Darkoath Launch Box: The Goonhammer Review
Huge thanks to Games Workshop for providing our team with copies of the Darkoath launch box for review. Have you stayed awake at night, pondering the Riddle of Steel? Was your first run of Baldur’s...
View ArticleGoonhammer Hobby Round-Up: April 2024
It's been a productive hobby month for the team in April, let's see what they've been up to!
View ArticleContent We Liked: 5th May, 2024
Astro-Morks, Spooky Space Skeletons, and Glistening Cosmo-Abs. This week in Content We Liked.
View ArticleJAKTP Episode 64: Deep Dive on Corsair Voidscarred with 2023’s #1 Adrian...
2023 ITC Champion Adrian Bonvento Joins Jason and Travis to talk about what he’s been doing since the Las Vegas Open secured him the big win. He’s left his Kommandos behind to play Corsair Voidscarred...
View ArticleCYRAC: Darktide Board Game Review
John from Can You Roll a Crit? is back with his own review of the Darktide Board Game! He covers this hex-based box based on the Kill Team rules, covering how well it translates as a board game plus...
View ArticleAge of Sigmar Fourth Edition Explained – May 6th
What We Learned – The Models What a nice model, and another replacement for a model that was stricken as part of the retirements. Trading a flight stand for a not flight stand is always good in my book...
View ArticleHammer of Math: Probabilities in Conquest
This week’s Hammer of Math takes a look at some of the probabilities behind the core rules of Para Bellum’s Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings. One of the nice things about writing for a game website...
View Article10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: World Eaters (Updated May 6, 2024)
With the release of 10th edition now firmly behind us and more than a month of competitive games in the books it’s time to start taking a deeper look at each of the game’s factions. In this series...
View ArticleUnit Focus: World Eaters Monsters and Vehicles (Updated May 6, 2024)
In this article series we’re taking a look at the vehicle options available to each faction, looking at what they can do on the table, and talking about when and how to field them. You can find our...
View ArticleThe State of Necromunda: A Round-Table Discussion
The modern version of Necromunda turns seven this year — pretty darn old, in Goliath years. The game is now pretty mature: there are scores of rulebooks, White Dwarf supplements and Apocryphas. It all...
View ArticleGoonhammer Historicals: Wargames Atlantic WW1 British Review
We’re gearing up our coverage of First World War wargames in the Goonhammer Historicals Star Fort, whether that’s discussing why it’s a less popular war to game, looking at Weird War One, and the first...
View Article10th Edition Competitive Faction Focus: Chaos Knights
In this series we’ll talk about each faction, what they have to offer, how they play, and talk about a few list concepts to consider. You can find all the Faction Focuses that we’ve published here....
View ArticleConquest Tactics: Dealing with Aura of Death & Lethal Demise
Conquest offers its players many different tools for grappling with an enemy, including abilities like Aura of Death or Lethal Demise which inflict hits in response to activating or attacking while in...
View ArticleThe September Goonhammer Open UK Grows Larger
The Goonhammer Open returns September 7th to Leicester, for another glorious weekend of slamming hams. In addition to the Warhammer 40,000 tournament, we’ve just added a Horus Heresy doubles event –...
View ArticleAshes of Malifaux: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Another release in the books! I hope that by now, you’ve all managed to get a few reps in with Ashes of Malifaux. Like Malifaux Burns, every keyword gets some fun toys; unlike Malifaux Burns, those...
View ArticleGames Industry News Roundup- May 7th, 2024
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 much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it...
View ArticleDetachment Focus: Traitoris Lance
In this series of articles we take a deep dive into a specific detachment for a faction, covering the faction’s rules and upgrades and talking about how to build around that faction for competitive...
View ArticleOld World Faction Focus: Beastmen Brayherds
The Beastmen have traditionally had a bit of a rough hand in Warhammer Fantasy Battles. From a strong, powerful army in sixth edition down to the dejected, abandoned children of GW in seventh and...
View ArticleHobby 102: Working with Transfers and Decals
Over the years the Goonhammer crew have put together a vast and expansive library of painting guides. Appropriately titled “How to Paint Everything” we’ve got schemes and recipes for hundreds of...
View ArticleCYRAC: The Problems with Bheta-Decima Terrain for Kill Team
John from Can You Roll a Crit? is back with another Kill Team video! This time he covers the problems with the season 3 terrain set: Bheta-Decima. He goes over all the major flaws and why most...
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