Beyond Sportsmanship: Game Stewardship
The great Time of Reflection Posts continues! This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for awhile – I started thinking about it thinking about the evolution of Horus […]
Idle Speculation
40K and 30K Have Used Different Systems for Awhile
Or: Stop Stressing About 8th Edition. One of the pressing questions coming out of the 8th Edition announcement was “What about Horus Heresy?” The answer, for the moment, appears to […]
Saying Goodbye to 7th…
It’s a matter of weeks now before 8th Edition rolls out, with many, many changes afoot. It also happens to be close to the 3rd anniversary of Variance Hammer getting started. […]
Two Novelty Space Wolves Lists
After a very calculus-heavy last post, I decided I could use some levity. My mind has been on designing Space Wolves lists recently, as I’ll be playing them in the […]
The Math of a Meta
Or: What Variance Hammer actually does for a living. I’ve made a number of posts about “the meta” – what’s currently hot the game, what the distribution of forces are, […]
Relentless Profit Machine, 20% Gamers and GW as a Company
On Friday, a British investing site called Interactive Investor published an article titled Games Workshop AGM: A relentless profit machine. I’ll admit to being more than passively interested in the business world […]
Musing on Custom Dice
Awhile ago, I had a disastrous game – everything seemed to be going wrong, and the dice were…well, the dice were not with me. Later, I discovered the reason for […]
Prospero Is Balance Hard Mode
The Forge World Open Day has once more come and gone, and as always, it’s a chance to see some spectacular upcoming models from those fine purveyors of income destroying resin […]
40K 7th Edition: One Year Out
As Games Workshop’s remarkably useful Warhammer iOS app (I was as surprised as anyone) has reminded me, we’re at the one year anniversary of the latest edition of Warhammer 40K, following fast on […]
Five is a trend…GW’s voice is clear when it comes to army composition restrictions
Taking a brief break from the Eldar Codex review for a brief musing about the new Knights Codex. They’re all Lords of War. I’m pretty sure GW is coughing meaningfully […]