Black Templars

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...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Advent Annihilation

Only a few days before Christmas, but a last few lists to unwrap first as we close out the year. That's not the only present I've prepared for you - as promised last week, the Competitive Innovations Archetypes page...

How to Paint Everything: High Marshal Helbrecht

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint, well, everything! We look at the lore and heraldry around the models and talk about multiple techniques and methods for painting them. In today's How to...

Goonhammer Hot Take: Black Templars Supplement FAQ

Happy Wednesday, dear Readers! Today, Games Workshop opened up their FAQcet (its like a faucet but for FAQs) to a trickle, and we got one covering Codex Supplement: Black Templars. As with most of their recent FAQs, it can't...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Talos Terrorize Texas

This week the Balance Dataslate has fully hit, and there's a huge number of events to talk about including the latest GW Roadshow supermajor, so this week's column is bumper sized, and shows off what look to be some...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Liminal State

Last week was a big old upheaval for competitive 40K thanks to the release of the first Balance Dataslate, and thanks to the intrepid players and TOs at Northern Warlords, this week, we get a first glimpse of the...