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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 7, 2021

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...

Competitive Play

Kings of War: The Road to ConVic 2021

Cytoplasm - August 4, 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 Play

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

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 4, 2021

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...

Competitive Play

Catching Snowflakes: Dashat Company

Musterkrux - August 3, 2021

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...

Age of Sigmar

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

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - July 31, 2021

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...

Battle Reports

Returning to competitive play, the covid saga

Jon-kil - July 31, 2021

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...

Battle Reports

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

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 30, 2021

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...

Competitive Play

Improving at Magic: How to Prepare for an Event

Dinglis - July 28, 2021

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...

Age of Sigmar

Age of Sigmar 3.0 – Battle Tactics in GHB 2021

Mike 'Ellarr' Chadderton - July 28, 2021

Today I'll be taking a look at each of the eight battle tactics available when playing Pitched Battles (the standard game format) in Age of Sigmar third edition. I'll be covering the quirks of each of them, as well...

Competitive Play

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Big Summer Blowout pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 28, 2021

The UK scene has fully re-opened and the US scene is going from strength to strength, and those two factors have combines to give us what I believe is our single biggest weekend of events since this column started. Obviously...