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The Votann FAQ Competitive Roundtable

Only one day after our big competitive Votann roundtable last week Games Workshop issued a major pair of adjustments to the faction, increasing their point costs across the board and changing the way Judgement tokens work to no longer...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Bravery Bombs Rule

Heya folks - Ellarr here with a whopping 6 events this week to cover. As the tournament scene gets larger and we see more and more events hit that magical 28 player number and thus qualify for this article,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Major Mayhem pt.1

The last few weeks were very much the calm before the storm - this weekend was one of the biggest yet in 9th, with well over a thousand players participating in GT+ events, the first Goonhammer Open in Canada,...

The Road To Brotherhood Part 1 – Introduction to Team Age Of Sigmar

If you’re a regular Goonhammer reader, you might have come across James “One_Wing” Grover’s excellent Start Competing: Warhammer 40,000 Team Tournaments article recently. Well, 40k isn’t the only game where teams can duke it out for overall victory; there...

Blood Bowl Tournament Report: Chaos Cup Part 1

Welcome back, Sports Fans! We’re back this week with the first half of Dan’s coverage of the 20th annual Chaos Cup! We sent him (on his dime lol) to Chicago for the largest Blood Bowl event in North America....

The Leagues of Votann FAQ Hot Take

In a stunning turn of events Games Workshop released their fastest FAQ and balance update yet, this time for the Leagues of Votann. In today's two-part update, Games Workshop released an FAQ and a points update for the Votann...

The Kill Team Meta Update – September 2022

September is basically in the books and with a new Dataslate out, it's a good time to look back on the last month or so of events and see how the Kill Team meta is doing overall. Last time...

Kill Team Datasheets in 40K: The Goonhammer Hot Take

Games Workshop surprised us this week with a batch of new datasheets, covering rules for some of the new Kill Teams that have been released in the past few months as well as some of the older models we’ve...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Incarnates… Incarnates Everywhere

This past week saw the nerfhammer come for the Purple Sun of Shyish, though I expect many of these events were still using the old version due to the way list submission typically works. That said, there is another...

Leagues of Votann: The Goonhammer Competitive Roundtable

Codex: Leagues of Votann is fast approaching and the 40k community have A Lot of Opinions on the strength of the new book. While we all agree that the book is strong in general, exactly how strong is a...