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Events and Challenges

Beanith’s Road to… NoVA?: Building a Death Guard Finale?

Beanith - August 27, 2020

Picture this scenario if you will, dear reader, which may or may not have happened on a typical Thursday afternoon last week. Rob: Why are you in that hammock and why are the Goonhammer Offices full of sand? Beanith: Sipping from...

Gaming

Little Wars: Combat Patrol Mission Gameplay in 9th

PierreTheMime - August 19, 2020

We've devoted a lot of time and energy to Strike Force missions in 9th edition, but we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about some of the other new ways to play 40k with smaller armies. In today's article,...

Hammer of Math

Hammer of Math: Grenades

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - August 10, 2020

This week's article takes a look at the utility of grenades in Warhammer 40K, and at what point (if ever) should you consider tossing one instead of shooting the enemy in the face. The grenade is a bit of an...

Competitive Play

9th Edition Faction Focus: Death Guard

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 15, 2020

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a...

Gaming

War of the Spider Round-up

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 5, 2020

9th edition may be approaching at a breakneck pace but there's still plenty of relevant 8th edition content coming out that will still be relevant when 9th edition drops. We covered the recap of Engine War last week and...

Lore

Psychic Awakening – War of the Spider Review: The Lore

Raf Cordero - June 29, 2020

If you've been following along with all of our Psychic Awakening Lore Reviews you'll know that this part of the review is where I describe all the weird stuff that the explosion of warp energy is doing to psykers....

Gaming

Hammer of Math: Death Guard in War of the Spider

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - June 22, 2020

Psychic Awakening has started to near the end, with only Pariah left before we expect to see the release of 9th Edition. War of the Spider has been particularly well received thanks to a healthy injection of content for...

Gaming

War of the Spider Review, Part 1: The Death Guard

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 19, 2020

Death Guard were the second codex of 8th edition and thumbing through the book, it certainly feels like it. Many of their rules have the mark of early 8th edition writing style to them, with a glut of characters...

Hobby

How to Paint Death Guard – Rockfish’s Method

May "Rockfish" Herrington - May 30, 2020

This article is part of a larger series on how to paint the Death Guard. To return to the parent article, click this link. As my backlog was steadily being emptied by the pandemic, it was finally time to take on...

Hobby

Goonhammer Hobby Round-up: May 2020 (mid-month)

Liam "Corrode" Royle - May 16, 2020

Unbelievably, we're already halfway through May. 2020 is both the longest and shortest year on record, and that's reflected not only in the rapid advance of time (pretend I included one of those tear-off desk calendar things madly spraying...