competitive play

Infinity Tournament Report: IGL Satellite January 2023 (Part Two)

Last week Genghis talked about bringing White Company to the IGL Satellite event and the event's first three rounds. You can find that article here. This week we're finishing the fight. Game 4: Frostbyte Pre-Game & Deployment I drew against Bakunin for...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Our Metagame Yearns for Freedom pt.1

...please send Q12023 Balance Dataslate. In some ways I jest - Arks continues to be good fun, and there are a couple of interesting new builds on show this week, so there's certainly some stuff to dig into. However, at...

Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Stats, Part 3

Last week we looked at the stats around secondary scoring for Chaos faction secondaries in Arks of Omen – you can find that article here. This week we’re going to go through the remaining Xenos faction secondaries and look...

The Q1 2023 Kill Team Balance Dataslate – The Goonhammer Hot Take

Games Workshop have crunched through the data from Kill Team events for the three months since the last dataslate, received feedback from the community, and are back with buffs and nerfs to try to get everyone in the 45-55%...

Eldfall Chronicles Faction Focus: Coalition of Thenion

This article is part of a sponsored series of articles exploring Freecompany's Eldfall Chronicles tabletop miniatures game.  Hey, Mali-folks!  I’m— Wait a minute… that banner doesn’t look familiar.  This isn’t Malifaux at all! It looks like we’re in Calad, the realm of...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Desolation of Manchester pt.2

We're back for part two, and today Lowest of Men is taking the wheel, ready to blast through five more events, including the week's second supermajor. Today we're looking at: Adepticon (supermajor) Fantasia Fanatic (major) Iron Cage: Bedford Beatdown Courage And...

Jack Harpster Talks Bringing Harlequins to the Art of War Streamhouse RTT

The Streamhouse RTT is an annual event run by the Art of War team in which their team gets together to play in an eight-person tournament on stream. We’re covering the event this year and previewing the players and...

Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Warship Survival

Hey, it’s Summer again. Oh, the coolant leak alarms? They’re supposed to be ringing. This article is about defence in Armada, and what we can do to facilitate a healthy separation between ship and space. Stayin’ Alive – “I'm positive...

Competitive Innovations in Conquest: Adepticon 2023

Adepticon 2023 has come and gone this week, and with it one of the first significant events for Conquest since the 2.0 edition was released earlier this year. Despite being only a very recently released army with a limited...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Desolation of Manchester pt.1

What can I say - we're north of ten events again, despite there being a supermajor in both the UK and US, so the biggest sustained run of mega-weeks we've ever had continues. Lowest of Men will be taking point on...