for free handing out an after save yep in a bubble around it like which is good like that that's still good yeah free damage prevention still good so the other big part of the host of the ever chosen is the varingard and varingard or one of those units i think needs to come down just slightly like it's nice to have them at 300 but i think they probably need to be like 290 280 oh yeah they're very hard to get their damage out of you get 15 wounds for like 300 points that's just not a good wound to hit ratio and them getting their actual like getting the actual work out of varingard i have found to be very difficult they need to be like in an aura they need to be like buffed by the war shrine right like you have to push buffs onto them because if they don't get all the buffs and if our kion's not on the table and you know and they're not on the charge or something like it's very hard to get 300 points worth of work out of them and not only that like on the numbers similarly buffed uh chaos knights are going to put out similar numbers well and they're not that far off yes similar right if if if all buffs are equal right yeah yeah like similar buffs chaos knights because you have five models you know with like more lances are going to put out on average similar damage for 180 points and even then most would say that that chaos knights are a little bit overcosted so like uh varingard are struggling for me even with their bonus like effect like their bonus free whatever um yeah so let's talk battalions because i want to get into a bunch of the units we haven't mentioned yet the real like notice we haven't mentioned any of the core stuff of what we would traditionally think of as chaos like warriors and knights um i want to get into kind of a unit review but i want to talk battalions first because they're relevant they're really relevant in this quite relevant in fact so there are three let's call it basic battalions is that fair to call them that yeah um the godsworn champions of ruin which is like your uh your melee foot dude list basically right okay i mean you could have marauder horsemen for the most part it's your foot people right your chosen your uh your knights your warriors your marauders and your marauder horsemen like they are what i would call core army yeah yeah that's fine i accept that and then you have only foot but yes it's your whole army now what i will say is like most of these can be one drop battalions if you so choose to build this way but then you only have like one hero which is unusual um i mean you could you could build your unit your army that way but that would be very strange so but this could be like all of your army except your other heroes that's entirely possible yep yep because you also get one hero which is one unit chosen for the flying list cast lord bold so any of the people who have cast lord bold um cast sorcerer lord bold exalted hero of cast ogre ogroid miramadan which i actually love that he shows up here because most of the time these weirdo heroes don't actually show up in any of the battalions but he does right um the slaves of darkness demon prince dark oath war queen and dark oath chieftain which is cool like that's a great list of a lot of your heroes that you're going to want to run right i agree um and in your hero phase you can pick one hero from this battalion that is within three inches of an enemy unit if you do they want to fight right yeah you're going to pick the one hero and they can fight pretty good for like the so our example here let's go to the cast lord we haven't talked about yet namely uh mr cast lord on carcadrack who counts for this and as the cast lord thing i think he's he's drawn a lot of heat from some people like some reviewers or you know some folks who have not felt like he lives up to his points i like that guy i like him too i'm i'm in for this dude uh 250 points this is the guy in the in the in this thing and uh getting started box yeah it's that guy up front there oops sorry it's that dude there on the worm is who we're talking about sweet model yeah nine inch move nine wounds three up save base i like everything i'm seeing there this guy's rocking 250 points he can take any of the marks uh when he charges on a two up he deals d3 mortal wounds he has a solid attack profile it's not amazing but it's solid like he makes a good number of attacks two of his attacks he's he's actually like at a like his own personal taxes at five which is a fairly high number for an attacker um for like the rider often riders will like be at three or four yep with their weapons um and so like what that why that's significant he's actually like five on one weapon three with on the other right like it really invites like a rune blade or something that's like neg three rend absolutely yeah like give him the the face sword or whatever out of the out of chimone face sword or like room blade in uh the other realm yeah and you go to like five attacks threes and threes neg three rune two damage like that's pretty good yeah and then and then all the other things we've talked about so far because obviously he can get buffed by all that stuff right so and i agree i think that's definitely the hot pick um he's got a five up mortal wound protection um his little demon blade can also inflict mortal wounds uh which is cool he can self heal which is nice um and he can buff cast knights cast chariots and gorbys chariots um basically he has the same command ability as the old cast lord on demonic mount which is still around by the way uh they're both they're both basically he's just the big brother version of the cast lord on demonic mount yep um and he's getting all four profiles like when you look at he's having to choose weapons like oftentimes when you look at like the cast lord on manticore like you're losing some of those weapon profiles here you gain both of these weapon profiles and the five up uh out like mortal wound save correct um where like normally you have to give up uh one of your weapon profiles for a shield to do that right and he can give knights and all that other stuff plus one to hit and re-roll charges which is cool it's a good way to make knights stronger right so and he's and he's on a three up and he's not um he's not a monster which means that he and he's not on a large base either no like he's on a 90 mil oval so he easily fits in terrain for that two up and he uh and because he's not a monster he can easily get lookouts there yep uh he has eye of the gods uh which is you know cool so if he gets in there like i think this dude in godsworn champion is is like a super hot pick because getting him fighting more in the hero phase having another regular cast lord on foot behind him making him fight twice like it's solid this dude will do some heavy work for you especially if given like a neg three rend weapon right yep yep so i dig that one uh the godsworn champions of ruin points wise i don't remember all the battalions off the top of my head i have to go look at the right that sounds right they're all yeah they're all like them and the nergal battalion is they're all interchangeable yep sorry yes he's on the 92 mil base yeah the big he's on like the um fulminator you know base whatever yep okay godswrath uh this is again same setup in that it's one hero four to eight units from all the core cast stuff but this one actually can include a cast warshrine which i do enjoy not just one cast warshrine has to have one or more that's right which i like more two of them is good yeah yep uh this the the unit of heroes on this one is a little different though it's cast lord on mans core cast sork lord on mans core cast lord on demonic mount cast lord on carcadrack cast lord on foot or cast sorcerer lord so none of the other fun weirdo heroes yep and then its ability here is in your hero phase you can pick one cast warshrine from this battalion and roll a die for each enemy unit within 24 inches of that warshrine invisible to it for each six that unit suffers d3 mortal wounds like not a bad ability that you're just getting for free on a huge swath of the battlefield right like imagine every hero and every chaff unit that's in there and you just have a chance to ding them for a d3 mortals and to me it doesn't actually matter godswrath is just doing a lot of the stuff that i like right like it's letting me get my warshrine in there which would have been a drop it's getting letting me get my cast lord on carcadrack in there most of the units i like so yeah i think this is another decent pick right yep i would agree with that like if i'm wanting to run a similar like generalist battalion that is not wanting to focus on a combat hero then this is what i do yeah agreed um and then finally the ruin bringer warband uh one unit from the following list which is the cast lord on demonic mount or cast lord on carcadrack and then four to eight units of all the mounted stuff knights chariots gorbys chariots or cast marauder horsemen and each time a unit from this battalion finishes a charge move you can pick one enemy unit within one inch of that unit if you do silverlady on a 2 plus they suffer d3 mortals um interestingly about that if you do pick the cast lord on carcadrack he'll trigger that twice when he charges yep right because he already has that built in so um that's that's not the that's not the interesting thing about this the interesting thing about this is in this battalion every chariot that you have will do five mortal wounds on average on a charge sure sure because they're already the basic chaos chariot already ogre charges basically oh it's not just ogre charging and i want to talk about this okay the chaos the basic chaos chariot let's talk basic chaos chariot okay so hold on back it up the basic chaos chariot i think they are interesting they are 120 points yep for one they can be in units up to three and they are battle line in your army right yes so these are important things to to note so let's let's drop some base stats hold on i've got to flip over to this stupid chariot yep there he is that matters but you can go ahead and do that 12 inch move seven wounds four up save yep and most notably he has an ability called swift death which i think is what you're referencing well hold on uh yes but also spare the lash is it's a run in charge but there's not actually not a lot of run in charge in this army right um but it is a run in charge um yep and then swift death so he can get an 18 inch move plus a charge um and uh you know like auto running six but more importantly swift death it's the it's kind of the ogre charge in that you roll a dice uh you know pick an enemy unit within one inch of uh pick an enemy one enemy unit within one inch of this unit and roll a number of dice equal to the charge roll for that charge move yep not unmodified unmodified yep so if you're bonusing it with cogs or being in you know