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Boardhammer: Azul

As much as we love pushing our armies around the table sometimes we need a break. Whether its a quick game between rounds or an all day main event, the Goonhammer team can often be found pushing chits, cubes,...

Ding & Dent: The Lifespan of a Game

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of which have other projects outside of the site. In addition to his work here, Raf Cordero has his own podcast, Ding and Dent, which is not...

Ding & Dent: The State of Skirmish Games

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of which have other projects outside of the site. In addition to his work here, Raf Cordero has his own podcast, Ding and Dent, which is not...

Warcry: State of the Bloodwind Spoil

One of 2019’s major Games Workshop releases was Warcry, a new skirmish game set in the Mortal Realms. In advance of its release, rumors swirled. Would it be a scaled-down version of Age of Sigmar, employing similar rules like...

Ritual of the Damned Review Part 4: The Lore

We've seen so far how the Psychic Awakening is enhancing latent psychic abilities across the galaxy. Prayer is more powerful, demons are surging, and Librarians from all Chapter are finding their abilities strengthened. So what happens to those who...

Codex Adepta Sororitas – The Lore

Sisters of Battle. Adepta Sororitas. However you want to refer to them, the Battle Sisters of Warhammer 40,000 are the militant branch of the Imperium's Ecclesiarchy. They are instruments of purification and faith, cleansing the universe of heresy and xenos via...

Captainraffi’s 2019 Year in Review – Skirmish, Skirmish, and More Skirmish

I can confidently declare that 2019 was my Year of Warhammer. I started logging all of my tabletop game plays using the BGStats app about 4 years ago. It helped me keep track of what I was playing which...

Psychic Awakening III: Blood of Baal – Lore Review

The dawn of Warhammer 40,000's 8th edition brought with some unfortunate news for the sons of Sanguinius: the largest incursion of Tyranids that the Imperium has faced to-date was found to be swarming directly towards Baal. If you're read The Devastation...

Glory Hunting – Passive vs Active Glory, with Duke Crakmarrow!

Glory Hunting is a semi-regular series aimed at helping you play Warhammer Underworlds! Check out our previous coverage here. The Grymwatch are a brutal band of feral ghouls inhabiting Beastgrave in search of honor food, glory food, and redemption meat....

Psychic Awakening II: Faith and Fury Review, Part 4: The Lore

Faith & Fury is Book 2 in the Psychic Awakening story, and it comes packed with rules for various factions. We've covered the Adeptus Astartes, the Black Templar, and the Forces of Chaos already, so if you've missed that coverage be...