Stretching My Hobby Muscles: Wargame Hobby Bingo
I don’t really do monthly hobby challenges anymore. While the first Hobby Progress Challenge from the Independent Characters I did pushed me to work on my army, my life and […]
Review: KR Backpack2
Every year I try to travel to one, and preferably several, events and I’m confronted with a perennial problem when I do: actually transporting my stuff. I live in a […]
Under New Management: Reviewing the LVO Team Narrative
Despite writing a lot about competitive 40K, I’m a narrative player at heart. For me, 40K is about telling cool stories with neat models, and competitive gaming is a little […]
40K in 2017
You thought you had escaped, hadn’t you? Surely, by the 22nd, all the various New Year introspectives would be over. Oh no my friend, you vastly underestimate my ability to procrastinate. […]
Gauging the Community: A Cautionary Note on Surveys
There are a number of surveys that have gone around, including one from Games Workshop. In the coming days, I expect these to be trotted out to add an air of […]
How Long a Long Shot? Forecasting Adam Abramowicz’s WZA 2018 Chances
For the most part on this blog I stay away from discussing individuals, both because it makes me faintly uncomfortable to talk about strangers on the internet, and also because […]
Number Crunching Warzone Atlanta 2017
I haven’t been doing much in the way of tournament statistics this year – first I wanted to give 8th Edition some time to stabilize, and once it had, my […]
8th Edition Codex Eldar Review: Units, Craftworld Traits, Psychic Disciplines and Sundry
Part Two of Variance Hammer’s review of Codex: Craftworlds (part one here). Here we’re going to cover the meat of the codex. I had originally intended to talk about this in […]
Variance Hammer Has T-Shirts
Pretty much what is says on the tin. And you’d know this if you liked our Facebook page. Or were one of our Patrons on Patreon (who also get a […]
The 8th Edition Codex Eldar Review: Fluff, Aesthetics, and all that Jazz
Here we are once again my friends. A new edition, a new Eldar codex, and another review of it. This will be coming out in parts, not necessarily because it’s […]