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

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 30, 2024

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...

Start Competing: Adeptus Custodes Tactics

Liam "Corrode" Royle - January 29, 2024

Start Competing: Adeptus Custodes Tactics The Adeptus Custodes are the personal guardians of the Emperor, based on the Throneworld itself. They are gold-clad giants wielding ferocious guardian spears as their basic armament. For 10,000 years they more or less stayed...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: New Year Retribution pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 12, 2024

Back for part two, this time with Lowest of Men at the helm. Today we're looking at: Glass City GT EXTERMINATUS VIII - Rise of the Noodle Defcon 2024 - Warhammer 40k Warlords of Walsall GT 1 UKTC ITC If you're looking...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Chaos Champions pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - November 22, 2023

It may have come to your attention that something quite exciting happened on the weekend - the first ever World Championships of Warhammer, bringing together a truly astounding shark tank of the world's finest to battle for glory. We are,...

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2023 World Championships 40k Player Profile: Alex Mathison

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - November 13, 2023

The first ever World Championships of Warhammer are this week and we couldn't be more excited. As part of our event coverage, we're interviewing competitors from around the world about how they secured an invite, their plans for the...

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

Liam "Corrode" Royle - September 7, 2023

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...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Signature Look of Superiority pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 23, 2023

Look - there's a lot of warhammer this week, a lot of elves, and we all know that balance changes are coming in the not too distant future. With that in mind, no big long pre-amble from me, we're...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Wraithknights at the Warmaster pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 16, 2023

It's been another busy week in the 40K world, with hundreds of the world's best players gathering in Europe for the Warmaster GT, and a trio of healthily-sized majors alongside it. A certain gigantic robot has, admittedly, been somewhat...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Silver and Gold pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 4, 2023

We're back for part two of this week's review of competitive lists, and today it's mostly a Lowest of Men show, with Wings sneaking in at the end to take a look at some of the lists from the American Team...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Silver and Gold

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 2, 2023

Another week of 10th Edition, and to answer the first question yes Aeldari and Genestealer Cults are still vastly too good. Apparently if I don't say that up front people get real mad, so to be clear assume that's the...