Games Industry News Roundup- November 12th, 2024

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 much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it can be a real blink-and-you’ll miss it situation.  That's why every week, we round up five of the biggest stories in the gaming sphere from the past week in the Games Industry News Roundup. Our trusty news boy, Dan “Swiftblade” Richardson,...

Content Guides

Warhammer 40K

The Narrative Forge: Improving Games of Warhammer 40,000 at 500 and 1,000 points

We take a look at some of the challenges playing 500- and 1,000-point games, and propose some army construction rules for making them a bit more balanced.

Age of Sigmar

SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 49

Campbell reviews issue 49 of Stormbringer, chock full of Sylvaneth Sprite-Revenants.

Columns

Magic: the Gathering Foundations Review, Part 1 of 3: The Mechanics

We take a look at the mechanics of the upcoming Foundations set and talk about their application in games.

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

How To Paint Everything: Conquest – Sorcerer Kings Mahut

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything, with different techniques and approaches. This week Rich is back to paint a Mahut, a colossal elephant statue brought to life by the Sorcerer Kings, the latest faction for Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings by Para Bellum Games. Thanks to Para Bellum for providing the models used in this painting guide. In our previous articles on painting the Sorcerer Kings we've focused on characters, troops, and brute units, but this time we're tackling something a whole lot bigger. The Mahut are stone replicas of...

The Narrative Forge: Improving Games of Warhammer 40,000 at 500 and 1,000 points

We take a look at some of the challenges playing 500- and 1,000-point games, and propose some army construction rules for making them a bit more balanced.

Gaming