slanash god seekers you know whatever sure or blood stoker sure or a blood stoker is giving you plus three to charge right adds five dice to this rule yep sure um but just generic on an average of a seven charge plus the d three wounds from the other battalion you're going to average five mortals coming in without buffing it you're averaging five mortals right because his is for every five plus that enemy suffers a mortal wound right so normally ogres are either on a six if they don't if they have if they're not a monster or don't have at least eight models and they're four up if you have eight models or you're a monster this guy's right in the middle he's just always a five plus right so yeah like giving him blood stoker cogs god seekers and slanash anything that buffs his charge number right right um just makes this guy come crashing in with a lot of potential mortal wounds and then if he's in that that thing on a two up he does another d three another d three and so it just actually adds a bunch of very interesting options um and really leaves the gore beast behind yeah i agree the gore beast chariot's the big loser here i literally have no idea why you would use the gore beast chariot i know because swift death is just so much better it's so much better than what they're doing yeah yeah and so like you know you could fit like eight chariots in that battalion sure and just i mean more if you put them in units but i don't know why you would no but yeah but you don't get more mortals on the charge correct you want individual chariots yes yes yeah and so like you could you know dish out on average like 40 mortals of charging wounds every turn pretty decent pretty decent uh it's just like it's a crazy it does exactly what it says on the tin like it brings ruin it's this insane charging thing right uh somebody asked flail or greatsword on the chariot uh i mean i know what i would do uh it's great blade every time for me yeah it's never flail it's never flail because on anything because you never want d six attacks that's always the wrong answer correct i would also point out that your one chariot can automatically be the exalted chariot here because there's no limit it doesn't say like you have to have a unit of three to get a champion or whatever and so like you know the exalted chariot here gets plus one to hit so his great blade hits on twos right twos and threes neg one run two damage yep yep uh yeah so always sword and yeah i the chariot thing's fun so i like i like actually all three of their basic battalions i think they all have potential for interesting lists um i mean knights one of the big problems with knights is they have to break the enemy when they charge um making them slam in for an extra d three mortal wounds is just more damage you know i mean like it it helps so it can help them get there then there is one for every god plus the overlords yep we don't need to we don't need to like beat by beat all of these what i will say is they've brought back they're the old version so bloodmarked is one mortal slaves to darkness corn hero yep and eight mortal slaves to darkness corn units which pair ends units can also be heroes correct exactly so again these can very easily one drop your army because you could have like four actual traditional units and five heroes and jobs are good right um notably about these battalions which is actually really cool is every one of these battalions so blood marked for corn fates worn for zinch plague touched for nergal and pleasure bound for slanesh um all of them are part of the corn faction and the slaves to darkness faction for blood marked or you know the pleasure bound is part of the slanesh and slaves to darkness right so they each count as both a slaves to darkness battalion or a their own god's army battalion yep which is cool so if you want to run like he knights with slanesh allegiance but use this battalion you can and you can bring all the mortals in and go nuts right and let me just say like i uh i'm a long time fan of plague touched like it was my it was my jam um and i'm glad to see it playable and not only playable i would argue it's probably the best of the battalion options um plague touched yeah plague touch is absolutely the best one yes yeah which basically what happens with plague touched is if you tack a unit from plague touched um and when you when you're attacking if you end up rolling a six to wound it kicks back a mortal right on you um which is not as good as the six to hit uh but guess what it's still going to kick back mortals and interestingly plague touched used to only like be this if you deployed units in in multiples of seven um which was ended up being this like a really weird incentive structure where you'd have like a block of 28 chaos warriors or 14 chaos warriors um in order to gain like this effect on that unit and now it's just all units in the warband including your chaff including everything else right um and so it's just a so much and you always choose a unit and your hero phase one of your units in the battalion roll d3 or roll these x on a two plus it's going to spit a d3 mortals onto a nearby unit yeah i would also argue the blood mark is a good one as well because like if a hero from this battalion slays any enemy models in the combat phase you can pick one unit from the same battalion wholly within 12 that hero and add one to their attacks characteristic until your next phase like right that's just a good ability you're often going to have melee heroes who are fighting there's often going to be other units near them just adding and like you know the nature of combat is that you're going to activate one and then other people are going to go later right so just buffing them with plus one attack is pretty good it's a it is a case for corn uh chaos knights um because like corn cast knights obviously are going to like double benefit from getting their like bonus attacks on the horses um and so like going in with like a lord on carcadrack and then like following up with the unit of chaos knights like that's super punchy it is super punchy it's a great combo they obviously bonus each other it's pretty easy to keep those knights within a reasonable range of the lord on carcadrack right um similar moves and all that sort of thing so like it's it's a it's and again every time you're pushing those chaos knights up then they're in his aura they're getting all of that you know suddenly they're hitting on a lower number they're like hitting on twos re-rolling ones wounding on twos you know like it's with a bunch of attacks that actually makes them into a pretty potent melee threat um the slanesh and the zinge one are pretty much garbage they're they're useful enough because they're a battalion right so like they can be one drops the the fates worn especially because it's 10 it's a 10 unit battalion right like you can definitely one drop with fates worn yes nergal like it's painful at eight units because you want to fit in the demon princes for just spoilers um and so you're like really feeling it with nergal i can't even imagine trying to fit that many units into fates worn yeah and i wait i want to put a pin on what doom and darkness is saying because i agree with this point he's making in the comments that the corn battalion works well in blades of corn itself which obviously as i stated it can be taken in the corn allegiance so you're good to go there um where you're stacking the plus to attack with like blood stokers wrath mongers aspiring deathbringers you know whatever um and no i like blood stokers is still good because it's getting you in it's charging harder and then your blood secretor for plus one attack like you're just you can be shooting up attacks right wrath monger plus one aspiring deathbringer plus one blood secretor plus one this thing plus one you know like you could have a unit up at plus four attacks in corn yep right like that's bonkers level um and so there you go uh finally we should mention the overlords of chaos three to six host of the ever chosen baron units pass this is the most mind-numbing thing right pass so let's talk about what this would look like tom verand guard our battle line in your host of uh the ever chosen battalion you know right uh if all the units uh are host of the ever chosen so okay cool so three of them are 300 points yep so archion is 800 points yep three units of these are 900 points that put you to 1700 yep okay and the overlords of chaos is 120 so now you're at 1820 and you have 10 models on the table right sounds like army you have fulfilled all requirements of both the battalion and the normal army building as you have three battle line and one leader yeah you basically get to select a second an additional circle for all of your verand guard units so they can have plus one damage on the charge and fly or whatever yeah no okay cool beans like I guess you the army is all of that and a war shrine probably right is the army you'd build and you have 10 points left over yeah yeah I mean here's the deal your three drop so you got that going for you with your 11 models uh yeah and what I would actually probably do is like a sorcerer on foot and a and like a 70 like a 10 pack of of of something of one of the objective holders but you're not going to do that because like realistically like it's just not good you're going to run like if you run archion it just says a full disclosure if you're going to run archion you're going to run archion you're going to run one pack of air and guard probably and then a bunch of support pieces and objective holders sure like that's your army if you run archion you're not running this battalion uh yeah but it's whatever it's if you if you're all in on that idea right um yeah that army has and by the way that army has style points galore okay like it is the coolest of the cool it's probably not competitive but it is sweet as all get out like make it is sweet it is not competitive uh but it is I mean it is thematic yes all right you know let's talk about some other war scrolls we haven't talked about yet Tom we can finish this out let's let's grind through some other war scrolls yep I feel that we have have have to talk about cast knights and cast warriors right we've kind of talked about knights um let's just continue that on talk about knights first nights nights nights nights nights nights nights all right so 10 inch remove three wounds four up safe same as they always were second verse same as the first can be marked anything great uh they get plus one bravery from their standard yep right um they can add one to run in charge from their hornblower cool built in both in charge always good yep and their doom knight gets an extra attack okay great yep they can have no longer plus one to hit correct um they either have insorceled weapons and runes shields or cursed lance and runes shields um and in addition