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Hammer of Math: The Good Meta, the Bad Meta, and the In-Between

Columns Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
In this week's Hammer of Math, we take a look at faction win rates for top Elo players and how those compare to players with lower scores - is there a different meta for top players?
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Warhammer Underworlds Isn’t Dead

Warhammer Underworlds Jake Bennington -
Welcome to another (shorter) installment of Starting Hex, a series about Warhammer Underworlds. I’m coming at this game as a relative newcomer with a...
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Goonhammer Historicals: Sharp Practice Battle Report

Historicals Michael O "Mugginns" -
A number of years ago at AdeptiCon we ran a Sharp Practice game with a half-dozen hobbyists painting units and bringing them to play....
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Goonhammer Open UK 2024: Spare Player Report

Events and Challenges Bair -
Welcome back to another installment of, "I played some 40k for the first time in a while as the spare player at Goonhammer Open,"...
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Content We Liked: 15 September, 2024

Content We Liked Steel Mentor -
Mighty Oaks, Glowing Greens and our most handsome Lad in this week's Content We Liked.
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SRM’s Roundabout to the NOVA Open 2024: Wherein I, Like Icarus, Fly Too Close to the Sun

Battle Reports SRM -
What Up I unfortunately wasn't able to write up a "Roundabout To..." article for my time at the Storm of Silence GT in Spokane, WA,...
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Goonhammer Hobby Round-Up: August 2024

Hobby Soggy, May "Rockfish" Herrington, jellymuppet, Bair, Carter "Saffgor" Kachmarik, canyourollacrit, Variance Hammer Eric, Mike Bettle-Shaffer, brushwizard, scr1vo, Rich "Cronch" Nutter, McBill, SRM, Kevin Stillman, head58 and Momma-Negan -
Let's check in on what the team has been up with their hobby time.
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CYRAC: Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine Kill Team Previews

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? is back for a 5th day in a row covering the newly previewed rules for all the...
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CYRAC: Kill Team Xenos Factions Preview Review

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? continues to Kill Team content streak with an analysis of the remaining Xenos factions for the 3rd...
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Lore Explainer: Eä, The World of Conquest

Conquest Sam Isaacson -
In Lore Explainer, we take a deep look at the lore behind our favorite games, movies, and books, and talk about the story behind...
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Hobby 102: Paint Opacity and Glazing

Goonhammer keewa -
"Glaze: A thin coat of transparent or translucent paint used to modify the tone of an underlying color. Glazes can alter the chroma, value,...
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SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 41

Age of Sigmar SRM -
Stormbringer is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks introducing players to Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will...
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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Beast Mode pt.2

40K Competitive Innovations Lowest of Men -
Friday means it's time for more exciting tournament results, this time hosted by Lowest of Men. Today we'll be covering: Smite Club Open 2024 -...
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TheChirurgeon’s Road Through 2024, Part 28: Warzone Houston Practice

Columns Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
TheChirurgeon's Road through 2024 returns as he talks about practicing again with his Thousand Sons and painting a Master of Executions.
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BattleTech Mech Overview: Exterminator

Battletech Perigrin -
This week our Battletech Mech Overview is taking a look at the Exterminator, a mech that certainly does have stats and variants.
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How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Fear & Dead Men Squad Pack

Goonhammer Tom Reuhl -
Darth Vader and crew have begun the reign of the Empire in Star Wars Shatterpoint. You can create a formidable strike team by combining...
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol Choosing an Affiliation Part 4 – Midnight Sons, Sentinels, SHIELD and Spider-Foes

Crisis Protocol alfred_pharius -
With over 20 affiliations and counting, getting started in Marvel: Crisis Protocol can be a daunting task. Even for a seasoned player, with so...
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Magic: the Gathering Duskmourn Review, Part 1 of 4: The Mechanics

Competitive Play FromTheShire and B Phillip York -
Magic's newest expansion takes us to the newly introduced plane of Duskmourn, a plane comprised entirely of a living haunted mansion that thrives on...
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Goonhammer Historicals: Quar – Welcome to Alwyd

