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Hillbilly Cyborg Yacht Club RTT: A Naramyth Trip Report

Introduction I'm back! This past weekend was a regularly scheduled Two Rivers RTT held at Parallax Games in Bismark, ND. The field wound up being the largest yet for our RTTs at 18 people. Thankfully their gaming space is pretty...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War (2004)

This is where it all began: the original Dawn of War. Okay, technically it began with Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior, but Fire Warrior, a first-person shooter where you played as a T’au commando, was a weird game whose reach...

Necromunday: Your Move, Creep! Initial Impressions of the Palanite Enforcers

  The 40k universe stretches well beyond the war-torn battlefields of distant planets. In Necromunda, violent gangs clash in the tunnels and sewers of the planet's largest hive city. Starting this week, Dan “Sex Cannon” Boyd and Jules “Merton” O’Hare...

How to Paint Everything: Ynnari, Part 2 – Yvraine

  In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. This week, we're kicking off a three-part series...

Tournament Preview – Three Cool Lists From the London Open

A month on from the Bristol City Open, it's finally time for me to hit the tournament tables again this weekend at the London Open. I haven't been totally idle gaming-wise - I TOed an RTT for our local...

The Road to NoVA: Crunch Time

We're now fully into the final month before NOVA kicks off and as you may recall, some of us are planning to go this year. I mentioned in my update last week that I had roughly 60 hours of...

Video Game Review: Battlefleet Gothic 2: Armada

We return this week with probably the current flagship 40K video game, given Inquisitor’s rocky track record and Mechanicus being a budget title. It would seem fairly odd on first blush that this duty would fall to one of...

How to Paint Everything: Ynnari, Part 1 – The Visarch

In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. This week, we're kicking off a three-part series...

Start Competing: Asuryani/Craftworld Eldar Tactics

Overview Welcome to our guide to learning how to wield the elegant, sophisticated weapon that is the armoury of the Craftworld Aeldari. Like the other articles in this series, this one will focus on the core of what the Craftworlds...

Unclehammer: Teaching Better Players, and Making the Next Generation

  Welcome to the first installation of Unclehammer, which is kind of like Dadhammer, but with much more flexibility, free time, hair, driving a two-door car, and having actual disposable income.   In this article, I want to take a deeper look...