Competitive Innovations

Competitive Innovations in 9th: December Duels

The Balance Dataslate continues to have big impacts, with substantial shakeups to the list designs of the top factions and renewed challenges from other armies all on show at big events in the UK and US. The weekend also...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Balanced Teams

As seems to be something of a pattern, we've had a few wild, blowout weeks, we've got another exciting one coming up with the UKTC Leicester supermajor and US Roadshow finale, but this weekend past was reasonably quiet on...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Talos Terrorize Texas

This week the Balance Dataslate has fully hit, and there's a huge number of events to talk about including the latest GW Roadshow supermajor, so this week's column is bumper sized, and shows off what look to be some...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Liminal State

Last week was a big old upheaval for competitive 40K thanks to the release of the first Balance Dataslate, and thanks to the intrepid players and TOs at Northern Warlords, this week, we get a first glimpse of the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Orders pt.2

Our tour through this great time of flux continues today, with seven GTs to take a look at (two large enough to have multiple undefeated players). Quite a few more from the Balance Slate's big losers, ominous sightings of...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Orders pt.1

As may not have escaped your notice, it's an exciting week in the 40K world, with a spicy new balance dataslate that's going to shake up the top metagame substantially. You can check out our rundown of that here,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Talavera Team Special

For the first time in recent memory we had an actual quiet weekend on the competitive front across most of the world, with only a single GT sized event firing (our friends at FactoruM running their latest monthly event)....

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Many Magnificent Majors pt.2

Welcome back to part two of this week's column. Today we'll be looking at the results from: Malmö Wargaming Weekend V Stud or Snotling Lots of GTs If you're looking for...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Silver Surge

As readers of Monday's Meta Review might have noticed, there's a new sheriff in town. The heavy gatling psilencer is kind of like a six-shooter, and Grey Knights are definitely some flavour of law enforcement, so we're going with that. For...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Three Apiece

Apologies for the late column - hit some blockers early in the week, and we'll be back to the regular Wednesday slot next time around! It's been another busy weekend in the 40K world, with six events (including three majors)...