Review

Forge World Custodes – The Goonhammer Hot Take

Alongside the new Custodes Ares Gunship, Games Workshop have surprised everyone by dropping some finalized rules for the rest of the Forge World Custodes range. Today, Jack dives into them to explore how they change the usability of these...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 4: Forge World

Welcome back to the final leg of this marathon review of Codex: Space Marines. In case you missed the other sections, you can find them here: Part 1: Army Rules and faction traits Part 2: Units Part 3: Powers, Warlord Traits, and...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising (2009 to 2010)

So we arrive at Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II. This is probably the defining modern Warhammer 40K game, rivaled only by its predecessor and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine; to the degree that it can be said that a...

Codex Supplement: White Scars – The Goonhammer Review

We hope you're not tired of Space Marines yet, because Games Workshop certainly aren't! Alongside the release of the main Codex: Space Marines, the first two Codex Supplements have dropped. Each of these six planned books is going to...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War Expansions (2005 to 2008)

  Last week we covered the base Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game, which made a massive impression on the RTS genre in the early Aughts and inspired three expansion games from 2005 to 2008. This week we’ll actually talk...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review, Part 3 (Stratagems, Warlord Traits, and Tactics)

Part 1 (Army Traits) Part 2 (Units) Welcome back to everyone who's been running this marathon with us. If you've only just joined us, this is the third part of our bumper four-part review of the new Codex: Space Marines, where...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 (Units)

In case you missed Part 1 of our Codex: Space Marines Review, you can find it here. We really wanted to keep our review of Codex: Space Marines to a single article, but the book is just so damn massive...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 1 (Army & Faction Traits)

8th Edition has not, if we're honest, been a great time to be a Space Marine player. Until now. More than any other faction save Grey Knights, Marines have laboured for the last two years under the dreadful burden of having...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War (2004)

This is where it all began: the original Dawn of War. Okay, technically it began with Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior, but Fire Warrior, a first-person shooter where you played as a T’au commando, was a weird game whose reach...

Necromunday: Your Move, Creep! Initial Impressions of the Palanite Enforcers

  The 40k universe stretches well beyond the war-torn battlefields of distant planets. In Necromunda, violent gangs clash in the tunnels and sewers of the planet's largest hive city. Starting this week, Dan “Sex Cannon” Boyd and Jules “Merton” O’Hare...