Space Marines

Start Competing: Salamanders Tactics

Salamanders are a First Founding legion that first saw rules with the release of 3rd edition's Codex: Armageddon, which gave the green marines rules alongside the Black Templars - a weird old set which for some reason made the Salamanders...

Start Competing: Raven Guard Tactics

The stealthy killers of the Raven Guard have always had their dedicated fans but have, rather appropriately, kept to the shadows for much of the history of 40K. That changed in a big way with the release of the...

Start Competing: Iron Hands Tactics

Once the terrifying bogeymen of late 8th edition, the Iron Hands haven't had bespoke rules very often but when they have, those rules have been at least pretty good, and sometimes - as was the case with the 8th...

Start Competing: Ultramarines Tactics

The poster boys of the Space Marine faction and potentially all of Warhammer 40,000, the Ultramarines have had a long journey from having their own Codex representing all of the "generic" chapters in 2nd edition to being an afterthought...

Start Competing: White Scars Tactics

Though a first founding legion, it took White Scars a long time to get real recognition in Warhammer 40k. They didn't get proper rules until the Index Astartes article series in 3rd edition started handing out rules to each...

Start Competing: Space Marines Tactics

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Space Marines in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. Space Marines are the iconic faction of Warhammer 40,000. The very origins of the setting...

Start Competing: Space Marines Tactics Updated!

With a huge strain of effort, our largest Start Competing has begun to be updated. Yes, it's the Space Marines, and we're on the way to getting them written up for their surprisingly extensive 9th edition changes. With this...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Four by Four pt.1

The weekend past was another huge one for competitive 40K, with no less than four fully fledged GTs taking place across the US, bringing us an very exciting spread of lists to look at, including Necrons making multiple showings...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: GT Triple Threat

After a few quiet weeks, this weekend was another big one, with three mid-sized GTs firing to give us more juicy, juicy intel on what's hot in the world of Warhammer 40K. There's a lot to get through here...

The Goonhammer Hot Take: Space Marine FAQs

Following the release of the recent Space Marine codex, GW have followed up with a 4-week FAQ (yeah these are 4 weeks now rather than 2, who knows why). They also updated the Ultramarines and Black Templars FAQ/index documents...