historicals

Meet Goonhammer: Historicals

Goonhammer isn't just about delivering a deluge of hot 40K takes and suspiciously well-photographed miniatures. We've aggressively expanded our coverage over the last year and now include a broad range of tabletop games. Even video game reviews have made...

Goonhammer Historicals News You Can Use: Bad Squiddo Games Community Miniatures Project

Bad Squiddo Games, long known as the premier source for Believable Female Miniatures, is now venturing out to crowd-sourcing miniature sculpts, involving the community from start to finish. Bad Squiddo Games started as a small business for The Dice Bag...

Goonhammer Historicals – Black Powder Red Earth Models and Materials Review

In my never ending search to find a Modern historical ruleset that I really like, I came across Black Powder Red Earth, a 28mm game set in a near future conflict in an imagined nation. The creators of BPRE...

Goonhammer Historicals: Playing a Chain of Command “Pint-Sized Campaign” Part 1: Intro to “Totensonntag”

We here on the Goonhammer Historicals team natter on constantly about how much we love Too Fat Lardies games in general, and I have opined many times in the past about just how much I like Chain of Command...

Goonhammer Historicals – WoFun Games Model and Product Review

As a fellow wargamer and friend, you may have considered the following conundrum: “I want to play games now, yet also in a way that is visually appealing on a grand scale and it will not take approximately 10,000...

Why you should be playing Turnip 28

Turnip 28 is with no reservations one of the most fun wargames I have ever played. We have already interviewed the creator here on the site before, so it is high time we actually talk about and recommend the...

Goonhammer Historicals: Historicals in Modernity

We're going to take a break from our usual Historicals content this week and channel Admiral Cosme Damian de Churruca. This article is about nailing our colours to the mast to stand up to defend the hobby we love,...

Goonhammer Historicals reviews Never Mind The Billhooks Deluxe Edition

As you may have noticed from our interview with Andy Callan, author of this ruleset, we’re more than a bit excited about the revamped Billhooks Deluxe edition. What started out as a free ruleset packed with the Wargames Illustrated...

Black Powder Red Earth: Ultra Modern Engagements at Close Quarters – a Goonhammer Historicals Review, Part 1

As an older millennial who had formative years during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, I've always had an interest in modern (for me, post year ~1990) engagements, since we grew up saturated with images and news reports from...

How to paint everything: WW2 era Grigio Verde Uniforms

Italy might have had a relatively minor part to play in WW2 compared to many of the staple armies you see on the gaming table but they have a  remain one of the bigger factions in Wargaming and quite...