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Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 1

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 15, 2022

That's right readers, I'm back in the hot seat, fully charged and ready to go. Just going to look over at the event list for the week, as I'm sure the community will have played a very normal amount...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: June 8, 2022 – T’au Still Got It

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 8, 2022

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to what will hopefully be the final week of me filling in for some time. It's not that I don't enjoy writing these - though to be clear, I don't love writing about Tyranids every week -...

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Competitive Innovations 6/1/2022, Part 2: The Lightning Round

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 2, 2022

Alright, yesterday I talked about there being too much goddamn Warhammer and lots of events, covered 6 big GTs, talked about Tyranids, Eldar, and Tau. Today I'm going to run through the remaining five events, pick out any lists...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 1: The Tyranid Was Still in Effect

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 1, 2022

Hello, Dear Reader! Welcome back to our ongoing attempts to fill in for James "One_Wing" Grover as he wanders the fields of Worthingtonshireham or whatever, searching for himself or inner peace or some shit. The past couple of weeks...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 2: Aeldari Are Fine, Actually

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 26, 2022

Innes: Welcome back to the 1.5 Edition of me taking over Competitive Innovations to give James a well deserved break ahead of the Goonhammer Open UK this weekend. I’m back with the second half of events from the weekend...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 1: Tyranids are Fine, Actually

Innes Wilson - May 25, 2022

Innes: James is still on a break this week so you have me, some Scottish guy who has strong opinions on how balanced things are and a strong bias towards Tyranids that couldn’t possibly be an issue when I...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Sequel is Always Worse

James "Boon" Kelling - May 18, 2022

In 2013 the movie Pacific Rim released to theaters - it was a monster movie directed by Guillermo del Toro that pitted giant monsters called Kaiju from another dimension against humanity and its hastily constructed Jaegers, equally monstrous machine...

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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Spice of Ghyran

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - May 18, 2022

Variety is the spice of life they say - and today is no greater proof of that. Out of 8 top 2 finishes, 7 different factions are represented. AoS is thriving competitively, and it makes my job a lot...

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Competitive Innovations in Kill Team: May 2022

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 12, 2022

It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Kill Team, and a busy time since our last Meta Analysis. We've seen the release of a balance dataslate in March, a series of big FAQ updates in April, and the release...

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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Droning On (and On)

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - May 11, 2022

Two tournaments to cover this week, and as you'll see below there's been a noticeable shift from high damage armies that can project their power at range to more board control, resilient lists that can seek to outlast the...