Black Templars

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Start Wearing Purple pt.1

It's another massive week of 40K, and this time the sinister/heroic (delete as applicable) forces of the Genestealer Cults are making a big splash. While it's not quite as busy as last week, a couple of the team have offered...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Arks Anticipation Station

It's a new year and a new season rapidly approaches, but as ever we've still got a final few weeks of the current metagame to play out before Arks of Omen fully arrives, culminating in the Las Vegas Open...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lone Heroes

Apologies for being a day late - I'm recovering from a bout of COVID! Nephilim continues to be very popular, but it's fair to say that this week mostly feels like we've hit the point where the metagame has fully consolidated...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim Unleashed

All stragglers are now accounted for, and Warzone Nephilim is now the only game in town. Good news - the immediate result appears to be one of the most healthy and diverse metagames we've had for ages. Most of the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Play Them Off

The end is near and so we face the final curtain - all signs are that players are absolutely chomping at the bit to get started with playing Nephilim (indeed quite a few RTTs this weekend played with them...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 5: Burden in my Hams

You know it's a good thing this is for an event in Seattle (Tacoma, technically, but Seattle-adjacent) because if I had to come up with half a dozen puns for Kansas City I'd be well outside of my extremely...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 2: Negative (Codex) Creep

I have been, in the parlance of better players, "getting my reps in". Normally this is something people do for competitive events, not Crusade or narrative ones, but I don't want to get absolutely owned. This is also something...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 1: Black (Templar) Hole Sun

I am, in a word, adrift. My podcast is currently on pause, as Dan "Badcast" Boyd is exploring the wonders and terrors of being a new father. My ongoing Imperium review series is somewhat in flux due to the...

Bathe Your Blade in the Blood of Your Foe: It Owns

I am not a particularly clever man. Choosing secondary objectives in 40k can often feel to me like throwing blunted darts at a dartboard in the cash-only Communist themed bar I spent much of my early 20s frequenting. I...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Back to Work, Back to War

It's a new year and after a brief Sanguinalia truce war has kicked back off on tournament tables across the globe, so we've got our first crop of results to talk about. While we're still a few weeks out...