Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen

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...

This week the Goonhammer Historicals team takes a look at the Aztec miniatures released by Wargames Atlantic. In addition to a review of the miniatures themselves, we'll talk about how to assemble and paint them for use with the...

Introduction and Victrix Austrian Grenadier Review Hello, Goonhammer historical readers, You all may have read a lot of well-written but undue adorations of that rotten disruptor Napoleon Bonaparte over the past year. My fellow writer Lenoon has good taste in war...

If there's something that far too many people in the western world loved in the late 20th century, it's the 1950s. The 1950s exert a real and pressing pull on the cultural world we live in and "Ok Boomer"...

Gorkamorka lasted six months and nearly took GW down with it - what happened and why did some Orks messing about in the desert nearly crash a multinational company?

Welcome to the first design update for the Goonhammer Historicals project where we develop a skirmish miniatures game set during the Flower Wars, the pre-Columbian semi-ritualised warfare between the Aztec peoples. Designing a new wargame is always a formidable task,...

Gorkamorka is probably the most short lived of what would become the “Specialist Games”. There are a lot of dead games out there, but Gorkamorka only lasted six months in the dying days of the second millennium. It’s not just that I liked it though, because Gorkamorka is perhaps a little more important to the history of Games Workshop than you'd think.

Wraithone Phoenix is author Alec Worley's first full-length novel for the Black Library, after a series of shorter stories in the 40k universe. It's also the first full length outing for Baggit and Clodde, our Ratling and Ogryn protagonists for Wraithbone Phoenix after an outing in audiodrama Dredge Runners. Wraithbone Phoenix is a fun, pulpy crime caper that manages to balance a series of homages, set pieces and a wild cast of underhive style criminal elements with the flair and verve of a hardboiled detective novel.

Welcome, one and all, to the 2022 Goonhammer Video Game of the Year, the celebrated GHVGOTY! Where other, lesser, websites may carefully consider the year’s releases and determine which is the greatest and most worthy of praise, or at...

Goonhammer Historicals has been going strong with our weekly articles, starting all the way back in mid-2020 with Lupe's Getting Started in Ancient Rome. As we shore up our offerings and really provide more structure to our team, we...