ultramarines

The Revenge of Adepticon, Part 2 – The Warhammer 40K Friendly

TheArmorofContempt is on the warpath, headed for Adepticon after two consecutive years of cancellation. If you missed part 1 of his series, you can find it here.  One of the best aspects of Adepticon is that there is basically an...

The Horus Heresy: the Battle of Armatura and World Eaters Red Hand Destroyers

The Armatura campaign holds a special place in my heard as its one of the core settings of Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Betrayer, one of the best novels Black Library has released. Indeed, the only stain upon its honour is that...

Army Showcase: Musterkrux’s Ultramarines 5th Company

The Painter: Musterkrux The Game: Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition Points: 2,000 (and change) Faction: Ultramarines (with a dash of Deathwatch) Collecting Since: The start of 8th Edition (spot the Dark Imperium models...) Something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue I built and...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Global Waaaagh pt.1

OK, so the new bit here is that seemingly every other week I need to introduce this column with "it's the biggest week yet for Competitive Innovations" because it is, again. This week we've got ten events from around the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Machine Superiority

No more quiet weeks, it would appear. For the second week running we've got five events to cover, and another blowout this weekend coming up, which sees both the Lone Star Open and the first weekend in the UK...

The 2021 Big FAQ Update Hot Take: Imperium Edition

Games Workshop dropped an absolute bombshell of an update today, with FAQs for the majority of factions, tons of clarifications, and big adjustments to everything from core rules to key faction abilities. There’s a ton to sift through but...

Your List Sucks: The One-Box Challenge: Space Marines

We kicked off the One-Box Challenge recently, our newest and perhaps worst idea. The premise is simple: using only the contents of one single box from Games Workshop, construct a legal thousand point army. This is dangerous and untested...

Start Competing: Ultramarines Tactics

The poster boys of the Space Marine faction and potentially all of Warhammer 40,000, the Ultramarines have had a long journey from having their own Codex representing all of the "generic" chapters in 2nd edition to being an afterthought...

Start Competing: Space Marines Tactics

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Space Marines in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. Space Marines are the iconic faction of Warhammer 40,000. The very origins of the setting...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Four by Four pt.2

This past weekend was both a bumper one on the competitive scene but also probably one of the last big weekends for a while as more countries lock down again, so thisweek's Competitive Innovations was split in two so...