Warhammer 40k

The 40K Hamateur Hour’s Road to Adepticon: Week 1

Hey Hams, I’m Dan, better known as FromTheShire online, and welcome back for the my post-Nova 2019 recap, in which I'll be talking about the friends I made along the way, and.... wait what do you mean it's 2020...

Book Review: Spear of the Emperor by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

  This review contains spoilers for Spear of the Emperor. SKAVAKH UHL ZARUN! Redden the earth, redden the earth, redden the earth! Rarely does a single phrase manage to capture the spirit of a whole Space Marine Chapter so well as the...

The Horus Heresy – Legion Overview – The Blood Angels

The Space Marine Legions of the First Founding make up the core factions and conflict of the Horus Heresy. In our sixth article, we look at the beautiful, but tragically flawed, scions of The Brightest One: The IX Legion,...

Meta Analysis: The LVO 40k Championship

Last week, we took a deep look at the meta prior to LVO, analyzing the faction breakdowns so far, looking at key lists, and making predictions about how the event would shake out. Now that the games have been...

Hammer of Math: Grey Knight Numerics

In this week’s Hammer of Math, Kevin is going to give some much needed attention to one of the bluish-silverish headed stepchildren of 8th Edition. We here at Goonhammer love how well Ritual of the Damned gave three of...

Goonhammer’s Last-Minute Guide to the LVO 2020 40k Open

Well readers, the time has finally come - LVO is upon us. And whether you're attending in person this year, making your last-minute preparations, or just planning to follow along at home on stream, we at the Goonhammer gang...

Ritual of the Damned Review Part 4: The Lore

We've seen so far how the Psychic Awakening is enhancing latent psychic abilities across the galaxy. Prayer is more powerful, demons are surging, and Librarians from all Chapter are finding their abilities strengthened. So what happens to those who...

Ritual of the Damned Reviews

In case you missed all the reviews yesterday (they're still on the front page as of this writing), we've collected them for you here. Psychic Awakening 4: Ritual of the Damned is coming out next week, and it's a doozy....

Ritual of the Damned Review, Part 3: The Thousand Sons

As we covered in our Start Competing: Thousand Sons article late last year, while the Thousand Sons are an early codex, with all the design quirks that represents, they’ve actually stayed pretty powerful, leading to a few nerfs to...

Army Showcase: TheChirurgeon’s Iron Warriors

The Painter: Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones The Army: Iron Warriors Points: About 2,500 Collected: Since 2001 The Past The year was 2001. A young TheChirurgeon was avidly buying each month's White Dwarf, and Games Workshop had just started a new series that would dramatically change his young hobby life: Index...