competitive

Start Competing: A League of Your Own

Today I want to take a different tack on competitive play and focus less on tournaments and more on building a community that can cultivate a strong competitive scene in your area. Building a strong community requires a lot...

Tactics Shaman: List Building with New Beasts of Chaos

Army deep dives and list building is something I do more with close friends and subscribers to my Patreon than in articles, but this time around I was so excited about the new Beasts of Chaos rules that Goonhammer...

GW New Orleans in the Mortal Realms

While most of my compatriots on the writing staff were in New Orleans for the Dark Millenium, I was of course there for the Age of Sigmar tournament alongside Swiftblade. I initially wasn't even going to bother with the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lightning Round 29/04

As we covered yesterday, the weekend just past was one of the largest for 40k that we've seen in ages, so much so that it far exceeds my capacity to get full writeups done for every single event. While...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Spring Up GT and War for the Wooden Spoon

The floodgates have well and truly opened this week, with an absolute blockbuster schedule of events that put a wide range of armies that have been painstakingly developed over lockdown to the test alongside new contenders Drukhari. The sheer volume...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Adelaide Uprising

Week by week the amount of envy I feel for the Australian community grows ever greater, until soon it shall grow so large as to eclipse the sun itself. Which they have and I don't on my frigid hell...

Hammer Out Cancer this weekend

Looking for some fun competitive 40k this weekend? Want to tell cancer to fuck off? The Best in Faction podcast and Art of War are putting on a covid safe Hammer Out Cancer event this weekend. A local Pacific...

9th Edition Initial Impressions Roundtable

With 9th edition finally upon us, it’s time to talk about the rules! Having had a chance to pore over the new rules from the Indomitus box, the Goonhammer team are offering their first impressions on 9th edition and...

Saga of the Beast and Competitive Space Wolves

Hello internet, it's Jon Kilcullen of Northern Front here. After a review of their own, Goonhammer has kindly asked me to give my thoughts on the Space Wolves' side of the new Saga of the Beast supplement as it...

Kill Team Meta Analysis: LVO 2020

Now that LVO is in the books, we can take a look back at its Kill Team Tournament with fresh eyes and look at what the event and its results say about the Kill Team format, the meta, and...