Tactics

Start Competing: Orks Tactics

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Orks in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. WAAAGH da Orks! Orks have been an iconic part of the 40k range for a long, long...

Age of Sigmar: The Christmas Update

This week Games Workshop decided to drop - rather unceremoniously - the Christmas FAQ for Age of Sigmar. The new FAQ comes with a few rule updates and point changes for some of the game's older armies in response...

Start Competing: This Game is Actually Not Bullshit – Playing From Behind and Hanging On When You Are Ahead

Let's start in media res: Imagine you are staring down an Iron Hands gunline. You have the bottom of the turn and have eaten some real damage without punching back as hard as you could have. Maybe your target...

Glory Hunting – Passive vs Active Glory, with Duke Crakmarrow!

Glory Hunting is a semi-regular series aimed at helping you play Warhammer Underworlds! Check out our previous coverage here. The Grymwatch are a brutal band of feral ghouls inhabiting Beastgrave in search of honor food, glory food, and redemption meat....

Chapter Approved Analysis – Necrons

OVERLORD WINGS HERE, PATHETIC MORTALS. TIME TO BE IMPRESSED BY MY NEWLY MIGHTY LEGIONS. OK, no, we're not going to do that because this is a serious analysis piece. Welcome to our second Chapter Approved analysis. Following on from last week...

Blood of Champion: An Interview with Richard Siegler, Champion of the Atlanta Pro Tabletop Open

The Atlanta Pro Tabletop Open wrapped up on Sunday night and after nine rounds of knock-down, drag-out, white-knuckle dice rolling, a champion was crowned. Goonhammer sat down with tournament champion, one of the top 40k players in the ITC,...

Tournament Report – Bad Moon Final

Christmas is nearly upon us and after the complete madness that was the Chapter Approved/Blood of Baal release weekend, things are finally winding down for a little bit of a break before January ramps up. However, there's still time...

Chapter Approved Analysis – Craftworlds

As we covered last week Chapter Approved is here, ringing in a whole bunch of changes for a whole bunch of factions. My beautiful Space Elves, my first and greatest 40K love, are no exception. We've already looked at...

Hammer of Math: I’ve Run Out of T’au P’uns

Welcome back, statheads! This week we’re finishing up our T’au c’hat series by looking at a question that was repeatedly asked by non-Tau players over the last two articles: When shooting at a Riptide, should you target the battlesuit...

Blood of Baal – The Goonhammer Review – Part 2 – Tyranids

Tyranids have been in a rough spot for a while, and we're extremely excited to see them near the front of the queue for some Psychic Awakening goodies. The army has the dubious honour of being one of the...