Idle Speculation

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]