Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen

Welcome to Historical Roundtables, our regular column where the Goonhammer Historicals team gets together to talk over a particular aspect of historical wargaming. They’ll share their insights, recommendations and warnings about the best way to engage with the hobby....

This is part 8 in Lenoon's ongoing series. If you missed part 7, you can find it here.  I spend too long thinking of titles for these articles, you know. It takes me about as long to decide on one...

In this instalment of Hobby Heresy, we're looking at the Praetors, Consuls and Space Marine Characters the Goonhammer crew have kitbashed out of the Age of Darkness box set. With two brand new, highly detailed and imposing Marines in...

Dragoons! The slightly awkward child of Napoleonic cavalry, the solid middle between the immense Cuirassiers and Heavy Cavalry and the dashing Light Cavalry, the ones that everyone playing in 28mm needs, but noone is really excited about building. In...

How many games have you bought into that died? The official support dried up, the community drifted away, the models went into shoeboxes until one day you either chucked them or realised the hassle of eBay might be well...

What happened to Starship Troopers? Now, it's a game which is increasingly fading into memory, but at one time looked like it might just be the one to steal Warhammer 40k's crown. Today we'll talk about the history of how Starship Troopers came into being; in part 2, we'll look at what caused its dramatic fall.

Two weeks ago the Goonhammer Historicals team got our hands on Soldiers of Napoleon, a new mass battle Napoleonic ruleset from Artorus Games - you can check out the review here. This review was based on a preview copy...

Soldiers of Napoleon is a 2022 miniatures wargame by designer Warwick Kinrade and Artorus Games designed to emulate battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike many other games in this genre it is a genuine attempt to portray, in a...

I feel like most of these articles have followed the same basic pattern: Have idea Do idea Realise I was wrong about idea on some level But not this time! Well, not to the same extent anyway, because I really feel like I've...

So you've read Getting Started with Bolt Action. You checked out Bolt Action at Adepticon, then you salivated over gorgeous models in our reviews of Panthers and Stukas. How do you go from all that to a fully functioning Bolt...