This week's Hammer of Math examines the distribution of tasks within the Pariah Nexus Mission Deck. There was a lot to like about Leviathan, including the dynamic experience of Tactical Missions and the sheer number of combinations stemming from selecting a Deployment, Primary Mission, and Mission Rule. There were other things (notably Secret Missions) which were a bit of a miss, but overall the concept was good. Pariah Nexus leverages a lot of what was good from Leviathan and tweaks the bad, and I have definitely had fun playing it. As...

Or Rats of Renown, if you will. Many thanks to Games Workshop for providing us with an advanced preview copy of the new Skaven Battletome to review. Please note: The Battletome doesn’t come with printed points and this obviously limits our ability to assess everything in detail. Rest assured that once the pitched battle profiles are released, we will have an in-depth Faction Focus ready for the perfidious ratmen. This review is only looking at the Armies and Regiments of Renown in the new Skaven Battletome; for our review on the...

One of the single best things you can do in a game of Magic is "Draw a card," but only slightly less well-known is this: "...spells cost {1} less to cast." Yes, reducing the overall costs of cards allows savvy players to chain together lines of potent combo pieces together to achieve victory, but largely this path towards a win is stymied by colored mana costs. Until very recently, cost reductions in Magic 'contributed' towards either the colored or colorless mana costs of a card, in the case of something like Morophon, the Boundless vs Haughty Djinn. However, in...

Stormbringer is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks introducing players to Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium US subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. If you want to follow along at home, US Customers can check out Stormbringer here. With a pair of bonus issues down and 40 gone by, we've officially reached the halfway point of our journey together, dear reader. What terrors, treasures, and tribulations await us in the latter half of this weekly endeavor? One...

Note: a prior version of this article incorrectly referenced the"ITC Code of Conduct" instead of the "FLG Code of Conduct. This has been corrected. After seeing a recent Facebook poll over at the Frontline Gaming page asking how yellow cards and point deductions should be handled. It was a good and relevant question, but ultimately it struck me that the fundamental premise of the question was flawed. Our entire approach to misplay, cheating, and penalization places the emphasis on the wrong subject and fails to facilitate active judging at a level of nuance that this game requires competitively. To understand,...