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SRM’s Ongoing Imperium Review: Week 9

Imperium is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. Dedicating two...

New Year, New Armies: The Sickly Sweet Scent of Failure

Welcome back to Lupe's ongoing hobby progress log, taking him through multiple games and armies. If you missed the prior articles in the series, you can find them here: The intro The Malifean...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 5: Burden in my Hams

You know it's a good thing this is for an event in Seattle (Tacoma, technically, but Seattle-adjacent) because if I had to come up with half a dozen puns for Kansas City I'd be well outside of my extremely...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 4: Here Comes Thiccness

Full disclosure: I think "Touch Me I'm Sick" is a better Mudhoney song than "Here Comes Sickness", but if I title an article "Touch Me I'm Thicc" Rob probably won't let me write anymore. SRM's Road to the Roadshow: US...

SRM’s Road to The US Open Seattle Part 3: Templar of the Dog

I don't actually have a clever tie-in for this stupid pun title, but Goonhammer Patron Dnoonan said it and I'd be remiss to look a gift pun in the mouth. Honestly? I'm just mad I didn't come up with...

SRM’s Ongoing Imperium Review: Week 5

Imperium is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. This issue...

Goonhammer Reviews Tempest of War: The Format Casuals Have Been Waiting For (and also maybe Competitive Players)

Before we start, we'd like to thank Games Workshop for sending us a preview copy of the Tempest of War Mission Pack for review purposes. Games Workshop never really nailed down the "three ways to play" they rolled out in...

Bathe Your Blade in the Blood of Your Foe: It Owns

I am not a particularly clever man. Choosing secondary objectives in 40k can often feel to me like throwing blunted darts at a dartboard in the cash-only Communist themed bar I spent much of my early 20s frequenting. I...

Casual Friday: Whose Lore Is It Anyway?

Welcome back to Casual Fridays, where we tell competitive play to take a seat and let our creativity run wild. In this installment, Rocco will be discussing how he created his very own custom successor chapter and will walk...

The Warhammer 40,000 2021 Year-in-Review, Part 2

As it's the final day of 2021, we’re looking back at the year that was, chock full of releases, excitement, and changes. In this first part of this two-part series, we looked at the year of competitive play for...