Adeptus Custodes

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Auric Ascension

Not too much of a results-oriented preamble this week (other than to say "hey, some people found Custodes builds that work"), as I'm technically on holiday this week (and we'll have guest cover next week), but since we still...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Hive Noon pt.1

40K - it's what's happening. Somehow we have a third consecutive week of 10+ events, so there's lots to cover. Today we'll be looking at: Battle in the Bush (Major) Huxley's Open 2022 (Major) Rise of Kings Brewhammer KC Summer...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Skeletal Surge

A slightly quieter weekend for once, but I strongly suspect that's largely because many of the world's best players have been preparing or travelling for the World Team Championships, which takes place this week. We'll have plenty to look...

The Goonhammer Hot Take: The 40k July 2022 FAQs

GW dropped a raft of new FAQs for Warhammer 40,000 today, updating most factions as well as the core game rules. Let’s dive in and find out what’s changed, and how it affects your games. The Updates There was a mix...

Nephilim Faction Focus: Jack Harpster Talks Adeptus Custodes

Welcome to War Zone: Nephilim! There’s never been a shake-up this large during an edition of 40k, and over the last three weeks Games Workshop dropped a new missions pack with all-new secondaries, changed how CP works in games,...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Play Them Off

The end is near and so we face the final curtain - all signs are that players are absolutely chomping at the bit to get started with playing Nephilim (indeed quite a few RTTs this weekend played with them...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

2Q22: Jack Harpster Talks Adeptus Custodes

Games Workshop dropped its Q2 Balance Dataslate for 40k in mid-April, dramatically changing a number of key factions. Astra Militarum, Marines and Sisters were buffed, Harlequins, T’au, and Custodes were nerfed, and some key game rules were changed. Now...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Curtain Falls

This week's edition of Competitive Innovations is going to be relatively brief - we only had three events this weekend due to it being Easter, and two of those were pre-Balance Dataslate and Tyranid Codex, and were dominated by armies...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Joker Mode pt.2

As mentioned yesterday, there's been quite a few events this week, so we've split the post up. Today we'll look at: Fool's Errand (Major) Grand Onslaught 3 Black Heart GT ...