MESBG Miniature Review – Battle for Edoras Forgeworld Resin Heroes and Villains

We would like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with review copies of the Forgeworld figures launching with Battle for Edoras. The Sprues These figures are all Forgeworld resin casts, supplied on sprues and cast in the more modern Forgeworld resin.   All the figures were clean casts, and the improved Forgeworld resin of the last few years gives good levels of detail while being reasonably easy to work with. This piecing of the figures is done well, meaning assembly is not...

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Warhammer 40K

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 40: The Finale of the Grand Narrative

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing blog of competitive and hobby progress for 2024. Yesterday I talked about my travel to the venue and the first day of games at the Grand Narrative. Today I'll be recapping Saturday and Sunday at the event, talking about the results, and giving some final thoughts on this year's Grand Narrative. Day 3: Saturday I didn't sleep a ton on Friday night, but mostly that was because of staying up late drinking. I wasn't in bad shape or anything but I was pretty tired Saturday morning....

Age of Sigmar

SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 52

Stormbringer is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks introducing players to Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium US subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. If you want to follow along at home, US Customers can check out Stormbringer here. You ever see an army and think "this isn't for me, but someone out there is doing backflips over these right now"? That's Kharadron Overlords, banking on two tastes...

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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...

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MESBG Miniature Review – Battle for Edoras Forgeworld Resin Heroes and Villains

We would like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with review copies of the Forgeworld figures launching with Battle for Edoras. The Sprues These figures are all Forgeworld resin casts, supplied on sprues and cast in the more modern Forgeworld resin.   All the figures were clean casts, and the improved Forgeworld resin of the last few years gives good levels of detail while being reasonably easy to work with. This piecing of the figures is done well, meaning assembly is not too complex. Building As with all resin figures I washed these in warm water with detergent before assembly. There are a number of...

Goonhammer Interviews 2024 World Champion Folger Pyles

We sat down to talk to the 2024 World Champion of Warhammer 40k, Folger Pyles, about his Adeptus Custodes army and his run through the toughest players in the world.

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