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Murders at Karlov Manor Review, Part 3 of 4: Colorless Cards

Magic's newest expansion takes us back to Ravnica once again, to a party at Karlov manor and the body of Zegana, former leader of the Simic guild. A new set means new cards, and we're continuing our review with...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: The Calm After The Storm

The week after a major event like LVO is often pretty slow: Players just finished a series of long trips and generally want to stay home and a large number of TOs are also in the player set, and...

Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate & MFM – Xenos – The Goonhammer Review

Today Games Workshop released a massive update for Warhammer 40,000 giving us a huge shake-up for competitive play. In addition to the balance dataslate for Q1 2024, we also saw the release of a new game-wide points update, rules/FAQ...

The Warhammer 40k Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate Review

A new season of Warhammer 40k is upon us! In addition to points updates, a comprehensive FAQ/errata document, a new detachment, and rules commentary, Games Workshop also updated the balance dataslate to incorporate a host of new changes. And...

Goonhammer Interviews the LVO Age of Sigmar Champion Jeremy Lefebvre

We sat down with LVO Age of Sigmar Champion Jeremy Lefebvre to talk about winning LVO with Cities of Sigmar.

The Pre-Dataslate State of the 40k Meta (January, 2024)

With the next 40k balance update looming, we take a look at the current state of the meta after LVO and what needs to change this time around.

Detachment Focus: Realspace Raiders

In this series of articles we take a deep dive into a specific detachment for a faction, covering the faction’s rules and upgrades and talking about how to build around that faction for competitive play. In this article, we’re...

Start Competing: Necrons Tactics

Start Competing: Necrons Tactics The Necrons are an ancient race, who fought the War in Heaven millions of years ago against the Old Ones and their servants, the Aeldari and the Krork (better-known these days as the Orks). In their...

Start Competing: Aeldari Tactics

Start Competing: Aeldari Tactics The Aeldari are among the oldest of the galaxy's factions, being direct creations of the Old Ones who fought the War in Heaven against the Necrons millions of years ago. The lore sort of stops making...

Start Competing: Adeptus Custodes Tactics

Start Competing: Adeptus Custodes Tactics The Adeptus Custodes are the personal guardians of the Emperor, based on the Throneworld itself. They are gold-clad giants wielding ferocious guardian spears as their basic armament. For 10,000 years they more or less stayed...