Tactics

Start Competing: T’au Empire Tactics

  Are you the type of player that likes to sit back and wait for the enemy to come to you? Do you fantasize about watching your opponent throw wave after wave of their enemies into your gunline, only to...

Start Competing: 40K Deployment Tactics – Surviving Turn Zero

Most tournament games of 40K play out over six turns, but not all of them are created equal. In turn one both players' armies are going to be at their theoretically most powerful - completely undamaged for the player...

Warlord Wednesdays: Warhound Focus – Adeptus Titanicus Tactics

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...

Necromunday: Houses of the Underhive – Escher

Welcome back, Scummers, to another edition of your favorite downhive weekly: Necromunday! Join us as we do a deep dive into the deadly sirens of the Underhive, House Escher! As one of the first gangs released, Escher are appropriately all...

Hammer of Math: Diet Smite (Xenos Edition)

After taking a break to discuss Pointy-Eared Exarchs and Flying Warrior Monks with Oversized Hammers, this week Hammer of Math returns to the domain of the mind to discuss the Smite power. This article is a continuation of our...

Meta Update: October Results and the SoCal Open

Welcome to Goonhammer's inaugural monthly meta analysis! In our new series we'll take a look at the performance of varying factions within the competitive scene during the month prior and attempt to draw conclusions, prognosticate, and wildly speculate on...

Gunum Presents: Hear me out, Wings! Birds of Goon.

Flying on the Wings of Victory Hello everyone! Still-not-first ITC Dark Angels Gunum here, bringing you another write-up on trying to come up with my own powerful Dark Angel meta, one unit at a time. This time with a special...

Tournament Preview – Three Cool Lists from Blood and Glory

As the dark season continues to extend its icy tendrils across my rainy island home, tournament season continues in full swing, and this weekend I'll be heading up to Derby for Blood and Glory. This was one of my...

Tactica: Aeronautica Imperialis

Aeronautica Imperialis has been out for some time now, and hopefully you've had a chance to dig into it and get some games under your belt. Maybe you've already started painting or carving little notches into the sides of...

Start Competing: Blood Angels Tactics

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Blood Angels in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. The Blood Angels have a long history in Warhammer 40k, appearing as one of the...