Tyranny Cereal

 Hello, dear reader. I'm glad you're tolerating my sporadic posting, that's very good of you. You're as supportive an imaginary friend as I could ask for. Projects Thesis So, the main thing I'm working on at the moment is my PhD thesis. I've made the unfortunate decision to agree to present on my research at the end of next week, so that's put a bit of extra pressure on me regarding this at the current moment. Right now I have two papers written. These papers will end up comprising two chapters of my thesis. Where I am getting my degree requires three chapters, though I technically have four in the works. The second chapter is what I'm currently working on, despite it being mostly done. The last bit is taking more time than I imagined it would - currently I'm doing a bit of a literature review on the material just to make sure I have up to date references and can tie my research together with the wider topic better.  Chapter 3 is mapped out and parti...

 Hello, dear readers. I had meant to post a 2nd time last week, but fell behind on that. I apologize to all 0 of you for that. Yesterday I ran across a graphic that touched on the balance of current Games Workshop games (Just AoS and 40k), and since that's what had been on my mind I wanted to share my immediate thoughts and reactions to the current state of things, as it were. THE STATE OF THINGS As it were from what data we have that I personally haven't actually analyzed and looking at it through entirely biased and subjective lenses 40k win rates by faction Age of Sigmar win rates by faction So, for those of you who remember from last week, Age of Sigmar's balance was considered bad enough that GW released a points incentive for playing weaker armies and against playing powerful models. I was honestly impressed, however, at how balanced Age of Sigmar appears to be, at least compared to 40k. The first graphic there makes some assumptions about critical balance problems, a...