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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Incarnates… Incarnates Everywhere

This past week saw the nerfhammer come for the Purple Sun of Shyish, though I expect many of these events were still using the old version due to the way list submission typically works. That said, there is another...

Leagues of Votann: The Goonhammer Competitive Roundtable

Codex: Leagues of Votann is fast approaching and the 40k community have A Lot of Opinions on the strength of the new book. While we all agree that the book is strong in general, exactly how strong is a...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Conspicuously Pachyderm-Free Room

Plenty more Warhammer this weekend past, and lots of Warhammer on the one coming up. The biggest London Grand Tournament yet is going to be the largest single showcase for the Nephilim metagame so far, and should give us a...

CI In the Mortal Realms: Death and Skinks

The battles of Gallet continue on and wow there are a lot of events going on this past weekend, in almost every corner of the world. We see Seraphon making a resurgance with the more Galetian Veteran friendly Fangs of...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Segmentum Pacificus Rim

We've got some blowout weeks coming up, but for the first time in ages the weekend just past was relatively quiet. In 2022, that means we merely have two majors and two big GTs to look at, but hey, I've...

Codex Leagues of Votann – 9th Edition: The Goonhammer Review

For over a decade, furtive whispers have told the tale of a faction that once walked the battlefields of the 41st millennium, descendants from ancient Terra who had taken a very different path from most of humanity. Many denounced...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lone Heroes

Apologies for being a day late - I'm recovering from a bout of COVID! Nephilim continues to be very popular, but it's fair to say that this week mostly feels like we've hit the point where the metagame has fully consolidated...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Chasing Low Drops

We're starting to see a trend reader - more and more armies are foregoing Bounty Hunters because there's less Galletian Veteran units running around, and trying to stack up Battle Regiments in order to outdrop and thus dictate control...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: NOVA Reanimation

This week sees the post-lockdown return of the NOVA open, traditionally one of the biggest events in the 40K calendar and very much back in style this year. Supermajor numbers, GW terrain, and a hotly contested top bracket producing...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Hive Noon pt.2

Imagine I put the gif of Adam Driver screaming "more. MORE" here. There is more. Today we'll cover: Roll For Damage GT (major) Trashtics GT Power 9 Games Friendly Local GT THERE IS ONLY WAR - Gamers Guild Grand Tournament 2022...