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Play good opponents. There are a couple of guys at one of the stores I go to who I doubt I will ever beat (for various reasons), but playing against them is a pretty good lesson in how to wring out the best performance possible from an army, and learn exactly what the weaknesses in your own list and playstyle are.

In general though, knowing the rules and understanding how the game works should serve you in the best stead.

never blame anything. if you lose, no one thing can be pointed at and declared the sole reason for the lose. many things contribute to a loss. the key is than to figure which things that contributed to the loss were under your control, and figure out what you can do about these things. equally important, is to analyze what contributed to your opponents victory, determine which of these were under his control, and seek to neutralize them. is he heavy on the shooty? screen your assault troops with cover and throw-away units. is he heavy on the assault? take units that can move and shoot to keep him at the edge of your weapons range.

Ditch the mathhammer and just have fun

Mathhammer might slightly improve your odds of winning, but it sucks all the fun out of the game to have someone muttering probability equations under their breath as they play, and they get all bent out of shape when their SC is 0.111345 percent more likely to beat mine, and loses

If you enjoy the hades out of mathhammer feel free I find it more to my taste to play whatever units i like, and learn their foibles in play

Ascalam wrote:Ditch the mathhammer and just have fun

Mathhammer might slightly improve your odds of winning, but it sucks all the fun out of the game to have someone muttering probability equations under their breath as they play, and they get all bent out of shape when their SC is 0.111345 percent more likely to beat mine, and loses

If you enjoy the hades out of mathhammer feel free I find it more to my taste to play whatever units i like, and learn their foibles in play

I agree math hammer is such garbage. I have NEVER met a math hammer player who DIDN'T blame everything on the dice. nothing wrong with knowing your odds but don't base all your decisions on them. in war you have to take risks and that's the fun part ;D.

In general I use mathhammer to use my soldiers in more efficient ways, even though I know that chance could be against me.


Also OT, dice-rolling really isn't chance, its just that we (humans) don't know how to calculate what side the dice is going to roll on with all the other factors(which makes it only incredibly close to being true 'chance' for humans, same goes for flipping coins.

I blame dice, now i know i got myself into this situation but i had 9 wounds on some a squad of my marines and i rolled 9 2's. i Blame my dice.

read sun tzu that is all