Tournament Play

Mikey Mouse Club #19 – Store Championship Report From The Bottom 5!

Ravensburger has really upped the ante with their Lorcana organized play offering and store champions are being crowned across the US over the next few weeks. These absolute paragons of Lorcana skill are taking home a special Rockstar Stitch...

Start Competing: Designing 40K Tournament Map Packs pt.1

This post is made possible by our UK terrain partners at Bandua Wargaming. The terrain set used in this series was provided as a review copy. One of the underexplored aspects of competitive Warhammer 40K is how terrain maps get...

Operation Canadian Bacon: Boon’s GHO Report

In almost the same week that 10th edition launched, my wife and I celebrated the birth of our son and my life’s priorities rapidly changed to support our new family life. As a result, I have barely kept up...

Goonhammer Interviews the Top 3 from the Freak Wars, Spain’s Biggest Event of 2023

Attention troopers! After a well deserved holiday break your favorite sergeant is back with a new article about Kill Team.  Some of you may know that Spain hosts the largest Kill Team community in the world (Rob: Generally Kill Team...

Blood Bowl – State of the Competitive Meta – Part 2

Earlier last year we did our first Goonhammer look at the Blood Bowl Tournament meta.  For the first time in a long time, Blood Bowl has become a game much like other GW games, where we see changes, updates,...

The Summer of Skorpekh: Wings’ Road to the LGT

As has been extensively chronicled over the last few weeks in Competitive Innovations, Warzone Nephilim is proving to be one of the most balanced formats we've seen for ages, and what's particularly notable is that some previously underwhelming factions...

Malifaux Hot Take: Gaining Grounds 3

Surprise! Rise and Grind, Let's Gain That Ground Gaining Grounds is Malifaux's equivalent to War Zone: Whatever - a tournament pack with missions, objectives and rules tweaks for competitive play.  Wyrd updates Gaining Grounds annually; typically it launches in spring alongside...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lightning Round 29/04

As we covered yesterday, the weekend just past was one of the largest for 40k that we've seen in ages, so much so that it far exceeds my capacity to get full writeups done for every single event. While...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Bonus: Gladiator Gaming Teams Event

Well, I did say it would be back if something interesting happened! While pretty much the entire rest of the world has been plunged into a renewed lockdown, Australia and New Zealand have been able to just keep trucking...

Beanith’s Excellent Adventure (a Foray Into Competitive Play)

Hi folks, Beanith here - I've talked recently about building out my Death Guard for the NOVA that never was (that I also didn't plan to attend) and it seemed a shame to put in all that work and...