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Blood Bowl

Getting Started With Blood Bowl

Dan "dittka" Boyd - November 16, 2020

Hey there, Sports Fans! Welcome to Goonhammer’s inaugural coverage of everyone’s favorite fantasy football game: Blood Bowl! With the new edition going up for pre-order last weekend, we wanted to get the word out to those who might be...

Reviews

In Amnesia: Rebirth, Horror Gets Its Head Checked Once Again

Jonathan Bernhardt - November 3, 2020

Amnesia: Rebirth isn’t a particularly scary game, but then, it doesn’t really seem to be trying to be. Rebirth comes to us courtesy of developer Frictional Games, responsible for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, two widely-renowned innovators in the...

Gaming

Codex Supplement Deathwatch: The Goonhammer Review

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 31, 2020

8th edition was, on the whole, pretty rough for Deathwatch. Lacking in unit variety, fragile, expensive, and struggling with some functions, monofaction Deathwatch were a tough army to play and play well. They had some reasonable play in soup...

Necromunda

Necromunday: House of Iron Review

Jules “Merton” O’Hare - October 24, 2020

"Once all fighters have either drunk or staggered, the Drinking Phase ends." Surprise, Scummers! We’re not talking about Shootout this week and it’s not even Monday at all, but you just know we couldn’t wait on this. We snuck a...

Turn Order

Rolling Dice for the Galaxy? It’s More Common Than You Think!

Andrew "Pendulin" Haywood - September 22, 2020

Who doesn't love a little galactic conquest? Throwing caution to the wind and throwing dice on the table. Setting up the perfect path to victory, watching it derail it into a disaster, and then turning bitter defeat into sweet...

Gaming

Goonhammer Historicals Review: Infamy Infamy

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - July 23, 2020

As we continue with our first month of Goonhammer Historicals and our trip through the wars of Ancient Rome, Lupe reviews Infamy Infamy, the new Ancients ruleset from Too Fat Lardies. Let's get this out of the way: Infamy Infamy...

Gaming

Getting Started with Magic: the Gathering Arena

B Phillip York - July 22, 2020

Welcome to part two of our Getting Started series for Magic: The Gathering! Yesterday we covered the basics of getting started with paper Magic on the tabletop (click here if you missed that one and one to know more),...

Age of Sigmar

Age of Sigmar Review: Lumineth Realm-Lords Battletome

RagnarokAngel - June 30, 2020

After a long wait the Lumineth Realmlords are finally (sort of) here! Due to the current pandemic disrupting shipping networks worldwide, Lumineth Realmlords were originally supposed to launch "Spring 2020" but were pushed back until late June, and have...

Community Spotlight

Goonhammer’s Guide To Cool And Good Lore Youtube Channels

Coda - June 19, 2020

Hello reader! There's a lot of stuff going on in the world right now and we here at the Goonhammer team thought it might be a good idea to shoot some positivity out into the internet. So we got together...

Gaming

War of the Spider Review, Part 1: The Death Guard

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - June 19, 2020

Death Guard were the second codex of 8th edition and thumbing through the book, it certainly feels like it. Many of their rules have the mark of early 8th edition writing style to them, with a glut of characters...