Evie "Lupe" Moriarty

Bored Space Yacht Club: Getting Started With Dropfleet Commander

What should be a pleasant summer evening is interrupted by a series of ominous flashes in the night sky - the sure sign of a fleet dropping out of FTL at combat speed. Massive, spinal-mounted laser cannons roar to...

New Year, New Armies: An Exercise in Foolishness

At the end of 2021 I came to a startling realisation: despite being heavily involved in the warhammer community, writing for Goonhammer and spending most of my time talking to other wargaming nerds on the internet, I didn’t actually...

The Goonhammer Roundtable: State of Historicals in 2021

It's that time of year again - award shows, clip compilations, mascara-dripping fake-crying historical evangelists begging for your dollars to sponsor a grog with a lead pile the size of the Arc de Triomphe. Join our Goon roundtable for...

The Goonhammer Interview: Lewis Clarke from TTCombat

Lupe caught up with Lewis Clarke, the head designer at TTCombat, the company responsible for Carnevale (which we reviewed a while back), Dropzone Commander, Dropfleet Commander, RUMBLESLAM, a range of other miniatures and a vast range of MDF terrain. You...

Game Design Discourse: Emotional Outcomes and Balance

In our Game Design Discourse series we join James M Hewitt from Needy Cat Games and our own Edwin "Lupe" Moriarty for chats about game design theory and practice. James worked for Games Workshop as part of the Citadel...

Delightful City Building with a Touch of Vegas – Machi Koro – Turn Order

It’s generally a good sign when a boardgame gets a reprint, and an even better one when it gets a nicer, higher quality reprint and revised edition. Machi Koro’s anniversary edition gives it this accolade, and overall it’s well...

Infinity Tactics: The Fundamentals of List Building

List building in Infinity is a very different challenge to many other wargames, and as a new player working out what is a “good list” can be hugely intimidating. Asking more experienced players if a unit or a list...

The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms

At the start of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, the player arrives in the game in shackles, as a slow cart meanders its way through mountainous terrain. NPCs with dubious voice acting bicker as you ride forward, and the game...

Fabricator General: Thatched Buildings

In this week's guest Fabricator General article from our Historicals team, Lupe takes up through step by step in thatching buildings using toweling for an authentic medieval feel. Thatched buildings have a very specific look and feel to them, and there...

Getting Started: The Viking Age

Goonhammer Historicals is our series looking at the incredibly diverse world of historical wargaming – different scales, different eras, different rulesets. Today in Goonhammer Historicals we look at getting started with gaming in the Viking Age, from the earliest...

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Goonhammer Historicals: The Barons’ War: Outremer

Outremer is an expansion, campaign and sourcebook for taking your Barons’ War games literally “over-seas”, into the Levantine Crusader...
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