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[40K] Competitive Innovations in 10th: Lame Duck and Cover pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - October 17, 2024

Welcome to Competitive Innovations, our weekly feature for a number of game lines across the tabletop wargame space. Each week our army list and tactics experts canvass the top tournaments for their game of specialty, looking at the week’s...

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The Q4 2024 Balance Update: Imperium Factions

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 16, 2024

We look at the changes to the non-Space Marine Imperium factions in the Q4 2024 Balance Update, and talk about how they've changed and what it means for the competitive meta.

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Tally Ho pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 20, 2024

It's part 2 of Competitive Innovations, and chivalry continues to be back as the Imperial Knights face off with Genestealer Cults in our big Showdown. Elsewhere, various top factions continue to make their presence known as we head towards our...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Tally Ho pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 18, 2024

A refreshing shakeup this week - while there are some strong showings from our regular metagame villains, this week we've got a healthy variety of breakthroughs for other factions, including a particularly admirable surge for Imperial Knights. If you've...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Mayhem in Mechelen pt.3 – WTC Teams

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 17, 2024

Teams! We love a bit of Teams! The WTC is both one of the largest Team events of the year and kicks off the season where a bunch of smaller (but still very large) Team events fire the world over....

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Night of the Living Deathwing pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 31, 2024

Deathwing Knights. They're pretty good again, it turns out. Dark Angels seem to have muscled on in and deposed Blood Angels as the Marines to beat, with their unique units now providing them with an ultra-potent all-rounder package. Other...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Pariah Powers Up pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 19, 2024

Part 2, and plenty more healthy variety to consider - we've even got an AdMech showdown that isn't Skitarii Hunter Cohort. Wonders may never cease. It's Lowest of Men in charge today, covering: TGX Warhammer 40,000 Event I Gt Ciudad de Avila ...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Pariah Parade pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 4, 2024

There's a whole lot more to talk about today so I'm going to keep this intro short. As you can imagine, my mind is already whirling away trying to draw some early conclusions as to what's good in Pariah,...

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Q3 2024 40K Balance Update – Imperium

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 20, 2024

This week Games Workshop dropped the largest single update we’ve ever seen to Warhammer 40,000 outside of an edition change. Through a number of FAQs and Errata, points changes, a new Dataslate, and a massive update to the Core...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Liminal Space Marines pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 19, 2024

We really are in the final stages of the old metagame now - we know a Balance Dataslate is dropping this week, the Pariah missions release on the weekend, and the Sisters and GSC Codexes will start kicking in...