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Catching Snowflakes: Shasvastii Expeditionary Force

Welcome back to Catching Snowflakes, our series of tactics articles covering the less popular or prolific factions of Infinity. In this week’s article we’re talking about Shasvastii Expeditionary Force. Are you a species-traitor that prefers laying eggs instead of gestating your...

Kill Team

  Re-introduced with a new edition in 2021, Kill Team has quickly grown into its own game, with rules and factions very distinct from Warhammer 40k. It's a fun game that takes less time and investment than 40k, with a...

The Goonhammer Review of Codex: Thousand Sons (9th Edition)

The Thousand Sons were “blessed” with one of the early codexes in 8th edition, a book that was relatively weak from the jump even by 8th edition standards, despite having access to Ahriman and Magnus, two of the game’s...

Kings of War: The Road to ConVic 2021

Hey all and welcome back to our biweekly Kings of War coverage! These days it seems like almost everyone on the Goonhammer staff are gearing up for tournaments of one type or another. Not contented to let the 40k...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Look Who’s Outside Again

Another weekend that feels like a transition from one metagame reality to another - not least because I finally got to go to an in-person event for the first time since February 2020. The AdMech FAQ landed last week, and while...

Catching Snowflakes: Dashat Company

Welcome back to Catching Snowflakes, our series of tactics articles covering the less popular or prolific factions of Infinity. In this week’s article we’re talking about Dashat Company. Today's 'snowflake' is going to buck the trend somewhat in as much as...

Competitive Innovations in 3.0: The 2021 Lone Star Open Age of Sigmar Championships

We're back this week with another look at the winning lists from the week that was. We've only got one GT to cover this week, last weekend's Lone Star Open event, a five-round even featuring 62 players. It's still...

Returning to competitive play, the covid saga

Hello again internet, I am taking a break from filling Competitive innovations with salt as Wing's stand-in and instead am here to discuss an experience many of us will have to deal with in the coming months: Showing up...

The Chirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 3: The Lone Star Open

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to the third part of my ongoing progress blog/tournament series for 2021. Last week I talked about some final prep and practice for the Lone Star Open. This week we'll talk about whether any of...

Improving at Magic: How to Prepare for an Event

If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. - Someone wise, probably Preparation is key to succeeding at most things in life. The problem is that preparing - doing your homework - is really boring. No one really likes doing...