Narrative Play

Arks of Omen: Abaddon – The Goonhammer Review

Arks of Omen: Abaddon is the first of several books to be released by Games Workshop to serve as a galaxy-spanning series of narrative campaign books. The contents serve as a supplement to the Warhammer 40k 9th Edition Core...

Announcing The Goonhammer 2023 Global 40k Campaign

Eagle-eyed readers might have noticed over the past few years that we're huge fans of running campaigns for our wargames, creating narratives that we can weave through our games to build on something larger. It's one of the reasons...

Raid on Lachesis Part III: Imperial Heroics

Welcome back to the Raid on Lachesis, a 5-part campaign series in which the Word Bearers descend on an Imperial world with nothing but good intentions. In this third post, it's time for them to make planetfall. Weeks of...

Raid on Lachesis Part II: The Players & Their Armies

Welcome back to the Raid on Lachesis, a 5-part campaign series in which the Word Bearers attempt to do Evil Stuff™. In today's post we'll meet the players, and their tiny plastic children. What’s in the series? Part 1: rules, maps,...

Administratum: A Very Special Update (December 25th, 2022)

This time, on a very special Administratum update, you can delete games, create campaign moderators, and have the best at-a-glance reference for your army!

Raid on Lachesis Part I: the Campaign Concept & Rules

In this five part series I’m hoping to show how easy it is to turn your games of 40K Crusade into a campaign. Today we’re going over the rules, the lore and the map. Next time we’ll show off...

Administratum: The Campaign Phase Update (December 18th, 2022)

Administratum's latest update brings with it Campaign Phases - a quick and powerful way of creating arcs within your campaign!

PantsOptional’s Road through Crusade, Part 3: Sinuses Packed with Conscript Meat

The world was noise. Meaningless static, blurry images devoid of any pattern. He saw and heard the world the same way he felt it, at least most of the time. Pain brought everything into sharp relief, and so did...

Gunum’s GW Finale Narrative Recap, The Last Day: The Enemy Without

We have arrived together at the final chapter of my epic. Welcome, dear reader, to the final part of Gunum's adventures in Albuquerque. It's been quite the experience, fraught with battles against both the elements and the slings and...

Goonhammer Approved: The Crusade Balance Dataslate

We're nearly three years into the 9th edition of Warhammer 40,000, an edition which introduced us to Crusade Narrative play, and while we've had a large number of balance patches, FAQs, and errata come and go for the matched...