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Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle – The Goonhammer Review

We're nearly six months into Age of Sigmar's third edition and the third Battletome is finally upon us. Maggotkin of Nurgle have had the longest release schedule between books so far and with this release are officially passing the baton...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 18: Making the Jump to Space Wizards

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing, weekly slog toward some level of competitive respectability in the 2021 ITC season. In my last update I wrote about finishing 36th at the Games Workshop Austin event, and the games I...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 17: The GW Austin Open, Part 3

Welcome, Dear Reader, to the final part of my three-part writeup on my triumphs and travails at the Games Workshop Tournament in Austin. Last time I talked about following up a 3-0 day 1 with a much more draining...

Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines (and all the legions) Updated!

A lot has changed recently with Chaos Space Marines. Most notably, the November 2021 Balance Dataslate changed Death to the False Emperor to apply to every enemy faction, not just IMPERIUM units, significantly improving the faction's melee capabilities. Additionally,...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 16: The GW Austin Open, Part 2

Welcome back, Dear Reader! If you've been following along, in my last article you read about my master triumph of going 3-0 to start the Austin GW Open Tournament, putting me in rarified air with the likes of Siegler,...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 15: The GW Austin Open, Part 1

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I talked about padding out my ITC resume by playing a practice event at the Empire Central RTT down in...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 14: The Empire Central RTT

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I played two practice games against Dan (or "Swiftblade" as he's known on the Goonhammer Patron Discord), splitting the series....

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 12: Practice, Practice, Practice

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing quest to achieve some level of competitive respectability in Warhammer 40,000. Last week I talked about hastily scrambling to build a table mimicking the terrain at the GW US Open events, then...

Kill Team Tactics: The Warpcoven Kill Team

White Dwarf 469 brings us yet another new Kill Team, this time giving us the Warpcoven Kill Team, which takes the Thousand Sons and gives you a reimagined and very different kill team to the one in the compendium....

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 11: Building a Practice Table, then Losing on it

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing (mis)adventures in the journey toward competitive respectability. It's been a long road so far, with three GTs on the books and one more scheduled event to go - though now I'm starting...