Black Templars

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Chewing the Scenery pt.1

It's a particularly nefarious week out there. The Necrons, an entire culture built around emulating Starscream, re-assert their dominance after a mild wobble, and the World Eaters blast to some top finishes, shaking off whatever shackles the (fairly substantial)...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Dressed for Success pt.2

More Warhammer, all of the time. That's the slogan we're going with at the moment. It's Lowest of Men in charge today, covering: The South-Coast UKTC Supermajor MidtconGT Warhammer 40.000 Spring tournament Wheat City Open 2024 Melee At Shiloh Warzone: Wellington...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Dressed for Success pt.1

The twists and turns of the metagame continue unabated this week, as Necrons get marginally barged back into their tombs by a triumvirate of snappily-dressed factions. Whether it's glorious golden armour, a Nemesis Dreadknight or just a straight-up Gundam,...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Silver Tide pt.1

Welp, it's finally happened, this week we're going to three parts. That's because the past weekend was an absolutely astounding blowout of 40K, featuring ~1200 players participating in 16 GT+ events (around half of them majors) and that doesn't even account for...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: You Can’t Keep an Elf Down pt.2

And now presented for your delectation - elves. They're back. In many ways they never left. Lowest of Men will have the full gory details in a moment, but before that one final plug in this column for the Goonhammer Open...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Rearguard Action pt.2

We're back for part 2, watching the final death throes (?) of some of the builds that have dominated the last few months. If you want to know what's coming next for the metagame, make sure to check out...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Rearguard Action pt.1

The new post-Dataslate world will shortly be upon us (and you can check out all our coverage starting here), but we've still got last weekend's events and (presumably) a few more coming up this week featuring the old metagame. The...

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

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...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Boxed Out pt.1 – The LVO

A bit of a mixup to our usual formula this week - with the biggest event of the year (the LVO) happening the weekend just past, we wanted to give it the attention it deserves, with coverage of the...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Contempt of Court pt.2

We're back for part 2, today with Lowest of Men at the helm, ready to delve further into the veritable rampage the Necrontyr dynasties went on at the weekend. Today, we'll be covering: The Nottingham 40k Super-Major Münsterland GT5 Torino...