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Start Competing: Chaos Daemons

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 12, 2021

This page now references an out of date edition of the game. For Start Competing: Chaos Daemons in 10th edition and onwards, please click here. Do you like invading realspace with hordes of slavering warp-spawned neverborn? Do you find shooting...

Hobby

How to Paint Everything: The Yncarne, Avatar of Ynnead

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 24, 2020

In our How to Paint Everything series, we look at how to paint well, everything, looking at different techniques and models from different painters. In this article we're looking at how to paint the manifestation of the Eldar God...

Hot Take

Your Warlord Sucks Hot Take Round Table: Ragnar vs. Ghazghkull

Greg Chiasson - March 9, 2020

In Goonhammer Hot Takes, we do quick-pass reviews and reactions to new releases, rules, and events. In today’s Hot Take, Goonhammer’s worst and dumbest authors are covering the latest Space Marine to be Primaris-ified, known idiot and Space Wolf...

Competitive Play

Goonhammer Roundtable: The New ITC Rules

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 18, 2020

Late last week the 40k competitive scene was introduced to a massive change with the publication of the new and updated 2020 ITC Champions Missions, which essentially define the competitive landscape for most of the year's major events. Although...

Gaming

The Goonhammer Hot Take: Ritual of the Damned and Chapter Approved 2019 FAQs

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - February 10, 2020

In Goonhammer Hot Takes, we do quick-pass reviews and reactions to new releases, rules, and events. In today’s Hot Take, we’re covering the the new FAQs for Ritual of the Damned and Chapter Approved 2019. In what is becoming a...

Hobby

How to Paint Everything: Checks, Hazard Stripes, Zig-Zags, and Other Heraldic Details

Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg - February 5, 2020

In our How to Paint Everything series, we look at how to paint well, everything, with tutorials by different authors covering multiple methods. This week, we're looking at a number of key freehand details for heraldry, focusing specifically on checker patters,...

Gaming

Kill Team Meta Analysis: LVO 2020

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 31, 2020

Now that LVO is in the books, we can take a look back at its Kill Team Tournament with fresh eyes and look at what the event and its results say about the Kill Team format, the meta, and...

Gaming

Meta Analysis: The LVO 40k Championship

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 30, 2020

Last week, we took a deep look at the meta prior to LVO, analyzing the faction breakdowns so far, looking at key lists, and making predictions about how the event would shake out. Now that the games have been...

Gaming

State of the 40k Meta: January 2020

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 21, 2020

Welcome back, dear reader, to another State of the Meta analysis. December was a busy month for Warhammer 40,000! Psychic Awakening has already given us three supplements (with a fourth on the way), plus Chapter Approved 2019 and the...

Gaming

Ritual of the Damned Review, Part 3: The Thousand Sons

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - January 18, 2020

As we covered in our Start Competing: Thousand Sons article late last year, while the Thousand Sons are an early codex, with all the design quirks that represents, they’ve actually stayed pretty powerful, leading to a few nerfs to...