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Unit Roles in 9th Edition – Position Holders

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...

Kill Team Pariah Nexus Review, Part 3: The Factions and New Datasheets

In addition to new rules and new models, the new Kill Team Pariah Nexus book also lists out rules for more than a dozen models, adding new units and completely updating the Space Marines Kill Team range while doing…...

Kill Team Pariah Nexus Review, Part 2: The Rules

One of the more surprising revelations from the Games Workshop previews in late 2020 was that we’d be seeing a new Kill Team release early this year. After more than a year without new Kill Team content - basically...

9th Edition’s New BETA Maelstrom of War Missions: A Review (with Battle Reports)

White Dwarf 461 surprised the hell out of us by reintroducing Maelstrom of War missions for 9th edition, albeit in beta format. The Maelstrom rules have always been somewhat divisive; they were first introduced in 7th edition and later...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lakes of Blood & Gladiator Gaming Teams

As promised, it's back to list reviews this week, with two events firing down under over the weekend, providing us poor, starved analysts the juicy information that we so crave. The Lakes of Blood event in New Zealand gives...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Ten Units to Watch

Unfortunately the long-feared quiet weekend has come to pass, with the otherwise indefatigable Australian and NZ scenes finally settling down for short rest. I do mean a short one - next weekend we've got a small GT in NZ...

Infinity Tactics: Timfinity II Tournament Report

Some times, everything lines up just right. Timfinity 2021 Part 2 was a tournament where I went 3-0, lost a single model across three games (and it was a remote, my actual team was fine), and didn't make a...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Over the Top GT

The thunder from down under shows no signs of abating, and this week we're zooming in on New Zealand's north island to take a look at the results of the Over the Top GT. After a modest start last...

The February 2021 40k Meta Review

Welcome back, dear reader! It’s been nearly two months since our last update and while we’re a bit delayed from a monthly schedule, release delays and a lack of events meant relatively few shifts over the last month. However,...

Infinity Tactics: Combat Group Two

One of the most subtly complex topics in N4 Infinity is what, exactly, to do with Combat Group Two (CG2). Gone are the days when you could cram so many models into it that it could fight almost like...