Raf Cordero

Warhammer Underworlds: Morgok’s Krushas Hot Take

After a long hiatus, Warhammer Underworlds is back in business! Like everything, COVID impacted the standard release schedule for this tactical game. However, it's given us time to welcome Zach Caschetta to Goonhammer to give us his thoughts on...

The Importance of Narrative: Warp’s Edge Review – Board Hammer

Warp's Edge is familiar in more ways than one. The setting is a sort of neon corporate sci-fi with humorous robots that reminded me a bit of The Outer Wilds. You play a solo pilot facing down a large mothership...

Raf Joins the Playin’ and Slayin’ Podcast – All Things GW and Building Inclusive Communities

Our very own Raf Cordero joined the fellas in the Basement of Death on the Playin' and Slayin' podcast to talk hobby progress, remote games, and to spend some chatting about how to build diverse and inclusive communities. It's...

Ding & Dent – The 10 Principles of Design, Applied to Boardgames

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of which have other projects outside of the site. In addition to his work here, Raf Cordero has his own podcast, Ding and Dent, which is not...

Setting the Stage: 9th Edition Lore

From a lore perspective, the launch of Warhammer 40,000's 8th Edition was rather explosive. In a literal sense—the Cicatrix Maledictum exploded out of the Eye of Terror and exploded a few psykers' heads along with it—but also figurative. It had...

Undaunted: Normandy: A Fresh Take on a Well-Trod War – Boardhammer

Undaunted Normandy is so full of familiar features that I initially thought nothing of it. Osprey Games has a good track record, and the designers put out War Chest a couple years ago that is an abstract-slash-skirmish game that is...

Psychic Awakening: Pariah Review – The Lore

With Pariah, the grand 9-book saga of The Psychic Awakening comes to an end. Every faction has had its day in the sun with new rules and some lore highlights. It's been my role to take a look at the...

Kickstarter Highlight – Roar & Write

Roll and write games are having a bit of a moment. From Kennerspiel nomine Ganz Shön Clever to card-based darling Welcome To..., these simple (yet tactically deep) games have exploded in popularity over the last couple of years. While Yahtzee is a...

Psychic Awakening – War of the Spider Review: The Lore

If you've been following along with all of our Psychic Awakening Lore Reviews you'll know that this part of the review is where I describe all the weird stuff that the explosion of warp energy is doing to psykers....

Boardhammer: Kemet & Ta-Seti Expansion

Kemet by Chucat Kemet is, to put it simply, an ancient Egyptian wargame. Players play as a god and take command of a small army and seek to build power and influence by building up their pyramids and leveraging Prayers to...

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Goonhammer Historicals – Getting Started With a Warband in the SAGA Age of the Wolf Campaign

This week in Historicals, Mugginns gets deep into Vikings using the Saga ruleset and some inspiration from manga.
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