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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 27, 2021

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...

Core Games

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 27, 2021

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,...

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 26, 2021

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,...

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 24, 2021

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...

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 18, 2021

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....

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 29, 2021

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...

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Kill Team Tactics: The Warpcoven Kill Team

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 28, 2021

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....

Columns

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 22, 2021

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...

Columns

How to Paint Everthing: Be’lakor

Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg - October 13, 2021

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything, talking about different assembly methods, techniques, and colors used. In today's How to Paint Everything, we're covering a Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 10: The GW New Orleans Open, Part 2 (of 2)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 7, 2021

Welcome back, Dear Reader! Yesterday I covered the first four games of my experiences at the Games Workshop Open Grand Tournament in New Orleans. When we last left off, a rough game with some terrain misplays had left me...