the boss by the way can have a cursed flail and a runes shield so whatever which you're never gonna have what you're never gonna have because it's a bad weapon you just give him the same thing as everything else whatever um all right so knights insorceled weapons are three attacks at threes and threes neg one one damage the cursed lance is two attacks at fours and threes no rend one damage but of course importantly if you charge then you get to improve the damage and the rend by one uh uh yeah or sorry the let me repeat that you get to increase the damage by one and the rend by two there you go if you charge so they become four three neg two two damage on the charge yeah and how good that is is largely based on what you're doing right like if you're they only have two attacks with a lance base but if you're in a world like the blood marked warband we just mentioned yeah or you have an allied uh blood secreter in your army right or whatever um whatever the the sort of thing is if you're pushing that number way up if that's on like four and five attacks and you're really all about charging like if you're in that that uh uh uh ruin bringer warband or something you know where you're charging dealing mortals again like four or five attacks with their lances re-rolling a lot of hit and wound rolls where you don't care that they're on fours if you're pushing that number down uh in ways if you have a lord to give plus one to hit and you're getting re-rolls yeah like yeah yep exactly then all of a sudden those lances can become absolute monsters my my lances are my choice if i'm running knights i'm running lances if you've built to that what i would say is it depends on what you want to use your your knights as because i think there's actually knights need to come down 10 or 20 points they're 50 there there are 180 points right now sure i think they should be 170 160 something like that okay um when you look at like what mighty skull crushers are doing or whatever you know or pigs or you know all those kind of things um that have the same wounds count and are in the same sort of area and in similar melee focused armies by the way right um in general i don't like comparing army to army but you know it is a useful sort of watermark metric especially when they are so similar when they're so similar similar wounds in a similar role in a similar army that's fighting in a largely synergistic melee profile right yep yep yep yep um the uh the thing that's interesting to me about gas knights is if i was going the synergistic build if i wanted them to be like my hammer then i agree with you you buff the attacks and you pick the lances and you try to break them on the charge right yep because off the charge you're going to do nothing your damage will fall like a rock off the charge right yep yep now if i wanted knights to be operating more independently and be more like and fill more of an anvil role right where they're out there to be kind of a heavy chaff anvil which by the way i think is a valid role for them right yep like you can have some guy following them around giving them re-roll saves and they're kind of will they'll go out there and they'll do work i think the weapons are the better choice there because you want them to operate fairly independently right yeah and having built-in rend they'll be more consistent over the turns they're they're not trying to like charge in and break something they're trying to move up and be in the way and last and you want them to attrition out their enemy right yep yep so that will be more consistent damage over turns yep so uh there you go oh well we're happy to help might make right and hey that working on Christmas is never fun but i'm happy we can entertain so i think knights can be really good but you've got to build toward them by the way uh i'm building toward knights baby i got i got knights in these two boxes i'm building toward knights i'm buying for the future this is my discussion tom i think right now warriors and knights aren't good but i think in six months i think they're gonna see slight point adjustment down that's my prediction yeah in the ghp slight but it'll be there and i'm ready to go i'm ready to capitalize sure like let me say this i i am uninterested in marauders agreed even though they are the right like buy right now yep um i i want like if i'm making a if i'm running this army i it's going to be on the backs of chaos warriors and cast nights yep agreed i'm going real steel baby i want the i want those armored masses of you know the the the true face of chaos which to me are the knights and the warriors right yep yep give me that lord on carcadrack the lord on demonic mount give me that cast lord on foot that's why i'm working on this guy and converting him up who's one of the first things i did because i'm super excited about i love this guy and i use the corgis call model which i think is just like a big base model for a cast lord and like that's the army i want to play is the most competitively optimal hell no but like i've got slanesh for competitive armies now i'm good it's fine it's it's been weakened and it's competitive enough i've got iron jaws for competitive armies i'm good no i would agree with that uh i think that um i like knights and i and like in my plague touched war bands like i keep trying to make knights work like i'm not willing to give up on them even now at their point calls i really think they're not optimal but i'm but i haven't given up on it yeah i think they're really optimal in corn i really do like that's where no i i agree that i think that they are better on they are better in corn period yep uh all right chaos war oh we said the points last night yeah they're they're 180 180 yes okay chaos warriors uh 100 points for five of them yep which is 10 wounds obviously five inch move two wounds four up save pretty standard they still have the same weapon options they always had so the chaos hand weapon two attacks three threes which is nice that got better uh no rend one damage the halberd at uh two inch range on threes and fours for one damage or the big old greatsword uh for fours threes neg one one damage um notably uh they cannot they can have the shield in both the hand weapon and the halberd you can also choose to give them two hand weapons so they have four different potential profiles only one of which has rend and these guys are expensive right like a block of 20 of these is 40 wounds but it's 400 points uh laughably comparable to the hearth guard berserkers um same i mean i know you say that i i don't agree but i i understand what you're saying sure like they are they are head and shoulders when stacked with nervel they're one of the most defensive units in the game agree they're like they in nergal these guys are the super anvil right right um a hundred percent agreed they can be given all the marks they have the same sort of leadership thing so plus one to run in charge which is what matters they have if they have the shield they're a five up mortal wound save which i think is good yep they always re-roll all saves as long as they've got at least 10 models yep which is amazing and if you do give them the pair of hand weapons which is wrong you can re-roll all hit rolls that is incorrect there are better ways to get re-roll hit rolls keep the five up save and yeah go from there uh notably the re-roll all save rolls isn't contingent at all on having the shields which is kind of cool yep yep so you can have like due to the greatswords who are still re-rolling all their saves they just lose their moral and protection like my big like i'm a fan of nergal cast warriors in blocks of 15 like i think eight or 20 because then they can get the plus one save out of the war shrine uh as doom parked out just pointed out if they're in corn they could get bronze flesh go to a three up so yeah yeah like i really like them in nergal like a lot yep they become very hard yeah they can have if they're near the general they can be neg one to be hit and shooting um they can you could ally in other nergal dudes if you wanted like the five up after save right for the what's that guy's name the harbinger or whatever the harbinger of decay yeah you can easily put these guys on a three up re-rollable all the time if they're near the harbinger there'll be three up all the time five up that's pretty awesome six up with the war shrine around right um if it's against a mortar wound thing they go and the war shrine's around they're fine the harbinger's around five up five up six up quite yeah as um somebody had said that they can the units can be mixed weapon they cannot like a lot of that that's just how they word it now a unit of chaos warriors has any number of models each armed with one of the following weapon options they've traditionally armed that as the models or each armed the unit right they've traditionally interpreted marauders by the way have the same wording um as do chaos knights and everything else they've traditionally interpreted that each unit to say they all have to be picked the same um i mean it's one of those things that could be clarified in the FAQ similar wording in the past has said that no in fact they have to all be armed the same and that seems to be what's implied here as well and let me be honest with you just please god make them one profile okay i know you all think you want them to have a mixed profile that's terrible that's a nightmare situation i do you want to have slow games because this is how you get slow games because then you got to go in and look and figure out okay well let's see i got three great sword guys attacking um i've got two halberd guys i've got one two weapon guy and then i've got my two guys with a shield one of them's engaged so let me roll these three attacks over here on this profile and then these two this is where slowness in games happens period it's not a movement it's in crap like this yep okay like it is a nightmare for fighting you get god forbid multiple units get piling into things it's like oh great well let's just sit around and spend the next two hours resolving this one fight because you have 20 cast warriors with four different mixed weapon profiles fighting three different units won't this be a joy no it will be the worst the worst okay so like i know we all think we want that we don't it's bad when they moved uh our boys onto one unified profile they did that because it was super annoying to be rolling all those individual things and you know what everybody was happy it was a better world okay right there you go all right uh so yeah i mean i think cast warriors are probably pointed correctly honestly at five for a hundred uh yeah i hate that but it's probably true yeah with all the synergies and bonuses they can get if they were our boy costed which is their nearest analog we could make right you know our boys are five for 90 