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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim Unleashed

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 13, 2022

All stragglers are now accounted for, and Warzone Nephilim is now the only game in town. Good news - the immediate result appears to be one of the most healthy and diverse metagames we've had for ages. Most of the...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Varying Degrees of Tyranid

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 6, 2022

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles not to get eaten, with what can only honestly be described as limited success. This week sees things very much in flux as different events adopted either none, some...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Play Them Off

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 29, 2022

The end is near and so we face the final curtain - all signs are that players are absolutely chomping at the bit to get started with playing Nephilim (indeed quite a few RTTs this weekend played with them...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nachmund Omega

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 22, 2022

Statistically if you are reading this you've probably read our review of the upcoming Warzone Nephilim Mission Pack, and thus you'll know that big changes are on the horizon for the world of competitive 40K. The tournament scene doesn't...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 16, 2022

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

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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...