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 […]
Statistics
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 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 […]
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 […]
State of the Crusade: A Poll
Since this blog started, the amount of statistical knowledge that exists about the competitive 40K scene has exploded – basic summary statistics and the like are now widely available and […]
What’s the role for Math Hammer in Narrative Gaming?
This was inspired by a question from Cadian Shock, and was originally supposed to just be a snippet. But it’s gotten a bit past that, and I thought it would […]
Review: MathHammer (Mobile App)
Cadian Shock has been a long time IG-centric blogger, and a hobbyist I’ve been following for a long time. But more recently, he’s become a purveyor of various Warhammer-related web […]
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 […]
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 […]