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The Goonhammer Hot Take: The 40k July 2022 FAQs

GW dropped a raft of new FAQs for Warhammer 40,000 today, updating most factions as well as the core game rules. Let’s dive in and find out what’s changed, and how it affects your games. The Updates There was a mix...

Ruleshammer Q&A: July 1st 2022

Welcome to Ruleshammer! This week we’re covering some more questions submitted by you, the readers, and our patrons on the Goonhammer Discord. Remember the banner below will take you to the Ruleshammer 9th Edition Compedium, for all the questions I’ve...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Nachmund Omega

Statistically if you are reading this you've probably read our review of the upcoming Warzone Nephilim Mission Pack, and thus you'll know that big changes are on the horizon for the world of competitive 40K. The tournament scene doesn't...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 2

As Rob has said in the past, while the Tyranid being in effect is causing a bit of a bumpy metagame patch right now, that's certainly not discouraging people from hitting up as many tournaments as possible, and today...

Competitive Innovations in 9th Edition: Return of the Wings pt. 1

That's right readers, I'm back in the hot seat, fully charged and ready to go. Just going to look over at the event list for the week, as I'm sure the community will have played a very normal amount...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Everything to Play For

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article claimed that Steven Crawley had mis-played the Lurk ability in multiple rounds. After further investigation we have updated it to reflect that this only occurred in a single round and was...

Local Boys Made Good: Greg and Norman, Triumphant

We’re back from the most important event to happen this past weekend and boy do we have stories to tell. It’s got everything; losing, big lunches, Gundams, and a special surprise (or not really a surprise if you read...

2Q22 Dataslate Faction Focus: Richard Siegler Talks T’au Empire

Games Workshop dropped its Q2 Balance Dataslate for 40k in mid-April, dramatically changing a number of key factions. Astra Militarum, Marines and Sisters were buffed, Harlequins, T’au, and Custodes were nerfed, and some key game rules were changed. Now...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Joker Mode pt.1

So the good news first - help is coming in the form of a Balance Dataslate about a month ahead of schedule, that will include changes to Harlequins, and we applaud GW for being ready to respond in an agile...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Down with the Clown

Another week, another screaming horror of a metagame in 40k. It's bad enough out there that we're all celebrating a win for underdog faction Crusher Stampede. If you're paying attention you've already seen that the new lords and masters...