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The Goonhammer Hot Take: The September 2023 40k Balance Dataslate – Chaos Factions

The first balance dataslate of 40k's 10th edition comes screaming down from the Games Workshop Strike Cruiser and unloads a drop pod full of rules updates, accompanied by version 1.3 of the Munitorum Field Manual which incorporates a broad...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Wraithknights at the Warmaster pt.1

It's been another busy week in the 40K world, with hundreds of the world's best players gathering in Europe for the Warmaster GT, and a trio of healthily-sized majors alongside it. A certain gigantic robot has, admittedly, been somewhat...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Stars and Springs

The Tenth Edition train is now fully barrelling down the track, as last week's Tacoma/Show me double header is followed up by another week with two massive events, this time the Lone Star Open and Palm Springs Open -...

Competitive Termination of 9th Edition: Dawn of 10th

9th Edition takes its final bow this week, and there's not going to be an encore because it's 10th time. Most events the past weekend ran with 9th, but a couple of intrepid TOs pushed forward into the glorious...

The Goonhammer Review: The 10th Edition Munitorum Field Manual (Chaos)

So far we’ve seen the Chaos factions of 10th edition run the gamut from very strong (Thousand Sons) to pretty dire (Death Guard), but that’s only half the story - the point values of these units makes a huge...

The Goonhammer Review: 10th Edition Chaos Daemons Index

Daemons are a unique army in the lore, and they should play in a unique way on the tabletop. Even more than Daemon players want their army to be good, they want their army to be weird.  This is something...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Final Countdown

The release date for 10th is finally out of the bag, and the days before this column undergoes a fairly predictable name change are numbered. There are still a few weeks of 9th to go, but I'm goinChaos and...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Daemonic Embers

9th Edition status: still here. Quieter than last week, but still live and kicking, and alarmingly infested with Daemonic forces this week. It's the season for it, apparently. Today we're looking at: Storm Of Silence Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Book Standing pt.2

We're back for the second half of this week's events, seeing what other books can still challenge for the top spot. This half...is maybe not as varied as the first. Just saying. The Alamo GT ‘23 (major) Death or...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Book Standing pt.1

Look. It's been a long old road, and we're nearly at the end of it. We're in the home stretch. Pithy metaphors abound. We don't know exactly how many weekends of 9th we've got left, but we're definitely in the...