Hot Take

The May 2022 Imperial Armour Compendium FAQ Hot Take

GW released an FAQ for the Imperial Armour Compendium today, making adjustments to Eldar and Tyranids units in the book to bring them in line with their recent Codexes. We talk about what changed and what it means.

April Battletome FAQs – The Goonhammer Hot Take

FAQs for Fyreslayers and Idoneth Deepkin are finally out, as are some minor updates to the Seraphon and Slaves to Darkness (and believe us they are minor). Let's get to it. If you want to find the latest FAQs, you...

Goonhammer Infinity – Adepticon 22: New Fireteam Rules & Profiles Reactions

On 24th of March 2022, Corvus Belli have released an update to the rules for composing Fireteams of Infinity models, giving us new Fireteam rules and profiles. In this article our Goonhammer Infinity authors are running through the changes...

Hot Take: AOS Battlescroll Update – The Hunt

The TL;DR The game has added priority targets as well as prime hunters. Priority Targets are strong units that now give up an additional victory point (some are worth 2!) when slain, similar to monsters. Prime Hunters constitute entire factions,...

The March 2022 Kill Team Balance Dataslate Hot Take

Games Workshop released a new balance dataslate for Kill Team today, giving us some major changes to a number of key factions. This is great news, generally - it indicates that GW are serious about course correcting imbalances in...

The Q1 40k Balance Dataslate and FAQs – Analysis and Hot Takes

As promised - and earlier than expected, if we’re being honest - Games Workshop delivered the second balance dataslate today, along with a host of FAQs. Far from the massive changes last time around, there are a lot of...

Draconith Rider Point Adjustment: The Goonhammer Hot Take

Ahead of the release of the much-anticipated Stormcast Dragons, Games Workshop has decided to give them a points FAQ. That’s right, the models aren’t out and are already being updated. There’s been a lot of concern in the community...

Warlord Wednesdays: I Do Not Like the Small Knights

Welcome back to Goonhammer’s series for aspiring Titan Princeps. We here at Goonhammer’s own Collegia Titanica know that Adeptus Titanicus can seem intimidating to players unfamiliar with its particular quirks, but this series aims to equip you with everything...

The 2021 40k Balance Dataslate Hot Take

After what we’ll call... a “rough” couple of months on the competitive scene, Games Workshop released a massive set of updates today to its competitive rules. And unlike past changes we’ve seen with “the Big FAQs” in 8th edition,...

Infinity – ITS Season 13 Hot Takes

Corvus Belli has released the Infinity Tournament System (ITS) rules for Season 13. Goonhammer's crack team of Infinity Tactical Operators were directed to provide an expert opinion on what exactly this means for the state of play for Infinity...