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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...

Bonesplitterz at the Blackout VI GT: An Age of Sigmar Tournament Report

The Blackout series of events are 5-round, 2000-point matched play AoS affairs, usually run as ‘by the book’ as possible. Veteran TO Chris Tomlin has had an understandably rough recent run of it with cancellations and drops around Covid,...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 20: WarZone Houston

Hello, Dear Reader, and welcome back to my ongoing log of the 2022 season. Last time around I was furiously prepping for WarZone Houston, touching up Thousand Sons, refining the list, and touching up the models in order to...

Infinity Tournament Season (ITS) 14 Rules Round-Up

It’s that time of year again, Goons! ITS 14 has dropped and Goonhammer is bringing you the Poblano of spicy takes on this development. Are ya ready, kids? I can't hear you... Genghis Cohen: I am excited to see this...

Universes Beyond: Warhammer 40,000 Review, Part 4 of 4 – Forces of the Imperium

This week we're covering the new Universes Beyond Commander release for Magic: the Gathering, which combines two of our favorite games in the best way. Today we're talking about the new cards in the Imperial deck. Forces of the Imperium...

NOVA Champion Jack Harpster Recaps the Event

We've finally reached the finale of our coverage of the NOVA 2022 event and we're going out with a bang. This week we're joined by current #1 in the ITC player Jack Harpster from The Art of War, who...