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Q4 2024 40K Balance Dataslate: Xenos

The December 2024 Balance update brought some major changes and in this article we're looking at what changed for Xenos factions and what it means for your games.

Start Competing: Tyranids Tactics

Start Competing: Tyranids Tactics The Tyranids are a race of ravenous, inscrutable aliens from beyond the stars. Drawn to our galaxy - and Earth - by the psychic beacon of the Astronomicon, the Tyranids devour everything in their path, stripping...

The Warhammer 40,000 October 2024 Balance Update Round-up

GW dropped a large balance update to the game this week, adjusting points for every faction and updating some core rules as well as the tournament companion. In case you missed our coverage, we recap it all here, along with links to the posts.

The Q4 2024 Balance Update: Xenos Factions

It’s Q4 2024 and that means it’s time for a major shakeup to the meta with the Q4 balance update for Warhammer 40k! This time around we’re dataslate-free, instead looking at a series of points update for every faction...

Boarding Actions 10th Edition Compendium Review: Xenos Factions

Rather than try and cover every Detachment in the upcoming 10th edition Boarding Actions Compendium in a single article, we've broken the review of the book's detachments down into the game's three broad superfactions: Imperium, Chaos, and Xenos. In...

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Xenos

After nearly three months, it’s time for another quarterly update for Warhammer 40,000 and this time it’s just points. Today’s points update gives us updated points for every faction in the game, though as usual some have been touched...

Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate & MFM – Xenos – The Goonhammer Review

Today Games Workshop released a massive update for Warhammer 40,000 giving us a huge shake-up for competitive play. In addition to the balance dataslate for Q1 2024, we also saw the release of a new game-wide points update, rules/FAQ...

The Goonhammer Hot Take: The September 2023 40k Balance Dataslate – Xenos Factions

The first balance dataslate of 40k's 10th edition comes screaming down from the Games Workshop Strike Cruiser and unloads a drop pod full of rules updates, accompanied by version 1.3 of the Munitorum Field Manual which incorporates a broad...

Hammer of Math: Arks of Omen Secondary Stats, Part 2

Last week we looked at the stats around secondary scoring for generic secondaries and Imperium faction secondaries in Arks of Omen - you can find that article here. This week we're going to go through the Chaos faction secondaries...

Chapter Approved: Arks of Omen Review – Xenos

We’ve had the forces of the Imperium and Chaos - now everyone else. Perhaps unsurprisingly given how many armies the definition spans, Xenos have had a mixed time of it in Nephilim, some factions thriving thanks to powerful rules...