word bearers

The Horus Heresy Exemplary Battles: the Scouring of Gilden’s Star and Word Bearers Procurators

Our first Exemplary Battle of the new edition of the Horus Heresy! After seeing the great treatment the other Exemplary Battle units got in the recently released Warhammer Community PDF, we can’t wait to see what nasty horrid messes...

Start Competing: Word Bearers Tactics (Updated 12/15/2022)

STOP: This guide is out of date! You can now find up-to-date details on how to play this faction in our guide to playing Chaos Space Marines. Check out Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines here. The underappreciated scholars of the Chaos Legions,...

The Horus Heresy: the Battle of Armatura and World Eaters Red Hand Destroyers

The Armatura campaign holds a special place in my heard as its one of the core settings of Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Betrayer, one of the best novels Black Library has released. Indeed, the only stain upon its honour is that...

Horus Heresy Hot Take: Argel Tal

Hot on the heels of the recent surprise release of Hydra’s Devastation and the Huscarls, comes a real fan favourite in the form of Argel Tal. His model had been teased previously but now Forge World have delivered some...

How to Paint Everything: 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything. We look at different techniques and approaches to achieving results and the lore behind some of the models we're painting. As GOONHAMMER '96 comes...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Chaos Space Marines

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a...

Hammer of Math: Smash Captain RETURNS!

Back in October we took a look at all of the Smash Captain options and ranked them. With Chaos boosted by Faith and Fury and the release of Blood of Baal updating Blood Angels this seemed like a perfect...

The Horus Heresy – Legion Overview – The Word Bearers

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

Psychic Awakening II: Faith and Fury Review, Part 1 – Chaos

Faith and Fury is the second volume in the new ongoing Psychic Awakening campaign series and where the first volume introduced us to new rules for Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Ynnari, this new book gives us rules for Space...

Your Legion Sucks, Part 4

Guys, we did it. We made it through three entire rounds of Greg and I roasting the shit out of space marine legions, both real and (arguably) even realer because they are real in our hearts. Now we’re at...