historicals

Historicals Miniature Review: Perry Miniatures Foot Knights (1450-1500)

In this week's Historicals, Enz0_da_Baker is reviewing the Foot Knights (1450-1500) kit from Perry Miniatures. One of the worst parts of constantly reorganizing my hobby space is that I do often misplace boxes I reserved for my distant backlog. One...

Goonhammer Historicals: Victrix Normans Miniature Review

This week, Marc "Ilor" Renouf takes a look at the Norman Infantry kit in 28mm scale from Victrix Limited. Disclaimer: This kit was provided to GoonHammer free of charge for review purposes. A while back I did a review of the...

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...

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...