Review: Tabletop Wargames – A Designers’ and Writers’ Handbook by Priestley & Lambshead
I’ve got no small interest in the design of miniature wargames, so when I saw that Pen & Sword books was doing a reprint of Tabletop Wargames: A Designers’ & […]
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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 […]
Five Parsecs: The First Campaign Turn
With a ship outfitted and crewed, armed decently enough and with a substantial loan breathing down their necks, it’s time for the intrepid crew of the Azure Dawn to go looking […]
Adventures in Solo Wargaming: Getting Started with 5 Parsecs from Home
I’ve been enjoying a 40K renaissance for the past six or so months, with an evening a week carved out for our group’s Crusade campaign, which I’m helping run. But […]
Command Points are 8th Edition’s Psychic Dice
TL;DR: They’re good at injecting flavor into the game, are fun in small quantities, but when deployed en masse break the game. This started as what was just going to be […]
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 […]
How Long a Long Shot? Forecasting Adam Abramowicz’s WZA 2018 Chances
For the most part on this blog I stay away from discussing individuals, both because it makes me faintly uncomfortable to talk about strangers on the internet, and also because […]
Ynnari Wraithknights: Conventional or Skathach?
Awhile back, I took a look at the performance of the Skathach Wraithknight vs. the standard Codex: Craftworlds Wraithknight firing two D-cannons, and was rather impressed with the balance between […]
Breaking Down the New Wraithknights
It should be obvious by now that I have a thing for the Eldar. Which means the re-release of The Doom of Mymeara has got me super-excited, mostly for my beloved […]
A System for Non-Competitive Campaign Scoring
I love linked campaigns. They’re probably my favorite way to play wargames – you build a little narrative in your head, you play some games, and at the end there’s […]