napoleonics

Goonhammer Historicals: ESR Series 3 Master of the World: 1812 in Russia

So you've read our review of Et Sans Resultat, you've decided "hell yeah I want to be Napoleon" and now you're looking around for a risky, all-or-nothing ill-advised attempt to start a land war in Asia? You're in the...

Goonhammer Historicals Review: Et Sans Resultat! Series 3

We love Napoleonics. Who doesn't? Over here at the Goonhammer star fort, we usually play our Napoleonics in semi-skirmish settings, at most using a couple of battalions of foot and squadrons of cavalry. Perhaps you want something bigger. Something...

Goonhammer Historicals Unit Focus: Berg Lancers

If there’s one thing the Napoleonic period has going for it for the historical wargamer, it’s the fanciest uniforms ever put to battle. The French were resplendent in blue, the British in incredibly fiddly red with padded shoulders and...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 11: La Première Année

One year after he crowned himself Emperor of France, Napoleon stood looking out over the Pratzen Heights. The next day he would fight one of the greatest victories of his career - Austerlitz. What was running through his head,...

Goonhammer Historicals Miniatures Review: Victrix British Dragoons

If there's one image of the Napoleonic period you've seen, it's probably of British Heavy Dragoons. The painting Scotland Forever! is absolutely iconic and while probably all over the place in terms of historical accuracy, captures what it must have...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 10: Limping Veterans and the Young Guard Flavoured Water

It is Tridi, Decade 3, Vendemiaire, CCXXXI, the day of the Turnip. It has been two full months since I last wrote a Road to Austerlitz, and, for various reasons, the least productive I have been on this Napoleonics...

Goonhammer Historicals: Deployment and Jump Off Points Showcase

Used in many Historicals games, deployment points are a way to show where your force will enter the table - but beyond chits and chips and markers, there's a whole range of cool conversions, scatter terrain and scenery you could be using.

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....

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...