Iron Hands

Goonhammer FAQ Hot Take: Space Marines Factions Points Updates, January 2021

GW released a bombshell of new FAQs today, covering updates to the GT missions, points updates, and rules clarifications and errata. And as always, we’ve got you covered with the rundown of what’s changed and what it means for...

Start Competing: Iron Hands Tactics

Once the terrifying bogeymen of late 8th edition, the Iron Hands haven't had bespoke rules very often but when they have, those rules have been at least pretty good, and sometimes - as was the case with the 8th...

Start Competing: Space Marines Tactics

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Space Marines in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. Space Marines are the iconic faction of Warhammer 40,000. The very origins of the setting...

October 2020 FAQ Update Review – Iron Hands

In advance of the upcoming release of Codex: Space Marines and as promised, Games Workshop dropped a massive FAQ update on us today (remember when we said fifteen books needed FAQs? Turns out it was more). There’s a lot...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Battle for Survival

9th Edition events continue to gently, carefully roll along, and that's giving us a drip feed of precious, precious data about what sort of armies are performing as people's familiarity with the edition increases. A few weeks ago we...

Battle Bros: Chapter XI: Intellectual Bankruptcy

Pavlichenko’s face fell as he heard the order. “Perhaps I was not clear, Chapter Master Rostov. Long-range pict recorders of the moon’s surface indicate the presence of -” “Yes, yes,” dismissed Rostov with a wave of his hand, “Iron Warriors,...

The 40K Spring FAQ That Might Happen – A Goonhammer Roundtable ft. Richard Siegler

With the Coronavirus pandemic leading to many states and countries enacting quarantine or shelter-in-place laws that have stretched over multiple months now, we’ve (understandably) seen competitive play for 40k grind to a halt, in part because of FLG’s (correct)...

Hammer of Math: Gravitic Multiplication

This week's topic comes from our own Scott Horras "Heresy" who enjoys competitive play and is also Good At 40K, which something I absolutely cannot say regarding myself. With the recent Iron Hands nerf causing a massive shift in...

Hammer of Math: Nerfed Numerics

Today is a momentous day, dear readers. In their infinite wisdom Games Workshop has thoroughly and completely nerfed Iron Hands, eliminating one of Hammer of Math's favorite topics and subsequently forcing me to write about something other than bionic...

The Goonhammer Hot Take: Space Marines FAQs

Holy crap. Just when we were starting to think that GW wasn't interested in revising Space Marines again, they drop a bombshell on us with a massive new set of FAQs and errata that completely change everything about the faction. OK,...