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Start Competing: 9th Edition Death Guard Tactics (Updated May 13, 2023)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 13, 2023

STOP - This page is out of date. You can find our updated guide to playing Death Guard in 10th edition here: Start Competing: Death Guard. Do you like being really, really hard to kill? Do you like to dish out...

Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 7: Days 2 and 3 of Warhammer Fest

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 8, 2023

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing attempts to chronicle my journey through 2023 in the same way I’ve covered the past two years. In my previous article, I covered the first day of Warhammer Fest 2023, and my...

Competitive Play

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 5: Prep for Warhammer Fest

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 29, 2023

My 2023 has so far been quieter than last year, off to a bit slower start. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that I'm just not playing quite as many games of Warhammer 40k as...

Battle Reports

The Badman Chronicles, Part 5: Crusading in Suburbia

Dan "Swiftblade" Richardson - April 10, 2023

Like the prodigal son, the Badman Chronicles returns once more to follow the hobby and gaming journey of ya boy, Dan “Swiftblade” Richardson. Previously, I wrote about my time at two GT events that happened nearly back to back: the...

Hobby Heresy

Daemonforged: A Guide to Kitbashing Robots

MildNorman - April 7, 2023

These other games that aren’t 40k have been having too much fun posting their robits and mechoids without paying homage to the sickest and the coolest battle bots I know; Knights. Knights are a funny thing, it's a huge...

Columns

Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Stats, Part 2

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 27, 2023

Last week we looked at the stats around secondary scoring for generic secondaries and Imperium faction secondaries in Arks of Omen - you can find that article here. This week we're going to go through the Chaos faction secondaries...

Columns

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 4: Running Cogs of Vashtor

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 24, 2023

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing hobby and competitive play progress blog for 2023. Last time around I was ambushed by an RTT and forced to deploy my World Eaters, which took me to a 2-1 finish -...

Competitive Play

Nick Nanavati on Chaos Daemons in the Art of War Streamhouse RTT

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 20, 2023

The final die is cast. It spins for a few seconds longer than a normal die roll, which of course makes the moment feels as though it is a lifetime. There is a stillness in the air as the...

Battle Reports

The Badman Chronicles, Part 4: A Tale of Two GTs

Dan "Swiftblade" Richardson - March 14, 2023

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of Genestealer Cults, it was the epoch of Dark Angels… in...

Competitive Play

Goonhammer Reviews the Armies of Vashtorr

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 13, 2023

Vashtorr the Arkifane releases this weekend along with Arks of Omen: Vashtorr and Wrath of the Soul-Forge King. And while Vashtorr's datasheet has been released online, and we love the model, you may have seen that we're not particularly...