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NOVA 2019, Part 2: The Big Titty Werewolf Appreciator Has Logged On

Yesterday I gave a long, rambling rundown of my first two days playing in the NOVA 2019 40k Grand Tournament. You either didn't read that update or have ~t h e  b r a i n w o r...

NOVA 2019, Part 1: As Bad and As Good As it Gets

After an entire summer of frantic painting, army changes, Goonhammer updates, and last-minute Chaos Knight assembly, it was finally time for NOVA. For me, that meant three days of yelling, gaming, drinking, and more yelling as I tackled the...

TheChirurgeon’s Road to NOVA, Part 6: Down to the Wire

  Man I was really hoping to not be painting right up to the last minute, but a combination of several factors has pushed me to pretty much that point, and having to compromise in a couple of areas: ...

The Road to NoVA: The Final GT Lists

If you've been following the Road to NoVA series, you've seen us planning out our lists, trying out different builds, and frenziedly painting models as we suddenly realise it's the middle of August and we're not finished yet. Many of the...

Tournament Resources for NOVA 2019

This is it, the final push toward NOVA 2019. If you've been following along with our Road to NOVA series, you know that a lot of us Goonhammer folks are going to be at the event this year. And...

Codex Supplement: Ultramarines – The Goonhammer Review

It wasn't enough for Games Workshop to just release a new Codex for Space Marines; they had to go and release half a dozen Codex Supplements covering major chapters. The first among these, and a complete no-brainer as a...

The Road to NOVA, Part 5: Ah, Shit

Ah, hell. I was really hoping I wouldn't be crunching this bad going into NOVA this year but a mix of work and uh, managing and creating content for Goonhammer has now left me scrambling to wrap everything up....

Codex Space Marines – The Goonhammer Review – Part 1 (Army & Faction Traits)

8th Edition has not, if we're honest, been a great time to be a Space Marine player. Until now. More than any other faction save Grey Knights, Marines have laboured for the last two years under the dreadful burden of having...

How to Paint Everything: Yvraine

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 Herald of Ynnead herself -...

The Road to NoVA: Crunch Time

We're now fully into the final month before NOVA kicks off and as you may recall, some of us are planning to go this year. I mentioned in my update last week that I had roughly 60 hours of...