Iron Hands

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Orders pt.1

As may not have escaped your notice, it's an exciting week in the 40K world, with a spicy new balance dataslate that's going to shake up the top metagame substantially. You can check out our rundown of that here,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Many Magnificent Majors pt.2

Welcome back to part two of this week's column. Today we'll be looking at the results from: Malmö Wargaming Weekend V Stud or Snotling Lots of GTs If you're looking for...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Goonhammerception

This week the answer to "were there any events?" is especially obvious for anyone paying attention to what we've been up to, because the inaugural Goonhammer Open US is now in the books, with the champion's belt (literally, that's...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Global Waaaagh pt.2

We're back for part two of this week's column, today covering: The North and South GT The FactoruM GT The Saltier Classic The War on the Shore GT The Kent GT If you're looking for any of the following events,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Magnificent Seven

This week I'm on holiday, but the march of 40K never stops, and there's plenty going on in the competitive scene. With that in mind, my cunning compromise between me getting a proper break and not letting this column...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Slamtastic Summer pt.2

As promised yesterday we are back, bringing you even more list review content from a blockbuster weekend. Unfortunately, scheduling issues have stopped JONK being able to join in, but Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones has stepped up to join me once more,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Waaagh on the Horizon

This week in the Goonhammer offices we've been busily trying to work on our various writing tics and bad habits, and in that spirit I'm going to have to think of a way to open these other than "another...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Look Who’s Outside Again

Another weekend that feels like a transition from one metagame reality to another - not least because I finally got to go to an in-person event for the first time since February 2020. The AdMech FAQ landed last week, and while...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Big Summer Blowout pt.1

The UK scene has fully re-opened and the US scene is going from strength to strength, and those two factors have combines to give us what I believe is our single biggest weekend of events since this column started. Obviously...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Brisbane Open & West Australia Iron Man

So to answer the first question - yes I contemplated pulling out some second edition army lists and trying to do a bit for Goonhammer 96 week, but the idea of trying to wrap my head around the 2nd...