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Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships Part II

Today in Star Wars: Armada, Summer gets attacked by a swarm of angry fish. This is Part II of the Dockyard series on small Rebel Alliance ships. The Ships – “Fear is your natural warning system; it keeps you alive...

Stat Check Episode 31 – Ravenwinging It: The Meta

Check out Episode 31 of Stat Check on Libsyn or wherever you download podcasts. Innes, Anthony, Nathan, and Jeremy review the Arks of Omen Meta so far. Innes gives instructions on how to beat Genestealer Cult (who are top dogs...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Darkest Timeline pt.1

Buckle up readers, this week Arks is fully hitting its stride, and some frontrunners are starting to emerge. To the surprise of no one in particular, and the delight of Greg, Dark Angels appear to be the army to...

Conquest Faction Focus: The Hundred Kingdoms – Updated 24/3/2024

The Hundred Kingdoms are in one sense an extremely middle of the road faction. They're baseline humans, with average human stats, average human armour, and average human force organisation. There are no surprises here, no weird units that you'll...

A Man And His Jokers: Malifaux at CaptainCon 2023

Longtime readers of the column (or "Togepi-heads") will remember my last trip to CaptainCon, New England's premier pirate-themed wargaming extravaganza.  How little I knew then!  How young and naive I was!  Malifaux Burns had just been released, and people...

Goonhammer’s Guide to 9th Edition World Eaters

It's been a busy two weeks with the release of Codex: World Eaters and if you missed any of our coverage or were looking for advice on how to play the army, how to paint the new models, or...

Editorial: No, you do not need the latest Chapter Approved or General’s Handbook

Why you do NOT need the latest 6-month-cycle tournament book when you're not a tournament player.

Blood Bowl – State of the Competitive Meta – Part 2

Earlier last year we did our first Goonhammer look at the Blood Bowl Tournament meta.  For the first time in a long time, Blood Bowl has become a game much like other GW games, where we see changes, updates,...

Of Wrath and Rage: Lowest of Men’s Flesh Tearers at the Vigilant and Faithful RTT

Welcome reader! Tom, the Lowest of Men here. I'm back with another event report, this time covering a rare foray into Incursion sized 1,000 point games of Warhammer 40,000. I'll be reflecting on the Incursion scale, as well as...

Arks of Omen Faction Focus: Emperor’s Children

With a new batch of rules updates comes the need to revisit the strategies and tactics of each faction. Today Anthony “Violence” Vanella is talking about the changes to Emperor’s Children and how those changes will affect them in...