warhammer 40000

Getting Started: Space Marine Successors

At Goonhammer we've devoted a lot of words to talking about how to compete and take your game to the next level. In "Getting Started," we look at how to get started with an army - the basics you...

Start Competing: Blood Angels Updated!

It's been a long time since Blood of Baal released, and while we reviewed it in depth at the time, it's always been our goal to get the Start Competing article updated to reflect the changes as well. Happily,...

Assessing Army Lists – Part 2 – Real Battlefield Roles

What are units for? More specifically, what are your units, the ones you've chosen to put in your army, for? Lockdown (quite rightly) continues, and in the intrepid search for timeless competitive content I'm descending ever further through the stages of one...

Tweets of War V: A Good Day to Tweet Hard

This week Tweets Of War are back to 40k, with Coda battling The Hobby Room’s Ceri in a game of 40k via twitch and twittar. Tweets of war has each of us made a new twitter account and instead of...

Goonhammer Hobby Round-up: April 2020 (end of month)

It's just weeks since we last did one of these, but no-one gets to leave their house ever again so our contributors have been busy at their painting desks turning out their latest and greatest batch of plastic dollies. Liam...

GW Online Preview 3: A Goonhammer Roundtable

Saturday 18th April saw the third and final online Games Workshop preview covering the announcements intended for Adepticon in March. Once again, a selection of Games Workshop designers and writers took to Twitch to show off future releases. The...

Goonhammer Hobby Round-up: April 2020 (mid-month)

With Covid-19 rampaging across the world, many of our authors have way more painting time than normal. As such, for April we're doing a two-part hobby round-up, in the middle of the month and at the end, to let...

Saga of the Beast Orks: Analysis from the Frozen North

This week we've got a second pair of expert eyes in to take a look at some of what Saga of the Beast has to offer, with Ben Cherwien joining us to evaluate what the boosts in the Ork...

GW Online Preview: a Goonhammer Roundtable

This past Saturday saw the first ever online Warhammer Preview, put together and hosted by various members of the studio and the Warhammer Community team. Previews tend to take place at the various larger conventions held around the world,...

Start Competing: Ruin Positioning and Movement Tactics

The battlefields of the 41st millenium theoretically contain a huge variety of terrain features - after all, there's a whole galaxy of different locales to pick from, and Games Workshop (plus a whole host of other suppliers) make a...