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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: A 6-pack of Spice

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - August 24, 2022

Six tournaments this week marks the busiest competitive innovations has been in a while, and there's some interesting showdowns to cover, let's dive in. Nashcon Age of Sigmar GT 2022 82-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Nashville, TN, US on August 20...

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Warcry: Chaos Legionnaires Showcase

Kevin Fowler - August 20, 2022

Many thanks to Game Workshop for providing a preview copy of this warband. The Heart of Ghur rush continues with the release of the Chaos Legionnaires. This kit combines brigandine and horn helms with some classic Chaos Warrior aesthetics. The...

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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Ogor and Out

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - August 17, 2022

Hey folks, let's start off this week with a correction. Correction: In our Competitive Innovations on the 28th July 2022, we mistakenly noted that Andreas Hölter's Stormcast Eternals list "should not be possible," which was incorrect. We have fixed the...

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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Something Old, Something New, Lots of Drogors, Pusgoyles Spew

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - August 10, 2022

Four events to cover this week! Apologies if I'm a little loopy at times during today's article, I'm writing this at 4am because my daughter decided she wanted nothing more than to party in the middle of the night....

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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Somehow, Aelf nonsense returned

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - August 3, 2022

Hey folks! Thankyou to RagnarokAngel for covering in my absence last week - if you've been following me on twitter you'll know that my internet got cut off for several days and left me in both bored and unable...

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Age of Sigmar Tournament Report: A Proper Fisting At Southern Fried Open

Andrew "Marchettus" Brennen - July 26, 2022

The Second Annual Southern Friend Open ("SFO") was a two-day event held at the Southern Friend Gaming Expo ("SFGE"). SFGE is an annual event filled with board games, card games, D&D, Pathfinder, and all sorts of assorted nerd stuff...

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Hammer of Math: Impact of Win Percentage

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - July 25, 2022

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the impact of the various win percentages in the context of game balance. We here at Goonhammer are all about data driven analytics, which is why this column was created in...

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Editorial: The Problem with Age of Sigmar’s Battle Tactics

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - July 2, 2022

So GHB 2022 has arrived and with it the entire landscape of Age of Sigmar competitive play has shifted quite considerably. There’s a lot of discussion within the community regarding Bounty Hunters, Galletian Veterans and the competitive viability of...

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White Dwarf 477 – Tome Celestial: Flesh-eater Courts

Magos Sockbert - June 30, 2022

Who loves ghastly cannibalistic fiends hallucinating that they're noble questing knights protecting all the realms? You love it! I love it! Nagash love - well, maybe Nagash doesn't love the Flesh-eater Courts, but Games Workshop very well may, since...

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Start Competing: “JUUUUUUDGE!”

James "Boon" Kelling - June 13, 2022

I think one of the hardest things to be comfortable and confident in doing is requesting that a judge come to your table. For one thing, it often requires yelling out randomly for help and puts you in the...