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SRM’s Roundabout to NOVA 2023: Sweaty [Competitive] and Sweaty [Very Warm]

Hello again, I guess it really hasn't been too long since I wrote one of these, has it? For the uninitiated, this is like a Road To... series of articles, but all at once, with a joke name only...

Interviews with the Top 3 from the NOVA Open Kill Team Tournament

Hey everyone with NOVA Open in the rear view, let's catch up with the North East’s finest. With NOVA open being one of the last two Golden Tickets on the East Coast before the World Championships in Atlanta, with...

Battletech: Mech Overview: Nova (Black Hawk)

Is this clan omnimech good enough that the Inner Sphere needed to copy it? Find out in this Mech Overview with Perigrin!

NoVa Open 2022: Contemptor Kevin’s Recap (featuring Salsa)

Hello folks! We are about a week or so after the end of NoVa 2022, and I've been having lots of thoughts on how to best contextualize one of the greatest convention experiences of my life. Running at full...

NOVA Champion Jack Harpster Recaps the Event

We've finally reached the finale of our coverage of the NOVA 2022 event and we're going out with a bang. This week we're joined by current #1 in the ITC player Jack Harpster from The Art of War, who...

SRM’s Roundabout to NOVA: Probably Too Much Warhammer

Goonhammer oldheads might remember that approximately 30 years ago, back in 2019, I contributed to our first Road to NOVA series. If you don't remember, I can't hardly blame you; I am simply a warham who is compelled to...

Good God, How Many Black Jokers Does This Deck Have? Malifaux at the NoVa Open

Washington DC is a tiny city tucked into a river delta between sprawling, sunny Virginia and proud old Maryland. This obscure little burg is quiet most of the year, coming alive for one weekend every September for the event...

Goonhammer at the NOVA OPEN

The NOVA Open tabletop wargaming convention returned to DC this weekend after a two-year hiatus and we're hype as hell to see it return. With events for every game system and type of play, there's a ton of fun...

Beanith’s Road to… NoVA?: Building a Death Guard Finale?

Picture this scenario if you will, dear reader, which may or may not have happened on a typical Thursday afternoon last week. Rob: Why are you in that hammock and why are the Goonhammer Offices full of sand? Beanith: Sipping from...

The 2019 NOVA 40K Narrative Event

The NOVA Open comprises some four levels of the Hyatt at National Airport in Washington D.C. -- everyone who had to walk up and down the broken escalator felt that one -- and there were, roughly, one and a...