9th edition

Little Wars: Incursion Mission Gameplay

Among the many shakeups of 9th edition, one of the more interesting changes has been a new emphasis on different levels of game play. Yes, in older editions you could play at any scale you wanted, but the level...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Iron Halo and Red Rock Exterminatus

Welcome back to the second part of our coverage of what proved to be an extremely busy weekend for the 40K tournament scene, this time turning our attention to two events taking place in the USA, the Iron Halo...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Europe and Down Under

The past weekend has been an extremely busy one in the 40K world, with a huge number of multi-day events running around the world. That means that as a special treat, this week you get two of these! Today, we'll...

Goonhammer Reviews Warhammer 40,000: Beyond the Veil

While the majority of our articles focus on competitive and tournament play for Warhammer 40,000, many of us here at Goonhammer enjoy narrative games that drip with theme and story as much as we do matched play games -...

Goonhammer Reviews Warhammer 40k Chapter Approved: Tactical Deployment

One of the more interesting announcements to come out of last month's streaming preview, the Tactical Deployment promised a new way to play that would have players bringing their own terrain to battles and building battlefields to suit their armies....

Ruleshammer – Aircraft

Aircraft Minimum Move Rules Aircraft models typically have a Move characteristic consisting of two values. The first is the model’s minimum Move characteristic – in its Movement phase, all parts of the model’s base must end the move at least that...

Ruleshammer Q&A: September 24th 2020

Another week another Ruleshammer Q&A... I talk about Open Topped Transports again... of course. I swear there are other rules. Question 1 - Smite’s targets Smites wording in 8th was "If manifested, the closest visible enemy unit within 18" of the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Brisbane GT

From within the terrible Panopticon we recently had installed in the Goonhammer offices we have once more cast our gazes far and wide to continue bringing you week-by-week updates on the exciting new builds players are trying out in...

Beanith’s Excellent Adventure (a Foray Into Competitive Play)

Hi folks, Beanith here - I've talked recently about building out my Death Guard for the NOVA that never was (that I also didn't plan to attend) and it seemed a shame to put in all that work and...

9th Edition Tier List: Expectations vs. Reality

Yeah OK, we're doing this. Time is currently a flat circle with no meaning, but as measured by the mechanisms set down in the Before Time we're nearly 2 months into 9th Edition. While COVID has forced the competitive scene...