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Brutal but Kunnin’: Ork Greenskins Kill Team Tactics

With the first anniversary of Kill Team 2.0 having passed we once again return to our journey through the Compendium Teams. Thanks to a good ruleset and being released in the first box set of the game, Ork Kommandos...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 9: The GW New Orleans Open, Part 1 (of 2)

This is it, Dear Reader! After several more weeks of meandering posts talking about my practice games and hemming and hawing about daemon princes and bloat-drones and chaos lords, it was finally time to Put up or Shut up...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: NOLA Nailbiter

Barely a week goes by without the big supermajor alarm I have haphazardly installed in my living room going off, and this week it's been triggered by the second iteration of the GW roadshow, bringing over 150 players to...

Games for Young Kids: Snail Sprint!

It's been a while since I wrote about buying and playing a new board game with my (now) five year-old son; we've been playing a lot of Rhino Hero Super Battle and getting into scavenger hunts - but that's...

Gaming Spaces: TheChirurgeon’s Space, Part 3 – Building a Dedicated Gaming Room

Alright, Dear Reader, this is it. The final part in my three-part series on building a gaming space. I've previously talked about the space I built at my parents' house, the stow-able, modular table I built for gaming in...

Army Showcase: Musterkrux’s Ultramarines 5th Company

The Painter: Musterkrux The Game: Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition Points: 2,000 (and change) Faction: Ultramarines (with a dash of Deathwatch) Collecting Since: The start of 8th Edition (spot the Dark Imperium models...) Something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue I built and...

Hammer of Math: Kill Team 2.0 Expectations

This week's Hammer of Math looks at the "typical" distribution of wounds dealt by several different units in Kill Team 2.0. When we released our September Meta Review for Kill Team, one thing that immediately stood out was the efficacy...

Faction Focus: Stormcast Eternals

Reforged warriors created by Sigmar, these (mostly) immortal warriors are the best of the best - or at least they’re supposed to be. Regardless of how you build an army it’s going to be pretty elite and hit hard...

Commander Unstable Mutation: Coven Counters

Coven Counter is based on generating +1/+1 counters, off the commander and other sources, buffing the small creatures in order to deal combat damage.  This is inherently a bad game plan, especially without backup from things like proliferate, or...

Goonhammer Hobby Round-up: September 2021

PierreTheMime Well, folks, it's pre-October which means everyone is making every excuse to release the ghouls and goblins early. For that reason, it's back to Nighthaunt for me! First off, I've finally dragged myself out of a painting slump to...