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The Horus Heresy – Legion Overview – The Iron Hands

The Space Marine Legions of the First Founding make up the core factions and conflict of the Horus Heresy. In this article - the second in our series - we delve into the background and rules for the Iron...

Horus Heresy Hot Take: The Legion Sabre Strike Tank

In Goonhammer Hot Takes, we do quick-pass reviews and reactions to new releases, rules, and events. In today's Hot Take, we're covering the the newest addition to the Space Marine Legion armoury - the rapid, manoeuvrable, (adorable) Sabre Strike...

Imperial Fists and Salamanders FAQ – The Goonhammer Hot Take

We awake to a bright new day........and a couple new FAQs! Huzzah! Today brings us updates to the last round of Space Marine supplements, getting some adjustments for the Imperial Fists and Salamanders. We're taking a look at what's...

Psychic Awakening II: Faith and Fury Review, Part 2: Space Marines

Warhammer 40k’s 8th Edition brought with it an advancing of the storyline by about 100 years. According to a recent Voxcast we’ll be spending some time over the next few years exploring this era. Across the galaxy, psychic-sensitive beings...

SRM’s Road to Nova Part 7: Vulgar Display (board) of Power

I'm just gonna set this fucker off and post my stan, my man, my all-time boi, Marneus Calgar: I absolutely loved painting this dude, and with him I'm firmly over 2000 points. However, with enough painted for all of my...

Start Competing: Dark Eldar/Drukhari Tactics

Welcome to the Dark City! If you’ve always been Drukhari-curious but never knew how best to approach this weird collection of torture elves, Frankenstein elves, and pirate boats, then this is the article for you. The purpose of the...

The New Maelstrom Rules and You, Part 1

The New Maelstrom Rules and You, Part 1 Keen readers of White Dwarf will have noticed some 40k rules content slipped in with this month’s battle report, in the form of a brand new approach to utilising the Maelstrom of...

Ways to Play: Combined Eternal War/Maelstrom

After posting my report on playing at Battlefield Birmingham recently, one of the pieces of feedback I received was that it would have been helpful to explain how the missions worked and how that would affect strategy. These combined...

What is to be done? State of the game, September 2018

With the September FAQ due to arrive shortly, fierce debate is once again raging over how to "fix" the balance of the game. In a way this is encouraging, because it reflects the changed circumstances of 8th edition and...