Hammer of Math

Hammer of Math: 10th Edition Aeldari Strands of Fate

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - May 22, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the Aeldari Fate Dice mechanic that Games Workshop showed us for 10th Edition. The Eldar are at it again, using their psykers to alter their fate and get an advantage over...

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Hammer of Math: 10th Edition Blessings of Khorne

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - May 15, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math bows before the Blood God and examines the probabilities behind the Blessings of Khorne army rule for World Eaters. Say what you will about Games Workshop, but they certainly know how to hype up a...

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Hammer of Math: Warhammer 40k 10th Edition Equilibrium Points

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - May 8, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the various bonuses discussed about Warhammer 40k 10th Edition and examines where the 'break even' points are located. Long-term readers of this column are familiar with the concept of gatekeeping rolls,...

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Hammer of Math: Throwing Friends for Fun and Profit (Blood Bowl)

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - April 24, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math explores the intricacies of picking up a small teammate and throwing them as far as possible across the pitch in Blood Bowl. In Blood Bowl, the notion of the forward pass belies a significant amount...

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Hammer of Math: Critical Mechanics in 10th Edition

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - April 17, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at some of the information that Warhammer Community has revealed about the upcoming changes in the 10th Edition of Warhammer 40,000. Over a decade ago, I was at Adepticon when Mack Martin...

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Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Stats, Part 3

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 3, 2023

Last week we looked at the stats around secondary scoring for Chaos faction secondaries in Arks of Omen – you can find that article here. This week we’re going to go through the remaining Xenos faction secondaries and look...

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Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Stats, Part 2

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 27, 2023

Last week we looked at the stats around secondary scoring for generic secondaries and Imperium faction secondaries in Arks of Omen - you can find that article here. This week we're going to go through the Chaos faction secondaries...

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Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Objectives Stats, Part 1

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 20, 2023

We announced last week that we'd recently added data from Arks of Omen to 40kstats and with the wealth of new data - nearly 29 thousand games' worth at the time of this writing - it felt like a good time...

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Hammer of Math: I’m not mad at Vashtorr, just disappointed.

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - March 13, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math wonders what exactly happened with poor Vashtorr. Believe it or not, my full time job is not to write a weekly article for a gaming website. My area of expertise is engineering, which means that...

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Hammer of Math: Win Rates are great data points to look at. They’re definitely not enough.

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 7, 2023

This week we've got a very special Hammer of Math, with Stat Check's Cliff Thomas filling in for Primaris Kevin. Cliff is talking about win rates and how they're not necessarily the final data point to look at when...