With the release of the vampire counts I think that magic at tournaments is entering a binary phase.  Either you go huge or go home.  The Vampires introduce another army that will consistently field 12 or so dice effective ... Read More »

I watched two players battling it out the other day.  One had a tricked out army with a killer BSB with a 100 pt banner which was just controlling the game.  Turn after turn he got into combat and won over and over. ... Read More »

I recently went to a small tournament in another town.  I was able to go and  play rather than run this so it was refeshing but I remember why many places fail wiht their tournaments. I was impressed with the turnout as 18 ... Read More »

Wizards has been for a while printing fewer and fewer non creature cards.  It almost seems that the braintrust at WOC has decided to make magic into a game of creature wars where the only acceptable artifacts are equipment and the a ... Read More »

There have been a series of Norse themed games recently like Midgard and Beowulf but the best of these is Vikings by Rio Grand Games.  It really is a shopping game where on your turn you buy a lot which includes one person and one l ... Read More »

Patrician by Phalanx games is a great little game.  I recently played Patrician for the first time and I thought it was great.  It seemed a bit like Web of Power and China but had a very interesting hand refilling dynamic w ... Read More »

More troops is more better.  This is perhaps the mantra of my army construction.  Enough blocks of guys and you should be able to get a flank.  Enough guys and shooting is rendered irrelevant.  Enough guys ... Read More »

I have been playing Warhammer for over 12 years and dealing witht he company for over a decade.  In all this time the thing that I find the strangest is the paradoxical approach to rules.  On the one hand they are bad with ... Read More »

It seems I find players who have just finished a good tournament and they think there army is now perfect.  Unfortunately this si a random game and sometimes success is random.  In almost all cases a successful army could b ... Read More »

Often players put their units side to side right next to each other not realizing this is bad play.  As a unit must stop when it moves within 1" of an opponent's unit you do not need to do this to keep the opponent from run by ... Read More »