Is Advanced Mathhammer for me?

Welcome to Advanced Mathhammer. Not sure if this site is for you? We aren’t either. Try taking our simple five-minute quiz to find out.

1.) A unit of twelve Fire Warriors (BS3) equipped with Pulse Rifles (S5, AP5, Rapid Fire) fires on a unit of eight Space Marines (T4, 3+) eight inches away. On average how many marines will die?

A.) 8/3

B.) 4/3

C.) 2? Maybe 3?

D.) None! I always make my Armor Saves on my Space Marines!

E.) How can a third of a marine die? Mathhammer is so dumb.

2.) After some brilliant tactical maneuvering and much gnashing of teeth you manage to get your unit of six Fire Dragons with their Fusion Guns five inches from the enemy’s Land Raider. You open fire and get three penetrating hits. Assuming the Land Raider has three weapons, what are the chances of destroying or exploding it?

A.) 87.5%

B.) 75%

C.) Pretty good.

D.) 100% - My land raider always gets killed by stupid Melta’s. It’s not fair!

E.) 50%. Either it dies or it doesn’t!

3.) You move of your Infantry Platoons of ten members including a Veteran Sergeant (Ld 8) to block line of site to your Leman Russ’ side armor. The enemy tries to wipe them out of the way but only kills four. You have to take your break test. What are the chances of your platoon heading for the hills?

A.) 5/18

B.) 5/12

C.) Not that good? Leadership 8 is pretty good.

D.) With me probably 100%. I’m so bad at taking leadership tests.

E.) I don’t care my Leman Russ is totally going to KILL YOUR FACE NEXT TURN OMG!!!11!!!

4.) When you see ‘mathhammer’ on the internets what is your first thought?

A.) Groan. Let’s see what they got wrong this time.

B.) Let’s pull out the old calculator.

C.) Eh. I hope my brain doesn’t hurt too much this time.

D.) I don’t get it.

E.) What’s going on? So many numbers… YOU GUYZ ARE SO LIEK TOTALLY NERDS!!11!!!!

If you answered mostly…

A – This site is for you. You’re a top notch mathhammerer. Please feel free to contribute and comment as much as you want.

B – You’re almost there, but not quite. Best have someone check over your calculations before posting too much.

C – Your head’s in the right place but you aren’t. Go learn some basic mathhammer and come back when you are ready for more.

D – You don’t get Mathhammer. You will get very little (besides headache and frustration) from reading this site. If you’re interested in learning mathhammer, this isn’t the place.

E – Yes I’d like fries with that.