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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Rearguard Action pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 1, 2024

The new post-Dataslate world will shortly be upon us (and you can check out all our coverage starting here), but we've still got last weekend's events and (presumably) a few more coming up this week featuring the old metagame. The...

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Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate & MFM – Xenos – The Goonhammer Review

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 30, 2024

Today Games Workshop released a massive update for Warhammer 40,000 giving us a huge shake-up for competitive play. In addition to the balance dataslate for Q1 2024, we also saw the release of a new game-wide points update, rules/FAQ...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Boxed Out pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 26, 2024

The LVO may have dominated the US scene, but elsewhere there was plenty more 40K happening. Despite being pretty deep into the edition, people are still finding new ways of using some of the indexes, which is pretty awesome to...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Boxed Out pt.1 – The LVO

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 24, 2024

A bit of a mixup to our usual formula this week - with the biggest event of the year (the LVO) happening the weekend just past, we wanted to give it the attention it deserves, with coverage of the...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Contempt of Court pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 19, 2024

We're back for part 2, today with Lowest of Men at the helm, ready to delve further into the veritable rampage the Necrontyr dynasties went on at the weekend. Today, we'll be covering: The Nottingham 40k Super-Major Münsterland GT5 Torino...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: New Year Retribution pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 12, 2024

Back for part two, this time with Lowest of Men at the helm. Today we're looking at: Glass City GT EXTERMINATUS VIII - Rise of the Noodle Defcon 2024 - Warhammer 40k Warlords of Walsall GT 1 UKTC ITC If you're looking...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Violent Night

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 13, 2023

Christmas approaches and the scene is finally starting to wind down after last week's blowout, but there's still a few generals who haven't yet succumbed to a festive ceasefire, and a few events to cover. These are: Winter Assault...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Festive Fury pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - December 6, 2023

Good grief. The scene tends to start winding down a bit after the first weekend of December, but boy oh boy has the community decided to close the year with a bang - fourteen events, five of them majors, and...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: The Mild Stumble of the Aeldari pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - November 15, 2023

The Chaos rising continues apace, and the mighty Aeldari finally blink. Just a teeny, tiny bit. They're still great, but despite there being eleven events this week, not a single one of them was won by the Aeldari. I'm...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: The Dark Is Rising pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - November 8, 2023

Ancient foes continue to clash near the top of the metagame, as various Chaos forces attempt to execute a multi-pronged attack on Aeldari dominance. The Aeldari are still just about on top, but the gap is narrowing, especially as...