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Hammer of Math: Age of Sigmar Incarnates

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - October 10, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the challenges of killing incarnates, and also takes a look at the offensive power of the Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur. Note that these rules may be affected by a future...

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Hammer of Math: The Impact of the Votann FAQs

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - October 3, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the mathematical changes that come from the magna-rail Leagues of Votann Balance Update that Games Workshop released last Thursday. Assuming this isn't the first article you've ever read about Warhammer 40k...

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Hammer of Math: Warhammer 40k Leagues of Votann Options and Builds

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - September 26, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes another look at Leagues of Votann, focusing on the options available to different units. Last week, in what turned out to be fairly popular article, we provided a rather expletive-laden discussion on why multiple...

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Hammer of Math: Votann Break All the Rules in Warhammer 40k

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - September 19, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at Codex: Leagues of Votann and how incomprehensibly game breaking their abilities are. Three years ago this week I wrote my first article for Hammer of Math, covering the Warhammer 40k attack...

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Hammer of Math: The Necromunda Ridgehauler is Impossible to Kill

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - September 12, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math heads outside of the hives and examines exactly how difficult it really is to kill these vehicles. Vehicles in Necromunda are a lot of fun, but one of the things you quickly discover is that...

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Hammer of Math: Warhammer 40k Chaos Daemon Psychic Powers

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - September 5, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math returns to the Immaeterium to examine the probabilities behind the various Psychic disciplines available in Codex: Chaos Daemons for Warhammer 40k. With the notable exception of the Blood God, psychic powers are a major element...

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Hammer of Math: Warhammer 40k Chaos Daemons Warp Storm Points

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - August 29, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math feels the warp overtaking us and embraces the chaos that is the new Warp Storm Point for Chaos Daemons. Every now and then I wonder why I don't have a Chaos Daemons army. They look...

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Hammer of Math: Warhammer 40k Daemon Princes and Daemon Weapons

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - August 22, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math fully embraces the temptations of Chaos and looks at the impact of the various combinations of Daemon weapons for Daemon Princes. Thanks to reader Rafael for the suggestion! The Daemon Prince represents the pinnacle of...

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Hammer of Math: Nephilim Secondary Data 8/1/2022

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 1, 2022

Welcome, Dear Reader to another fill-in Hammer of Math. Primaris Kevin couldn't be here this week so you once again have me filling in with some stats and data from our wonderful dataset over at 40kstats. The War Zone Nephilim...

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Hammer of Math: Impact of Win Percentage

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - July 25, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the impact of the various win percentages in the context of game balance. We here at Goonhammer are all about data driven analytics, which is why this column was created in...