Hot Take

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...

Mantic’s Deadzone Reveal: 3rd Edition is Coming!

G’day all. Today we want to bring you the news about the new edition of the sci-fi skirmish game Deadzone. In their latest livestream, Mantic announced not only the 3rd edition of the Deadzone rules, but also new terrain,...

Age of Sigmar 3.0: September FAQ Hot Take

Is it FAQ time again? Yep. Games Workshop dropped 3 surprise FAQs for the Core Rules, General's Handbook 2021 and Battletome: Sylvaneth. What's inside? Core Rules Ward Saves Tidied up the wording to confirm that those abilities that RAW were not a...

Age of Sigmar August 2021 FAQ: The Goonhammer Hot Take

Games Workshop has released surprise FAQ for almost every book on August 27th, 2021. The Mortal Realms correspondents have combed through all of them to bring you the juiciest tidbits and what that might mean for the game going...