Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Alright. The new Imperial Guard Astra Militarum Codex is out in the wilds now. While I am not the greatest scholar of the Imperial Guard in 40K, I can’t help but feel that a lot of the rules feel .. um … tedious? Prone to unnecessary rolls and re-rolls. It might be symptom of having […]
If you spend time reading miniature wargaming blogs or forums in the past year or two, you may have come across arguments that look like this one: “Game X has too much randomness. There is no point playing – no “player-skill” involved in playing – when arbitrary dice rolls decide the whole game.“ “Game X […]
This is a guest post by Salvador Uranga from Sentinel Games. When I had to deal with the creation of the first alien race for our new wargame Total Extinction, I wanted them to be very different from the numerous adaptations we’ve seen a million times before. My aim was to create the new species from […]
Occasionally, one has to ask oneself basic questions. Or, failing that, ask the readers of your blog some basic questions. So here is one for you: Are spam-armies in Warhammer 40K inferior to other armies (lists), or do they merely represent a different, just as viable approach to the game? #1 – Warhammer 40K Spam […]
This is an interview with renowned game-designer Alessio Cavatore. Alessio and I talked on Skype about his latest game, Loka: The World of Fantasy Chess, which is currently looking for the support of enthusiastic gamers and miniature painters on Kickstarter. Talking to Alessio on Skype proved to be a fickle thing (or rather, my internet-connection […]
There goes a sacred cow of Warhammer 40K I didn’t expect to go. Games Workshop released a first version of rules errata for the latest Chaos Space Marines Codex. A scant few changes, mainly to Plaque Zombies. More astounding however, a straight 5 point discount on the Helbrute! That is something I cannot remember ever […]
