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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Lite Edition

James "One_Wing" Grover - October 14, 2020

Whether through coincidence or TOs not wanting to schedule events on the day new books landed, the past weekend was a pretty quiet one on the tournament scene and I've not found any two day events to report on....

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Infinity Tactics: The Fundamentals of Offense

Thanqol Decadion - October 13, 2020

Last week I talked about all the ways a good player will defend themselves from harm (check out the Fundamentals of Defense here). This week you’re up against an opponent who won the Lieutenant roll and has given you...

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Competing with Genestealer Cults in 9th – An Interview with Bilbo Göransson

James "One_Wing" Grover - October 9, 2020

Having been one of the game's top armies for an extended period in 8th, it's no secret that Genestealer Cults have found themselves facing something of an uphill struggle in 9th Edition's competitive scene, and are a rare sight...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: European Bonanza

James "One_Wing" Grover - October 8, 2020

All the hot Space Marine and Necron details are now out in the wild, FAQs are flying thick and fast and across the world the creative juices are flowing as players try to work out how best to achieve...

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Infinity Tactics: The Fundamentals of Defense

Thanqol Decadion - October 7, 2020

Everyone learning Infinity will have a certain kind of game at least once - one where Achillies walks across the table and kills everything you have, leaving you asking ‘how does anyone stop that?’ Sometimes that turns people off...

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The Goonhammer Review: Codex Necrons 9th Edition

James "One_Wing" Grover - October 3, 2020

Cover Image Credit: Games Workshop We could do a sensible introduction to this. We really could. Perhaps should even. Nevertheless... HERE WE GO MORTALS! OVERLORD WINGS IS BACK! After suffering through the whole of 8th with an extremely underpowered Codex, Necrons are at...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: Europe and Down Under

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 28, 2020

The past weekend has been an extremely busy one in the 40K world, with a huge number of multi-day events running around the world. That means that as a special treat, this week you get two of these! Today, we'll...

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9th Edition Tier List: Expectations vs. Reality

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 19, 2020

Yeah OK, we're doing this. Time is currently a flat circle with no meaning, but as measured by the mechanisms set down in the Before Time we're nearly 2 months into 9th Edition. While COVID has forced the competitive scene...

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Competitive Innovations in 9th: YHP GT

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 10, 2020

Another week and, in the end, another GT for us to review lists from. With the US enjoying Labor day weekend, a decent scattering of RTTs fired across the nation, but among them were a few larger events, one...

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Start Competing: How Unit Roles Are Changing in 9th

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 2, 2020

Towards the end of 8th Edition I started drawing together some higher level strategy articles about how to evaluate armies - both your own and your opponent's - on the table. These represented an attempt to try and draw...