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Start Competing: The Team Aspect and Leveling Up Your community

Jon-kil - October 26, 2020

So you've gobbled up all of the Start competing and Faction focus articles, you've built a list (or thirty), played some games and even ventured out to your first competitive event. Congratulations! You've taken the first big step on...

Competitive Play

Tactical Deployment: The Tournament Organizers Perspective

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 2, 2020

Chapter Approved: Tactical Deployment is coming out soon and if you missed our review, be sure to check it out here. The book brings an interesting new format of play to Warhammer 40k, where players build tactical terrain collections...

Gaming

The August Competitive 40k Round-up

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 29, 2020

9th edition dropped at the end of July and changed the entire landscape of Warhammer 40,000. Since then we've seen some competitive play resume as some states and countries have lifted lockdown measures and limited events have been run...

Competitive Play

Tournament Report: The Tokyo Tactical Reborn

Goonhammer Staff - August 21, 2020

We've previously talked with David Moss about the state of 40k gaming in Tokyo and their postponed Tokyo Tactical event. In today's tournament report, special guest author David Moss is back to talk about how the event Dice, dudes and...

Battle Reports

Reports from the Front: Space Wolves

Jon-kil - August 7, 2020

The Northern Front Open series finished up on Sunday with Myself taking Maximum Effort and going 3-0 on day 1, and taking a meme list for the day 2 RTT and finishing 2-1 for 3rd place. Day 2 saw...

Gaming

The Grand Tournament 2020 Mission Pack: The Goonhammer Review

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 25, 2020

After a whirlwind month of news, reveals and reviews, the community is pretty close to having a picture (at least a theoretical one) of what competitive 9th edition is going to look like. We've gone through the core rules,...

Competitive Play

9th Edition Competitive Roundtable: The Try-Hard Perspective

James "Boon" Kelling - July 10, 2020

With the release of the 9th edition core rules we have asked some of our try-hard tournament-goers to wade into the conversation and comment on how the changes may impact the competitive game and how the meta will adjust...

Competitive Play

The State of 40k in Tokyo

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 5, 2020

We previously spoke to David Moss of the Tokyo Tactical Gaming group in our interview earlier this year, when they had planned a tournament circuit. That ended up being cancelled due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, but as...

Hobby

Hobbying At Competitive Events Roundtable

James "Boon" Kelling - March 31, 2020

Now that we sit in our COVID-19 induced isolation hobby has become ascendant. Backlogs have been dusted off, paint has been hoarded, and plastic has been primed. So what better time to talk about how hobby plays a role...

Gaming

Community Spotlight: The Lord Marshal Conference

James "Boon" Kelling - March 12, 2020

We here at Goonhammer love when we have the opportunity to spotlight contributors and examples of excellence within the wider community, which is why we're so excited to introduce you to the Lord Marshal Conference! As the fancy boys...