imperial guard

New Year, New Armies: An Exercise in Foolishness

At the end of 2021 I came to a startling realisation: despite being heavily involved in the warhammer community, writing for Goonhammer and spending most of my time talking to other wargaming nerds on the internet, I didn’t actually...

A Plasma Gun and a Flak Jacket: Astra Militarum Kill Team Tactics

The ever reliable Imperial Guard get looked at today. While they don’t have all the options that Veteran Guard do, they still give you an interesting team to play, and a lot of modelling opportunities. Their entry in the...

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Totally Loyal Guards

Those of you who have seen our August Hobby Round-up will have noticed that in addition to starting GSC I had a guard sentinel in the same colour scheme, this is essentially the cheat I am doing to say...

Start Competing: Astra Militarum Tactics (8th edition)

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Astra Militarum in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. If you've just been introduced to a galaxy filled with near-immortal super-soldiers, intergalactic alien invaders,...

Kill Team Compendium Review, Part I: Rules Overview, Building Teams, and the Imperium

The upcoming Kill Team 2.0 release is really a two-part release: The first part is the Octarius boxed set and the Core Rules that accompany it - you can find our review of the box here - and the...

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. In this article, we're looking at how to...

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...