Tactics

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: Invasion GT

Strap in kids, this is going to be a good one! As promised last week and thanks to a handy tip-off from a reader, this week we're looking at the top lists from Norway's Invasion GT, which at 58 players...

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...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Varbergs GT

Welcome back to another week looking at the evolving landscape of 9th Edition's competitive metagame. With a few weeks of this behind us, some definite patterns are starting to emerge, and you can see some of my thoughts on...

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...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Hellstorm RTT Safari

For the first time in a few weeks we find ourselves without a new GT to talk about as the 9th Edition evolves, but that doesn't mean that the fiery coals of innovation aren't smouldering away across the world,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Battle for Survival

9th Edition events continue to gently, carefully roll along, and that's giving us a drip feed of precious, precious data about what sort of armies are performing as people's familiarity with the edition increases. A few weeks ago we...

Warlord Wednesdays: Legion Focus – Legio Audax

Welcome back to Goonhammer’s series for aspiring Titan Principes. We here at Goonhammer’s own Collegia Titanica know that Adeptus Titanicus can seem intimidating to players unfamiliar with its particular quirks, but this series aims to equip you with everything...

9th Edition Faction Focus: T’au Empire

9th edition is out in the wild, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. Today we are finishing off the series we started a few weeks ago by looking at the T'au...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Unaligned Fortifications

9th edition is here, 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 start taking a look...