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Ringing at the Kill Team World Championships: An Event Report

Salutations readers, welcome to my recap of the 2023 World Championships of Warhammer, in which I played as a ringer! I was both very lucky to be covering the event for Goonhammer and also to be allowed to play in...

Adrian Bonvento Recaps His Path to Victory At The Inaugural New York Kill Team Open

Fresh off his victory at the New York Open Kill Team Tournament, we sat down with Adrian Bonvento to talk about his games at the event, his strategies, and his thoughts on Kill Team and competitive play. You can find...

A Recap of the New York Open Kill Team Tournament: Interviews with the Top 3

Recently New York City had its first New York Open Grand Tournament hosted Nov 12-13. This was a brand new tournament with 6 rounds of play over 2 days, with boards that covered both open layouts and Gallowdark. In...

The Chicago Open Age of Sigmar GT Recap: The End of All Things

2022 was the first time I travelled for pleasure without my family in over 20 years. The purpose of this trip was to trap myself in a Marriot or Hilton and play Age of Sigmar with strangers. The Chicago...

Baby’s First Tournament – Raf Goes to the Age of Sigmar Chicago Open

So there I was, a total Matched Play newbie, staring across the table at Team USA representative and nationally ranked AoS Player Anthony Trentanelli. I'm a casual player! A Path to Glory hound! Talk about a record-scratch-how-did-I get-here-moment. I...

Bonesplitterz at the Blackout VI GT: An Age of Sigmar Tournament Report

The Blackout series of events are 5-round, 2000-point matched play AoS affairs, usually run as ‘by the book’ as possible. Veteran TO Chris Tomlin has had an understandably rough recent run of it with cancellations and drops around Covid,...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 20: WarZone Houston

Hello, Dear Reader, and welcome back to my ongoing log of the 2022 season. Last time around I was furiously prepping for WarZone Houston, touching up Thousand Sons, refining the list, and touching up the models in order to...

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

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...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 5: Aeldari March Madness

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing (mis)adventures in competitive 40k. In my last article I attended the February Asgard RTT and again went 2-1, losing my first game to Custodes. I finally brought my Thousand Sons to their...

Three Days of Black Jokers: Malifaux at Captaincon 2022

There's something special about cons. You know it, I know it. Is it a smell? A pitch, just beyond the ken of the human ear, thrumming in the air like the heartbeat of a ghost?  Is it the ragged...