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Goonhammer Historicals Roundtable: Running the Perfect Demo Game

Michael O "Mugginns" - September 8, 2022

Lenoon: Proliferation of scales, rule sets, styles of play, eras and everything else means that more than anyone else in mini gaming, Historicals players need to run good Demo Games. With a new Napoleonics campaign coming up in my...

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0200 Hours: German Sentries Model Review

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - July 28, 2022

Grey for Now Games' newly released 0200 Hours is a stealthy wargame of fast paced action, recreating commando raids from WW2 movies, comics, and actual history with a sneak-em-up styling and tension cranking mechanics. While your intrepid commandos are...

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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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Review: Campaign Stalingrad by Warlord Games

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - November 19, 2020

Disclaimer: The supplement in this review was provided to Goonhammer.com by Warlord Games. Stalingrad is one of the most iconic locations of the second world war, and one of the few from the Eastern Front to have gained much traction...

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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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Getting Started: World War 2 – The Eastern Front

Evie "Lupe" Moriarty - October 15, 2020

World War 2 is such an enormous part of historical wargaming, there's no way we could hope to cover the entire scope of the war in a single month. We'll be breaking it down into the major theatres of...

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Undaunted: Normandy: A Fresh Take on a Well-Trod War – Boardhammer

Raf Cordero - July 14, 2020

Undaunted Normandy is so full of familiar features that I initially thought nothing of it. Osprey Games has a good track record, and the designers put out War Chest a couple years ago that is an abstract-slash-skirmish game that is...