reviews

White Dwarf 457 Review: Flashpoint and the Argovon Campaign, Part 1

White Dwarf 457 is out and it introduces a new ongoing series called Flashpoints, which explore specific warzones and regions within the 40k universe, with new backstory and rules. Based on this initial entry, they seem like an interesting...

Battlezone: Manufactorum Terrain Datasheet Cards Review

Chapter Approved: Tactical Deployment is perhaps the strangest release I've ever seen come from Games Workshop. Billed simultaneously as a way to have players bring their own terrain to competitive games and a way to add tactical considerations to...

Audio Drama Review – Dredge Runners by Alec Worley

This review contains mild, general spoilers for the audio drama.  Reviewing an audio drama is a tricky thing. Unlike a full novel or even short story, there is very little content that can be discussed without essentially retelling the entire...

Historicals Review – Victrix Guard Lancers

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...

Goonhammer Reviews Warhammer 40k Chapter Approved: Tactical Deployment

One of the more interesting announcements to come out of last month's streaming preview, the Tactical Deployment promised a new way to play that would have players bringing their own terrain to battles and building battlefields to suit their armies....

Zendikar Rising Set Review, Vol. 2

Hello again! Shane here from The Dive Down Podcast. Last week I wrote up some of our thoughts on the first batch of Zendikar Rising spoilers, and the second half is potentially even more exciting! The set looks to...

Honest Wargamer objective marker review. (They are a flat circle, ~fin)

Today Eifert Posting is reviewing the objective markers from Honest Wargamer. You can find them on their product page here. So I am building up my home gaming area and one thing that I didn’t really have is objective markers....

Necromunda: Underwhelming Chore

Sometimes the license just doesn’t land. Necromunda: Underhive Wars, developed by Rogue Factor and published by Focus Home Interactive, is a third-person turn-based tactics game in the vein of your XCOM revivals or, well, just about any game that’s a...

Book Review: Dawn of Fire: Avenging Son by Guy Haley

Reviewing this book is tricky. Real tricky. Avenging Son is a book with enormous pressure and responsibility for the future of Warhammer 40,000 fiction and that requires a slightly different review than what we would normally post for a Black Library...

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint: You Could Bend It Instead, or Just Leave It Be Entirely

There are a lot of good ways to do open-world games, even ones that are games as a service (GaaS). And then there are a lot of bad ones. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint didn’t get a review in this...