Death Guard

Hammer of Math: When to Scythe and When to Cleave

This week's Hammer of Math is a bit of preparation for our upcoming Start Competing article for Death Guard. With the efficacy of Mortarion and Deathshroud Terminators, when should you use the different options for their scythes? 40k remains a...

Death Guard: Building Around the Terminus Est Assault Force

There's been a lot of talk about the new Terminus Est Assault Force and whether it's going to be good competitively. Today Goonhammer Chaos authors Don Hooson and Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones are looking at the army and offering thoughts...

Hammer of Math: Death Guard Psychic Disciplines

This week's Hammer of Math takes a likely fatal deep dive into the Contagion and Fester Disciplines of the Death Guard. With the arrival of The Book of Rust and the addition of a second discipline for members of a...

How to Paint Everything: 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything. We look at different techniques and approaches to achieving results and the lore behind some of the models we're painting. As GOONHAMMER '96 comes...

War Zone Charadon: The Book of Rust Review – The Matched Play Rules

Next weekend sees not just one but two massive releases for competitive Warhammer 40,000. In addition to the 9th edition release of Codex: Drukhari (find our review of that book here), Games Workshop will also be releasing their first...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Equinox 40K

It's New Zealand's turn to shine once more, as the past weekend featured the 36-player Equinox 40K GT. Last time we headed over to a NZ GT Death Guard were absolutely dominant, taking three out of four of the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Over the Top GT

The thunder from down under shows no signs of abating, and this week we're zooming in on New Zealand's north island to take a look at the results of the Over the Top GT. After a modest start last...

Hammer of Math: T’au Commanders, Combi-Weapons, and Morty vs Deathwing

This week's Hammer of Math will cover several reader submitted questions submitted via our request form. Specifically we'll look at the difference between T'au Commander options, when (if ever) it's worth firing both barrels of combi-weapons, and which of...

Nurgle’s Chosen – The Lore of Codex: Death Guard

The armies and factions of Warhammer 40,000 are all brutal and impressive in their own ways. As new books release, we dive into the lore presented in each, and how it shapes the fictional universe we love and make...

Ruleshammer: Codex Death Guard

Death Guard have gotten a whole codex of new and interesting rules and this week on Ruleshammer I’m going to go through a few of the details and interactions that might come up. Most of them have answers too!...