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Start Competing: Death Guard Tactics (Updated 5/16/2022)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 16, 2022

Do you like being really, really hard to kill? Do you like to dish out your vengeance to enemies in a slow, methodical fashion? Do you think Nurglings are adorable? Then Death Guard may be the army for you! Death...

Gaming

Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines Tactics (Updated 5/16/2022)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 16, 2022

Do you like playing the bad guys? Do you think that Imperial space marines are kind of lame? Do you generally feel OK about cavorting with daemons and making dark pacts with the ruinous powers that will pit you...

Gaming

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics (Updated 5/16/2022)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 16, 2022

Are you a fan of sorcerous tricks that buff your units and hurt those of your enemies? Do you dream of drowning your enemies in a sea of mortal wounds? Were you the person who always played a mage...

Competitive Play

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 9: Final Prep for the Dallas Open

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 29, 2022

Hello, Dear Reader, and welcome back to my ongoing blog series where I talk about my path through another year of Warhammer 40k. Last time I talked about taking my Thousand Sons to another RTT. That went alright, but...

Competitive Play

2Q22 Post-Dataslate Faction Focus: Thousand Sons

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 27, 2022

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...

Books

The Goonhammer Review of Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3.5 edition)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 1, 2022

Welcome to Goonhammer ‘02! We’re taking a look back to 20 years ago and some of the key releases of 2002. Today we’re talking about the release of Codex: Chaos Space Marines and the impact it had on the...

Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 5: Aeldari March Madness

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - March 17, 2022

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing (mis)adventures in competitive 40k. In my last article I attended the February Asgard RTT and again went 2-1, losing my first game to Custodes. I finally brought my Thousand Sons to their...

Competitive Play

Warzone Nachmund Faction Focus: Thousand Sons

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 25, 2022

The first competitive season for 40k has arrived, with War Zone: Nachmund giving us new points, missions, secondary objectives, and rules to contemplate. These rules represent a major shake-up for competitive 40k and to help you make sense of...

Competitive Play

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Tau Time

James "One_Wing" Grover - February 16, 2022

Nachmund hits its stride this week with two big events in the UK, and despite the warzone theoretically being a battleground between the forces of the Imperium and Chaos, it's the latest Xenos challenger making all the headlines. Tau...

Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2022, Part 3: Learning Nachmund

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 5, 2022

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing journal of competitive and hobby progress in Warhammer 40k through another year. Last time I talked about attending the January Asgard RTT and coming back to Death Guard. That ended up being...