ACW

Goonhammer Historicals: How To Paint Everything – Horses

If you play historical wargames of pretty much any period, eventually you will be confronted with the fact that you need to paint some cavalry. From the early Ancients period to even as late as the Second World War...

Goonhammer Historicals: Review of the Great Escape Games General Purpose Wagon

Dip your toes into the Historicals pond for long enough and at some point your battle-weary troops will beg you to offload their blankets, frypans, kettles, and tents into the divisional baggage. Ignore them for too long and they'll...

Goonhammer Historicals: Rulesets You Can Use for Ironclad Wargaming

Last week I provided an intro to wargaming naval actions in the Civil War. I wanted to provide a short description of three rulesets I've checked out. There are certainly way more rulesets out there than what I'm talking...

Goonhammer Historicals: Naval Wargaming With Ironclads in the American Civil War

As historicals go, I love a lot of stuff, but I have some lanes that I like to stay in. I love anything in the black powder period (in my opinion, from French and Indian War to sometime after...

Goonhammer Historicals: Creating a Campaign – On the Loose in Georgia Part 1

Everybody loves going on campaign. Whether it's historical gaming, 40k, Necromunda, etc there are always campaigns going and they're some of the best times we've all had doing wargaming. There are a few types of campaigns - what we're...

Goonhammer Historicals: ACW Confederates for Sharp Practice and Black Powder – the 4th Kentucky Regiment

You may have noticed Sharp Practice and musket-era wargaming dominating the Historicals section lately. Its fair to say its my personal favorite period to think about and research, and since there are some really accessible games to play, it...

Goonhammer Historicals: Movement in Sharp Practice

This week the Historicals crew are diving into the mechanics of Sharp Practice, starting with movement and kicking off a series on the ruleset that we'll continue over the next few weeks. We've talked quite a bit about painting, uniforms,...

Goonhammer Historicals: Unique ACW Units

This week the Goonhammer Historicals team continues its focus on the American Civil war, taking a deeper dive into some of the unusual, unique, or just downright bizarre units that took part in the conflict. Whether from the standpoint...

Goonhammer Historicals: Using Sharp Practice by TooFatLardies for the American Civil War

Today the Goonhammer Historicals team continues our ongoing focus on the American Civil War, this time talking about using the Sharp Practice 2 ruleset to game out the innumerable smaller raids and skirmishes that took place during the conflict....

Goonhammer Historicals: Books, TV, and Movies to help you get started with American Civil War gaming

If you're looking for some inspiration for getting into the Civil War and building your forces or starting a campaign with friends, we've got a few recommendations to check out. Mugginns' Recommendations Glory Released in 1989 just before the height of renewed...