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

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - October 27, 2022

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

Goonhammer Historicals: Deployment and Jump Off Points Showcase

Michael O "Mugginns" - October 13, 2022

Used in many Historicals games, deployment points are a way to show where your force will enter the table - but beyond chits and chips and markers, there's a whole range of cool conversions, scatter terrain and scenery you could be using.

Historicals

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

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - August 18, 2022

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...

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Goonhammer Historicals: Movement Roundtable

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - August 11, 2022

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....

Events and Challenges

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 8: Ayiti Cherie

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - July 14, 2022

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...

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Miniature Review: Victrix French Dragoons

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - July 7, 2022

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...

Game Design

Soldiers of Napoleon: Interview with Warwick Kinrade

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - June 23, 2022

Two weeks ago the Goonhammer Historicals team got our hands on Soldiers of Napoleon, a new mass battle Napoleonic ruleset from Artorus Games - you can check out the review here. This review was based on a preview copy...

Historicals

Soldiers of Napoleon: The Goonhammer Review

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - June 9, 2022

Soldiers of Napoleon is a 2022 miniatures wargame by designer Warwick Kinrade and Artorus Games designed to emulate battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike many other games in this genre it is a genuine attempt to portray, in a...

Events and Challenges

Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 7: it’s about what you do with it

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - June 2, 2022

I feel like most of these articles have followed the same basic pattern: Have idea Do idea Realise I was wrong about idea on some level But not this time! Well, not to the same extent anyway, because I really feel like I've...

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Lenoon’s Road to Austerlitz 6: Geldings in the Name Of

Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen - May 5, 2022

Breaking News: Napoleon is Dead This urgent update interrupts your scheduled rambles about horses. As we go to press it is May 5th, 2022. Napoleon has been dead for 101 years and we would like to mark this solemn occasion...