Giant Battling Robots: The Grinder - March 2012

Haven't done this for a while, so there is a lot of grist for the mill.
Also, GBR has a Google+ page.

--- The Grinder, March 16, 2012 ---

Dice Sculptures, via Proof Math is Beautiful

Three recently released books from John Curry's

History of Wargaming Project:

1. Donald Featherstone's Tank Battles in Miniature Vol 4
2. The Wargame Pioneers
3. Innovations in Wargaming
And a video, the first of a series = a future post topic.

www.graphicshunt.com

Why you think you are good at something (when you really aren't).

From The Psychology of Video Games:
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Multiplayer Games

More on Dunning-Kruger at Improbable Research.

**** The World's Funniest Joke ****

Eighteen (!!!) years in the making. This is love of miniatures!
Toy Soldiers Forever: The "Old Third": All Present or Accounted For

Via GrogNews:
Make your own game counters online
and
Warfighter 101 Designer's Notes (a great read)
and
something fishy.

Maybe this should just be the GrogNews edition of the Grinder
Via GrogNews:  Games and Simulations, with Dr. James Sterrett

Gamasutra: How tough is your game? Creating Difficulty Graphs

The relationship between cubes and hexagons, animated. 

from Proof (Math is Beautiful)

These posts are fun, I should do them more often. ;-)