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Casual Friday: Whose Lore Is It Anyway?

Welcome back to Casual Fridays, where we tell competitive play to take a seat and let our creativity run wild. In this installment, Rocco will be discussing how he created his very own custom successor chapter and will walk...

The Warhammer 40,000 2021 Year-in-Review, Part 2

As it's the final day of 2021, we’re looking back at the year that was, chock full of releases, excitement, and changes. In this first part of this two-part series, we looked at the year of competitive play for...

Start Competing: Playing by Intent

For regular tournament-goers the phrase “playing by intent” is a commonly heard declaration – it signifies a friendly, stress-free game that alleviates some of the anticipated mental load by acknowledging that missed actions may have been intended and are...

WELCOME TO BLUNDERDOME

These days, competitive 40k is filled with players making Bold Claims about the meta: claiming they’ve “figured it out”, or “it will adjust”, or “that it’s incredibly bad and broken right now and losing to Ork/Admech flyers is utterly...

I Have No Brain and I Must ‘Ham: 40k for Dummies

I have a confession to make: I am not very good at this, or any other game. I have a whole podcast about it. Right now Warhammer 40k is the closest it's ever been to being a living game, with frequent...

Avoiding List Writing Pitfalls, or: How to Make Sure You Aren’t Mocked Merciless Online

People make mistakes. Even lists that have been double- and triple-checked and published on official sites can contain errors that make them illegal for matched play. Every week our own James "One_Wing" Grover trawls through 40k lists that performed...

The Warhammer 40k 9.1 Edition Round-up

Games Workshop dropped a host of new releases on us this past week, changing points values, tweaking many of the game's rules and, oh yeah, giving us an entirely new missions packet. If you missed any of those updates,...

What the New 40k Changes Mean for Casual Players

We've written a lot of words over the last few days about the massive number of FAQs and points changes and what they mean, and as usual our content tends to take a more competitively focused view of things....

Goonhammer Hot Take: The Big Power Levels Update

It’s August 10th and as promised, Games Workshop updated the Warhammer 40,000 app (well, the Android version anyways) and published a PDF with new PL values for all of the game’s units. While normally competitive games use points instead...

Review: 9th Edition’s Open War Cards

While the big news this past weekend was the launch of 9th edition and the release of the hotly anticipated Indomitus boxed set, there were several other releases for 9th edition, including Chapter Approved 2020, the Crusade Journal, the...