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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Europe and Down Under

The past weekend has been an extremely busy one in the 40K world, with a huge number of multi-day events running around the world. That means that as a special treat, this week you get two of these! Today, we'll...

9th Edition Tier List: Expectations vs. Reality

Yeah OK, we're doing this. Time is currently a flat circle with no meaning, but as measured by the mechanisms set down in the Before Time we're nearly 2 months into 9th Edition. While COVID has forced the competitive scene...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: YHP GT

Another week and, in the end, another GT for us to review lists from. With the US enjoying Labor day weekend, a decent scattering of RTTs fired across the nation, but among them were a few larger events, one...

Start Competing: How Unit Roles Are Changing in 9th

Towards the end of 8th Edition I started drawing together some higher level strategy articles about how to evaluate armies - both your own and your opponent's - on the table. These represented an attempt to try and draw...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Genestealer Cults

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild, the Faction FAQs released and the first details of the Grand...

Start Competing: Strike Force Missions in 9th Edition

9th Edition is upon us, and with it a large number of changes to 40K and a whole new set of Eternal War missions pitched at 2,000 point (now called "Strike Force") games. These new missions are very different...

Start Competing: Stormcast Eternals

Do you like space marines but wish you could play them in a fantasy setting and with models that aren't all dudes? Do you really have a thing for gold armor? Do you just want to get the whole...

Start Competing 40k: Assessing New Options

As the astute among you may have noticed, 9th Edition is coming (though exactly how soon we don't yet know). That leaves our plans for Start Competing somewhat up in the air in the interim. Codexes and Psychic Awakenings...

Psychic Awakening: Harlequins – The Goonhammer Review

In these release-starved times us poor, beleaguered competitive players are starved for our regular diet of new rules, and the drip-feed of Psychic Awakening side-content in White Dwarf has been one of the few ways to get them, with...