Thousand Sons

Nephilim Faction Focus: Thousand Sons

Welcome to War Zone: Nephilim! There’s never been a shake-up this large during an edition of 40k, and in June Games Workshop dropped a new missions pack with all-new secondaries, changed how CP works in games, published new, all-digital...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 13: The Last Hurrah for Nachmund

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing series about attempting to achieve competitive adequacy and acclaim in the 2022 ITC season. Last time around, I wrote about my hobby progress and missing the Asgard May RTT due to a...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 12: A Forced Vacation

Hello Dear Reader, and welcome to my ongoing trek to competitive respectability in the Year of Our Lord 2022. Last time I wrote, I had just wrapped up my time at the Games Workshop US Seattle Open and was...

War Zone Nachmund: Rift War – The Narrative Play & Crusade Rules Review

Lost in our less-than-enthusiastic review of the matched play rules in the new War Zone Nachmund: Rift War was our usual review of the Narrative play/Crusade rules. And it turns out there’s a lot of very interesting stuff in...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 11: The Seattle Open

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing trudge through the year 2022 toward some measure of competitive decency. You may recall that my last update was only a week ago, in which I regaled everyone with my tales of...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 10: Fast Times at the Dallas Open

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing (mis)adventures on the road to competitive respectability in the 2022 ITC season. In my previous article, I was wrapping up practice games and frantically painting for the Dallas Open. This time, I'm...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 9: Final Prep for the Dallas Open

Hello, Dear Reader, and welcome back to my ongoing blog series where I talk about my path through another year of Warhammer 40k. Last time I talked about taking my Thousand Sons to another RTT. That went alright, but...

2Q22 Post-Dataslate Faction Focus: Thousand Sons

Games Workshop dropped its Q2 Balance Dataslate for 40k in mid-April, dramatically changing a number of key factions. Astra Militarum, Marines and Sisters were buffed, Harlequins, T’au, and Custodes were nerfed, and some key game rules were changed. Now...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 8: The April Ettin RTT

Welcome back, Dear Reader! Two weeks ago I had a double-post week detailing my exploits at the March Asgard RTT, followed by a Crusade weekend with a bunch of the Goonhammer crew. The reason I powered out both of...