Seven Days to the River Rhine Bonus Round: the Leclerc
Now that we’ve figured out how to point out a Swedish S Tank, with all its weird little special rules and edge cases, let’s try with something more modern: the […]
Idle Speculation
Swedish Tanks in Seven Days to the River Rhine Part 4: Let’s Do This
Having established that there’s a good points cost model for units in Seven Days for the River Rhine, and also having established that we can’t just port things over sight […]
Swedish Tanks in Seven Days to the River Rhine Part 3: Copying Off Battlefront’s Test
So we’ve got a internal point costing model for Seven Days to the River Rhine main battle tanks, but knowing there’s some internal logic, the problem now is we have […]
Swedish Tanks in Seven Days to the River Rhine Part 2: The Point-Cost Model
Working toward implementing the Swedish S Tank in Seven Days to the River Rhine in a functional way, we will eventually need to cost them out in terms of points. Which […]
Swedish Tanks in Seven Days to the River Rhine – Part 1
As a child of the late 80’s and early 90’s, who very vividly remembers seeing Hunt for the Red October in theaters, the tanks and aircraft of the Cold War-era will […]
Statistical Threats to Metawatch
January is often a time when graduate students everywhere begin frantically cramming for various exams with words like “Qualifying”, “Comprehensive” and “Defense” in their names, which means it’s also the […]
How Hobby Community Echo Chambers Happen
Recently, I had a discussion on Twitter (genuinely a discussion, not a fight, a small miracle for the hellish birdsite!) about the often repeated and very rarely sourced notion that […]
On Games Workshop, IP and Fan Works
Let’s talk about Games Workshop, Intellectual Property, and social media’s impression that the sky is falling and GW lawyers are going to be knocking at the door any minute now […]
In Defense of Coaching in 40K
There are a lot of things I don’t like about Competitive 40K. This is…known. The hot takes (irony, I know). Some of the toxic personalities and poor gamesmanship that comes […]
Why The Timing of Warzone Charadon is a Good Thing
There’s some drama around the release of Warzone Charadon (though, in this era of “We can’t play games we can only talk about them”, “There’s some drama” is a pretty […]