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Hammer of Math: Grenades

This week's article takes a look at the utility of grenades in Warhammer 40K, and at what point (if ever) should you consider tossing one instead of shooting the enemy in the face. The grenade is a bit of an...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to...

Three Cool Lists & Metagame Thoughts from the North East Open

Welcome back list review fans! It's been a while but now that I finally have a week of zen-like quiet where I'm neither recovering from a tournament nor frantically painting for the next one the time seemed ripe to...

How to Paint Everything: The Astra Militarum

In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. With the release of the new Psychic Awakening...

Psychic Awakening: The Greater OK I Guess – Lore Review

From a lore perspective, this is the book I was looking forward to the most. The Imperium is a brutally fascist authoritarian regime that doesn't so much care about its citizens as it does their labor. The conditions it...

Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good Review – Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard

Back in early 8th edition, which feels shrouded in the mists of time but was in fact only 3 years ago, the Astra Militarum codex was released to great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Guard, you see, had broken...

Chapter Approved 2019 Balance Changes – The Goonhammer Review

With the release of Chapter Approved 2019 comes Games Workshop’s annual points review of Warhammer 40,000. And while previous years have seen only changes published in the Chapter Approved Book, this year we’re getting our own standalone book with...

Gunum Presents: Hear me out, Wings! Birds of Goon.

Flying on the Wings of Victory Hello everyone! Still-not-first ITC Dark Angels Gunum here, bringing you another write-up on trying to come up with my own powerful Dark Angel meta, one unit at a time. This time with a special...

Tournament Report – The London Open – Part 1

Last week Wings brought you a preview of the London Open, discussing his army list, looking at some of the more interesting armies out in the field, and triggering some mild controversy regarding a certain Grav-Tank. Before the mighty...

How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks

This is a step by step run through of how I am painting skull masks on my steel legion models. These are representing guardsmen from the Ministorum cemetery world of Certus Minor. Skull masks would also be a good...