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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Flame On

The Balance Dataslate has hit the metagame, and Chaos reigns - literally. Between Flamers of Tzeentch and the best two Chaos Space Marine legions, the ruinous powers are very much running amok, but they're far from the only faction...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: October 25, 2022, Part 1: In Which Mistakes Were Made

Hello and welcome to another thrilling installment of everyone's favorite column exploring the ins and outs of competitive play in Warhammer 40,000. James "One_Wing" Grover is currently on vacation doing whatever it is English people do on vacation, a topic...

The Q4 2022 40k Balance Dataslate – The Goonhammer Hot Take

It’s finally that time again – the design studio have gazed upon the metagame, rotated it in their minds, and made some tweaks aimed at leveling the playing field. Let’s take a look at what’s changed, and what it...

Competitive Innovations: Pipsqueak Power

Welcome back folks. On this week for Competitive Innovations another quiet week with a medium sized 42 player GT in British Columbia, Canada and a small Invitational in Pennsylvania at Castle-Con! Our headlining lists are very interesting so check...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Auric Ascension

Not too much of a results-oriented preamble this week (other than to say "hey, some people found Custodes builds that work"), as I'm technically on holiday this week (and we'll have guest cover next week), but since we still...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Windy City Warfare

War doesn't stand still, and while we're still somewhat in Balance Dataslate waiting room, there's plenty to talk about on the battlefields of the 41st Millenium, with a US supermajor going into the books in Chicago, and plenty of...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Major Mayhem pt.2

Major Mayhem continues, despite it disappointingly not being the month of May. Someone should get on that. Today we've got three more of aforesaid majors to take a look at, and two GTs - the Mother of all Battles...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Bravery Bombs Rule

Heya folks - Ellarr here with a whopping 6 events this week to cover. As the tournament scene gets larger and we see more and more events hit that magical 28 player number and thus qualify for this article,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Major Mayhem pt.1

The last few weeks were very much the calm before the storm - this weekend was one of the biggest yet in 9th, with well over a thousand players participating in GT+ events, the first Goonhammer Open in Canada,...

The Kill Team Meta Update – September 2022

September is basically in the books and with a new Dataslate out, it's a good time to look back on the last month or so of events and see how the Kill Team meta is doing overall. Last time...