Welcome to Competitive Innovations, our weekly feature for a number of game lines across the tabletop wargame space. Each week our army list and tactics experts canvass the top tournaments for their game of specialty, looking at the week’s top match-ups and how they played out on the tabletop to let you know what’s hot, what’s not, and what might be coming next as the competitive meta evolves year-round. Now look, I'm not labouring under any particular illusions that you're going to be that excited about this week's columns, because...

Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it can be a real blink-and-you’ll miss it situation.  That's why every week, we round up five of the biggest stories in the gaming sphere from the past week in the Games Industry News Roundup. Our trusty news boy, Dan “Swiftblade” Richardson, is here with the scoop. Itch.io Goes Briefly Offline Due to...

Hi folks! Last time on this little series, we were talking about some of the options for ramping in the 2 mana slot. Today, we're going to the other end of the ramp spectrum and looking at 4 mana cost ramp artifacts. As a refresher: Ramping is the term for spending your mana on sources of additional mana to use on later turns. Think of it like an investment; spend more mana now to have access to more later. Due to the nature of Commander being a multiplayer format where players have high starting life totals, raw aggression isn’t as potent...

Dimitri Bukharin, known across the motherland as Crimson Dynamo, is the subject of today's How to Paint Everything. Much like the Red Guardian, Bukharin is not the original bearer of the Crimson Dynamo moniker - he's the fifth, but also the longest serving character to hold the title. This Russian tin man was given his armor by his predecessor in the KGB and has clashed with the likes of the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and Wakanda, before retiring. Eventually he would return to the armor as part of Russia's superhero team, the Winter Guard, which serves as the leader...

Welcome to Competitive Innovations, our weekly feature for a number of game lines across the tabletop wargame space. Each week our army list and tactics experts canvass the top tournaments for their game of specialty, looking at the week’s top match-ups and how they played out on the tabletop to let you know what’s hot, what’s not, and what might be coming next as the competitive meta evolves year-round. Now look, I'm not labouring under any particular illusions that you're going to be that excited about this week's columns, because mere hours ago you will have received a (surprisingly early)...