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Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2025, Part 13: Back to the Ettin League

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 20, 2025

The Road Through 2025 continues! This week TheChirurgeon takes on a Siege Regiment in a league game, talks about running Creations of Bile, and paints some Emperor's Children Infractors.

Columns

Hammer of Math: Flawless Blades Output in Emperor’s Children

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 17, 2025

In this week's Hammer of Math, we're looking at the new Flawless Blades unit from Codex: Emperor's Children, and examining their damage output and the likelihood of losing a model when they call upon their Daemonic Patrons for help.

Books

Everything You Need to Know About the New Emperor’s Children Release

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 15, 2025

The new Emperor's Children boxed set is on shelves today! If you missed any of our coverage of the army, want to know more about their rules and how they'll play, or are looking for painting and modeling tips, we've got a full recap of our coverage here.

Columns

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2025, Part 12: Testing the Shadow Legion

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 13, 2025

The Road Through 2025 continues for TheChirurgeon as he gets in a practice game with the new Shadow Legions Detachment and does some Dadhammer to get stamps on his 2025 Hobby Bingo card.

Columns

Detachment Focus: Shadow Legion

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 13, 2025

The March 2025 Balance Dataslate threw a curveball our way in that it included not just points and rules update but a series of new Detachments. One of those was the Shadow Legion, an updated Detachment for Chaos Daemons...

Columns

Index Chaos Daemons 10th Edition 2.0: The Goonhammer Review

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 12, 2025

Games Workshop recently announced that we’d be seeing Daemons units in the Codexes for the cult armies of Chaos Space Marines and with the upcoming release of Codex: Emperor’s Children we caught our first glimpse of that, looking at...

Competitive Play

The Warhammer 40k March 2025 Balance Update: Chaos Factions

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 12, 2025

Daemonic delights (but not for Slaanesh) and a host of tweaks for the various Chaos Legions feature in the Q1 2025 40K Dataslate.

Goonhammer

How to Paint Everything – Emperor’s Children Chaos Space Marines

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 10, 2025

We take a detailed look into how to paint the Emperor's Children and everything associated with them, from pre-heresy to modern era to 2nd edition Noise Marines.

Books

The Lore of Codex: Emperor’s Children (10th Edition)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 8, 2025

Last weekend we previewed the rules in the new Codex: Emperor's Children (you can find that review here), but despite talking about the rules for matched and narrative play, there's still one major area left to talk about: The book's lore....

Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2025, Part 11: Finishing the Clutch City GT

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 7, 2025

The Road Through 2025 continues for TheChirurgeon as he recounts his second day at the Clutch City GT and the final results with his Creations of Bile army.