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Core Games

Goonhammer Historicals: Wargames Atlantic 10mm Samurai

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty -
Thanks to Wargames Atlantic for providing this kit for the purposes of review. Though it has perhaps an outsized prominence in the popular culture, feudal Japan often lacks for great options on the tabletop. There have been several well-regarded skirmish...
Age of Sigmar

Games Industry News Roundup- May 21st, 2024

Dan "Swiftblade" Richardson -
Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it...
Goonhammer

Let’s Go! To Japan – Best Laid Plans – Turn Order

Mx- Tiffany -
I knew I’d love Let’s Go! To Japan before I even opened the box. Not only because designer Josh Wood made Cat Lady expressly for me, a cat lady. Not only because he designed Santa Monica expressly for me,...
Goonhammer

Ronin: my precious Hanzo steel

Jackie Daytona -
In this week’s review we travel back to the 16th century, not for any pike wielding friends, but our road takes us to the conflicts further east. Written in 2013, Ronin is one of the first accessible rulesets that...
Historicals

How to Paint Everything: Samurai

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty -
In this week’s Goonhammer Historicals, we take a look at how to paint samurai, the iconic armoured warriors of Japan. The iconic samurai warrior is the armoured soldier of the Sengoku period. They are known in the west for the...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Test of Honour – Samurai Skirmish in the grim darkness of about 500 years ago….

Thundercloud -
Test of Honour is a Samurai skirmish game pitched at 5-20 models set in Sengoku era Japan, the golden age of samurai warfare. It is not a mass battle game, but more akin to a samurai movie game. You can...
Historicals

Getting Started: Feudal Japan

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty -
Today in Goonhammer Historicals we look at gaming in Feudal Japan, a time of warring clans and factions with an iconic aesthetic. Historical highlights For hundreds of years Japan had been ruled by the Shogun, a military lord who controlled...
Competitive Play

The State of 40k in Tokyo

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
We previously spoke to David Moss of the Tokyo Tactical Gaming group in our interview earlier this year, when they had planned a tournament circuit. That ended up being cancelled due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, but as...
Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: An Interview David Moss of the Tokyo Tactical Gaming Group

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones -
The Warhammer 40k Tournament Scene is much bigger than the US and Europe. This April, the Tokyo Tactical gaming group will be hosting its first ITC RTT, a 32-player event called the Tokyo Tactical Reborn. Goonhammer sat down with...
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