Editorials

  What is the term Chapterhouse Effect that’s been flying around lately, and have we already started seeing it?

Today I’m going to do something I don’t do very often, venture away from pure hobby fun and talk about Games Workshop.

We’ve all heard speculation about Games Workshop’s business strategies (or lack thereof) and it looks like one former retailer may have cracked the code.

Hello internet, it’s Jstove, and today I want to talk about Orks. More importantly, I want to talk about why that guy that hangs around your local shop and those internet forums you spend too much time lurking is wrong.

TJ here from Dark Future Games to talk about Formations in our 40k. Formations were a hot topic when they first came out and caused quite a stir. Since then, many more formations have been released and an entirely new edition came out that made room for them … but does everyone agree that they […]

Shut up everyone, it’s JStove and I’ve got an important announcement. Rob Baer, owner/operator of Spikey Bits, wants you to steal from him. That’s right, you heard it here first.Now, some of you might be familiar with Rob’s buy-back program, where he takes your old minis you don’t want anymore and he re-sells them at […]

Hot on the heels of a yet another article you’ve already read on BoLS, it’s the Jstove to tell you about why everything you read on the internet about 40k is bunk, and why you need to quit the game and start playing warmahordes.No but seriously, don’t quit 40k and play Warmahordes. It’s probably one […]

Hey 40k speculation goons, it’s JStove, and I’m here to tell you that the whole internet is wrong.Which is nothing new, the internet is always wrong. Moving on. More importantly, a bunch of other 40k op-ed writers, forum trolls, and rumor mongers were wrong too, and depending on when this article is published, 7th ed […]

Hello Spikey Bits, its time for me, Jstove, resident jerk that doesn’t play in your shop that you’ve never met who writes sarcastic editorials about 40k for Spikey Bits that sometimes get recycled onto BoLS, to add my own contribution to the big, stinking pile of conjecture and speculation that is the 7th ed rumor […]

Warhammer 40,000 enthusiasts are waiting anxiously to see what the new 7th Edition of the game will bring. Games Workshop has already previewed some details of it. Here are a few of my own thoughts about it. I’ve been collecting Warhammer models for 25 years. Some of my collections are ridiculously large. I like modeling […]

Hello citizens of the Imperium, Jstove here (the Louis Black of Spikey Bits), and I want to tell you all about how the forces of chaos, nids, space-elves, and giant bugs are plotting to bend you over and take you to bad touch town with their hottest new spam list for unbound armies. Actually, this […]

Hey internet, it’s JStove, and I have a stupid idea.  How stupid? EDITORS NOTE: This article was written for 7th edition 40k back in 2014. BUT the article itself still has merit now-a-days with the way everything is going currently. – Enjoy Well, maybe its convert-an-army-of-space-marines-to-be-goatmen dumb. Maybe its “Hey, let’s post an opinion on the […]

Slow, stagnated, and dying Warhammer 40k seems to no longer be a game of skill or tactics anymore. It has, depending on who you talk to, morphed in less than a year to become a game of how do I make this squad do everything, and win. And win those squads do, but the cost […]

The Imperial Knight titan may be the best unit in the game, and here’s why. The other day on Bell of Lost Souls Reece posted up an interesting article about the new Imperial Knight model, called Of Knights and Men.If you haven’t read it yet, go do it now, we’ll wait for you to come back.  I really liked the article […]

It’s no secret that GW’s sales were down in 2013 from the previous year and that their stock price plummeted on January 16, 2014 when this was formally announced in their most recent financial report.As a GW customer of more than two decades I can’t help but have some thoughts and lamentations about it. I’ve […]

Good thing they got rid of the bits market huh?I hope THIS is not the new program we’ve been hearing about from Games Workshop. A mere six months after shit canning the bits/ sprue industry, in North America, GW sees its biggest drop in stock prices like, ever. I’m not going to touch much on […]

It appears that Finecast may be officially dead, as there are no new Tyranid models releasing with this material!Finecast was also notoriously absent from the last few releases of 2013 as well ( Space Marines, and Dark Elves). It seems pretty unheard of for nearly half a year of  new releases to go by, one of which […]

Last week a ton of rumors broke about a supposed 7th Edition of Warhammer 40k being released. Let’s take a closer look.Apparently it was posted somewhere that Games Workshop would be releasing 7th Edition Warhammer 40k sometime this year, a full two years early of it’s normal four year release cycle. First off let me […]