Review

Book Review: Spear of the Emperor by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

  This review contains spoilers for Spear of the Emperor. SKAVAKH UHL ZARUN! Redden the earth, redden the earth, redden the earth! Rarely does a single phrase manage to capture the spirit of a whole Space Marine Chapter so well as the...

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...

Ritual of the Damned Review, Part 2: Grey Knights

Christmas may have been and gone, but for three 40K factions the new year brings its own supply of juicy presents! Psychic Awakening: Ritual of the Damned goes up for pre-order today, and Games Workshop have been kind enough...

Video Game Review: Hades

We’re starting something new here on Goonhammer; most obviously, it’s something that’s not going to have anything (directly) to do with Warhammer 40K at all. We’ve sort of run out of 40K video game titles to cover at the...

Start Collecting Warhammer 40,000

For new players, starting an army can be daunting: There are tons of different army boxes and deals out there, and figuring out how to build an army can be a paralyzing experience for players who want to expand...

Blood of Baal – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 – Tyranids

Tyranids have been in a rough spot for a while, and we're extremely excited to see them near the front of the queue for some Psychic Awakening goodies. The army has the dubious honour of being one of the...

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...

Psychic Awakening II: Faith and Fury Review, Part 2: Space Marines

Warhammer 40k’s 8th Edition brought with it an advancing of the storyline by about 100 years. According to a recent Voxcast we’ll be spending some time over the next few years exploring this era. Across the galaxy, psychic-sensitive beings...

Psychic Awakening II: Faith and Fury Review, Part 1 – Chaos

Faith and Fury is the second volume in the new ongoing Psychic Awakening campaign series and where the first volume introduced us to new rules for Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Ynnari, this new book gives us rules for Space...

Game Review: Warhammer 40k Combat Cards

As you always knew it was destined to, Warhammer 40K has gone free-to-play, just like every other IP out there. And I’ve run out of full-platform titles to review for the moment -- at least ones that don’t require...