Warhammer 40k

Codex Chaos Knights – The Goonhammer Review

As Games Workshop releases new kits, rules, and books for Warhammer 40,000, we'll be there to review them. In our Reviews, we take a look at the contents of the new product and what it means for you, whether you're...

Tournament Report: Bristol City Open 2019, Part 1

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. This week, our...

A Battle Report Using the New Maelstrom Rules: Daemons vs. Grey Knights

As part of our ongoing series of articles about the new maelstrom rules (part 1 here, part 2 here, in case you missed them), we thought it would be good to include a battle report for some additional context....

Warhammer 40,000: Apocalypse Review and Unboxing

Warhammer 40,000: Apocalypse Review and Unboxing Large games of Warhammer 40,000 have always been cooler in theory than in execution. While players start imagining massive battles the moment they start playing, the reality is that massive games of Warhammer 40k...

Unsung Heroes of the Apocalypse

Units We Are Excited to Field In Warhammer 40,000: Apocalypse Introduction With the launch of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team in the summer of 2018, Games Workshop changed the paradigm of 40K-adjacent games from their previous incarnations. No longer just a smaller...

Tactica – Necron Monster Mash

Introduction Hi folks, Wings here. You may have recently been exposed to the maniacal cacklings of my rather more robotic alter ego covering what's gone down when I've taken variants on my rather unusual Necron list to events. While the...

The New Maelstrom Rules and You, Part 2

Welcome back to The New Maelstrom Rules and You! In Part 1 we talked about what the new system is and how it works. In part 2, we’ll be covering how to play well within that system - how...

Skorpius Dunerider Analysis – Mechanicus Mathematical Musings Part 1

Greetings to you, devoted servant of the Omnissiah! Admech have been one of the more popular factions in 40k of late, but there are many (including myself) who felt the roster had a number of holes that needed addressing...

TheChirurgeon’s Road to NoVA, Part 4: The Warmaster

78 Hours of hobby time left until NoVA. Last time I posted, I had finished up my Red Corsairs and the Spiky 17. And look, 78 hours is not a lot. But I'm not sweating it yet. In fact,...

Start Competing at Warhammer 40,000: An Intro to Tournaments, Part 3

Part 3: Learning and Improving When we first started writing this series, we expected it to be a single article. Then it ran long, so we broke up the parts about play and the meta. Then that section ran long...