Unsung Heroes of the Horus Heresy: We Have Winners!
After a slight delay that was mostly my fault for not checking a calendar, I’ve tabulated the scores from the three judges, added up the totals, and we have winners!
Murder Your Darlings (or: Why I’ll Never Be a Serious 40K Contender)
“In fairness, ‘The Floor is Lava’ may not be the strongest competitive build.” – Val Heffelfinger, paraphrased There is a notion in writing called “Murder Your Darlings”. Basically, what it […]
Command Points are 8th Edition’s Psychic Dice
TL;DR: They’re good at injecting flavor into the game, are fun in small quantities, but when deployed en masse break the game. This started as what was just going to be […]
Unsung Heroes of the Heresy: It’s the Final Countdown!
Halloween is almost upon us, and with it the end of the Unsung Heroes of the Heresy contest! Get those entries in! All you need is a single painted figure and […]
Unsung Heroes of the Heresy: There is Yet Time!
We’re headed into the middle of October, but there’s still plenty of time to enter the Unsung Heroes of the Heresy contest! All you need is a single painted figure and […]
Good Decisions Build on Bad Logic
I’m not going to break down the Big FAQ 2 – other people have done it better than I have, and if you’re looking for a source I’d suggest Nick […]
2018 NOVA Open Invitational Bracket Benchmarks
So the 2018 NOVA Open Invitational is coming up, and there’s a bracket at https://challonge.com/NOVAinvite18 . Predictions based on brackets are always interesting, because they both give you the chance to […]
Are Small Countries at a Disadvantage in the ETC?
I’m going to briefly channel the spirit of Adam Abramowicz of The Best General, and talk about 40K via an extended analogy to an obscure, expensive sport that’s dominated by […]
My Price Points Contain Multitudes
Or: How Kill Team and Titanicus are different games. I’m sitting here writing this on literally the eve of Adeptus Titanicus going live, and I’ve been thinking about some of […]
“Unsung Heroes of the Heresy” – A Hobby Contest
They died on the black sands of Isstvan V, and the red sands of Mars. They fell leading doomed boarding actions at Phall, and cursing the names of their former […]