Deathwatch

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Onslaught GT

This week is one for taking a deep breath. After the excitement of the last few weeks, we've got but a single GT to look at today, the Onslaught Grand Tournament in Florida. However - next weekend things go...

Competitive Innovations Editorial: Tier 4 Blues pt.1

After a big old burst of activity last week, things were pretty quiet on the event scene this weekend just past, leaving me (hopefully for one of the last times this year) with a blank text window in front...

Your Army Sucks 2k21 Preview, Part 1: The Imperium

It’s a whole new year, and your army is likely to see some changes. Goonhammer is here to help, with an unbiased preview of every army, how it plays, and what to expect. We’ll be covering each codex with...

Deathwatch Codex Supplement FAQ: The Goonhammer Hot Take

Games Workshop silently dropped a few major FAQs today, with big changes for Deathwatch, Space Wolves, and Imperial Armour: Compendium. As always, we’ve got a full list of the changes and how they affect your games. We were absolutely floored...

Hammer of Math: 9th Edition Special Issue Ammunition Deep Dive

The recent changes in the Deathwatch Codex Supplement included some significant modifications to Special Issue Ammunition along with a major curtailing of which units can actually equip it. Although we briefly covered the topic a few weeks ago, several...

Codex: Deathwatch Crusade Rules review

With the release of Codex Supplement: Deathwatch, the faction has now been folded into the big umbrella of Codex: Space Marines, with access to all of the faction's units and most of its rules. I say "most" because one...

Hammer of Math: Deathwatch Supplement

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at some of the numbers behind the new Deathwatch supplement to Codex: Space Marines. For a review of the codex which drops next week, click the link here. Special Issue Ammunition The new...

Codex Supplement Deathwatch: The Goonhammer Review

8th edition was, on the whole, pretty rough for Deathwatch. Lacking in unit variety, fragile, expensive, and struggling with some functions, monofaction Deathwatch were a tough army to play and play well. They had some reasonable play in soup...

October 2020 FAQ Update Review – Deathwatch

In advance of the upcoming release of Codex: Space Marines and as promised, Games Workshop dropped a massive FAQ update on us today (remember when we said fifteen books needed FAQs? Turns out it was more). There’s a lot...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Hellstorm RTT Safari

For the first time in a few weeks we find ourselves without a new GT to talk about as the 9th Edition evolves, but that doesn't mean that the fiery coals of innovation aren't smouldering away across the world,...