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Detachment Focus: Ironstorm Spearhead

In this series of articles we take a deep dive into a specific detachment for a faction, covering the faction’s rules and upgrades and talking about how to build around that faction for competitive play. In this article, we’re...

Detachment Focus: Firestorm Assault Force

In this series of articles we take a deep dive into a specific detachment for a faction, covering the faction’s rules and upgrades and talking about how to build around that faction for competitive play. In this article, we’re...

Start Competing: Space Marines Tactics

Start Competing: Space Marine Tactics The Space Marines are the iconic Warhammer 40,000 faction - the best-selling army in the game, the protagonists of more or less every video game in the setting, the subject of a slew of Black...

Start Competing: Death Guard Tactics

Start Competing: Death Guard Tactics The Death Guard are a traitor legion dedicated to the Chaos God Nurgle, the god of rot and decay. Originally one of the first founding legions of space marines, the Death Guard were known for...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Even Angels Fall pt.1

The Balance Dataslate has arrived, about which there is much rejoicing. It wasn't in effect for most of the events this past weekend, about which there is much theatrical booing. Let's see how this seasons villains fared on their final...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: A Short Breather

After an absolutely relentless few months of events, the Easter weekend has finally been a bit quieter, with only one major firing and no events crossing the GT threshold. That happily means that I don't have to muster up too much...

Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships Part II

Today in Star Wars: Armada, Summer gets attacked by a swarm of angry fish. This is Part II of the Dockyard series on small Rebel Alliance ships. The Ships – “Fear is your natural warning system; it keeps you alive...

Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships Part I

The Rebel Alliance fields the largest selection of small ships in Armada, and has cemented itself as a definitive power in small unit gameplay. Welcome to Part I of Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships, an explainers article where I...

Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Sloanager and Luminara Venator List Breakdown

I’ve been here for a few months going on and on about Armada. I’ve given faction overviews. I’ve overviewed ships. I’ve given the run-down on dice, and even touched on fleet-building. What about pulling it all together into fleet-building?...

Start Competing: Death Guard Tactics Updated!

We're currently doing a big inventory and update on our Start Competing series, and I chose to knock out some of the low-hanging fruit this week by updating Death Guard. There wasn't a ton to fix here - it...