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Columns

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2025, Part 14: Deathwatch Tests

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 27, 2025

The Road Through 2025 continues this week for TheChirurgeon, as he plays another league game with his Creations of Bile and gets in some hobby progress with World Eaters and Emperor's Children.

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.

40K Competitive Innovations

[40k] Competitive Innovations in 10th: Bang to Rights pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 14, 2025

Genestealer Cults celebrate the coming of the balance dataslate from the skies by swarming to victory in part 2 of Competitive Innovations.

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...

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.

Start Competing: Emperor’s Children Tactics

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 11, 2025

Start Competing: Emperor's Children Tactics When Horus turned against the emperor and called for open rebellion, fully half of the Space Marine legions joined him, turning against the Emperor. Among those were the III Legion, the Emperor's Children, led by...

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.