competitive play

9th Edition Tier List: Expectations vs. Reality

Yeah OK, we're doing this. Time is currently a flat circle with no meaning, but as measured by the mechanisms set down in the Before Time we're nearly 2 months into 9th Edition. While COVID has forced the competitive scene...

Tag Team Fight: Age of Sigmar and Team Events

Age of Sigmar tournaments are always a fun event. I have the luck of traveling to events with my local group of six players and it is always fun to talk about matches between rounds. Things we did on...

A Printable Scoring Sheet for 9th Edition

Hi everyone, We recently wrote a great number of words about events and the potential value of having the first turn. Separately, we've also gotten requests for a printable custom score sheet for 9th edition games (the one in the...

The August Competitive 40k Round-up

9th edition dropped at the end of July and changed the entire landscape of Warhammer 40,000. Since then we've seen some competitive play resume as some states and countries have lifted lockdown measures and limited events have been run...

Tournament Report: The Tokyo Tactical Reborn

We've previously talked with David Moss about the state of 40k gaming in Tokyo and their postponed Tokyo Tactical event. In today's tournament report, special guest author David Moss is back to talk about how the event  Dice, dudes and...

9th Edition Rulebook and Field Manual FAQ: The Goonhammer Hot Take

A new week brings with it some exciting updates to 40K - after several weeks of eager anticipation since launch, the FAQ for the 9th Edition rulebook is here, along with some fixes to points values from Chapter Approved....

Goonhammer Hot Take: The Big Power Levels Update

It’s August 10th and as promised, Games Workshop updated the Warhammer 40,000 app (well, the Android version anyways) and published a PDF with new PL values for all of the game’s units. While normally competitive games use points instead...

Reports from the Front: Space Wolves

The Northern Front Open series finished up on Sunday with Myself taking Maximum Effort and going 3-0 on day 1, and taking a meme list for the day 2 RTT and finishing 2-1 for 3rd place. Day 2 saw...

Getting Started: Competitive Magic

This is Part Four of our "Getting Started: Magic the Gathering" series. You can find parts 1-3 here: Getting Started, Commander, and Arena. In this article we're going to discuss how you can take the next step in paper Magic, moving from...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Harlequins

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a...