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The Goonhammer Kill Team Meta Analysis: 2Q 2024

Ace - June 6, 2024

Ace takes us through the current Kill Team meta and how things have shifted since the March 2024 Dataslate.

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Xenos Roulette pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 6, 2024

Lots more Xenos fun today, including the Retaliation Cadre making a Showdown debut, and Orks still krumpin' stuff left and right. We've also got some valiant imperium forced pushing back against aforesaid Xenos tide, with mixed success. Today we're looking...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Xenos Roulette pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 5, 2024

Honestly, who knows at this point. The metagame eddies and churns once more, this week bringing us a heady blend of crunch meta, melee meta and some Xenos factions, notably Aeldari and Necrons, throwing their weight around after a...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Always Be Charging pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 31, 2024

Part two of Competitive Innovations, and melee meta continues - but not without a fight. The Thousand Sons continue holding some of the tide at bay in the US, while from down under we've got some great insight from...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Always Be Charging pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 29, 2024

The Dataslate has had time to sink in, and as well as re-shuffling the factions it's brought a wider meta shift. Crunch meta is (mostly) OUT and melee meta is IN. Between Space Wolves, Orks, World Eaters and Blood...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: 2x Gorky 3x Krump pt.3

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 24, 2024

It's the final part of another mammoth week of CI, and today Lowest of Men is in charge, covering: Mayhem 3 in 3D Ice Breaker Warhammer 40K GT - Renegade Wargaming The Great Game - Gongaii GT Spring 2024 Barn...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: 2x Gorky 3x Krump pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 23, 2024

We're on to part two, and while we've got plenty more Thousand Sons and Orks for you, some other factions are also making their move, with the Space Wolves and World Eaters at the forefront. Can they stem the...

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Chaos Space Marines Points Update: The Goonhammer Hot Take

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 22, 2024

Chaos players are chomping at the bit to start using their new Codex, and as is now standard the updated points for the book have arrived on Warhammer Community, just ahead of the street date on Saturday. What does...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Grey Nice

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 15, 2024

We're in a bit of a holding pattern this week, as there weren't too many big events and (as sometimes happens when a balance update hits) people have fallen back on some reliably brutal builds to stomp on anyone...

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Know Thy Enemy: An Opponent’s Guide to the Chaos Space Marine Codex

James "One_Wing" Grover - May 11, 2024

The new Chaos Space Marines codex is here, sporting the largest selection of detachments yet and a whole host of changes to Datasheets. As always, I (Wings) have assimilated all of this information directly into my brain, but we...