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Gunum’s Ascent to Daemonhood in 2023, Part 2: Burn, Trim, Kill!

Hello, dear bloody readers, it's me, Gunum! I'm back with the second installment of my adventures into the grim world of the World Eaters! Last time we talked, I went into my goal setting for this year and the...

Nick Nanavati on Chaos Daemons in the Art of War Streamhouse RTT

The final die is cast. It spins for a few seconds longer than a normal die roll, which of course makes the moment feels as though it is a lifetime. There is a stillness in the air as the...

The Art of War 2023 Streamhouse RTT: The Lists and Matchups

Rob: Welcome, Dear Reader, to our coverage of the 2023 Art of War Streamhouse RTT. For those of you unfamiliar, the Streamhouse RTT is an annual 3-round tournament held by the Art of War team at their house in...

Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Objectives Stats, Part 1

We announced last week that we'd recently added data from Arks of Omen to 40kstats and with the wealth of new data - nearly 29 thousand games' worth at the time of this writing - it felt like a good time...

The Kill Team Q1 2023 Meta Review

Attention Troopers: Officer on deck! We are locked and loaded and ready to talk about important business. We're nearly three months into 2023 and so today we're talking about the Kill Team meta, analyzing all the big tournament data...

Infinity Adepticon Release: New Bakunin Profiles Reactions

It's time for the major Adepticon release for Infinity by Corvus Belli, which if you've not been keeping up, is a rework of the Bakunin Jurisdictional Command, one of the Nomads Sectorial armies, with a release box firmly centred...

Stat Check Episode 35 – Maybe Violence is the Answer ft. John Lennon from Art of War

Innes, Anthony, and Nathan are joined by Art of War's John Lennon to discuss the meta. Check out Episode 33 of Stat Check on Libsyn or wherever you download podcasts. For more great shows, check out the Goonhammer Media Network.

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Guns and Goffs pt.1

It would appear that Guard players as a whole think they've sneaked under GW's winrate radar for long enough, because it's another big week for them - but Arks is still throwing curveballs at us. This week it's the...

Scenarios in Conquest: How Para Bellum Shapes the Metagame

As with most wargames, Conquest is played using a scenario that sets the conditions of victory and shapes how players interact. Conquest’s core rulebook includes a series of scenarios for new players, but the meat of the game’s scenario...

Goonhammer Reviews the Armies of Vashtorr

Vashtorr the Arkifane releases this weekend along with Arks of Omen: Vashtorr and Wrath of the Soul-Forge King. And while Vashtorr's datasheet has been released online, and we love the model, you may have seen that we're not particularly...