Goonhammer Gift Guide 2024: Best Gifts for Hobby Beginners

It is indeed that season once again, so if you are looking for gift inspiration, hearty recommendations, or just don’t know what to buy the miniature or gaming hobbyist in your life (including yourself; buy yourself something nice), Merry Matron Marcy is here to help with a selection of curated guides for all of your gift giving needs. I’ve assembled a team of elves (the Santa kind, not the Blood Bowl kind) to help me fill out these gift...

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Warhammer 40K

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 39: Dawn of War in Kessandras

In the first part of his Grand Narrative/WCW Recap, TheChirurgeon talks about arriving at the 2024 WCW and playing in the Grand Narrative.

Age of Sigmar

[AOS] Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: 2024-11-25

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. It's a big week for Competitive Innovations, the WCW of Warhammer happened in Atlanta with Casper from Denmark taking the crown...

Columns

Commander Focus: Eat Your Foes – Boil ‘Em, Mash ‘Em, Stick ‘Em in a Stew (Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant)

This week I'm back with a seasonal brew helmed by Frodo, Adventurous Hero and Sam, Loyal Attendant. This deck tries to generate as many Food tokens as possible, and then use them for drawing cards, stabilizing its life total, and turning them into drain effects on its way to victory.   The Commanders: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant Much like in the Lord of the Rings, Frodo is like... a helpful guy who does some good stuff, I guess, but the real star of the show is good old Samwise Gamgee. He gets the ball rolling creating Food tokens, and...

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 39: Dawn of War in Kessandras

In the first part of his Grand Narrative/WCW Recap, TheChirurgeon talks about arriving at the 2024 WCW and playing in the Grand Narrative.

[40K] Competitive Innovations In 10th: Gold Medal pt.2

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. More? You want more Warhammer? Even after the world Championships. Shocking. Today we've got: Fantasia Fanatic XLVI - 40K DaBoyz GT Rochester 2024 40K 1v1 GT Terra'n'dins ALL STARS COOL DOWN - Hellstorm's...

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