The Warcry Abilities that Matter – Order Doubles

Hey there, it's Dan and I'm here to talk about Warcry abilities. Doubles come up the most of any ability type in the game, and the best output rate you can get for them often dictates the pace of play in games of Warcry. If you're interested in listbuilding, the allies with the best doubles often make the best includes, and if you're just concerned with knowing what to watch out for, why not start with the most common...

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Warhammer 40K

Goonhammer Reviews the New Blood Angels Models

The Blood Angels army set and new Codex Supplement was released back in early September, with a first wave of Blood Angels upgrades and new models for Astorath the Grim and Lemartes. You can check out our reviews of the new book both in text and video form. After a few weeks stuck in the Warp, the Codex Supplement is now available to pre-order separately, along with more new models - three more plastic characters in the shape of the Blood Angels Captain, the Sanguinor, and the Sanguinary Priest, and...

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: Wyrmblade

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. Welcome to the church of the Four Armed Emperor! Today we will be covering The Wyrmblade, elite Genestealer Cult Insurgents. The Wyrmblade were introduced early in Kill Team 2021 as part of the teams that received their rules through White Dwarf. During most of the edition they...

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