Narrative Play

White Dwarf 459 Review: The Argovon Campaign, Phase 3

Between the Core Rules and Beyond the Veil, there are plenty of missions for your Crusade campaign to play through. But what if you wanted something different? The Argovon Campaign is the first of Games Workshop’s new Flashpoints, which...

Crusade Focus: Codex Supplement: Blood Angels

Welcome back, Narrative Players! Codex Supplement: Blood Angels is releasing this weekend and if you happened to read our review of the rules last week, you’d have noticed that we teased an upcoming Crusade Rules review - we’ll be...

White Dwarf 458 Review: The Argovon Campaign, Phase 2

Between the Core Rules and Beyond the Veil, there are plenty of missions for your Crusade campaign to play through. But what if you wanted something different? The Argovon Campaign is the first of Games Workshop’s new Flashpoints, which...

White Dwarf 457 Review: Flashpoint and the Argovon Campaign, Part 1

White Dwarf 457 is out and it introduces a new ongoing series called Flashpoints, which explore specific warzones and regions within the 40k universe, with new backstory and rules. Based on this initial entry, they seem like an interesting...

Crusade Focus: Necrons

Similar to the Imperial forces in Codex: Space Marines (whose Crusade rules we reviewed earlier this week), Necrons got their own set of Crusade rules in their new codex, fleshing out the faction with new agendas, relics, traits, and...

The Koronus Expanse: An Integrated Battlefleet Gothic and 40k Crusade Map Campaign

Following on the heels of our Goonhammer introduction of Battlefleet Gothic we are excited to introduce a brand new series that covers a live, ongoing campaign that brings together the Battlefleet Gothic system and the Warhammer 40,000 Crusade system...

Goonhammer Reviews Warhammer 40,000: Beyond the Veil

While the majority of our articles focus on competitive and tournament play for Warhammer 40,000, many of us here at Goonhammer enjoy narrative games that drip with theme and story as much as we do matched play games -...

Goonhammer Approved: The Magnificent Seven

Danger always strikes when everything seems fine. Sometimes a warrior isn't in it for fortune or fame. Sometimes a warrior just straps on his guns and goes to battle against impossible odds because it's the right thing to do. Why?...

Automated 40K Crusade Roster

Crusade games involve a teensy bit more paperwork than your average game of 40K. A semi-automated digital version of the Crusade roster would make things easier, and yet there didn't seem to be such a thing out in the intertubes,...

9th Edition Rulebook and Field Manual FAQ: The Goonhammer Hot Take

A new week brings with it some exciting updates to 40K - after several weeks of eager anticipation since launch, the FAQ for the 9th Edition rulebook is here, along with some fixes to points values from Chapter Approved....