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The Goonhammer Open UK is almost here!

It's nearly time! The GHO UK is happening at the end of this month, and we're excited to see everyone and find out which Tyranids player is going to climb above the corpses of the rest of the swarm...

Goonhammer Open UK – 29/30 October 2022 – Tickets on sale now!

A few weeks back we announced our two Goonhammer Opens for this year - tickets for the Goonhammer Open UK on 29/30 October 2022 are on sale now from Eventbrite! You can find all of the details of the event...

Rip and Tear! Drybrush Threepwood’s Flesh Tearers go to the Goonhammer Open

Pregame Having a well documented propensity for density I made what was to be a monumentally poor decision one month before the event - I was going to change a list I had spent the last few months playing. The...

Fisher Price: My First Tournament – Goonhammer Open Tournament Report

This tournament report is a little different to the average one. Instead of a high intensity battle for the top tables, this is my tale of turning up to my first GT size event as a beginner to the...

A Jarl’s First Grand Tournament

Goonhammer Patron "Jarl" Ian Donovan recently attended the US Goonhammer Open in Bethesda Maryland, finishing 10th overall with a 4-2 record. This is his story. Alright, so here’s the tl;dr version: I flew down to DC, played 6 games with...

Fight to Escape! MasterSlowPoke at the Goonhammer Open Narrative

It has been two long, long years since Nova 2019. Far to long since I’ve seen my east coast Goonhammer buddies and greater DC area ham-slammers. The second that the Goonhammer Open Narrative was announced, I knew I had...

Craters, Ringers, Judging, and Dehydration: Primaris Kevin’s Goonhammer Open Experience

With the Goonhammer Open wrapped up, I thought it might be fun to share my own personal experience in terms of preparation, playing, and recovering. It was an amazing experience and it was a lot of fun to (safely)...

40K BADCAST – BONUS EPISODE: GHO 2021

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of whom have other projects outside of the site. In addition to their work here, Dan Boyd and Crudblossom “Coldgore “Netlist “Crimbles “Cracklins “Cranky “Krampus “Cribble “Tikrimba...

The US Goonhammer Open Grand Tournament: Event Recap

If you believe the true measure of a Grand Tournament’s success is how well the elevators work, and we certainly do, then the GHO is the best 40k event ever run in the greater Washington DC area over a...

A Dark Angel’s Thesis: Greg at the Goonhammer Open

There's a time leading up to any event where it stops being an abstract point in the future, and becomes concretely real. Less a vague sense of wanting to book hotels before the good deals are gone, and more...