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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Gold Standard pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 23, 2022

All looking a bit shiny out there huh? Tau and Custodes are hitting their stride, and that would appear to be bad news for everyone else - this week's roundup touches on 73 lists once you account for all...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Tau Time

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 16, 2022

Nachmund hits its stride this week with two big events in the UK, and despite the warzone theoretically being a battleground between the forces of the Imperium and Chaos, it's the latest Xenos challenger making all the headlines. Tau...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Crossing the Gauntlet

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 9, 2022

The 2022 season is officially underway, and while we've still got a little bit of lag thanks to rules cutoffs, this week saw the first GT played with the new missions and points in play at CaptainCon, plus a...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Big Finish

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 2, 2022

It's all over bar the shouting, and congratulations to Richard Siegler for being the first repeat ITC winner, as well as achieving back-to-back LVO wins. The Las Vegas Open saw over 700 players take to the field, but only...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Final Stretch

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 26, 2022

One final weekend for people to rack up points for the season finale, and on some level things were surprisingly quiet, with only three events of GT size or larger. However, two of those events were pretty spectacular in...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Showdown Showcase

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 19, 2022

Just two weekends left on the 2021 ITC season, and another set of events in the books as players give the GT2021 pack and points costs a final workout ahead of the new book going up for preorder this...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Back to Work, Back to War

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 12, 2022

It's a new year and after a brief Sanguinalia truce war has kicked back off on tournament tables across the globe, so we've got our first crop of results to talk about. While we're still a few weeks out...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Advent Annihilation

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 22, 2021

Only a few days before Christmas, but a last few lists to unwrap first as we close out the year. That's not the only present I've prepared for you - as promised last week, the Competitive Innovations Archetypes page...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: To the Finish Line

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 15, 2021

Christmas is nearly upon us, after which we launch into an exciting new year where it sounds like we're due three codexes in pretty rapid succession, a new set of missions, and (presumably) some further points updates too. There's...

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Competitive Innovations in Kill Team: December 2021

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - December 8, 2021

It's been two months since Games Workshop released a host of updates for Kill Team in their October FAQs, correcting a number of issues with the Compendium teams and making a massive change to Custodes designed to curb the...