Tag: Mind Games

Top Warhammer 40k Tactics: How to Win Before Turn 1- Nights At The Game Table

  Okay, so you’re standing across from someone and they just handed you their list.  You could be at a friend’s house, the local game store or maybe you’re even at your first tournament.  Either way, you’re staring at the list they handed you, trying to figure out how

Top Tau Tactics, Defense and Good Screening – Knights At The Game Table

  Any tau player with a game under their belt knows that tau dominate the shooting phase.  However, with tau’s best close combat unit being a mediocre character and having no psychic phase presence, other armies tend to try to bully tau in those phases rather than take them

Center Control

  In my article a couple weeks ago, I talked about how to control the area around objectives.  However there is one location on the board more important to control than individual objectives – the center.  In chess, the closer to the center of the board a piece is

Mind Games: Game Prep for a Tank-Commander

In previous articles we’ve touched on the four kinds of gamers as well as the value of passive thinking. This week’s article is third in a series of four, in which we will look to combine these two concepts, play to our strengths and embrace our preferred playstyle. Specifically,

Mind Games: Game Prep for a Changeling

In previous articles we’ve touched on the four kinds of gamers as well as the value of passive thinking. This week’s article is second in a series of four, in which we will look to combine these two concepts, play to our strengths, and embrace our preferred playstyle. Specifically,

Mind Games – The Dice Are Not The Reason You Lost

Don’t blame the dice. This is something just about every good player I’ve ever talked to or heard talk about improving the game has said at some point. It’s often the first lesson told to someone looking to up their game, and it’s one that for most of us,

Mind Games: What Kind of Gamer Are You?

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Last week we looked at the four kinds of gamer you may face in a quick overview of game psychology, which is a