our boys have built in rent same number of attacks same attack profile but built in rent right yeah and easy access to plus one to damage the difference here is these guys are naturally tougher our boys are still more offensive these guys are more defensive yeah yeah um because they have the built-in easy access to re-roll the saves the easy bonus to mortal wound protection like these are not your hammer no like we all want to go like we all imagine in our mind that cast warriors march forth and just chop everything to death but they're not like they're just not as written they are your anvil and that is their unirole right there you go and they're i think they're a darn good anvil by the way right um and yes compared to liberators i think they they you know are quite they compare quite positively so yeah you know there you go uh let's see there's uh we should talk about a few other of the war scrolls let me talk tom i want to sell you on this here you go tom you're ready for what i say the hammer is yep besides super buffed cast knights which we just mentioned chaos marauder horton no it's definitely not that tom i want to talk to you about the beauty of chaos chosen okay here we go you can't see his face but his face is upset let's talk about chosen i was not hot on chosen at the beginning i've come around let's talk about chosen chosen he had five for 140 10 wounds for 140 points not great but not terrible uh they are two wound models each they're garbo models you should just convert them out of cast warriors now but whatever um the original chosen are not good models but they're easy enough to convert so there you go they're armed with soul splitters six inch move two wounds for upstate they have the plus one run in charge and all that stuff they can be given any mark they have an ability called slaughter leaders which i really don't care about too much but it works like this if a model from this unit makes an attack that slays one or more enemy models after all this unit's attacks have been resolved you can reroll wound rolls for attacks made by friendly mortal saves and darkness units wholly within 12 of any friendly unit with this ability until your next hero phase cool so if they kill something they exploit they they push out a bubble of rerolling wounds not bad but i see it as i see it as like sprinkles on my ice cream it's not really doing anything right but it's kind of fun that it's there okay soul splitter if the unmodified hit roll for an attack made with a soul splitter is six that attack inflicts one mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage okay why i like chosen is because they can uh they can actually get and absorb all the bonuses we just talked about yeah and they can get to making a outrageous number of attacks right at decent hit wound rend damage and they can actually punch really hard for a relatively low points cost by the standard of this army they're a relatively like they can absorb a lot of buffs and on a decently small footprint put out a lot of punch um they don't require as much synergy as the knights to pop off and but yet they can actually do some decent work um i think they're underrated i actually like them i think they're i think they can do some good work what's what size base are they on 40s i think they're on 40s yeah i need to look up the base chart to be honest but i'm pretty sure they're on 40s that sounds right let's just go with that for now um and honestly if i was if you were gonna say like will vince the regular chosen models are garbage how would you make some the i mean how i would make some how would you do it tom uh i would use wrath mongers yep that's exactly correct or or uh probably what's the other wrath monger not rough small reefers or wrath mongers you use those bodies oh i would use sole reefers and i would convert reefers i would mix with uh plague king bits like future blight kings um i would mix with their bits like i actually i say that i have 10 of those no chosen are on 32 mil bases i'm sorry there you go i went and looked up the basin chart i'm sure somebody was already answering that while i was looking yep doom and darkness was already answering but yeah they're on 32s even better not my swinging around with them being on 32s uh i mean if they were three wounds a model you say that but i think that's too much they don't need three wounds a model you know the one thing they do need two inch reach yeah they got that big long weapon if they were two inch reach normally they don't care but if these guys were two inch reach so i could like have them swing over the top of other people fighting over a warrior anvil block yeah then i would be really on about them right as it is now i'm giving them like a six or seven out of 10 i think they're good i think they have potential that's what i'll say this army is starved for hammers and they're a pretty decent hammer that's yeah i mean they have a low mobility there's six inches they're not terrible on foot six is not they're not dwarves and they're almost dwarves um there is they're as far away from dwarves as they are from like uh the entire ogre army when it's hungry they are not dwarves um but they're also they don't have run in charge yeah i just i'm not sold on them like are you running them in 10 packs is that what you're imagining well i think five or 10 yeah i need to play around to see which one i liked better five or 10 small ish footprint high potential output damage that's my answer yeah i'm just not sold okay well that's okay you could not be sold i'm gonna try them out um i have some zinch chosen converted so there you go yeah like i mean don't get me wrong like i think that there's probably potential there um i know that other people have been real hot on them but uh i just don't know how they get delivered uh well do you either teleport and roll an eight or you just move across the battlefield because who gives a what do you mean how they get delivered like things that move six will get there they just don't get there around one you know if not everything needs to get there around one like the six inch move will get you into the fight it's a five round game you'll be where you want to be attacking stuff in round two yeah and then like it's fairly fragile like you say that like we're playing on boards that are 80 feet across you know it's just not that far man yeah uh let's talk about a couple other fun units they compare favorably to hammers sure all right but they do have the elite model problem having less models sure i get and yeah six inches is elf movement yeah that's right okay i want to talk about some other fun scrolls here tom shall we yep let's talk by the way uh what do we have to do gw to get these other three models that are in this tome released the ogroid the fomeroid and the the the mind stealers franks like so can we please get those out where are they just is that coming soon like anytime now guys mm-hmm okay let's talk about the ogroid miramadan uh because i think he's like i think all three of them are interesting ish is that a fair way to say it interesting yeah i mean what i'll say is this like all of these are second-class citizens in this army because they're they actually don't gain like they're basically allies in the in the allegiance because they don't need any of the oral or abilities well that's true they don't gain any of the aura abilities however um they can like the ogroid can still be buffed by the war shrine because he is a mortal slaves to darkness unit sure and he is still a hero and he has the eye of the gods right so he can actually go make himself better by killing heroes okay okay or or monsters or whatever i'm just saying it's thing yeah he's 140 points he's a six inch move dude with eight wounds on a four up save he's got a ranged attack that's like whatever it's fine he could throw one he could throw a spear three up three up neg one d three who cares um and then in melee he has a two inch reach six attacks three threes neg one one damage and he has big old horns but he has one attack with three three neg two rend three damage okay cool um if his unmodified hit roll is a six it inflicts two hits so he has the slanesh aura of chaos built in mm-hmm right which is good by the by uh and his berserk rage you can reroll hit and wound rolls for attacks made with melee weapons by this model if any wounds or mortal wounds were early we're allocated to this model earlier in the same phase so he kind of wants to fight second against stuff that isn't going to kill him um i actually think he gets rather good if that turns on it's almost like an enlightened type thing right mm-hmm so you just want to make sure he's not fighting a hammer that's going to smack him down in one round uh but i like that incentive where he isn't vying to be your first pick right oftentimes heroes and your your hammer units want to go first he kind of is okay with sitting around and then striking back and like i said he can be war shrine buffed right yeah so like okay that's cool you know seems fine um and he's a hero so cool i dig him uh shall we talk about my favorite non marked thing the kitty cat yeah let's talk about that kitty cat oh boy howdy do i love me a kitty cat mind stealers for ranks oh where have you been all my life you adorable cat llama you are my jam i love this model i want this model i want to be paying this model the fact that i'm not paying this model right now hurts release this model okay 100 points 10 inch move 10 wounds five up save first of all i love the wound to point ratio on this guy this is how monsters should be pointed agreed chaos mortal monster slaves of darkness mind stealers frank's great so he has a mortal still so okay he can like take buffs i don't know why you would care most of them don't really apply his melee attacks are all completely uninteresting and not of note that's not why you took him uh why you took him is well one he has this weak ability called telepathic dread where uh anybody within 12 inches any enemies within 12 inches of him are minus two bravery that's not terrible like for the occasional battle shock fair enough but most importantly he has an ability called dominate mind in your hero phase you can pick one enemy unit within 12 inches of this model and visible to it if you do so both you and your opponent must secretly place a die so that it shows any number and then reveal them if the numbers shown in the die are the same this ability has no effect if the numbers shown in the die are different the enemy unit you picked fights at the end of the combat phase until the next battle round uh you cannot pick the same unit as the target of this ability more than once in the same turn whether this ability has an effect or not uh super cool it's multiple things to note fights at the end of the turn until a combat phase right until the next battle round so if