Narrative Play

Necromunday: Starting a Campaign

Welcome back, scummers! Here at the Goonhammer offices we’ve received a number of requests recently to talk more about campaigns and now that we’re done with our gang guide-related obligations, we can finally talk about everything you need to...

Narrative Forge: Making Your Campaigns A Success

You know how we dissect every part of the competitive meta on this site? Really get into the reeds about what owns, what does not own about a codex? Talk about the best way to win ITC games? You...

The Narrative Forge: Battles of Legend

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Kill Team Tactics: Dispositions and New Missions

This month’s White Dwarf features new missions and a set of new rules for Kill Team, called Dispositions. Dispositions basically function as a subfaction on top of the already existing subfactions and give you a set of 3 Tactics...

Schemes of War Battle Report – Black Legion vs. Custodes

In this week's Battle Report, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones is pitting his Black Legion against Custodes in a game using the new Schemes of War rules from Chapter Approved 2019!

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 6 – Experience and Levels

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Review: Chapter Approved 2019

It’s December again, and with the return of the holiday season comes the return of Games Workshop’s annual Chapter Approved supplement, an annual volume filled with new rules and updates for Open, Narrative, and Matched Play. And with this...

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 1 – Planning and Running a Campaign

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Placing Terrain in 40k: How to Set Up a Table

You see it happen over and over: someone wanders into a channel or group talking about the awful time they just had playing against some jerk's gunline army in what was supposed to be a casual, fun game of...