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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 13: Return to Tacoma (Day 1)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 19, 2023

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing chronicle of misadventures through competitive Warhammer 40,000. Last time around I was busy getting ready for 10th edition games at the GW US Open Tacoma event - playing practice games, painting models, figuring out...

40K Competitive Innovations

Competitive Innovations in 10th: Slain by an Elf

James "One_Wing" Grover - July 12, 2023

OK so the good news first - a reasonable number of TOs have rushed to adopt last week's balance changes, so this week's results are somewhat less elf-oriented. Only somewhat though - between a mixture of some events not updating,...

Battle Reports

TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2023, Part 12: Early Games of 10th and Tacoma Prep

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - July 8, 2023

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to my ongoing series cataloging my competitive and hobby journey through 2023. Last time around I quickly ran through the rest of my games at the KC Open. Then 10th edition released and since then I've...

Competitive Play

Competitive Termination of 9th Edition: Dawn of 10th

James "One_Wing" Grover - June 28, 2023

9th Edition takes its final bow this week, and there's not going to be an encore because it's 10th time. Most events the past weekend ran with 9th, but a couple of intrepid TOs pushed forward into the glorious...

Competitive Play

The Goonhammer Review: The 10th Edition Munitorum Field Manual (Chaos)

MildNorman - June 16, 2023

So far we’ve seen the Chaos factions of 10th edition run the gamut from very strong (Thousand Sons) to pretty dire (Death Guard), but that’s only half the story - the point values of these units makes a huge...

Core Games

The Goonhammer Review: The 10th Edition Thousand Sons Index

Liam "Corrode" Royle - June 13, 2023

The Thousand Sons first broke out as a separate army in late 7th edition with the release of Magnus (the first 40k primarch!) and a host of new models which marked them as a standalone army. Since then they’ve...

Gaming

Start Competing: Thousand Sons Tactics (Updated May 15, 2023)

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - May 15, 2023

Are you a fan of sorcerous tricks that buff your units and hurt those of your enemies? Do you dream of drowning your enemies in a sea of mortal wounds? Were you the person who always played a mage...

Books

Arks of Omen: The Lion – The Goonhammer Review

Garrett "John Condit" Severson - April 15, 2023

The final book in the Arks of Omen series is here, and it's a doozy. With rules for the last remaining factions plus an entirely new one, two full sets of missions, and a pile of datasheets, it's chock-full of...

Competitive Play

Competitive Innovations in 9th: March Multitudes pt.1

James "One_Wing" Grover - March 22, 2023

March marches on, with truly spectacular quantities of Warhammer continuing to happen around the world. My increasingly regular partner-in-crime Lowest of Men has once more stepped up to help, and will be taking the lead on Friday while I kick...

Competitive Play

Competitive Innovations in 9th: The Search for Scores

James "One_Wing" Grover - January 18, 2023

The end of Nephilim and the ITC season roll ever closer, and this week some of the top contenders for the champion's crown (or medal, or novelty weapon-based trophy, or whatever) went hunting for a final infusion of points...