Historicals inquisitor_moloko -
“It seems the Quar have always been at war…” -A Rhyfler’s Pocket-Book Maybe you’ve heard the name Quar spoken in hushed whispers by the most grizzled...
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Rogue Support: A Star Wars Shatterpoint Podcast – S2:13 We Got NOVA Questions

Podcasts Tom Reuhl and Daimyo Matt -
In this one Omnus and Accuser ask questions revolving around list decisions and more general thoughts revolving NOVA! Have any questions or feedback? Drop us...
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That 6+++ Show | Episode 104: Becoming the Best: An Interview with Mike Porter

Video scr1vo -
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljxpu3GBj4?si=RaPKY5mddePHoN09] The Gang interview a UK 40K legend in a conversation with the one and only Mike Porter! Hit up all our socials: https://linktr.ee/6plusplusgaming Have any questions...
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CYRAC: Kill Team Chaos Factions Preview

Goonhammer canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? is back again, this time covering the Chaos factions previewed for the new edition of Kill Team!...
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Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Ghosts (and a few Goblins)

Age of Sigmar RagnarokAngel -
It's a nice slower week after a major event like NOVA, but the games go on. As the scourge of Lumineth Hurakan and Nighthaunt...everything...
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Warhammer Underworlds Warbands: What’s Out There?

Warhammer Underworlds Jake Bennington -
Welcome to another installment of Starting Hex, a series about Warhammer Underworlds. I’m coming at this game as a relative newcomer with a focus...
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Competitive Innovations in 10th: Beast Mode pt.1

40K Competitive Innovations James "One_Wing" Grover -
We're in short intro mode this week because I spent the weekend running the GHO UK (see below) and am still recovering from the...
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Mikey Mouse Club #34 – Shimmering Skies´ Best!

Lorcana MB1975 -
Shimmering Skies is full of fun, exciting cards- like all of Lorcana’s sets so far. Oh sure, there’s the usual assortment of draft jank,...
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CYRAC: Kill Team Aeldari Factions Preview

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? is back again and now covering the newly previewed Aeldari factions! He goes through them again to...
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40k Badcast – Bonus Episode: Novacast 2024

Competitive Play SRM -
contact@40kbadcast.com Have any questions or feedback? Drop us a note in the comments below or email us at contact@goonhammer.com. Want articles like this linked...
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Games Industry News Roundup- September 10th, 2024

Columns Dan "Swiftblade" Richardson -
Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So...
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What’s the Point of Game Designers? with Game Designer Jay Dragon

Columns Luke Taylor -
If you haven’t heard of award winning game designer Jay Dragon, well, you’re missing out. Jay’s games Wanderhome and Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast have...
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Conquest Campaign Pack Review: Crucible of Wills

Conquest Thanqol Decadion -
I was excited to get my hands on the first Conquest campaign pack: Crucible of Wills, the Stone Face Campaign. The Warhammer codex system...
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40k Roundtable: Balancing Crusade Narrative Campaigns

Columns Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones, Beanith, Andrew Nguyen and klobasnek -
Our Crusade group get together to talk about how to handle balance in the narrative game mode between factions with Codexes and those without.
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The Goonhammer Open UK September 2024 – Awards and Thank Yous

Goonhammer Soggy -
The past weekend saw the third and final UK Goonhammer event for the year, where over 120 gamers congregated for a weekend of tabletop...
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CYRAC: Kill Team Imperial Factions Preview

Kill Team canyourollacrit -
John from Can You Roll a Crit? returns this week covering more Kill Team content! This time he goes over the Imperial factions as...
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Stop Competing: Our Broken Approach to Misplay & Cheating in Competitive 40k

Competitive Play James "Boon" Kelling -
Note: a prior version of this article incorrectly referenced the "ITC Code of Conduct" instead of the  "FLG Code of Conduct. This has been...
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Battle Bros Season Four Point Five, Chapter II: Back Into the Painting Mines

Humor PantsOptional and head58 -
THE BROS ARE BACK to experience the "thrill" of painting under a deadline, which neither of them are great with.
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