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Competitive Innovations in 10th: 24-Karat Carnage pt.1

The Adeptus Custodes are back in business this week, bringing joy to the hearts of anyone who loves gold and despair to anyone who hates playing against army-wide 4+ Invulnerable Saves. Please do not think too hard about whether...

Kill Team WCW Qualifier comes to the UK Goonhammer Open – June 22nd/23rd

Kill Team comes to the UK Goonhammer Open

I’m Going to Become the Joker: Malifaux at Captaincon 2024 (Part 1)

Hello, Mali-folks! It's been a minute since I did one of these, but I'm back!  Captaincon 2024 was my first big wargaming con since, well, Captaincon 2023, and tournament organizer Jesse Ellis didn't disappoint.  The Malifaux Content Creator's Invitational returned...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 2: Shaking Off the Rust

TheChirurgeon's Road through 2024 picks back up with more chaos space marine hobby progress and a practice game against post-dataslate Custodes.

Blood Bowl – Tournament Report: The Waterbowl Weekender

The Waterbowl Weekender is one of the UK’s biggest annual Blood Bowl Tournaments, consistently seeing well over 100 attendees, and returned this year for its 19th(!) outing.  I had a great time when I attended for the first time...

UTC Weekend Recap and Preview: February 16, 2024

We recap all of the winners from last weekend's UTC events and talk about the events coming in the next few weeks.

Conquest Feb 2024 Update: the Goonhammer Hot Take

As is their wont, Para Bellum INSIST on continuing to improve Conquest: the Last Argument of Kings and have just dropped a new rules update for the game. We talk about what changed and what it means. 

Goonhammer Interviews the Top 4 Players from The Purge in Australia!

We talk to the top 4 players from Australia's Purge Kill Team event.

Stat Check Episode 79 – I’ll Make a Manticore Out of You

This week in competitive 40k brings Anthony Vanella and Jeremy Atkinson together to talk about the meta - Anthony from getting ready for Pyra Cup in Poland and Jeremy from running a GT post-slate. Astra Militarum have won two...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: En Guard

We're going tall rather than wide this week - five events, but one of them is our first post-dataslate supermajor at Beachhead Brawl. The Imperium had the best of this one, with the Astra Militarum and Dark Angels putting...