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. Picture me walking into the office of our stats team and finding red lights flashing and  sirens blaring, with TheChirurgeon and...

This holiday season in AoS land we have received a swathe of Regiments of Renown to add to the game. A thank you to Games Workshop for sending across for review.  We covered what Regiments of Renown are and how you can put them into your lists at the start of the new edition, which you can find here. The short version of that is they take up one of your five Regiments when building a list and nothing else can go into that Regiment. So they automatically add one...

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...

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. Trench Crusade Backerkit Surveys Go Live After Thanksgiving Delays After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign that raised...

This holiday season in AoS land we have received a swathe of Regiments of Renown to add to the game. A thank you to Games Workshop for sending across for review.  We covered what Regiments of Renown are and how you can put them into your lists at the start of the new edition, which you can find here. The short version of that is they take up one of your five Regiments when building a list and nothing else can go into that Regiment. So they automatically add one additional drop, which will often make the difference between choosing...