competitive play

Boon’s Goonhammer Open US Tournament Report: In Search of a Belt

Life in the COVID era has meant change the world over, and while I’ve been fortunate to avoid the worst of COVID in my personal life, my waistline has not been so fortunate. As a rapidly approaching middle-age meets...

The US Goonhammer Open Grand Tournament: Event Recap

If you believe the true measure of a Grand Tournament’s success is how well the elevators work, and we certainly do, then the GHO is the best 40k event ever run in the greater Washington DC area over a...

Hear Me Out, Gunum! – Episode 1 (September 10, 2021)

Hello dear readers, Gunum here bringing you a new column that has been demanded multiple times, often secretly and typically in hushed whispers, ever since we started doing all of our different list analyses here at Goonhammer. In this...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Goonhammerception

This week the answer to "were there any events?" is especially obvious for anyone paying attention to what we've been up to, because the inaugural Goonhammer Open US is now in the books, with the champion's belt (literally, that's...

Start Competing: Drukhari updated!

It was well past time for this one - Start Competing: Dark Eldar/Drukhari Tactics has been updated to reflect the current 9th edition codex! We've broken down the swathe of options available to the Dark Kin, ready for you...

Commander Focus: Syr Gwyn, the Night Rider

Credit: Lie Setiawan, Wizards of the Coast I sort of identify as an Azorius player; or a blue player, generally. Long ago, when Extended had a deck that was essentially 32 counterspells, thieving magpie, morphling, and faerie conclaves, that's what...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Global Waaaagh pt.2

We're back for part two of this week's column, today covering: The North and South GT The FactoruM GT The Saltier Classic The War on the Shore GT The Kent GT If you're looking for any of the following events,...

Kings of War: The Road to ConVic 2021 Part Two

Hey all! A few weeks ago we wrote an article chronicling Cytoplasm’s road to ConVic, a larger Kings of War tournament in Melbourne, Australia.  We had hoped to have this article be a tournament wrap up. Unfortunately, COVID-19 (delta...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Global Waaaagh pt.1

OK, so the new bit here is that seemingly every other week I need to introduce this column with "it's the biggest week yet for Competitive Innovations" because it is, again. This week we've got ten events from around the...

Community Spotlight: Building Dreams Amidst the Corn

Credit: Goatboy On April 21st, 1989 Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson famously asked local farmer Ray Kinsella if he was in heaven. “No.” Ray replied, “It’s Iowaaagh.” Ray built it, and in the end, the people did come, his pain...