Quite Interesting: Taking away the doubt

This little article about dice is worth your time. It mirrors something I've been saying for years and while we can all succumb to the aptly named "dice rape", most games can be won in spite of it.

By removing any possible idea your dice are rolling high/low due to imperfections, superstition or any other related issue.  By removing the doubt from your mind, you are increasing your ability to look at a situation logically and objectively.  To succeed in Hordes/Warmachine or any other miniature game  strategic planning and logical thought processes are required.  If anything is distracting you from this then your success outcome is lessened.  Dice doubt is one of these issues that often goes unappreciated and put under the ‘dice are dice’ phrase – as if that eases the blow.
- Rich Loxam

Quite Interesting: A return to infantry machine

I stumbled upon this article, and I consider it mandatory reading, although it's about Khador (also, he keeps saying things like "The Cryx players have it right", which warms my blackened little heart). The first half of the article is where all the really good stuff is located, so feel free to quit it when he goes on to the more specific Khador things.

Quite Interesting: Archive

A place to link the interesting things I stumble upon. These are articles I wish I could have written, and should be considered required reading. I should probably mention that I don't manage to incorporate half the things they say in those articles, and I do quite well anyway. I don't ever do the math like they do when playing, but I do guesstimate the odds every time I decide on a course of action.

• Resource management
• Dice Math
• Dice: Taking away the doubt
• Legal but creative measuring 
• Becoming a better player
• Three levels of a game
• Building a competitive list
• Analyzing your opponents army  
• Quick reference sheets
• Focus Camper's Bible
• Focus Camper's Bible, 2 

And a few things I found interesting. These are articles I found worthy of a mention, but life on earth will probably manage without them.

• Curse of Shadows Shenanigans
• Battle Engines: Storm Strider 
• A return to infantry machine, MKii 
• Cheating
  
• Power Booster
• How to proxy an army
• Common mistakes regarding Cryx (Word 97-2003 document)