the list ideas they're coming up with the new rules and army comps.

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This week on That Old World Charm, The Falcon and Danny are joined by Val Hefflefinger of the Square Based Podcast and Andrew Sherman, the TO of Adepticon as they go over the unique missions that have been put together for Adepticon. 

In part 2, the guys are joined by Tech Priest Dickie to answer questions from our Patrons and go over the lists we plan on taking to the event. Edited by: Tech Priest Dickie Theme by: Steve Joll

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In this week's episode of That Old World Charm, Adam, Danny and the Falcon go over the new High Elf Arcane Journal. Special thanks to Games Workshop for giving us an advance copy so we could download it into your earholes.

On our Patreon exclusive episode, the guys go over some of their games with the book a little more in depth and talk about what they like and dislike in practice.

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The guys belatedly review the latest Old World FAQ and scream into the void about it being a bit of a dud. In part 2 over on our Patreon, we explore recent events, answer listener questions and provide some tantalizing hints about what is coming from the High Elf Arcane Journal.

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