historicals

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz Part 4: Bred, Fed, Le(a)d and Read

Across the board stands an immaculate line of French Infantry. Sixty grizzled veterans of the Chasseurs a Pied glower at you, readying muskets and arranging their spectacular facial hair. Thirty impetuous, blooded veterans of the Turin Velites stand poised...

Goonhammer Historicals Interview: Forrest Harris of Knuckleduster Miniatures

There's a small local convention coming up so I decided to paint a bunch of Wild West minis, put on my spurs and attend the Gunfighter's Ball. If you've been to AdeptiCon before you've seen the amazing setup that...

Goonhammer Historicals: Force Selection Round Table

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, Part 3: Discipline in French is Discipline

We left off last time with me careering around the early stages of building and researching a Napoleonic army, with 62 poorly painted Guardsmen and one fairly well painted Guardswoman and a vague impression of post-revolutionary French history to...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz, Part 2: Grenadier? I ‘ardly know ier!

Epaulettes. They're a thing you put on your shoulders when in a uniform that makes your shoulders look wider. They have a fringe, and a flat bit, and lots of details if you're doing it right. They attach to...

Goonhammer Historicals – Lard America at AdeptiCon Hosting a Sharp Practice Open Event

This week Mugginns previews the event he’s running at AdeptiCon 2022 - Most Contemptible Cowardly Dogs, a French and Indian War Sharp Practice Open Event. Many historical wargamers are very aware of the idea of a Participation Game - where...

Goonhammer Historicals: Asymmetric Conflict in Wargaming

This week Marc "Ilor" Renouf takes us on a look at asymmetric conflict and how to better represent it in tabletop wargaming. Asymmetric warfare is the term given to conflicts in which one participant has a clear advantage over the...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz, Part 1: Some Corsican Guy

Surprisingly, for someone with a love for Historicals gaming, and far too many abandoned projects in more or less every game goonhammer covers, I've never picked up Napoleonics. There's a good few reasons for this - the whole period...

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...

How to Paint Everything: English Civil War

In this week’s Goonhammer Historicals we take a look at how to paint some of the most iconic uniforms of the English Civil War. When we think about what the English Civil War looked liked, it's usually more-or-less identical sides,...