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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...

Pendulin’s Road to Goonhammer Open, Part 3: Resolution

The paint has dried and all is still. A moment of calm before the storm, but let's look at those final steps that got us here.

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 5: More Practice Games

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing progress series that follows along with my journey to attend a slate of competitive events through the end of the 2021 season and get to a 3-digit spot on the ITC leaderboards....

The Goonhammer Open US Page is live!

Hi everyone, if you're looking for information about the Goonhammer Open US event coming up, we've now got a page for that live on the site. Included on that page are downloadable packets for the Narrative and GT events,...

Felime’s Road to Goonhammer Open: Episode 2: Attack of the Trim

Last week the we covered the first steps on my road to Goonhammer Open. If you need a recap, Goonhammer Open is on September 4th, and the narrative event requires 125 PL worth of painted models. Unfortunately, I do...

Pendulin’s Road to Goonhammer Open, Part 2: Mistakes

With our inaugural event Goonhammer Open USA fast approaching, let's follow one man's mad scramble to clear out his backlog, build as much Adeptus Mechanicus as he can, and draw some truly dumb art. I've made mistakes in my time. I...

Felime’s Road to Goonhammer Open: Episode I: The Spreadsheet Menace

Welcome, goonhammer readers. It's been... well, it's been a while since I've written anything related to 40k. It's hard to be excited for and write about a game you don't play, and for epidemiological reasons until recently I hadn't...