Beasts of Chaos

[AOS] Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: 2024-11-20

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...

The Goonhammer Review: The Fourth Edition Beasts of Chaos Digital Battletome

The new edition of Age of Sigmar has brought with it a slew of new rules, exciting reactivity, and brand-new takes on beloved factions. The opportunity to truly reinvent for the first time in the game’s lifespan has not...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Good News for Those Who Love the Charge Phase

Another slow week, reader. We got two small GTs, one in Maryland and one in Wisconsin. The Really Really Good GT 32-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Westminster, MD, United States on May 04 2024. All the lists for this event can...

The Lore Explainer: Age of Sigmar’s Age of Chaos

In recent years, as the Age of Sigmar game has established itself, the lore behind it has evolved into a fascinating and intriguing narrative setting. While it does take Warhammer Fantasy Battles as a foundation the Age of Sigmar lore is no mere re-boot...

Michigan GT Age of Sigmar Championship Wrap Up

This past weekend 90 players took part in the Age of Sigmar Championship at the Michigan GT. Each year I try to play different stuff at the GT - this year I wanted to really get into AOS and...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: But.. the Future Refused to Change

Welcome back folks for a two event article and our first in a while where I don't have to specify whether or not recent rules are allowed - we are into Battlescroll Andtor in earnest, and it might surprise...

How to Paint Tzaangors – TheChirurgeon’s Method

This article is part of a larger series on how to paint the Thousand Sons. To return to the parent article, click this link.  Tzaangors paint up relatively quickly, and you can give them a striking look with only a small...

Casual to Competitive: Mugginns’ Age of Sigmar Journey to the Michigan GT

For this year's Michigan GT (at the time of writing there are five tickets left to the AOS championship) I decided I want to learn to play Age of Sigmar better - move from a casual level to a...

Age of Sigmar September Battlescroll – The Goonhammer Hot Take

Finally! September is here and during arguably one of the most tumultuous times in the Age of Sigmar meta (at least during this edition) our Battlescroll has come. Age of Sigmar GTs right now are infested with zombie spawn, krondspine...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Shambling Boi Summer

In what I could only describe as "the metagame ducking under my analysis then delivering a devastating uppercut", this week's CI not only doesn't have an Incarnate in any of the showdowns, it doesn't have an Incarnate in any of the...