Bolt Action

Goonhammer Historicals: Campaign : Case Blue – A Bolt Action Review

Campaign: Case Blue is the newest campaign book for Bolt Action from Warlord Games. Taking a swift jump in time back from the allied invasion of Italy, it is set during the infamous Fall Blau. This makes this campaign a...

Goonhammer Historicals – Tanksgiving 2023

It's Tanksgiving, everygoon. We choose to celebrate this year by showing off some of the coolest, wonkiest, weirdest, sweetest tanks we've read about, seen, or used in a wargame. Grab those Tanksgiving Pants (the ones with the motor oil...

Goonhammer Historicals: Warlord Games Panzer 2 Ausf. A/B/C Review

Keen eyed customers of FLGS this month might have noticed the return of some old familiar kits to the shelves. And indeed, Warlord games has rereleased quite a few of their old resin tanks for the retail market. Among...

Goonhammer Historicals: Campaign Italy: Tough Gut – A Bolt Action Review

Campaign Italy: Tough Gut is the second supplement for Bolt Action from Warlord Games focusing on the allied thrust into mainland Europe via the Italian peninsula. It follows its sister book, Campaign Italy: Soft Underbelly. The book is split...

Goonhammer Historicals: Bolt Action Alpini Review

This August has been an Italian-focused month for Warlord Games, seeing them release both the new Italian Alpini Mountain Troops and a new campaign book focusing on the second half of the Italian Campaign, titled Tough Gut (review coming...

Goonhammer Historicals: Victrix T34

Last week I reviewed the Victrix 12mm/1:144 Soviet Infantry, and this week it's the turn of the stalwart workhorse of the Red Army - the T34. Before diving in, we’d like to thank Victrix for sending these over for review. There's...

Goonhammer Historicals: Color Modulation and Weathering on Soviet Bolt Action Tanks

I have painted a ton of tanks but until now I've been mostly focusing on the techniques I already knew - washes, sponge weathering, pigments etc. I've been reading a ton of  high level painting magazines and books lately. A lot of the techniques and products being used on 1/35 scale hyper-detailed models...

Goonhammer Historicals: Wargames Atlantic French Infantry (1916-1940) Review

This week the Goonhammer Historicals crew turned their (somewhat) expert eyes to the French Infantry (1916-1940) plastic kit. This is a versatile kit with a lot of options, so along with a review of the models we’ll take a...

How to paint everything: WW2 era Grigio Verde Uniforms

Italy might have had a relatively minor part to play in WW2 compared to many of the staple armies you see on the gaming table but they have a  remain one of the bigger factions in Wargaming and quite...

Goonhammer Historicals: Mecha throughout History

Mechs? In My Historicals? It's more likely than you think! Mechs belong in Historicals because the beginning of Mecha culture is 100% certainly, absolutely and uncontrovertibly our domain. We could cite Leonardo Da Vinci's clockwork knight, Bacon's terrifying and metaphorical...