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Getting Started with Star Wars: Shatterpoint

Getting Started Tom Reuhl -
Deciding to play any miniatures game can be a challenge. We are here to help get you over the hump and show you this...
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Getting Started with the X-Wing Miniatures Game

Goonhammer BuffaloChicken -
Welcome, pilots! Before you begin, note that this article is intended to introduce the X-Wing Miniatures Game to brand-new players, and provide some guidance...
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Getting Started with Star Wars: Armada

Getting Started Summer -
Are you fond of Star Wars? Does the thought of commanding capital ships and their supporting squadrons appeal to you? Do you have an...
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Getting Started with Star Wars: Legion

Goonhammer Matt Jett and LunarNight -
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Hello there! I’m Matt, and I’m updating the wonderful work done by Lunar Knight,...
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Goonhammer’s Hub for Star Wars Content

Shatterpoint Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
We've been big fans of the Star Wars miniatures games - from X-Wing and Armada to Legion and Shatterpoint. You may have seen some...
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Steel City Wargames Terrain: Battlefield in a Bag – Goonhammer Review

Core Games James "One_Wing" Grover -
One of the nice things about the modern wargaming ecosystem is that there are lots of options for purchasing terrain - the days where...
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Goonhammer Reviews – Darktide: The Miniatures Game

Kill Team Kevin Fowler -
The frantic battles of Imperium rejects versus chaos hordes come to the tabletop in Darktide: The Miniatures Game. Many thanks to Games Workshop for...
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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 9: Crusades and GT Testing

Administratum Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing log of personal, hobby, and competitive progress for Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I talked about my trip to...
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SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 23

Age of Sigmar SRM -
Stormbringer is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks introducing players to Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will...
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How to Paint Everything: Horns and Antlers

Goonhammer Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg -
In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint, well, everything, with a look at different approaches and techniques. In...
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UTC Weekend Recap and Preview: May 3

Goonhammer MildNorman -
The Unified Tournament Circuit is a regional circuit for Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar which covers the area between Virginia and Newfoundland. In...
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Competitive Innovations in 10th: A Challenger Approaches pt.3

40K Competitive Innovations Lowest of Men -
We've got Lowest of Men in charge today as we turn into the home straight, covering the final five tournaments from another bumper weekend. That...
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Warhammer 40K 10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: Adepta Sororitas

Columns Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson and Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
On the heels of the latest dataslate, we’re updating (or finally getting around to) all of the faction focus articles for each army in...
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CYRAC: April 2024 Kill Team Tournament Stats

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? returns with the April 2024 Tournament Stats for Kill Team! He covers every faction and how they've...
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Competitive Faction Focus: Death Guard (Updated May 2, 2024)

Competitive Play Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
10th Edition is in full swing and with the Q3 2023 Dataslate behind us and some tournaments in the books it’s time to look...
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BattleTech: BV and The Code

Battletech Perigrin -
Howdy and welcome back to BattleTech. Here at Goonhammer, we are huge fans of the Battle Value system for balancing games, as it usually...
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How To Paint Everything: Sabine Wren, Star Wars Legion

How To Paint Everything Beezer -
This week, Beezer takes a look at the Sabine Wren model for Star Wars: Legion and walks you through how to paint it up. ...
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Competitive Innovations in 10th: A Challenger Approaches pt.2

40K Competitive Innovations James "One_Wing" Grover -
Me again. Did you know there was a whole tonne of Warhammer this past weekend? That includes one event (Warzone: Dice Goblin) which I...
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Bre4depticon – Adepticon AoS Tournament Review

Age of Sigmar bre4d_ -
What is Adepticon? Adepticon is a four-day convention located in Schaumburg, Illinois, about 45 minutes from Chicago. The event hosts a plethora of different events,...
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Marvel Crisis Protocol Lore: Who Is? Iceman

Crisis Protocol Beezer -
All of the original five X-Men have seen significant changes to their character over their history in comics. All of them except for Iceman,...
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Kill Team UTC Weekend Recap and Preview: Apr 23- Apr 29, 2024

Columns HappyRaccoon -
Welcome back Killteamers to a short UTC recap weekend! We've got some interesting results and plenty of losers in this weeks stats recap. With...
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Unstable Mutation: Most Wanted Upgrade…With a Twist! (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)

Core Games Will "Loxi" Angarella -
Outlaws of Thunder Junction introduced a whole bunch of new mechanics, including the new "Outlaw" supertype for creatures, allowing us to play around with...
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Wargames Atlantic Afghan Cavalry Review

Historicals Alexander Smith -
Intro Two years ago, Wargames Atlantic announced their Afghan Cavalry kit. I had just finished reading Col. Mike Snook’s excellent Into the Jaws of Death,...
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The Independent Characters 236 | Rare Warhammer 40k Materials

Goonhammer Raf Cordero -
Episode 236 of The Independent Characters has us returning to the shelves and storage at the back of the Astronomicon to uncover more Warhammer...
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Old World: Reserve Move and You

Gaming Reece W -
The Old World is a setting filled with flying monsters, barreling Cavalry, and in some cases locomotive engines. But, today, we'll be talking about...
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Mikey Mouse Club #18 – My Store Challenge Deck!

Lorcana MB1975 -
Last week I promised to present you an expensive meta deck, just in time for the upcoming store championships that Ravensburger is running as...
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Horus Heresy Faction Focus: Imperialis Militia

Core Games jellymuppet and groppcw -
Welcome, scrubs, to the Imperialis Militia Faction Focus. Power armour and boltguns? Nonsense! Lasrifles and carapace armour? Much too expensive! For us, its lasguns...
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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: 2024-05-01

AOS Competitive Innovations RagnarokAngel -
After an Extensive bit of coverage last week we're back to a smaller set of lists from some more modest sized GTs for this week....
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Competitive Innovations in 10th: A Challenger Approaches pt.1

40K Competitive Innovations James "One_Wing" Grover -
You're all at it again, I see. It's another bumper-sized 15-event week, so we're once again going for three parts. Plenty of the usual...
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CYRAC: Gellerpox Infected Kill Team Tournament Report

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? has a new video discussing his recent exploits at a 4 round tournament in the UK for...
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Thousand Sons Unit Focus: Leaders (Updated 4/30/2024)

Columns Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
In this article series we're taking a look at the leader options available to each faction, looking at what units they pair with, and...
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10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: Thousand Sons (Updated April 30, 2024)

Competitive Play Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
In our Competitive Faction Focus series we look at the factions of Warhammer 40,000 through a competitive lens, talking about who they are and...
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Games Industry News Roundup- April 30th, 2024

Board Games Dan "Swiftblade" Richardson, Jonathan Bernhardt and Marcille "Marcy" Donato -
Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So...
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Start Competing: Designing 40K Tournament Map Packs pt.1

Core Games James "One_Wing" Grover -
This post is made possible by our UK terrain partners at Bandua Wargaming. The terrain set used in this series was provided as a...
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A History of Miniature Violence: Age of Sigmar’s Launch

A History of Miniature Violence Carter "Saffgor" Kachmarik -
In the beginning, there was the End Times, and nothing was ever going to be the same. This is the time of turmoil. This...
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Goonhammer’s Ashes of Malifaux Review Part 8: The Ten Thunders

Goonhammer Togepi -
That's it!  We've shot the chutes and climbed the ladders, we've slogged through bog and sewer and stepped through high society.  Now it's time...
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