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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 9: The GW New Orleans Open, Part 1 (of 2)

This is it, Dear Reader! After several more weeks of meandering posts talking about my practice games and hemming and hawing about daemon princes and bloat-drones and chaos lords, it was finally time to Put up or Shut up...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: NOLA Nailbiter

Barely a week goes by without the big supermajor alarm I have haphazardly installed in my living room going off, and this week it's been triggered by the second iteration of the GW roadshow, bringing over 150 players to...

Commander Unstable Mutation: Coven Counters

Coven Counter is based on generating +1/+1 counters, off the commander and other sources, buffing the small creatures in order to deal combat damage.  This is inherently a bad game plan, especially without backup from things like proliferate, or...

Playing the Least Army

This started off as a serious attempt at army construction. I was just trying to make something that I could take to events, and had no idea where it was headed. I need everyone to remember that. After going 0-6...

Competitive Innovations in Kill Team: The London Grand Tournament

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to another look at the Kill Team meta. We won't be doing these every single week or anything, but we had a few large events over the last weekend that are worth taking a look...

A Jarl’s First Grand Tournament

Goonhammer Patron "Jarl" Ian Donovan recently attended the US Goonhammer Open in Bethesda Maryland, finishing 10th overall with a 4-2 record. This is his story. Alright, so here’s the tl;dr version: I flew down to DC, played 6 games with...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Warp Stirs pt.2

More events = more content. I can't imagine there will be many complaints. Today, we'll be covering: Matthammer FactoruM September GT Carnage - 'Ere We Go Again Ladz A bonus look at the Polish Team Championships If you're looking for the...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2021, Part 7: Painting and Testing a New List

Welcome back, dear reader, to another episode on my journey to near-respectability at competitive 40k. In my last article, I talked about my experiences going 3-3 at the US Goonhammer Open, the struggles I was having on hammer-and-anvil deployment...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Warp Stirs pt.1

A new challenger approaches. As foretold by our expert statistical prognosticars, this weekend saw Grey Knights hit the metagame in a big way, with a couple of event wins (including a major) and plenty of other decent showings. Their...

Competitive Innovations Special: London GT & Invitational Predictions

Next weekend (24th-26th September) features the London GT, which is going to be one of (if not the) biggest 40K events of the year. Hundreds of players are going to duke it out in the main event, but prior to...