you're going at the bottom of the turn it's only your turn right if you're going at the top of the turn and that they're the top of the battle round right get it for both players phases or for both players turn yeah that's true um he's I love this this always strikes last ability I love a minigame I love a dice based minigame it's highly likely to be successful uh obviously because it's you know it's not super likely you both pick the same number what's that I'm rolling that dice every time you can roll whatever you want I'm picking mine because I'm gonna play the funny minigame don't be a party pooper tom uh I'm all about this guy I love this dude man he's great what a what a sweet monster um yeah this dude's awesome I love him 100 points he finds his way into a lot of my lists I built right he needs to be released so I can actually use him but he's cool beautiful model freaking gorgeous so there you go sure and then the foam right is just a big melee dude and I don't think he's very good at all so there you go it's fine I would take the Sphinx every time yeah uh okay we talked I don't think we need to go into the cultists anymore furies are good because they're flying skinks we've talked about it before but they're expensive yep uh the soul grinder is still bad because he's marked now what's that it's really sad they can't not can't be marked yeah they used to be able to be marked they cannot be marked now yeah it's kind of dumb um the slaughterbrook can only be marked corn the vortex beast can only be marked zinch by the way that's not required you can you can non mark them if you want sure um but whatever the soul grinder is still bad because he's on 160 mil round like that's the issue sure his rules are fine if he was on like a chariot base he'd actually be somewhat interesting right but he's not he's on a giant pie plate and he doesn't fly and he's like impossible to move around so nope I want to want to end here tom talking about the endless spells shall we close out on them sure so we have three endless spells uh the eight fold doom sigil the dark fire demon rift and the realm scourge rupture uh in which in order of points the eight fold doom sigil is 40 the demon rift is 50 and the rupture is 60 yeah doom the doom sigil is what makes it into my list and it's one of the most like dumbly worded abilities it is very hard to read so the doom sigil is this one i'll hold up it and so there you go it's this thing i'm holding it up so people can see it on camera since it's assembled and sitting right next to me yep okay it should say plus one attacks right but of course it has to be couched and all this nonsense it couldn't just be a thing you throw out there that just gives plus one attacks of course why not why not make it way more complicated it should just be plus one it should be predatory and plus one attacks for units holy within 18 uh yeah sure so but here's how it actually works 40 points casting value of five which i like nice and low uh obviously slaves the darkness wizards can do it and it has to be set up holy within 12 it's on a relatively small base so no big deal yep all right so you throw this thing out there keep track of the number of models that are slain within 12 inches of this model each turn okay so check one bookkeeping yep exactly requires bookkeeping uh at the end of each turn roll a dice for each model that was slain within 12 inches of this model during that turn so it's working a lot like the chalice right if people are familiar with the fec chalice for each three plus the player whose turn is taking place in other words your opponent will pick what i'm about to say if it's their turn and this gets triggered must pick one slaves to darkness unit holy within 18 inches of this model add one to the attacks characteristic of that unit's melee weapons excluding those of the mounts boo why it's just so so arbitrarily dumb just stop again strike through like i would have struck through this whole spell and said try again that's what it acts until that player's next hero phase which let me just point out this can do nothing right if it's their turn and a bunch of models die and they roll some three pluses and they hand out a bunch of plus one attacks and then it flips over to the battle round new battle round and you roll for turn and you take the turn the bonuses go away yeah oh yeah well hold on plus one attacks until that player's next hero phase no so if you take the turn if the if it's their turn you get bonuses at the end of their turn and it flips to your turn you keep those bonuses oh you're right because it's that player sorry other way around let me reverse that if they double turn you this bonus does nothing sorry and all the keeping and rolling that you've just done has been a waste of time and has no effect on the game correct wonderful so you just recorded 18 models that have died you've now rolled 18 dice they have now chosen a bunch of units units that they had to choose you mark all 12 units and then you roll for priority they win and then everything that you just did has been pointless pointless yeah and then you have to clear all the markers and start again yep awesome okay I mean I like plus one attacks on a bunch of units but like it feels like there is an easier way to get at this than whatever the heck is going on in this spell yeah right doesn't stack doesn't work on mounts like I just it's it's it's too weird it's too complicated for design uh no no yeah no good no explainer dark fire demon rift here's one that I think has potential especially depending on how the meta shifts yeah right yep this one's 50 points yep it is predatory yep but it can move up to 12 inches and it can fly yep uh cast on a six and you set it up wholly within nine inches of you when it's set up you immediately make a move as per most predatory spells so it's effective range away is is 21 inches it dings everything within 22 yep uh after this model has moved each unit that has any models it passed across and each other unit that is within one inch of it at the end of its move suffers d3 mortal wounds which when you initially read that you're like okay like that's all right there's plenty of endless spells that just do that thing that I just described right yep yep yep bunch of d3s over what you moved within an inch cool nice nice that it hits both what you moved over and everything in a radius where you land you know there are some that don't do that so that's good oh but but but wait it gets worse fueled by sorcery add one to the number of mortal wounds inflicted by this endless spell for each wizard and each other endless spell within 12 inches of this model just within not wholly within within uh after it has moved like you crash that thing into the middle of a zinch line with like pinkies everywhere and a bunch of their dumb casters all castled up or a hallow heart castle yeah see I hear that and and that's what I that's where my head went first right is to pop those bunkers sure um and that's good but actually like I realized like in the new world when zinch arrives this can be in zinches hand oh sure yeah yeah you get into their face they're like oh hi hi take my mortal wounds exactly yes this is exactly it works both offensively and defensively right right like because they just wait until you get close and then you're like oh you're in my pocket here have 12 mortal wounds deal with that dark fire demon rift yep and just like hey here's a d3 plus nine mortal wounds to everything that I just passed over which I'm just gonna like hop it around a little bit and then land so it's still getting all of my own stuff and uh boom goes the dynamite to your units yeah yep this is a powerful spell right uh I would point out by the way that mr gaunt summoner in zeech is a slave to darkness wizard there are other things you could take too but he is right right so he can cast this uh the doomed chicken cannot obviously because it is a slave to darkness wizard only but gaunt he can right yep uh so that's cool I dig that uh realm scourge rupture cast on a seven uh again predatory moves nine inches set up holy within nine which is really hard actually because it has to be as I'll describe it's this base like it's quite big and it has to be set up holy within nine of you right so like whenever you have to set up something exactly like this and it can only move in this direction like the way you set it up where it's only going to go in the direction you literally initially point it like the like the um like the guillotine thing which name eludes me um you know you're you're actually not going to be able to fit at the full line out right it's going to come back quite a bit by the way uh I want to jump back uh on the demon rift uh zeech uh if they still have destiny dice can just remove it can just remove it like likely you'll be able to use destiny dice in the new world yeah the spell on the spells oh sure yeah I understand sure yes against them yeah potentially like so they will likely like so they are in no fear for one round you don't know like again necessarily like depends on the casting depends on what's going on depends on what bonuses you have blahzy blahzy blah right right but sure yes the the powerful magic armies that you will screw up are also going to be the ones who are in a pretty decent place to dispel you of course sure right right um uh all right so the rupture uh when it's set up it moves like always it always moves in a straight line um you must place it width ways in the direction you wish to move it whenever it moves it moves in a straight line it cannot move backwards after this model is moved each unit that has any models it passed across in each other unit within one end of it suffers d3 mortals so again cool same thing but in addition until the end of the battle round so again this this sort of end of the battle round thing yeah you have the move characteristic of each unit that has any models it passed across in each other unit within one inch of it which is cool having move is good um it's just again it's a spell that could do nothing because it could be your turn at the end of the round you hit them and then you know battle round ends and like okay they don't it did damage but nobody moved anywhere yeah like it could just like it's just so weird yep to me the dark fire demon riffs a big winner though i think that guy's a potent spell uh offensively or defensively because like i said most of us have two or three castors and honestly an endless spell that can move over with a decent move of 12 inches it's pretty reasonably summonable on a six they can pretty easily pop for a d3 plus three to a lot of different units that's strong right like that's strong for 50 points so there you go it is predatory so i mean obviously it can come it can come back and ding you but if you're a cabalist you can also push it out you know you could