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Arks of Omen Faction Focus: Space Wolves

With a new batch of rules updates comes the need to revisit the strategies and tactics of each faction. Today JONK! is talking about the changes to marines and how they affect Space Wolves armies. Welcome to Arks of Omen!...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Arks Anticipation Station

It's a new year and a new season rapidly approaches, but as ever we've still got a final few weeks of the current metagame to play out before Arks of Omen fully arrives, culminating in the Las Vegas Open...

Hammer of Math: Space Marines in the New Meta (January 2023)

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the effect of the changes in the new Balance Dataslate, Munitorium Field Manual, and Arks of Omen on Space Marines. What a week. For those who don't obsess over every detail of...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen – The Goonhammer Review

It’s a whole new season in the 41st Millenium - we’re leaving the ruins of Warzone Nephilim behind and confronting the chaotic new battlefields unleashed by the Arks of Omen. We’ve got a new mission pack, carrying with it...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Xenos

We’ve had the forces of the Imperium and Chaos - now everyone else. Perhaps unsurprisingly given how many armies the definition spans, Xenos have had a mixed time of it in Nephilim, some factions thriving thanks to powerful rules...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Chaos

Chaos have been running rampant in Warzone Nephilim, with all their Codexes seeing a reasonable amount of success, and the Thousand Sons/Tzeentch Daemons combo being the dominant build in the latter stages of the metagame. The arrival of Arks...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Imperium (non-Space Marines)

The forces of the Imperium have had a mixed time in Nephilim, ranging from the pretty strong (Adepta Sororitas) all the way through to the worst faction outside of Marines (Adeptus Mechanicus). Arks of Omen looks to have leveled...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Space Marines

Space Marines have been languishing near the bottom of the competitive rankings in the Nephilim, with only Blood Angels really having the chops to consistently punch their way up the tables, so in that context Marine players are probably...

Competitive Innovations Editorial: Asking the Right Questions

It's the Christmas holidays and no events are happening, which means that for one glorious week I am freed from the eternal tyranny of the monster column I have created (good), but also need to think of something to...

The Q4 2022 Kill Team Balance Dataslate Review

It's a Christmas(?) miracle! No sooner had we finished writing up our review of the new FAQs than Santa (or Father Christmas, or Professor Xmas, or whoever brings presents where you are) decided to swing by and deliver to...