competitive play

Krootcon Down Under – Am I getting good at this?

Back in July, after Gonghammer, I was a tired old man. My first 40k event in years, and I was exhausted. With a sigh of relief and a grunt of effort, I freed a finger from my bags of...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Peak Warhammer pt.2

Our panel is back for part two of one of the biggest Competitive Innovations weeks ever. I'm once more joined by Tom Lowman, Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson and Peter "The Falcon" Colosimo to cover another seven events - plus one very special, extremely self-indulgent...

Interviewing the Top 3 Kill Team Players from the Kill Team Open

The end of the 2022 ITC season has just wrapped up with the conclusion of the Kill Team Open hosted by Kill Team Jawn, Plasma Spam, and Basement War Gamers (to name a few) in Baltimore on February 18th....

Stat Check Episode 33 – Inner Circle, Over-rep

Check out Episode 33 of Stat Check on Libsyn or wherever you download podcasts. On today's show, Innes, Nathan, and Jeremy dive deep into the current meta, discussing what drives the top dogs of the Arks of Omen Meta -...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Peak Warhammer pt.1

How about those Arks of Omen, eh? People sure do seem to love them. This past weekend is, I think, the biggest for tournament play we've ever had other than LGT or LVO weekends, and terrifyingly that's not counting the 300-player...

Conquest Faction Focus: The Old Dominion

“A common misconception amongst modern historians and their students is that the title of Dominion refers to the Dominion of Man. It most certainly does not. The original inhabitants referred instead to the Dominion of Hazlia, the Pantokrator, God...

Infinity Tournament Report: St Alban’s Smackdown Satellite, Feb 23

I had been planning to once again attend the St Alban's Smackdown - my favourite UK tournament, and this particular one, in February 2023, was an official Satellite event, granting the winner a seeded ticket to the Interplanetario tournament....

Arks of Omen Faction Focus: Genestealer Cults

With a new batch of rules updates comes the need to revisit the strategies and tactics of each faction. Today Innes is talking about the changes to Genestealer Cults and how those changes will affect them in the meta. It's...

Wheat City Open battle report: Space Wolves

Hello! I'm back and today I am here to report on my first two-day event since October of 2021. I have been theory crafting a lot of wolves lists in my time away from playing as I adjusted to...

X and 1: Episode 2 – Keepy Uppy With the Adepta Sororitas

Stat Check's X and 1 is a show dedicated to players who are looking to be as successful as they can be given limited time - players who are also parents, busy professionals, folks with limited time on their...