Warhammer 40k | Goonhammer

Reviews

Video Game Review – Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Jonathan Bernhardt - July 23, 2019

Many developers have attempted to capture the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium (and the high fantasy of the Old World) in video game form. Every Tuesday, Jonathan "Crion" Bernhardt will be diving into the games that use the...

Road to NoVA

Soggy’s Road to NoVA, Part 3: Shuffling deckchairs

Soggy - July 22, 2019

Hi friendos, in this series we've been tracking our progress towards the NoVA open which is now less than six weeks away. You can check out everyone's (much better progress) on the main post here. This time of year is always...

Start Competing! Your Guide to Warhammer 40,000 Tactics and Strategy

Liam "Corrode" Royle - July 22, 2019

Hello and welcome to Start Competing!, our series of tactics guides, tournament primers, and general other useful resources for improving your 40k play. This series is intended for everyone, whether you're brand new to 40k and wondering what everyone...

Gaming

Index: Blood Ravens (8th Edition) – Review and Tactics

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 20, 2019

Depending on who you ask, Games Workshop has either been crushing it this year with their White Dwarf rules releases or they're making players' lives miserable by piling on additional rules through hard-to-get issues of their monthly magazine. I...

Events and Challenges

The 40k Hamateur Hour Presents: Road to Nova Week 10

FromTheShire - July 19, 2019

Hey Hams, I'm Dan, better known as FromTheShire online, and welcome back for the tenth (late) installment of the 40k Hamateur Hour. This week I'm continuing along through the process of getting my first painted army together for Nova...

Gaming

We Have Such Sights to Show You: Slaanesh Tactics for 40k

Steel Mentor - July 19, 2019

Despite being one of the four cardinal Chaos Powers and Khorne's supposed rival in The Great Game, Slaanesh has felt like the neon-haired stepchild of the Chaos pantheon in recent years, even getting tossed into a sack and kidnapped...

Battle Reports

The Corroad to NoVA Part 3: Actually Playing Warhammer

Liam "Corrode" Royle - July 18, 2019

Welcome back to the Corroad to NoVA! If you’re somehow reading this and don’t know what the Road to NoVA series is, check out TheChirurgeon’s intro post here. Part 1 and part 2 of my personal series are here...

Battle Reports

Filthy Casual Battle Reports: New Apocalypse and New Maelstrom Rules

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 17, 2019

After what seemed like a long drought with regard to releases, June was a busy month, giving us both new Maelstrom rules that we really like, and also new Apocalypse rules that we're big fans of. While individual battle...

Battle Reports

Tournament Report: Bristol City Open 2019, Part 2

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 17, 2019

Some of the Goonhammer crew are regular tournament attendees. In our Wednesday Tournament Reports, we cover the latest events we've attended, what we took to them, the strategies we employed, and how it all worked out. Continuing from last...

Hobby

How To Paint Everything: Heraldry

SRM - July 15, 2019

In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. In this chapter, we’re focusing on that "history and...