Warhammer 40k

Understanding the NOVA Tournament Format: A Primer

Unlike almost all of our editorial team, I'm sadly not going to be able to make the NOVA Open, as I have a prior commitment. With that in mind, I hadn't really looked at the NOVA mission pack, other...

How To Paint Everything: Successor Chapters Of Goonhammer

Greetings! With the release of the excellent 8th edition Space Marine Codex Mk 2 (check out our review series on the book here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), Games Workshop has brought back the coolest part of the 4th...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review, Part 3 (Stratagems, Warlord Traits, and Tactics)

Part 1 (Army Traits) Part 2 (Units) Welcome back to everyone who's been running this marathon with us. If you've only just joined us, this is the third part of our bumper four-part review of the new Codex: Space Marines, where...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 (Units)

In case you missed Part 1 of our Codex: Space Marines Review, you can find it here. We really wanted to keep our review of Codex: Space Marines to a single article, but the book is just so damn massive...

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 1 (Army & Faction Traits)

8th Edition has not, if we're honest, been a great time to be a Space Marine player. Until now. More than any other faction save Grey Knights, Marines have laboured for the last two years under the dreadful burden of having...

The Corroad to NoVA Part 4: Sorry Yncarne, This is the End of Your Road

Welcome back to the Corroad to NovA! My flight to the US is just 12 days away which is Extremely Soon and it has crept up on me enormously. There’s still more painting to get done than I really...

Start Competing: Adeptus Mechanicus Tactics

The Adeptus Mechanicus are the technological arm of the Imperium, building and maintaining the vast array of war machines that it depends on for wars.

How to Paint Everything

Welcome to How to Paint Everything! Here at Goonhammer we've been working on a series of articles about how to paint, well, everything. We're not there yet - it turns out there's a lot of possible factions and paint schemes...

Army Showcase: Andrew’s Adeptus Mechanicus

Finishing your own army is core to the Warhammer 40,000 hobby. Every Thursday in our Army Showcase series, Goonhammer contributors take a look at the armies we’ve been collecting for years, and the new ones we’ve just finished – what...

Hillbilly Cyborg Yacht Club RTT: A Naramyth Trip Report

Introduction I'm back! This past weekend was a regularly scheduled Two Rivers RTT held at Parallax Games in Bismark, ND. The field wound up being the largest yet for our RTTs at 18 people. Thankfully their gaming space is pretty...