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The Imperial General’s Field Guide to Assassins

The Imperial General’s Field Guide to Assassins If you like playing 40k competitively, it likely hasn’t escaped your notice that something sinister has been stirring in the shadows... Index Assassins has been out since the start of March, and those...

Chaos Space Marines and Vigilus Ablaze – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 (Army Options)

Intro Welcome back to all Chaos Lords, those tempted by the newly ascendant Dark Powers and the various Imperial lapdogs and Xenos scum wondering what on earth they're going to be facing down across the table once people have had...

Chaos Space Marines and Vigilus Ablaze – The Goonhammer Review – Part 1 (Units)

Intro Welcome, Chaos fans, to a very exciting weekend indeed. Not only is there a new and improved Chaos Space Marine Codex, containing all of the new toys from Shadowspear and a few more tweaks besides, the second part of...

Quickfire Tournament Report – Battlefield Birmingham

As readers of my reports last week will know, this past weekend was another tournament, Battlefield Birmingham. Unfortunately, as we'll see I had a rather rough time of it on the Sunday, and have also had an extraordinarily busy...

Tournament Report – LWG Winter Warfare – Part 2

Introduction Part 1 Welcome back to my report from LWG Winter Warfare. Yesterday we covered the highs and lows of day one, and today we'll follow the event through to its conclusion, discuss my final thoughts, and briefly preview this weekend's...

Tournament Report – LWG Winter Warfare – Part 1

Introduction Good news readers - I escaped the nightmare webway that is the Westfield carpark, despite the best efforts of its dread guardians, so you get to find out how my new and improved Eldar list did at the LWG...

Tournament Preview – LWG Winter Warfare

Woohoo, it's finally here - after a largely empty back-half of January and February (barring a quick 2-1 at a local RTT with a fluff army) the tournament grind for 2019 is about to kick off properly - I...

Codex Genestealer Cults – The Goonhammer Review

Intro Something sinister arises in the small corner of the 41st Millennium that holds the Goonhammer offices. Codex Genestealer Cults (GSC) is finally here, its occupants ready to overthrow/devour their opposition on gaming tables across the galaxy. Whether you've heard the...

Tournament Report – Last Chance Open 2019 – Part 2

Introduction Part 1 Welcome back to my LCO report. We're going to dive straight in and cover the rest of my games, then move onto my thoughts about the format and any tweaks I'm planning to make to my army for...

Tournament Report – Last Chance Open 2019 – Part 1

Introduction Ok maybe ITC is good. I might be willing to admit that. Welcome to my tournament report for the Last Chance Open 2019, my first major event of 2019 and my first proper crack at the ITC champions pack. For those...