Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen

Welcome to the Horus Heresy. With the release of the Age of Darkness and the second edition of the rules, there’s never been a better time to jump into (or return to) a world set 10,000 years before Warhammer 40,000....

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

In this instalment of Hobby Heresy, we're looking at the Praetors, Consuls and Space Marine Characters the Goonhammer crew have kitbashed out of the Age of Darkness box set. With two brand new, highly detailed and imposing Marines in...

Dragoons! The slightly awkward child of Napoleonic cavalry, the solid middle between the immense Cuirassiers and Heavy Cavalry and the dashing Light Cavalry, the ones that everyone playing in 28mm needs, but noone is really excited about building. In...

How many games have you bought into that died? The official support dried up, the community drifted away, the models went into shoeboxes until one day you either chucked them or realised the hassle of eBay might be well...

What happened to Starship Troopers? Now, it's a game which is increasingly fading into memory, but at one time looked like it might just be the one to steal Warhammer 40k's crown. Today we'll talk about the history of how Starship Troopers came into being; in part 2, we'll look at what caused its dramatic fall.