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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Sunset, Sunrise

The old world is dead, the new world struggles to be born, and so forth. With the dataslate only landing on Thursday last week, the struggle is very real, and only one GT+ event adopted it in full (with...

The Goonhammer Hot Take: The September 2023 40k Balance Dataslate – Xenos Factions

The first balance dataslate of 40k's 10th edition comes screaming down from the Games Workshop Strike Cruiser and unloads a drop pod full of rules updates, accompanied by version 1.3 of the Munitorum Field Manual which incorporates a broad...

Making the Jump from Kill Team to Warhammer 40K 10th Edition

This week Travis Cheng is detailing his experiences making the jump from Kill Team to Warhammer 40k. I started playing Games Workshop games in high school with Tau, getting mercilessly eviscerated by my friends' Necrons repeatedly during 4th edition. Those...

Competitive Innovations in 10th? No, More Elves! pt.2

So, the way this ended up split in two, part 1 didn't live up to the title that well. Now, face to bloodshed. Today we are looking at: Battle To End Alzheimers GT 2023 (major) BMC Cup War in the Fort Wars...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Stars and Springs

The Tenth Edition train is now fully barrelling down the track, as last week's Tacoma/Show me double header is followed up by another week with two massive events, this time the Lone Star Open and Palm Springs Open -...

Competitive Termination of 9th Edition: Dawn of 10th

9th Edition takes its final bow this week, and there's not going to be an encore because it's 10th time. Most events the past weekend ran with 9th, but a couple of intrepid TOs pushed forward into the glorious...

The Goonhammer Review: The 10th Edition T’au Empire Index

The Tau Empire have been a lot of things the last few editions: oppressive boogeymen, then a laughingstock, then oppressive again in three or four different ways, and then a mid-tier army that can still get some good hits...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Final Countdown

The release date for 10th is finally out of the bag, and the days before this column undergoes a fairly predictable name change are numbered. There are still a few weeks of 9th to go, but I'm goinChaos and...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Daemonic Embers

9th Edition status: still here. Quieter than last week, but still live and kicking, and alarmingly infested with Daemonic forces this week. It's the season for it, apparently. Today we're looking at: Storm Of Silence Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Last Book Standing pt.2

We're back for the second half of this week's events, seeing what other books can still challenge for the top spot. This half...is maybe not as varied as the first. Just saying. The Alamo GT ‘23 (major) Death or...