This weekend saw the third Goonhammer Open in the UK, featuring three different systems. We had an amazing weekend and we hope that everyone who attended did as well!

We have a whole bunch of people to thank for their support and assistance in making this happen – we’ll talk about them before moving on to the results of the games.

Thank yous

The Goonhammer Open would not have been possible without the following:

• Factorum, whose fantastic terrain set the scene for the battles that took place over the weekend for all three system. If you would like like a set for yourself, make sure to head over to their website.
• Hellstorm Wargaming, who streamed games all weekend so the whole world could watch the action. Details of the VODs from each round are at the end of this post if you want to catch up.
• Element Games who provided an absolute bonanza of prizes and vouchers to our attendees.
• The team at Battlebling, who sculpted some amazing trophies and goodies for our Horus Heresy and Adeptus Titanicus attendees.
• Mohawk Miniatures for providing prize support to our 40K painting competitions and helping judge in the ones he wasn't entering himself ;)
• Army Case for providing some of their new painting handles for our painting awards.
• Anvil Industry for sweetening the prize pool even further.
• The staff at the venue, who were extremely helpful and accommodating.
• Our volunteers and the attendees who helped pack up, allowing us to finish up earlier.

Warhammer 40,000

Deathwing hold back Tyranids from an Objective and the UK GHO

After six rounds of glorious miniature combat, a new champion was crowned and took home the coveted Goonhammer Champions Belt - Josh Roberts.

Josh Roberts, Winner of the October UK GHO 2022

Awards – Painting

Best Painted Army

Winner - Jay Middlecote - Imperial Knights Runner up - Jonas Mantek - Tau

Best Painted Single Miniature

This contest was sponsored and judged by Mohawk Miniatures.

1st Place - Marcin Witczak - Saint Celestine 2nd Place - Jonas Mantek - Commander Shadowsun 3rd Place - Andy Morris - Master of Possession

Awards – Gaming

Bracket Winners

Most Determined Player – Matthew Taylor (Deathwatch) Best Player on 1 win – Rob Chilton (55th, T'au Empire) Best Player on 2 wins – Dan Ditrana (37th, Grey Knights) Best Player on 3 wins – Marcin Nowicki (21st , Deathwatch) Best Player on 4 wins – Kylo Turley (8th, Imperial Knights) Best Player on 5 wins – Jonathan Clarke (2nd, Adepta Sorritas)

Best in Faction

Space Marines – Chris Paterson Imperium – Jonathan Clarke Chaos – Josh Roberts Aeldari – Matt Robertson Hive Mind – Matt Palmer Orks – Andrew Tebboth Necrons – Scott Morris T’au Empire – Greg Blackburn

Hellstorm Wargaming Stream Catch Up

Round 1: ">T'au Empire vs Harlequins Round 2: ">Tyranids vs Adeptus Custodes Round 3: ">Necrons vs Chaos Knights Round 4: ">Necrons vs T'au Empire Round 5: ">Blood Angels vs Thousand Sons Round 6: ">Emperor's Children vs Thousand Sons

Adeptus Titanicus

Legio Astorum go to war on an artic Forge World

This weekends event oversaw the Fate of Tyras Prime, a jewel of Old Night that was devastated beyond all recognition or recovery by the actions of the invading Traitor faction this weekend.

This narrative campaign featured some Crusade-style mechanics, where Princeps could gain skills and engines could carry their scars on to further battles. Some battlegroups were definitely a bit worse for wear by the end of the weekend!

Coolest Battlegroup: Andy Judson Coolest Unit: Neil Cook Best Traitor Princeps: Rob Crouchley Best Loyalist Princeps: John Burchell



*Anyone playing AT was a winner at the end of the day

Horus Heresy

A brave defence by the Imperial Fists against the traitors, Goonhammer Open Horus Heresy 2022

This was our inaugural Horus Heresy narrative event, and it was a huge success. A massive thank you to all the players who showed up and were an absolutely lovely group of people who got into the spirit of the weekend and played some great games.

The hive moon of Vandia hung in the balance over the weekend, with a traitor army attempting to win victory and seize the macrobattery defences before a loyalist relief fleet arrived. It was a tense match up, and in the end the outcome of the entire narrative hung on the last two games to report in. However the forces of the Warmaster took victory. There will be a full wash up and report article going up soon to show off the armies, tables and twists and turns of the campaign, so keep an eye out for that.

As this was a narrative event there were no individual victors, but all the players voted for their favourite opponent over the weekend and we named a loyalist and traitor warlord as the best players among their allegiance for being the most fun to play against. We also awarded a prize for the best painted army.

Best Loyalist Warlord: Chris Gill of the Dark Angels Best Traitor Warlord: Ruairidh James of the Death Guard Best Painted Army: Mark Ashworth of the Emperor's Children



Thanks again to everyone, and especially to Factorum for so much support with the terrain as well as all the other supporters, contributors and members who provided terrain to make the tables look as good as they did.

Until next time

Lastly, thank you you again to our crew our crew and helpers - without which these events would simply not be possible.

Surveys will be going out for feedback this week, please let us know how we can improve and make the next one even better - we hope to see you there.

Have any questions or feedback? Drop us a note in the comments below or email us at contact@goonhammer.com.