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Miniature Review: Vikings by Victrix Miniatures

Marc "Ilor" Renouf - January 14, 2021

This week in the Goonhammer Historicals series, we continue our focus on the Viking Era with a look at Victrix Limited's offering of plastic Vikings in 28mm scale. Disclaimer: I paid for these minis with my own money, and Victrix...

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How To Paint Everything: WW2 North Africa Vehicles

Marc "Ilor" Renouf - December 3, 2020

In today's installment of Goonhammer Historicals, we continue our focus on the North African campaign. For this article, Marc "Ilor" Renouf describes his methods for painting vehicles for tabletop battles fought in this forbidding and oft-overlooked theater of the...

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Getting Started: WW2 North Africa

Marc "Ilor" Renouf - November 27, 2020

Goonhammer Historicals is our series looking at the incredibly diverse world of historical wargaming – different scales, different eras, different rulesets. Today in Goonhammer Historicals Marc "Ilor" Renouf takes a look at getting started with World War 2 gaming...

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The Goonhammer Round Table: Historical Portrayals in Wargaming

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - November 12, 2020

Since we're diving into the Second World War this month, the Goonhammer Historicals crew decided that it was high time we had a bit of a chat about some of the more troubling elements in historical wargaming. Portraying real...

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Goonhammer Historicals: What a Tanker Review

Marc "Ilor" Renouf - November 5, 2020

Goonhammer Historicals is our series looking at the incredibly diverse world of historical wargaming – different scales, different eras, different rulesets. In honor of our current Eastern Front focus - where some of the largest tank battles of the...

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WW2 On the Eastern Front: The Slovak Fast Division

Michael O "Mugginns" - November 5, 2020

One of the coolest parts of WW2 gaming is how many different armies, regiments, countries, etc. took part in the fighting. Britain and France had so many different colonial forces. Germany had many different allies (many of them unwilling)....

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Miniature Review: Victrix Games Ausf G Panther

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - October 23, 2020

Goonhammer Historicals is our weekly column taking a look at the varied world of historical wargaming. This week, Lupe reviews a new small-scale tank kit from Victrix. Victrix is a firm favourite for hard plastic historical miniatures at Goonhammer, and...

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Historicals Review – Victrix Guard Lancers

Thundercloud - October 8, 2020

There were three regiments of Guard Lancers, the Polish Lancers (1st and 3rd Regiments being Old Guard and Young Guard) and the Red (2nd Regiment Dutch-French) Lancers. The Polish Lancers had an almost legendary reputation in combat and were undefeated...

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How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic British

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - October 1, 2020

So you've seen the movie and now you know with absolute certainty where Napoleon went wrong. You can, and will, do better. It's time to get into real wargaming. Welcome to Napoleonics. This article is part of our Getting Started:...

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Goonhammer Historicals: Sharp Practice Review

Michael O "Mugginns" - September 24, 2020

Released in 2016, Sharp Practice (version 2) is a wargaming ruleset for large skirmishes in the black powder time period. This includes anything from the French and Indian War to the American Civil War, but realistically could be used...