competitive play

Goonhammer Competitive Tier List April 2021

It's that time again folks! COVID causing a renewed bout of shutdowns across the world has delayed us hitting the point where we felt we had enough information to update our 9th Edition competive tier list, but between the continuing...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Brisbane Open & West Australia Iron Man

So to answer the first question - yes I contemplated pulling out some second edition army lists and trying to do a bit for Goonhammer 96 week, but the idea of trying to wrap my head around the 2nd...

Start Competing: Skaventide Tactics

Did you ever want to field dozens or hundreds of infantry in one game, not caring if they did much on their own, but just wanted to completely overwhelm your opponent with models? Or maybe you wanted to see...

Kill Team Tactics: The 2021 Champions Rules Packet

It's an exciting new time for Kill Team: We just had a major release with Pariah Nexus that gave us new marine units and a much-needed update for Necrons. If you missed our coverage of the factions, you can...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Equinox 40K

It's New Zealand's turn to shine once more, as the past weekend featured the 36-player Equinox 40K GT. Last time we headed over to a NZ GT Death Guard were absolutely dominant, taking three out of four of the...

Competitive Innovations Incursion Special: Objective Secured First Blood

One of the less well explored parts of competitive 9th Edition is games played at the Incursion (1000pts) level. 2000pts play was overwhelmingly the norm in 8th Edition (where the community exploded in size), so it's no real surprise...

Unit Roles in 9th Edition – Attrition

This article is part of our series looking at Unit Roles in 9th Edition. If you've just arrived, you might want to go check out the Introduction, which talks through what this series is about and how it's going...

Unit Roles in 9th Edition – Elimination

This article is part of our series looking at Unit Roles in 9th Edition. If you've just arrived, you might want to go check out the Introduction, which talks through what this series is about and how it's going...

Unit Roles in 9th Edition – Brawlers

This article is part of our series looking at Unit Roles in 9th Edition. If you've just arrived, you might want to go check out the Introduction, which talks through what this series is about and how it's going...

Start Competing: Unit Roles in 9th Edition – Introduction

We now have more than 6 months of 9th Edition play and coverage under our belts, and it's clear that it is a substantially different beast to 8th Edition. The changes to the Core Rules and significant differences in...