historicals

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 10: Limping Veterans and the Young Guard Flavoured Water

It is Tridi, Decade 3, Vendemiaire, CCXXXI, the day of the Turnip. It has been two full months since I last wrote a Road to Austerlitz, and, for various reasons, the least productive I have been on this Napoleonics...

Historicals Miniature Review: Perry Miniatures Foot Knights (1450-1500)

In this week's Historicals, Enz0_da_Baker is reviewing the Foot Knights (1450-1500) kit from Perry Miniatures. One of the worst parts of constantly reorganizing my hobby space is that I do often misplace boxes I reserved for my distant backlog. One...

Goonhammer Historicals: Victrix Normans Miniature Review

This week, Marc "Ilor" Renouf takes a look at the Norman Infantry kit in 28mm scale from Victrix Limited. Disclaimer: This kit was provided to GoonHammer free of charge for review purposes. A while back I did a review of the...

Goonhammer Historicals: Rulesets You Can Use for Ironclad Wargaming

Last week I provided an intro to wargaming naval actions in the Civil War. I wanted to provide a short description of three rulesets I've checked out. There are certainly way more rulesets out there than what I'm talking...

Goonhammer Historicals: Naval Wargaming With Ironclads in the American Civil War

As historicals go, I love a lot of stuff, but I have some lanes that I like to stay in. I love anything in the black powder period (in my opinion, from French and Indian War to sometime after...

Miniature Review: Wargames Atlantic Grognards

Thanks to Wargames Atlantic for sending these over to us for review. "Grognard" is a term I know well - I use it, I've been called it, I build it, so when Wargames Atlantic's Les Grognards kit arrived, I was...

Goonhammer Historicals Roundtable: Running the Perfect Demo Game

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...

Miniature Review: Victrix Early Imperial Romans (Attacking)

Salve, Citizen! Anyone who has ever seen a TV screen probably knows of the Roman Empire & their fearsome legionnaires. In my opinion, The Romans are to historical gaming in antiquity what the Germans are for Second World War...

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 9: Gribeauval in the Streets, Year XI in the Sheets

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...

Goonhammer Historicals: Movement Roundtable

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....