Review: KR Backpack2

by | Feb 2, 2018

Every year I try to travel to one, and preferably several, events and I’m confronted with a perennial problem when I do: actually transporting my stuff. I live in a part of country where I’m not really in driving range of a lot of events, which means...

Under New Management: Reviewing the LVO Team Narrative

by | Feb 1, 2018

Despite writing a lot about competitive 40K, I’m a narrative player at heart. For me, 40K is about telling cool stories with neat models, and competitive gaming is a little bit like adopting a cat hoping it will go on walks and play fetch with you, and then...

40K in 2017

by | Jan 22, 2018

You thought you had escaped, hadn’t you? Surely, by the 22nd, all the various New Year introspectives would be over. Oh no my friend, you vastly underestimate my ability to procrastinate. And, as in years past, pondering the last year of the hobby collides...

40K in 2017

by | Jan 22, 2018

You thought you had escaped, hadn’t you? Surely, by the 22nd, all the various New Year introspectives would be over. Oh no my friend, you vastly underestimate my ability to procrastinate. And, as in years past, pondering the last year of the hobby collides...

Gauging the Community: A Cautionary Note on Surveys

by | Jan 3, 2018

There are a number of surveys that have gone around, including one from Games Workshop. In the coming days, I expect these to be trotted out to add an air of quantitative authority to debates online – this is, after all, what surveys are for. I’d like to...