Tactics

Blood of Baal – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 – Tyranids

Tyranids have been in a rough spot for a while, and we're extremely excited to see them near the front of the queue for some Psychic Awakening goodies. The army has the dubious honour of being one of the...

Blood of Baal – The Goonhammer Review – Part 1 – Blood Angels

When the new Codex: Space Marines released in August with an all-new slate of Codex Supplements covering the compliant first-founding chapters, speculation began as to whether the standalone chapters - the Blood Angels, Dark Angels, and Space Wolves -...

Chapter Approved 2019 Balance Changes – The Goonhammer Review

With the release of Chapter Approved 2019 comes Games Workshop’s annual points review of Warhammer 40,000. And while previous years have seen only changes published in the Chapter Approved Book, this year we’re getting our own standalone book with...

Start Competing: The Charge and Fight Phases

Note: This Article was written for the 8th edition of Warhammer 40,000 and has yet to be updated. While many things may still work, the rules have changed fundamentally in 9th. As such, we recommend that you proceed with...

Kill Team Specialists, Part 3: Comms, Leader, Veteran, and Scout

Welcome back to our weekly Kill Team Tactics series! This week, we’re continuing our multi-part series covering Specialisms in Kill Team. We’ll be talking about how to evaluate and choose them, and which ones are worth paying points for...

Tournament Analysis – Alliance Open & Element Grand Slam

Welcome back readers. This week we're going to do something a little different. Over the last two weeks I've written previews for two ITC majors happening in Europe, the Alliance Open and the Element Games Grand Slam (Eggs). Normally after...

Necromunday: Initial Impressions of the Corpse Grinder Cults

Greetings fellow Scummers! Dan and Jules here, coming at you with week two of our Book of Ruin coverage, tackling the Big Bads themselves, the Corpse Grinder Cult! Crazed devotees of the Lord of Skin and Sinew, the Corpse...

Codex: Sisters of Battle – The Goonhammer Review

It's been more than a year since the Sisters of Battle were first announced at the 2018 Adepticon preview seminar but this holiday season we're finally getting the release of Codex: Sisters of Battle alongside some new plastic model...

Quantifying Naramyth: A Method of Unit Evaluation (Or: A Love Letter to the Skorpius Chassis)

As he prepares to head to Renegade this weekend, Cyle "Naramyth" Thompson paused to reflect on how he builds lists and evaluates units, and decided to write up some words detailing the method to his madness. Fundamentally there are two...

So many options, so few points: Adeptus Astartes in Kill Team

Adeptus Astartes Kill Teams Better known by their GW-Tried-To-Trademark-This-But-Lost-In-Court name, the Space Marines. These are the poster boys for 40k. They've been showing up as models for 30 years, they've had good video games, dozens of books and they're even...