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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Skeletal Surge

A slightly quieter weekend for once, but I strongly suspect that's largely because many of the world's best players have been preparing or travelling for the World Team Championships, which takes place this week. We'll have plenty to look...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Elves Strike Back Pt.1

Another week in Nephilim, and another very diverse set of top performing armies to talk about. Plenty of the Nephilim superstars and some old favourites are on show, but a glance at the results also shows the first big...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nephilim Unleashed

All stragglers are now accounted for, and Warzone Nephilim is now the only game in town. Good news - the immediate result appears to be one of the most healthy and diverse metagames we've had for ages. Most of the...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Play Them Off

The end is near and so we face the final curtain - all signs are that players are absolutely chomping at the bit to get started with playing Nephilim (indeed quite a few RTTs this weekend played with them...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

Liber Astartes: The Goonhammer Review

  Containing all the information you need to play the Loyalist Legions in the new edition of Horus Heresy, the Liber Astartes is nevertheless a little smaller than its traitorous sibling.  It's still a gigantic tome, though. What exactly can...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Final Stretch

One final weekend for people to rack up points for the season finale, and on some level things were surprisingly quiet, with only three events of GT size or larger. However, two of those events were pretty spectacular in...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Showdown Showcase

Just two weekends left on the 2021 ITC season, and another set of events in the books as players give the GT2021 pack and points costs a final workout ahead of the new book going up for preorder this...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Balanced Teams

As seems to be something of a pattern, we've had a few wild, blowout weeks, we've got another exciting one coming up with the UKTC Leicester supermajor and US Roadshow finale, but this weekend past was reasonably quiet on...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Talos Terrorize Texas

This week the Balance Dataslate has fully hit, and there's a huge number of events to talk about including the latest GW Roadshow supermajor, so this week's column is bumper sized, and shows off what look to be some...