Tactics

Infinity Tournament Report: IGL Satellite January 2023 (Part Two)

Last week Genghis talked about bringing White Company to the IGL Satellite event and the event's first three rounds. You can find that article here. This week we're finishing the fight. Game 4: Frostbyte Pre-Game & Deployment I drew against Bakunin for...

Eldfall Chronicles Faction Focus: Coalition of Thenion

This article is part of a sponsored series of articles exploring Freecompany's Eldfall Chronicles tabletop miniatures game.  Hey, Mali-folks!  I’m— Wait a minute… that banner doesn’t look familiar.  This isn’t Malifaux at all! It looks like we’re in Calad, the realm of...

Infinity Tournament Report: IGL Satellite January 2023 (Part One)

Back in January I wrote about my preparation for the IGL Satellite League. With the event now in the rearview, it's time to talk about how things went. My Lists For an earlier discussion of why I wanted to play White...

Conquest Faction Focus: The Spires Updated 26/5/2024

  I'd like to take a moment up top to appreciate the Spires as a triumph of game design. They are a faction that exists in the intersection of many of the most tricky mechanical concepts to balance. They're the healing...

Kings of War: Getting the most out of Individuals

G’day Goonhammer readers! The world of Pannithor is filled with heroes of all kinds, from heroic Heroes (see Kingdoms of Men) to salivating Horrors, but what most have in common is the Individual special rule. Of all the rules...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: March Multitudes pt.2

A massive week of 40K rolls onwards, and Lowest of Men is taking the wheel for part two of our coverage. Today we'll be looking at: Battle Ready Wargaming's Major Mayhem 40k Event (major) The Great Game GT Battlefield Birmingham...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: March Multitudes pt.1

March marches on, with truly spectacular quantities of Warhammer continuing to happen around the world. My increasingly regular partner-in-crime Lowest of Men has once more stepped up to help, and will be taking the lead on Friday while I kick...

Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Dice 102

Armada’s delicious dice reflect the game’s core design: tight core mechanics supported by great depth beyond the rulebook. Following on from Dice 101, I want to talk about the deeper elements of the game’s dice. Forces for Change - “Page-turners...

Kings of War: More ways to use chaff

G’day Goonhammer readers! Having established what chaff is and how to use it, it would be pertinent to follow up with a few specific examples and setups. Although we went through some quite broad uses for chaff, sometimes the...

Scenarios in Conquest: How Para Bellum Shapes the Metagame

As with most wargames, Conquest is played using a scenario that sets the conditions of victory and shapes how players interact. Conquest’s core rulebook includes a series of scenarios for new players, but the meat of the game’s scenario...