Kill Team 2024 Review: Inquisitorial Agents

The 2024 Edition of Kill Team has overhauled the game, changing rules, datasheets, and bringing with it an updated set of rules for every team in the game. In this series we’re taking a look at each team, how they’ve changed, and what it means for how they play in the new edition. Citizen, come and learn of the wise, mighty Inquisitorial Agents and the heroic, just and proportionate actions they perform! Inquisitorial Agents first arrived in the Ashes of Faith...

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Warhammer 40K

New in Tabletop Battles: Mission Briefings from The Art of War

Our newest update to Tabletop Battles adds mission briefings to Pariah Nexus missions, giving you info on how the primary and special rules work and tips from the Art of War team on how to play them.

Age of Sigmar

Dominion by Darius Hinks – The Goonhammer Review

With Skaventide by Gary Kloster ushering in the fourth edition of Age of Sigmar, let’s look back at the novel that kick-started third edition; Dominion by Darius Hinks. Third edition was the era of the beast, so we were treated to a story set Ghur.  Niksar lives in Excelsis, a city of Sigmar trying to survive as a bastion of civilization in the hostile environs of the brutal and unforgiving realm of beasts.  Life is tough for Niksar (well, this is Warhammer, of course life is tough.)  He does whatever...

Columns

MTG Commander Editorial: Cardboard Is Not an Asset Class

When Wizards of the Coast created a collectible card game, they were inventing something with potentially inherently toxic characteristics. The 30-year history of magic has included a lot of headlines about the real world value of certain magic cards, largely because the original print runs were small, and many problematic cards were printed in the early years of Magic, long before its designers understood the game they were creating, which would be fundamentally unbalanced. Black Lotus remains the most glaringly obvious example. Magic as a game has always had to exist in an uneasy state of tension between its status as a game...

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 44

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 be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium US subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. If you want to follow along at home, US Customers can check out Stormbringer here. If you were ever a kid in a comic book store, at some point you grabbed a floppy solely based on the strength of that cover. Batman and Robin are swinging into action on the front, and inside it's...

Kill Team 2024 Review: Inquisitorial Agents

The 2024 Edition of Kill Team has overhauled the game, changing rules, datasheets, and bringing with it an updated set of rules for every team in the game. In this series we’re taking a look at each team, how they’ve changed, and what it means for how they play in the new edition. Citizen, come and learn of the wise, mighty Inquisitorial Agents and the heroic, just and proportionate actions they perform! Inquisitorial Agents first arrived in the Ashes of Faith campaign supplement, facing off against the Chaos Cultists. Both teams were extremely strong on release and went through significant changes...

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