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The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Chaos

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - April 25, 2024

The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update - Chaos

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The Q2 2024 Warhammer 40K Balance Update – Space Marines

Chase "Gunum" Garber - April 25, 2024

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...

Age of Sigmar

Age of Sigmar Battlescroll: Impending Vermindoom

Andrew "Marchettus" Brennen - April 18, 2024

Games Workshop provided us an early look at Battlescroll: Impending Vermindoom. We did not get a chance to review any FAQs or rules clarifications that have typically accompanied the release of a Battlescroll. It's been a little over two months...

Age of Sigmar

Age of Sigmar: Flesh-Eater Courts April FAQ Hot Take

MildNorman - April 3, 2024

The Flesh-Eater Courts Battletome has been out a few months since its initial release and it seems the rules writers over at Games Workshop have noted some things that need errata-ing. Usually these passes focus on tightening up some...

Columns

The Q1 2024 Kill Team Balance Dataslate – The Goonhammer Hot Take

TheArmorOfContempt - March 28, 2024

Coming less than a week from the conclusion of Adepticon, we have in our hands the latest and greatest changes to Kill Team. The end of 2023 saw some massive changes to the game, but even in that short...

Conquest

Conquest Feb 2024 Update: the Goonhammer Hot Take

Robert Cantrell - February 16, 2024

As is their wont, Para Bellum INSIST on continuing to improve Conquest: the Last Argument of Kings and have just dropped a new rules update for the game. We talk about what changed and what it means.

Conquest

Conquest Sorcerer Kings Faction – The Goonhammer Hot Take

Robert Cantrell - February 12, 2024

The Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings February 2024 update has arrived, bringing with it a slew of balance and rules updates, and an entirely new faction - the Sorcerer Kings. Inspired by Arabic, Turkic and Vedic mythologies, the Goonhammer...

Competitive Play

Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate & MFM – Chaos – The Goonhammer Review

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 30, 2024

Today Games Workshop released a massive update for Warhammer 40,000 giving us a huge shake-up for competitive play. In addition to the balance dataslate for Q1 2024, we also saw the release of a new game-wide points update, rules/FAQ...

Competitive Play

Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate & MFM – Rules Commentary – The Goonhammer Review

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 30, 2024

Today Games Workshop released a massive update for Warhammer 40,000 giving us a huge shake-up for competitive play. In addition to the balance dataslate for Q1 2024, we also saw the release of a new game-wide points update, rules/FAQ...

Competitive Play

The Warhammer 40k Q1 2024 Balance Dataslate Review

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 30, 2024

A new season of Warhammer 40k is upon us! In addition to points updates, a comprehensive FAQ/errata document, a new detachment, and rules commentary, Games Workshop also updated the balance dataslate to incorporate a host of new changes. And...