Good Decisions Build on Bad Logic

by | Oct 7, 2018

I’m not going to break down the Big FAQ 2 – other people have done it better than I have, and if you’re looking for a source I’d suggest Nick Nanavati’s take over at Nights at the Game Table because you could do a hell of a lot worse...

2018 NOVA Open Invitational Bracket Benchmarks

by | Aug 28, 2018

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 source a wide range of predictions (there are 110 now)...

Are Small Countries at a Disadvantage in the ETC?

by | Aug 12, 2018

I’m going to briefly channel the spirit of Adam Abramowicz of The Best General, and talk about 40K via an extended analogy to an obscure, expensive sport that’s dominated by Europeans. I used to ski race, and one of the great and perpetual questions in the...

My Price Points Contain Multitudes

by | Aug 11, 2018

Or: How Kill Team and Titanicus are different games. I’m sitting here writing this on literally the eve of Adeptus Titanicus going live, and I’ve been thinking about some of the preemptive critiques of the game – one of which is, understandable, the...

“Unsung Heroes of the Heresy” – A Hobby Contest

by | Aug 2, 2018

They died on the black sands of Istvaan V, and the red sands of Mars. They fell leading doomed boarding actions at Phall, and cursing the names of their former brothers at the walls of Terra itself. They are called by many names: Captain, Thegn, Magos and Marshal....