Why I Don’t Want 9th Edition Heresy
You ever have something that you could have sworn you wrote down at some point, and then you go back and try to find it and it’s just…not there? That’s […]
7th Edition
Pyrithite or Adrasite: Which Gun for the Guys in Gold?
While the Custodian Guard have been out for Horus Heresy for a long time now, the resin weapon upgrades are relatively new – so I thought I’d crunch the numbers […]
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. […]
LVO 2017 Analysis: Doom of the Eldar
As has become something of a yearly tradition here at Variance Hammer, I’ve done some number crunching on the 2017 Las Vegas Open 40K Championships, to see what there is to […]
Traitor’s Hate and Angel’s Blade: A Quick Take
This has been a somewhat belated article, as GW is writing faster than I am, and serious reviews are now…pretty behind schedule. The current plan is to approach the “State […]
The FAQ Was Never Going to Fix Your Codex
The vast majority of the FAQs are out, and several have been met with disappointment – not because they fail to address some ambiguity or add new oddities to the […]
Imperial Knights Review
Swift on the heels of the much larger Eldar codex review, we’re taking a look at the new Imperial Knights codex. Despite getting pretty massively beefed up, it’s still a […]
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 […]