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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Shake it all About pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 20, 2023

The Balance Dataslate is now fully operational, bringing us a novelty for 10th Edition - not a single Aeldari list winning a tournament. Big tick right out the gate there. The nefarious elves are far from harmless even in...

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The Goonhammer Hot Take: The September 2023 40k Balance Dataslate – Chaos Factions

Liam "Corrode" Royle - September 7, 2023

The first balance dataslate of 40k's 10th edition comes screaming down from the Games Workshop Strike Cruiser and unloads a drop pod full of rules updates, accompanied by version 1.3 of the Munitorum Field Manual which incorporates a broad...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Ready to Fall?

James "One_Wing" Grover - September 6, 2023

OK, so Games Workshop have done me the gracious mercy of announcing that the Balance Dataslate is coming out tomorrow (yes, good, more of this), providing me with an excellent excuse to keep this brief after a busy weekend running...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Resigned to Our Fate Dice pt. 1

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 30, 2023

Look, people often say things get worse before they get better, and week after week it feels like the Aeldari are reaching new heights of depravity. This has never gone wrong for them before, pride being commonly known to...

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 28, 2023

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics The Thousand Sons are a traitor legion dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways and master of sorcery and duplicity. Originally one of the first founding legions of space marines, the Thousand...

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Thousand Sons Unit Focus: Leaders (Updated 9/15/2023)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - August 26, 2023

In this article series we're taking a look at the leader options available to each faction, looking at what units they pair with, and talking about the combos available to those units as well as tips for running them...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Signature Look of Superiority pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 25, 2023

Ah, hey, didn't see you there. Welcome. Welcome back to the hell I have made for myself. I'm sorry I ever played Aeldari, OK? I'm a Necron player now. Please release me. Once again, President Stu, our metagame yearns...

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Hammer of Math: Thousand Sons Kindred Sorcery

"Primaris" Kevin Genson - August 21, 2023

This week's Hammer of Math looks at the effects and synergies of the Kindred Sorcery detachment rule for Thousand Sons Cults of Magic in Warhammer 40k. I don't envy the folks who write rules at Games Workshop. There's a lot...

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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Wraithknights at the Warmaster pt.2

James "One_Wing" Grover - August 18, 2023

We soar across the Atlantic to the US for the second part of this week's Competitive Innovations. Are the Wraithknights here too? Who can say? Well, me. That's my job. I write the column where I tell you about the...

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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 15: Tacoma, Day 3

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 24, 2023

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing chronicle of misadventures through competitive Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I chronicled my second day at the GW US Open Tacoma GT, wherein my hopes were dashed against a series of golden, Custodes-shaped rocks...