Tactics

The Goonhammer Nephilim Round Table, Part 1

We reviewed the new War Zone Nephilim GT missions pack last weekend, which creates dramatic changes for army construction and mission scoring in competitive play. While we covered a number of changes and our thoughts there, we thought it...

Infinity: Corregidor New Units & Fireteams Update

The Raveneye updates in late March 2022 have changed the way Fireteams are composed in Infinity, and that means shake-ups of all Sectorial armies’ internal balance and the common formats of their lists. More particularly, it means we need...

Horus Heresy: An Introduction to Rites of War

Welcome to the Horus Heresy. With the release of the Age of Darkness and the second edition of the rules, there’s never been a better time to jump into (or return to) a world set 10,000 years before Warhammer...

Blood Bowl – The Art of Game Management

Game Management is the strategic, match-level skill of Blood Bowl, as opposed to the turn-by-turn, block-by-block, tactical art of Blood Bowl.  At its heart it is the skill of achieving the best possible result in the game through a...

A Song of Ice and Fire: Listbuilding 101

Listbuilding in Song presents some interesting challenges and pressures that might not be obvious at first. While there’s not the same need to list tailor to a specific scenario as there is in games like Infinity, alternating activations create...

Malifaux Burns, Part 3: The Arcanists

The Arcanists never really liked the Governor-General.  He sabotaged their strikes, threw their ringleaders in prison, sicced his Guards on them, and was generally the kind of boorish creep who these days would be shitposting on Twitter and being...

Cruel Times Won’t Last But Kruleboyz Will

Kruleboyz are the latest faction to be released for Age of Sigmar. The Dominion box set included 39 new models and a copy is likely still lying around your friendly local game store. The secondary market is also flush...

Infinity: Military Order Fireteam Options

This article is an addition to a previous look at Military Orders, written last year. With the rules for composing Fireteams having changed quite significantly, the older article no longer makes sense when talking about how to incorporate Fireteams...

Kings of War: The Road to ConVic22 Part Two

G’day Goonhammer readers! With now less than 3 months until the most prestigious of Kings of War tournaments to be held in the southern Australian state of Victoria, we (Urr and Cytoplasm) have been busy. There has been no...

Malifaux Burns, Part 2: The Resurrectionists

Today we're going to be seeing how everyone's favorite gang of puckish, mass-murdering scamps is handling Malifaux's outbreak of mind-melting insanity.  Spoiler alert: not well!  You'd think Resurrectionists thrive on chaos, but they've already got an otherworldly patron, the the Burning...