ritual it out and do get more pushes out of it right you could double tap yeah well that would only be if you double turn is like the rituals are a starter turn i understand i'm saying you can't i'd love to be able to push this like cast it and then push it but you just can't you cannot but you can but um but you can get a lot of extra use out of the thing because of that right yep totally so yep uh anything else we want to say about slaves to darkness tom and your worst rind you want to try to flip back to your video here for the end and see if you crash because it'd be really funny um sure try yourself back on we'll see if it works i can't see my window nice hey there's tom look he's clear it's nice we can all say bye to tom he said he had to put up with a lot at the beginning of the show but he's fine now we're we're here um yeah i mean overall i'm gonna say i like the book um i think that points could use a little bit like it just feels like a lot of stuff is really expensive um which i don't mind i like starting in that place it means your investment can only be better i agree with that um i think that chosen are probably too expensive for what they currently are um i think that they need to come down 10 points or they need to be three-wound models which is the three-wound thing that's gonna right they can't adjust that easily with the new book um like the reality though is that they are like they suffer from the like elite model problem um so even though they have a high number of attacks like they can't take oh they can't hold objectives um if everything else is dead you're fine you'll need one model sure sure but even 10 of them at 30 attacks is not like yeah i don't know but yeah i i don't know i i could bring some points down but overall it's fine i agree great book i do think points are just a scotch high i mean like probably 10 or 20 little adjustments that'll happen in the ghb um will ask is would you recommend this book for every chaos player i.e corn, nergal, zinchen, slanesh my answer is a wholeheartedly and enthusiastic yes um because it it absolutely applies to all of that like if you like chaos you can run this in slanesh i was building a couple lists to run with tom and like some of them were slaves to darkness armies some of them were uh like slanesh armies or whatever you know yeah um and i'll do the same with nergal yeah i'll run this in in slaves to darkness or run it in nergal and really have to make some hard decisions as to which one i want yep i think it's it's interesting and competitive you know it'll be as far as zinchen goes obviously that whole world is about to change so we'll we'll know in a month what that actually looks like or less than a month realistically um but yes i think it's it's a it's a truly fantastic book um like from top to bottom i was very impressed by it fixed the silly nergal demon prince thing and we're and we're we're just in a wonderful place um i love it i'm super excited about it so yeah overall great book well done uh i think this was like one of the new writers so he who led the project so you did a great job wonderful it's compelling especially given that the uh the allegiance was that like a 27 percent matched when i thought it was down to like 10 but sure it was very low it might have been that low but it was low and the point is is that um i i think this will very very very much correct it move it back to the fat metal sure agreed yep all right everybody well there we go uh you know as we close out here if you're still watching remember hit the like button that really helps to get this out uh all that kind of stuff we're here every week so subscribe i'm supposed to say this stuff at the end of videos they tell you that helps so smash that like button uh hit bells and stuff whatever you do i don't know these are things you're supposed to say right i'm not sure but anyway this is a good book merry christmas everybody thanks for spending your christmas with us uh i'm glad we got to do this today i hope everybody had a 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Van Fong, as a resource speaker for this session. Injunerik Van Fong graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering and is now currently working as a placement planner at Sankor Energy in Alberta, Canada. As a placement planner, he is responsible for the design and scheduling of the major dump structures For the millenium oil sands mine, he has more than three years of experience in oil sands industry working on a variety of mine planning roles including mine and tailings planning in both the short and long range capacity. He is also the founder of Mining To Me, a non-profit organization that aims to improve mineral literacy through animated infographic videos. Specifically, Mining To Me aims to raise awareness and educate the importance of mining to our everyday lives, the technological advancements of the industry and the environmental conservation efforts made within the mining industry. He is also passionate about showcasing the mining engineering career to future generations and has the number one rank mining engineering video on YouTube. In his spare time, Injuner Kwan volunteers with the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Program as an instructor, enjoys exercising and making videos for his YouTube channels. Ladies and gentlemen, our resource speaker, Injuner Kwan Phuong. So, good afternoon everyone. As Jero mentioned and thank you very much for this amazing introduction. My name is Kwan Phuong and I'm super excited here to talk to you guys about low cost scalable technologies for the mining industry in developing countries. So, I'll pretty much skip all of the introduction part about myself. I would just like to add that anything I present here are their openings of my own and they don't reflect the standpoint of my employers and I am not paid to endorse these technologies. So today, for the agenda, we'll first talk about the 2020 Mining Trends. As the theme of this conference is navigating the new normal, I would like to first set a precedent on what the mining trends are for our 2020 and I'll talk about it based on a report from Ernst and Yang. Next, we'll go through five different technology companies. Now, as we mentioned before, we're facing difficult times right now. So, we are not only facing a time of lower grades, but we're also facing the higher ESG demands from investors that's the environmental and social governance, especially for the younger generation who are passionate about making the world a better place environmentally and socially. But then all the added challenges of COVID-19, so perhaps workers are limited to be working on site and more people working from home, it's a very challenging time for the mining industry right now. And I really believe that the solution to all of these problems is that we need to have innovation in technology and that will help solve these problems. And as I go through each of these technologies, you'll begin to realize how each of these will tackle different aspects of the problems we're facing. So, for example, it could be improving productivity, improving safety, reducing costs, and also exposing yourself to the global investors to help raise funds. And I specifically chose these companies because these are companies that are already operational and I want to focus on companies that already have their product made and they're ready to go to market. So, if you guys are in operations, if you guys are a mine manager, for example, then you could right after today's conference, you guys can go to these companies and start reaching out and start implementing these technologies in your company. So first, taking into the 2020 mining trends that's set up by EY. So first, hopefully you guys can see my cursor, starting from number 10, we have rising costs. Number nine, we have innovation. Eight is the replacement of production, so that talks about how we're starting to run out of mining deposits and we'll need to find additional sources of ore. Seven is cyber, so anything that goes to convert from the paper or analog information towards the digital side. Six is maximizing portfolio returns, so this could be making your operation as lean as possible in terms of the financial sense. Or it could be doing merger and acquisitions to really have a stronger cash flow for your business. Five is anything that's a high impact risk. Four is reducing carbon footprint. Three is digital and data optimization. Two is the future of workforce. And number one is the license to operate. So as we go through these three presentations, I'm going to have these three tabs here and that will signify which of these specific trends the technology is tackling. So if there's anything that has to do with operational improvement, we can link it back to if it's going to improve the operation, then it's going to help reduce costs. If it's going to give you new ways to find funding, then it could perhaps help you with replacement of production. And anything that helps with ESG sustainment will improve your license to operate. So going into number, risk number 10, rising costs. So I just took a graph from 2016 to 2020 of just the cost for mining. So as we can see, the realized price overall trended up. But the cost increased slightly as well. And as we can see in 2018, it's probably the best year because we have a higher ASIC margin, which is the all in sustaining costs. In 2020, our costs between 2019 stayed roughly the same, insulted our ASIC margin. So ideally, we want to maximize the difference between our costs and our realized price. So the best way to do this is to reduce our operating costs. And so we will achieve this through operational improvements. Risk number eight is the replacement of production. So as we can see here, this is the base case production capability for copper. And this is the yellow line here is the future demand. So after roughly 2025, our demand or global demand is going to exceed our production capability. And so these are the possible projects that will need to happen in order to meet this growing demand. And so access to capital is going to be crucial for us as a mining industry to meet this rising demand. Since as we now know already, even before the COVID times that exploration budgets are on the decline. And so access to funding will be crucial. And that's just not only for new projects, but if you already have an existing project, then this will be crucial as well. And lastly, the license to operate. So for different parts of the world, there is positive outlook, which is marked by the green, orange for the uncertain or neutral outlook and blue for the negative outlook. And for most of these, or sorry, for maybe roughly half of these countries, they have a positive outlook. Some are unsure and some have a negative outlook. And so just around the