The Horus Heresy: A Social Network

Social networks – the ties between people – are a really vibrant area of research. They’ve been used to do everything from examining the collapse of Enron to identifying hidden influencers in social groups. They’ve also been used in fiction to...

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 game (hello Drop Pods…) but because they didn’t lift up several codexes as much as...

Review: Minitaire Airbrush Paints

I’m new to airbrushing. The praise Carl of The Independent Characters fame heaped on the technique, plus hitting an absolute wall with my usual techniques trying to paint yellow encouraged me to take the plunge. Badger Airbrush Co. was at the Las Vegas Open last...

Two Novelty Space Wolves Lists

After a very calculus-heavy last post, I decided I could use some levity. My mind has been on designing Space Wolves lists recently, as I’ll be playing them in the LVO Narrative track this year and, far away as that seems now, it’s time to get started. Of...

The Math of a Meta

Or: What Variance Hammer actually does for a living. I’ve made a number of posts about “the meta” – what’s currently hot the game, what the distribution of forces are, etc., from the perspective of statistically analyzing the current...