historicals

Miniature Review: Wargames Atlantic Grognards

Thanks to Wargames Atlantic for sending these over to us for review. "Grognard" is a term I know well - I use it, I've been called it, I build it, so when Wargames Atlantic's Les Grognards kit arrived, I was...

Goonhammer Historicals Roundtable: Running the Perfect Demo Game

Lenoon: Proliferation of scales, rule sets, styles of play, eras and everything else means that more than anyone else in mini gaming, Historicals players need to run good Demo Games. With a new Napoleonics campaign coming up in my...

Miniature Review: Victrix Early Imperial Romans (Attacking)

Salve, Citizen! Anyone who has ever seen a TV screen probably knows of the Roman Empire & their fearsome legionnaires. In my opinion, The Romans are to historical gaming in antiquity what the Germans are for Second World War...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 9: Gribeauval in the Streets, Year XI in the Sheets

This is part 9 in Lenoon’s ongoing series. If you missed the others, you can find them here I am not, unfortunately, a tactical and strategic genius when it comes to actually playing historicals. I lose, a lot, at Sharp...

Goonhammer Historicals: Movement Roundtable

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....

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...

0200 Hours: German Sentries Model Review

Grey for Now Games' newly released 0200 Hours is a stealthy wargame of fast paced action, recreating commando raids from WW2 movies, comics, and actual history with a sneak-em-up styling and tension cranking mechanics. While your intrepid commandos are...

Goonhammer Historicals: Scale Roundtable

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....

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 8: Ayiti Cherie

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...

Miniature Review: Victrix French Dragoons

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...