competitive play

The August 2023 Kill Team Balance Dataslate

Games Workshop dropped its Q3 Balance Dataslate for Kill Team today, outlining a number of changes to the format. In this article we’ll look at what changed, what it means, and how these changes will affect the competitive meta...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms – Krondspine Incarnate of the Meta

This week we've got three events to cover, including the previous list I thought had conquered the metagame (hint: It's got Skeletor in it), and a challenger for the throne that I think is actually an even better list....

Competitive Innovations in 10th? No, More Elves! pt.1

Imagine a Wraithknight's gigantic foot, stomping on the metagame forever. Shortly you will not need to imagine this as we pop open our first event. This is your weekly update - Eldar and GSC, still way too good. In wider...

10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: Deathwatch

It's the Imperium's turn for a faction focus, and today Stat Check's Innes Wilson (also captain of the Scottish WTC team) joins ups to take a look at Deathwatch. Innes is well known for his love of blowing stuff...

Hammer of Math: 10th Edition Secondary Objective Statistics

Welcome back to Hammer of Math, Dear Reader. Last time around I Looked at primary scoring and promised I'd be back "relatively soon" to talk about Secondary scoring and "soon" has become "now." The data in this week's sample comes...

UTC Recap and Preview – NEO and GHO Edition

The Unified Tournament Circuit is a regional circuit for Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar which covers the area between Virginia and Newfoundland. In case you missed our announcement, you can find it here. You can find the full calendar of UTC...

Start Competing: Big Waaagh!

Big Waaagh is an odd duck, as unlike pretty much every army legal in Matched play Age of Sigmar, this one is actually just a amalgamation of three different armies: Ironjawz, Kruleboyz and Bonesplitterz. It takes a little bit...

Stat Check Episode 55 – We are the Pod People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be786rg6D3s Nathan, Jeremy and Innes are live on the show this week for our pre-WTC preview show. This Episode sees us discuss our WTC pods, do a Fantasy Draft for the WTC alongside chat and a look into the stats....

Hammer of Math: 10th Edition Primary Scoring Statistics

Hello Dear Reader, and welcome back to Hammer of Math. Primaris Kevin was indisposed this week so you once again get me, pulling statistics data from our stats site, 40kstats. Last time around I talked about datamining datasheets and promised a...

SRM’s Roundabout to the 2023 Tacoma Open

If you haven't read one of these before, they're like the Road To... series, but instead of doing a series of articles, it's just one entirely too long one. This is also firmly Campbell's Weirdo Zone, so come along,...