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The Warhammer 40,000 October 2024 Balance Update Round-up

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 19, 2024

GW dropped a large balance update to the game this week, adjusting points for every faction and updating some core rules as well as the tournament companion. In case you missed our coverage, we recap it all here, along with links to the posts.

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Q3 2024 40K Balance Update – Xenos

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 20, 2024

This week Games Workshop dropped the largest single update we’ve ever seen to Warhammer 40,000 outside of an edition change. Through a number of FAQs and Errata, points changes, a new Dataslate, and a massive update to the Core...

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The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Chaos

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 25, 2024

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update - Chaos

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The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Space Marines

Chase "Gunum" Garber - April 25, 2024

After nearly three months, it’s time for another quarterly update for Warhammer 40,000 and this time it’s just points. Today’s points update gives us updated points for every faction in the game, though as usual some have been touched...

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The Q1 2024 Kill Team Balance Dataslate – The Goonhammer Hot Take

TheArmorOfContempt - March 28, 2024

Coming less than a week from the conclusion of Adepticon, we have in our hands the latest and greatest changes to Kill Team. The end of 2023 saw some massive changes to the game, but even in that short...

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The Q1 2024 40k Balance Dataslate Competitive Roundtable

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 5, 2024

In the Q1 2024 40k Balance Dataslate Competitive Roundtable some of our competitive players sit down and talk about the new datalate - the good, the bad, and what it does to the game.

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The Warhammer 40k Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate Review

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 30, 2024

A new season of Warhammer 40k is upon us! In addition to points updates, a comprehensive FAQ/errata document, a new detachment, and rules commentary, Games Workshop also updated the balance dataslate to incorporate a host of new changes. And...

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The Pre-Dataslate State of the 40k Meta (January, 2024)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 29, 2024

With the next 40k balance update looming, we take a look at the current state of the meta after LVO and what needs to change this time around.

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The Kill Team Q4 2023 Dataslate Hot Take

HappyRaccoon - December 14, 2023

The Kill Team Q4 2023 Dataslate Hot Take - Everything's getting a major shake up, just in time for LVO! Find out what changed and what it means.

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Goonhammer Reviews the 10th Edition Launch Balance Pass

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 5, 2023

As you may have seen earlier today in Competitive Innovations, Eldar are looking pretty hot in 10th Edition, most would argue too hot, and a few other factions have been putting up fairly eye-catching performances. Luckily, the Design Team...