world, society and investors are demanding the greater transparency around what the environmental and social cause is for running a mining industry. And whatever you see in the news, most likely the media only reports on the negative aspects of mining and they rarely report on the positive sides or anything positive that we as a mining industry have done. And so as an industry as a whole, it is up to us for us to regain the trust of the public. And the way to do that is through ESG sustainment. So the first company I will talk about is Sedimenta IQ. So if you're an operator of a mining company, one of the question you should be asking yourself is what's the best way for us to locate and solve operational inefficiencies? So for a large scale mining company, if your equipment manufacturer is Kumatsu or Caterpillar, they probably have their own set of data tracking systems that they use or if you're an underground mining company, there's Sandvik and Epiroc. But for small scale companies who may not necessarily be able to afford the cost of these software, this is where something like Sedimenta IQ would come in. And as the saying goes, if you can't track it, you cannot improve it. And so Sedimenta IQ is a low cost data collection platform, collection and reporting platform using smartphones. And the keyword is reporting. So they actually have AI embedded into their software that will give you a smarter data analysis platform for you. And we'll see that in just a second. So let me see if I can hide this. So here we have a shot of what it looks like. So really it's a very simple. Really it's just a phone attached to an equipment, a smartphone attached to an equipment. And here we have some Bluetooth beacons used for zone-based identifications. So something like this will only take you maybe two to three days maximum to set up. And once you have it, you can start tracking your operation immediately. First is if you have seen more expensive software may take a longer time to set up and configure the device. But here once you get the device is essentially an out-of-the-box solution that you can start using right away. And so let's see what sort of data comes back with. So here the first graph here in the top middle part. You can see it tracks the timings for your production. So this is for the hauling cycle, right? So tracks your timing from the production all the way to the crusher. So essentially your cycle time. Here the cycle time and you can track it by operator. So overall here this is the overall cycle time. But here you can also track individually for each equipment operator. So here in this example, Jose has a higher cycle time than the green which is Santiago. So by tracking this cycle time and assuming these two people are traveling along the same route, then you can identify perhaps maybe you have a really inefficient operator that can point out as a reason for why it's taking so long for them to get to the crusher. And here are some smart insights which is the key part driven by the AI. So here you can see equipment 3 is experiencing 30% more queuing. So this sediment IQ will also take the analysis work or at least reduce the amount of analysis work that you need to do. Operators 3 is performing 44% lower than average. So again this is where you can highlight where the efficiencies are. Some other insights on daily sold out at 430 for all tracks below target for number of tasks performed. You can also track the overall equipment efficiency. So you can look at for example in terms of overall equipment efficiency you can find out what the largest contributor is. Is it the schedule maintenance, unscheduled maintenance, delays, anything like that. Another example is these insights here. So here is the time so 24 hour time. Truck number 14 so we can see what it has done. So from 7 to almost 10 o'clock 10 am traveling to the production area. Then there's some idle time, some loading time. And here we can see that there is some unknown idle time. And this is where you can really pinpoint where the exact inefficiency is. And here's another shot so we have this is the expected start time. Gain visibility into start times to improve utilization. So here it's supposed to start maybe around 730 the expected start time. But here we can see there's a huge variance right? So it's supposed to start here but sometimes the drill is starting at 2 pm. Sometimes it's 12 pm. So we can see there's a huge variation. And again this is where we can really start to point out where the inefficiency is for your mind. And you can also track the haul cycle. So it produces a heat map of where the truck spends the longest time at. Just doing a quick time track here. So next one is Wing Charon. So this is essentially a drone. And I think this is a great technology because it's a fast and versatile survey alternative to your traditional surveyor that just walks and carries around a stick. And with survey technology especially with the introduction of drones not only will help with your operations but it will help with your ESG sustainment as well. So I'll play a quick video to show you what it looks like. And so you can see one of the neat features is that it takes off vertically. And we'll talk a little bit more about that. So when your drone can take off and land vertically anywhere so it basically reduces the amount of footprint that the drone needs to operate in versus say if you have a traditional airplane then you need a longer runway and you need a large stretch of space which you may not necessarily have at a mining operation. So the benefit of this is that it only really needs a small footprint. No piloting skills needed. So basically it's an autonomous drone. So you just need to plot out wherever it needs to fly and click a button and send it off and it goes there. You can do manual adjustments and hover. So let's just say if the drone is slightly off course then you can manually input it to put the drone back on course. No belly landing. So belly landing is when the drone impacts the ground really hard then it will probably damage the drone. And so with a drone like this it has up to 1 hour flight time and covers an area of 400 hectares. So a huge amount of space. And it boasts a 42 megapixel camera accuracy down to 1 centimeter. So for reference your typical camera that photographers use it's roughly around 20 to 30 megapixels. This is 42 megapixels. So really good resolution. And so when you think about what a drone can do at least for this model the WingTron1 can do volume calculations. So if you have a stockpile, if there's a dump then it's important that you track the volume that's moved. You can also do row grade calculations. So find out if your roads are still properly and it can do any pit wall or tailing structure inspection. And so this is especially critical for the drones to do because it's really hard for you to send a surveyor like a person's surveyor up to these structures. If they can get to it it will take them a long time or two it might just be unsafe for you to send a surveyor up there. And so this goes back to the operational improvement where you can really drastically reduce the amount of time it takes for you to do a survey for these structures and two for the ESG sustain and part. If you have a tailing structure it's critical for you to keep a good record of what's been deposited in the tailing structure and how that structure is built. This really goes back to having a clear transparency of how you manage your tailings facility and having that transparency will really gain the trust of investors and for the public to gain trust in us in the mining industry as a whole. And so to look at some of these outputs the Wincher one can output things like a georeference ortho-mosaic app, DSM and DTM files, contour lines can also produce single images or ortho-photos. So a whole range of outputs that will be useful for anyone that's a mining engineer, a geotechnical engineer could also be useful for anyone that's involved in the regulatory aspects of the mine and as well for the leadership. So that's the mine managers or perhaps even the CEO of your companies. Just to get a good snapshot of what the operation is like and especially for the heat maps it will be useful for any engineers as well. So next we have the global air cylinder wheels and this one will pertain to the operational improvement. So as you can see these wheels are different from our traditional tires. You don't see the typical rubber tires there and really this company strives to reinvent the wheel to reduce costs and improve safety. So let's take a look at what the global air cylinder wheels is like. So starting from the outside we have individually replaceable treads. So the treads can be either made of polyethane or steel treads. And then in the yellow part we have high performance ductile steel and then afterwards this is where the key part is is that instead of filling the tire of air you just have to high performance nitrogen cylinders. So there's six on each side. So six on the inside and six on the outside here. And then you have a rim which replaces whatever current rim that you have. And this tire technology can be for treads or loaders in open pit or underground mines. And so this is what the real life image looks like. And so here you can see the treads and so what's the benefit of this. But before we get into that we'll take another quick look at a video. So this video is just a test drive. So it's an MT truck, it's not loaded and it will perform a series of maneuvers so you guys will know how it performs. So as you can see you essentially receive the same performance as you would for a regular mining truck tire. And so when you think about the difference between this concept global air cylinder wheels versus the traditional mining tires what are some of the key benefits? Well the key benefits are basically listed here and most of them pertains to the safety aspect. But as you think about it more it's actually not just a safety but it also pertains to cost reduction as well and at least to operational improvement. So a traditional tire so you can have blowouts. So imagine if you just have the tire and suddenly it explodes. Again that's very dangerous. Why?  