Competitive Innovations

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim is LVOver

This weekend a momentous event took place - I took a Wraithknight to a GT and... **Extremely Loud Incorrect Buzzer** Rob is looking at me from the other side of the (very real) Goonhammer offices and shaking his head, which I...

Competitive Innovations Editorial: Which Army Will Win the LVO?

It may not have escaped your notice that it's the LVO this weekend - the world's biggest Warhammer 40k tournament, and the finale of the ITC season. There's everything to play for amongst some of the game's top players...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Opening Arks

Cross-season liminal space is in full effect this week, as the first few big Arks events kick off, but the Las Vegas Open looms right in front of us as a final Nephilim blowout. Today's article is going to...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms – We’re Back! And So is Aelf Nonsense

We're back in the swing of things with two tournaments to cover and four Aelf lists to look at closely. Both events are using last season's GHB and may be the last big tournaments we see using said rules,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Search for Scores

The end of Nephilim and the ITC season roll ever closer, and this week some of the top contenders for the champion's crown (or medal, or novelty weapon-based trophy, or whatever) went hunting for a final infusion of points...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Arks Anticipation Station

It's a new year and a new season rapidly approaches, but as ever we've still got a final few weeks of the current metagame to play out before Arks of Omen fully arrives, culminating in the Las Vegas Open...

Competitive Innovations Editorial: Asking the Right Questions

It's the Christmas holidays and no events are happening, which means that for one glorious week I am freed from the eternal tyranny of the monster column I have created (good), but also need to think of something to...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Christmas Clash

It's the final Competitive Innovations result roundup of the year, with a last two majors to report on. These are: Rise of The Empire GT France Tournament Circuit GT With just two events, I'm including both Showdowns, and I'm not...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Eternal Grind pt.2

Four more events to look at today as we start to draw a curtain on the year. Today, we'll be looking at: Da Winter Waaagh GT Mallorca The FIGHT before XMAS Grinning Demon Series GT If you're looking for any...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Eternal Grind pt.1

My hopes that this week would be a bit of a ramp down have, it's fair to say, not entirely played out - we've got eight events to cover spanning the whole globe, as players everywhere grind out a...