Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing blog of competitive and hobby progress for 2024. Last time around I talked about the cancelation of the GW US Open in Tampa, and how that basically changed my plans. This week I'm going to be talking about my weekend - both the practice game I played against Andrew Corban and the Armies on Parade event at my local Games Workshop. Let's start with the practice game, since that's become much less interesting in the wake of new points and balance updates from Games...

Welcome to Competitive Innovations, our weekly feature for a number of game lines across the tabletop wargame space. Each week our army list and tactics experts canvass the top tournaments for their game of specialty, looking at the week’s top match-ups and how they played out on the tabletop to let you know what’s hot, what’s not, and what might be coming next as the competitive meta evolves year-round. Unfortunately, this week's major event was going to be the Games Workshop Tampa Open, which had to be cancelled due to...

If you're familiar at all with Commander, you'll have heard a lot of talk about Ramp. If you're newer to the game: Ramping is the term for spending your mana on sources of additional mana to use on later turns. Think of it like an investment; spend more mana now to have access to more later. Due to the nature of Commander being a multiplayer format were players have high starting life totals, raw aggression isn't as potent as it is in a 1v1 format, so the early turn are best used setting up your board and hand to...

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing blog of competitive and hobby progress for 2024. Last time around I talked about the cancelation of the GW US Open in Tampa, and how that basically changed my plans. This week I'm going to be talking about my weekend - both the practice game I played against Andrew Corban and the Armies on Parade event at my local Games Workshop. Let's start with the practice game, since that's become much less interesting in the wake of new points and balance updates from Games Workshop. With Tampa off the schedule, I needed one more event...

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing blog of competitive and hobby progress for 2024. Last time around I talked about the cancelation of the GW US Open in Tampa, and how that basically changed my plans. This week I'm going to be talking about my weekend - both the practice game I played against Andrew Corban and the Armies on Parade event at my local Games Workshop. Let's start with the practice game, since that's become much less interesting in the wake of new points and balance updates from Games Workshop. With Tampa off the schedule, I needed one more event...