And you're waiting to cross the haul road and a haul track is just driving by right in front of you and suddenly the tire explodes. And that's very dangerous for any light vehicle that's in the close proximity of the haul track. And not only that if you have a blowout then you risk hindering the operation because essentially you have it down the track. So again you're reducing the capacity of your fleet. And similar thing traditional tires can have the risk of being on fire. And so now the danger will be for the operator that's within the haul track. And as well if you have a haul track that's on fire then basically takes it out of service then again you're reducing what the maximum output of your mind can be and overheating. So lots of our tracks whenever runs in a hot climate and again I think most of most of our countries have a substantially high temperature climate so again this is a risk that will apply to many of us. Here we have tire related accidents so if a tire truck tire suddenly falls out then again this will take the truck out of commission truck tilting and also we have improved traction. So again this for the global air cylinder wheels mainly it's just taking away the safety aspects of it and taking it using the the cylinder sorry the compress the nitrogen filled cylinders to replace the traditional air tires. Next something I want to talk about funding so there's a new platform called Prospector Portal and essentially a one stop site for all technical data on mining companies so with Prospector Portal in the past if you want to find a mining company by either one of these things well there wasn't one clear directory that you can do that but with something like this you bring it to the digital world and you also bring it into a smartphone so this will especially appeal to the younger generation or the millennial investors who tend to spend more time on their smartphones so you can search by commodity, region, country, company and more so we'll take a look at what that's like and so one of the things Prospector Portal strives to do is take the NI-43-101 and makes it searchable and that's critical because the NI-43-101 contains a lot of detailed technical information and it's essentially a very long report and for those who don't know what a NI-43-101 report is it's a standard technical report that also access a disclosure that all mining companies must fill out for their respective projects in order to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange so for any mining companies that want to go public in the TX6 one of the largest stock exchanges for mining companies then you have to do write the compile the NI-43-101 report and so what's within the NI-43-101 report geophysics data drilling, assays, metallurgy reserves and reserve estimation economic analysis and a lot more and so all of this report needs to be funneled into NI-43-101 and it must be made public and the thing is there's so many of these companies there's over 1100 mining companies listed on TX6 so if investors want to find your company specifically then it might be very hard to do just because there's so many of them and what prospector portal strives to do just wants to filter it out as many as as you can so that the investors can find what they want exactly we'll play a quick video to show you what it's like basically Norda because that's for investors for the mining companies if you want to be listed on prospector portal believe there's a different price but you have to talk with them and so for mining companies so this is an example for Rio Tinto a benefit for the companies is that you can integrate your press releases and social media feeds on one site but if an investor was to look and find new companies then they can easily see all of the latest news releases so here you can have financial results from a variety of different websites and continues on here and also your social media so we have the latest tweets any significant reports and also more social media and the last one is called Verify Spell VRIFI and what this company strives to do is basically it wants to go beyond words and pictures in your investor presentations so in the past or even currently now a lot of companies when they presents it's mainly just one PowerPoint or a person speaking to a PowerPoint and so you're you're watching a lot of texts but they want to go beyond that and incorporate 360 degree videos and VR into presentations as well so let's take a look here what that's like so with something like this especially now sorry especially in times like 2020 with COVID-19 it's probably very hard for you to bring investors on site so something like this can easily bring essentially the site to them and going forwards this may be the future of what investor presentations may be just because it could be very difficult for you to just constantly fly all the investors and analysts into your site to get them to look at your essentially to conduct a site visit by having something like this you can disperse more people and people from all around the world as well essentially taking away the travel aspect of it so not only can you embed text information but you can put pictures, videos or PDFs such as your NI43-101 360 degree videos 3D models and more onto one presentation so I was going to do another demo here so let's click on this link and I'll need to exit out for a bit so it brings us to here this is an example of the DD Tour Lake Mine in Canada so if we want to let's just save your investor and want to see what you're investing in then having something like this will make it so much easier for them to understand what they're exactly bringing investing in so you can click on here you can see what the pit is look like you can so it's 360 degrees so you can basically look all around you can look at the tailing structure so again any regular tour people that are interested in how you operate your mining operation you can monitor how your tailings storage facilities operating and you can come into here and then you can look at any specific technical documents so for example if you want to understand what the flow sheet is like for the mine then you can click in here as well and if you want to see the investor presentation then it can be here all found in here as well so looking forwards so these are just five companies that I brought up but the thing is that the number of startups in the resource sector is actually growing so in 2012 there was actually not a lot of mining startups less than 50 but as the year progresses we as a mining industry are just seeing more growth in the amount of mining startups and innovation that's being used so OS IMM the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy they did a study and shows that in 2017 we're almost at 200 startups for mining technology so it's 2020 right now and I suspect there's probably gonna be around 250 if we just extrapolate this graph some of the services that the technology startups in the mining industry are bringing are the robotics so that's any automation drones which is the one we've talked about AI we've talked about this a little bit but there's a lot more applications that AI can be used for mining 3D printing data events analytics internet of things app development and so much more and so if you've noticed the technologies that I've brought in to this presentations mainly through ones that we already have the technology developed for but for another usage so for example for drones it's already commercially available for just photographers in general who wants to take pictures but we've adopted that technology for the mining industry another one is AI so AI is already available and we've adopted that for the mining technology as well and so one of the constraints because I think that mining industry as a whole we're sort of slow to adapt to innovation we tend to stick with traditionally what's already worked we are a little bit slow on the innovation side but it's good to see that the number of mining startups is growing growing steadily so one advice I would have for everyone is to keep an eye out for future technology as the cost of these technology increases there's actually so much more technology that I wish I could cover in this presentation but unfortunately they're still in development stages so and even if they are commercially available they're probably at a really high cost so we may have to just wait it out a little bit more and we have to wait until the technology becomes more readily available not just for us but probably for consumers as well before we're able to adopt it into the mining industry and turn it into a low-cost innovation that we can use to improve our operations whether that's improving operational improvement improving environmental social governance or anything like that health and safety as well so these are the links to the technology that I've mentioned and I'll open the floor to any questions


Why is it that you guys think that academia, I mean, maybe now, but he's never picked up on her philosophy.   I'd say one thing about that, there's a lot to say about it, but one thing is this has been true historically, that there's always a mainstream in academia or whether it was the church at one time, there's a mainstream body of thought and when a new kind of thinker comes along, so when Descartes comes along challenging the whole approach of the Catholic Church before him philosophically, they don't go, hey, those are great ideas, you get a complete resistance because what you have is an innovator saying, you don't have a couple wrong conclusions, your whole approach is wrong. So I ran to saying the whole way you guys are doing philosophy or think you're doing philosophy is wrong, so it would be ridiculous to think that they were gonna go, okay, that sounds cool. I think there's, that's one fundamental reason why, she's saying your whole way of thinking about philosophy and all the conclusions you've come to are wrong. Yeah, and I mean another big thing, I mean I worked in universities for dozen years. The other unfortunate thing about the universities, and this is true more, I think in the humanities fields and the kinds of fields that she would have been appealing to, philosophy, history, political theory, those kinds of things, but it's true, I mean unfortunately as we see with some of the ideas about medicine and health and other things, it's true really across the board, unfortunately the universities in a way are designed and set up as turf protection organizations. People have their turf, they wanna protect it. And so when someone comes in like Don says to challenge something, they're threatened, their position is threatened. And the problem with it is this is in complete contrast to private businesses. Private business, somebody comes in with an innovative idea, you don't like it, they say fine, I'll start my own business, I'm gonna innovate, I'm gonna do it, and I'm gonna out-succeed you, and I'm gonna displace you in the market. The universities largely, now of course, there are private universities, but because of the massive government influence in terms of funding research, funding, scholarships, all that stuff is basically tightly controlled, and if you lose that, that's high stakes for them. But there's no profit motive for them, there's no underlying thing that says you've gotta be better and watch the innovations and improve in order to survive, otherwise you're dead. And that just doesn't happen in the university.