Black Legion

Start Competing: Black Legion Tactics (Updated 12/12/2022)

This is a companion article to our larger Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines article. In this article, we're looking specifically at the Black Legion traitor legion, examining their rules, units, and tactics and strategies for using them. The poster boys...

How to Paint Everything: 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything. We look at different techniques and approaches to achieving results and the lore behind some of the models we're painting. As GOONHAMMER '96 comes...

Battle Bros: Season Two, Chapter II: Dangerously Close to a Plan

Battle Bros is an ongoing bi-weekly column where Drew (PantsOptional) teaches his brother Chris (head58) how to play Warhammer 40,000 but somewhere along the line they lost that thread and this is what we ended up with instead. Catch...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Chaos Space Marines

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a...

An Interview With Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A quick foreword: I would just like to say my deepest thanks to Edwin Moriarty and James M Hewitt for helping this come together and to Aaron for not only agreeing to be interviewed but writing the level of depth that...

The Narrative Forge: The Pivotal Duels of Black Legion

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Schemes of War Battle Report – Black Legion vs. Custodes

In this week's Battle Report, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones is pitting his Black Legion against Custodes in a game using the new Schemes of War rules from Chapter Approved 2019!

Hobby Heresy: Converting Models from Books and Games

In our Hobby Heresy series, we encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together. They aim to make hobbyists comfortable growing beyond imitating the models they see in their Codexes, and serve as a source of inspiration...

Your Legion Sucks, Part 4

Guys, we did it. We made it through three entire rounds of Greg and I roasting the shit out of space marine legions, both real and (arguably) even realer because they are real in our hearts. Now we’re at...

TheChirurgeon’s Road to NoVA, Part 4: The Warmaster

78 Hours of hobby time left until NoVA. Last time I posted, I had finished up my Red Corsairs and the Spiky 17. And look, 78 hours is not a lot. But I'm not sweating it yet. In fact,...