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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Start Wearing Purple pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 8, 2023

It's another massive week of 40K, and this time the sinister/heroic (delete as applicable) forces of the Genestealer Cults are making a big splash. While it's not quite as busy as last week, a couple of the team have offered...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Peak Warhammer pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 1, 2023

How about those Arks of Omen, eh? People sure do seem to love them. This past weekend is, I think, the biggest for tournament play we've ever had other than LGT or LVO weekends, and terrifyingly that's not counting the 300-player...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Darkest Timeline pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 17, 2023

Welcome back to part 2 of this week's column, where we've got four more events for your enjoyment. While a certain Marine chapter continues to look substantially overcooked, it's otherwise looking like a pretty healthy metagame out there, with...

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Competitive Innovations Extra: CaptainCon 2023

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 10, 2023

Look, what can I say, Gregbot's auspicator was on the blink (or possibly it overloaded when Dark Angels won an event) and we missed the biggest non-team event of the week, CaptainCon. For my part in these crimes, I...

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Orks of Omen Faction Focus: Orks

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 6, 2023

Warboss Ben Jurek stops by today to talk about Orks in Arks of Omen and how they're well positioned to take on the world.

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim is LVOver

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 1, 2023

This weekend a momentous event took place - I took a Wraithknight to a GT and... **Extremely Loud Incorrect Buzzer** Rob is looking at me from the other side of the (very real) Goonhammer offices and shaking his head, which I...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Arks Anticipation Station

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 11, 2023

It's a new year and a new season rapidly approaches, but as ever we've still got a final few weeks of the current metagame to play out before Arks of Omen fully arrives, culminating in the Las Vegas Open...

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Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Xenos

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 5, 2023

We’ve had the forces of the Imperium and Chaos - now everyone else. Perhaps unsurprisingly given how many armies the definition spans, Xenos have had a mixed time of it in Nephilim, some factions thriving thanks to powerful rules...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Just As Planned pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 7, 2022

We're not too far out from the tournament scene winding down just a little bit for Christmas, but this week is another massive one for results, with a UK Supermajor, two US majors, and a mighty seven GTs. In the...

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Kill Team Tactics: Ork Kommandos

TheArmorOfContempt - November 24, 2022

Among the most kunning orks in the galaxy, Kommandos represent the most effective operatives the Orks can muster, teams of speshulist operatives who can make their way undetected through a battlefield and savage unsuspecting foes. Kommandos were, along with...