competitive play

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 9: Crusades and GT Testing

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing log of personal, hobby, and competitive progress for Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I talked about my trip to England and my time at the Oxford GT. That was, on the whole, a rousing...

Warhammer 40K 10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: Adepta Sororitas

On the heels of the latest dataslate, we’re updating (or finally getting around to) all of the faction focus articles for each army in Warhammer 40,000. In this series we’ll talk about each faction, what they have to offer,...

BattleTech: BV and The Code

Howdy and welcome back to BattleTech. Here at Goonhammer, we are huge fans of the Battle Value system for balancing games, as it usually does an alright job of balancing two dissimilar forces against each other. This isn't to...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: A Challenger Approaches pt.2

Me again. Did you know there was a whole tonne of Warhammer this past weekend? That includes one event (Warzone: Dice Goblin) which I shamefully failed to notice had used the Dataslate and new Ork/Custodes books, so well done...

Competitive Innovations in 10th: A Challenger Approaches pt.1

You're all at it again, I see. It's another bumper-sized 15-event week, so we're once again going for three parts. Plenty of the usual suspects are out and about, slamming a last few games in the pre-dataslate world, but...

Start Competing: Designing 40K Tournament Map Packs pt.1

This post is made possible by our UK terrain partners at Bandua Wargaming. The terrain set used in this series was provided as a review copy. One of the underexplored aspects of competitive Warhammer 40K is how terrain maps get...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 8: The Oxford GT (Part Two)

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing chronicle of competitive and hobby progress in Warhammer 40,000 for 2024. Last time around I talked about my trip to England and my first day of games at the Oxford GT. Today...

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 7: The Oxford GT (Part One)

TheChirurgeon talks about traveling to the UK for the Oxford GT and recounts his first three games on day 1 of the event.

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Xenos

After nearly three months, it’s time for another quarterly update for Warhammer 40,000 and this time it’s just points. Today’s points update gives us updated points for every faction in the game, though as usual some have been touched...

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Chaos

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update - Chaos