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Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good Review – Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard

Back in early 8th edition, which feels shrouded in the mists of time but was in fact only 3 years ago, the Astra Militarum codex was released to great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Guard, you see, had broken...

Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good Review – The T’au Empire

With the release of Psychic Awakening 5: The Greater Good, we've seen the release of all-new rules for Genestealer Cults, Astra Militarum, and the T'au Empire. Of the three factions, T'au probably got the most from a sheer volume...

Video Game Review: FTL

In a very fundamental way, FTL is a game about doors. Let’s back up. FTL: Faster Than Light is not a new game; unlike with Hades or Slay the Spire, we’re not reviewing it here in an effort to help...

Age of Sigmar Review: Wrath of the Everchosen

(Authors note: Due to a misunderstanding some incorrect information was reported in the allegiance section. These have been corrected) Wrath of the Everchosen is the first Campaign book of Age of Sigmar 2.0 that didn't double as an Endless Spell...

Boardhammer: Unmatched Review

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,...

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...

Video Game Review: Blasphemous

Dark Souls is probably the single most important video game of the last decade, and it’s not particularly close. We can wander into the weeds -- FromSoftware’s Demon Souls was a close predecessor to the game, and was the...

Ritual of the Damned Reviews

In case you missed all the reviews yesterday (they're still on the front page as of this writing), we've collected them for you here. Psychic Awakening 4: Ritual of the Damned is coming out next week, and it's a doozy....

Ritual of the Damned Review, Part 3: The Thousand Sons

As we covered in our Start Competing: Thousand Sons article late last year, while the Thousand Sons are an early codex, with all the design quirks that represents, they’ve actually stayed pretty powerful, leading to a few nerfs to...

Ritual of the Damned Review, Part 1: Dark Angels

Well, it finally happened. After jamming the snooze button three times, Psychic Awakening IV: Ritual of the Damned is here, and one of Warhammer's oldest and most storied Marine chapters has been blessed with an update to their codex,...