Arcadia Prime

Unless you're one of those players who buys a new codex and army, plays it in tournaments, then sells everything on ebay as soon as th...

Any time a new codex comes out, the Interwebs explode with everyone hating on the new fluff.  Beloved history and background are retconn...

It's taken as a given that when you play a game of 40k, during a game you're going to lose a large portion of your army.  Maybe al...

In the real world, snipers have repeatedly been called "the deadliest weapon on the battlefield." Snipers have the element of s...

The Codex Astartes is the holy tome written by Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman.  It defines the organization and tactical doctrine...

It seems like these days, the focus of gaming is more on making the army list rather than playing the game.  Army list posts on blogs and ...

In the design of any new model or miniature, one of the key things designers have to come to grips with is keeping the "theme" of ...

A recent post on Bell of Lost Souls got me thinking about this.  Actually I've been thinking about it for long while, but the BoLS p...

I'm not a competitive player. That is to say, I don't play in tournaments and I don't pore obsessively over my army list and tw...

I think GW has a workable business model with The Lord of the Rings line, provided they marketed it right.   The Lord of the Rings Strategy...

Another point of the Specialist Game Rant the I mentioned in Part 1 is that the purpose of the "side games" was to draw in new...

It's been almost three months since I bought anything GW-related. The reasons are many--but boil down to distractions and discipline...

It's the background that gets you to play the game...but once the game starts, the background goes out the window. To a degree, even C...

The 40k Universe is a dangerous place. In the real world, last stands happen in wars, but are generally uncommon (at least in modern times...

It seems to me that there are two main kinds of Imperial Guard Players:  The Gamer and the Hobbyist .  The Gamer plays games often.  He w...

Seeing this post by Ron over at From the Warp got me thinking about this again. When I saw the Apocalypse Bloodthirster Bloodbath format...

A certain situation has happened again and again in my gaming experience. One player interprets a rule one way ( "He gets a 5+ save!...

Over the past decade, within my gaming group, we've had many pick up games, the forces and scenario being determined by a rule of "...

Over on that great 40k blog, Bell of Lost Souls , Brass Scorpion recently put up an excellent editorial piece: " A Funny Thing Happene...