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Competitive Innovations in 9th: From Warp and Tomb

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 27, 2022

It's a big one this week, and we've got some exciting builds to look at, so we're pretty much going to jump straight in. Things continue to look pretty positive, with strong showings from lots of factions and some...

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Competitive Innovations Bonus: Paris GT

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 15, 2022

There is no greater peak of 40k eurovibes than running the biggest singles event of the week, and the rest of the world only finding out about it because you casually mention it on a Facebook group on the...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim Unleashed

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 13, 2022

All stragglers are now accounted for, and Warzone Nephilim is now the only game in town. Good news - the immediate result appears to be one of the most healthy and diverse metagames we've had for ages. Most of the...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Varying Degrees of Tyranid

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 6, 2022

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles not to get eaten, with what can only honestly be described as limited success. This week sees things very much in flux as different events adopted either none, some...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Play Them Off

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 29, 2022

The end is near and so we face the final curtain - all signs are that players are absolutely chomping at the bit to get started with playing Nephilim (indeed quite a few RTTs this weekend played with them...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nachmund Omega

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 22, 2022

Statistically if you are reading this you've probably read our review of the upcoming Warzone Nephilim Mission Pack, and thus you'll know that big changes are on the horizon for the world of competitive 40K. The tournament scene doesn't...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 16, 2022

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

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2Q22 Faction Focus: Nick Nanavati Talks Harlequins

Nick Nanavati - May 3, 2022

Games Workshop dropped its Q2 Balance Dataslate for 40k in mid-April, dramatically changing a number of key factions. Astra Militarum, Marines and Sisters were buffed, Harlequins, T’au, and Custodes were nerfed, and some key game rules were changed. Now...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Curtain Falls

James "One_Wing" Grover - April 20, 2022

This week's edition of Competitive Innovations is going to be relatively brief - we only had three events this weekend due to it being Easter, and two of those were pre-Balance Dataslate and Tyranid Codex, and were dominated by armies...

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Codex: Aeldari FAQ – The Goonhammer Hot Take

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 13, 2022

It’s been six weeks since the release of Codex: Aeldari and today Games Workshop have released a much-needed FAQ for the book. We noted in our review that there were more than a few things that needed addressing so...