reviews

Darktide: The Goonhammer Review

Up and at ‘em Reject. Do you wanna live forever?After a few teasing delays, Darktide has been unleashed and is available to the public after two very exciting beta periods, and I couldn't be happier. If you've never heard of...

The 2022 Goonhammer Holiday Gift Guide

  We’re getting extremely close to the deadline for the 2022 holiday season - it’s time to share Goonhammer’s yearly gift guide so you can fill those stockings with sprues and glues! This will be a universe / system agnostic...

No Such Thing as a Free Sandwich – Surrealist Sandwich Art – Turn Order

The adage “there's no such thing as a free lunch” emerged in the 1930’s through the regular practice of bars and saloons offering patrons a complimentary lunch with their drink purchases. Customers generally stayed longer and drank more (and...

The Goonhammer Review – Kill Team: Critical Operations Cards

Following the wrap-up of the Kill Team Invitational and entering the holiday season Games Workshop has decided to drop a big change onto the competitive scene in the form of a new set of Critical Operations Cards. These new...

SRM’s Ongoing Imperium Review: Week 36

Imperium is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. As I...

Ave, True to Caesar: A Turn Order Review of Caesar’s Empire

Ancient Rome is one of my favorite periods of history, and is a surefire way to make me interested in any product you’re producing. I actually own more games set in ancient Rome than I do any other setting,...

Andor: Star Wars Won’t Ever Be Permitted to Be Better Than This

This review contains spoilers for Andor. Is Andor the best television show this year? Seems like a question that, on the face of it and if you’ve been consuming media about it, is easily answered. This is then the part...

Review: Warmachine MKIV Preview Battlegroups

Earlier in August, fresh off the announcement of a new edition of Warmachine, Privateer Press announced they would sell preview battlegroup boxes to drum up excitement for the new edition of Warmachine. Not only is this exciting to see...

Roman-like: A Review of We Who Are About to Die

There are a few things someone needs to know about me to get my interest: If it involves Rome, or is a Roguelike, I will pay attention to you, like a cat hearing a can opener. So when Rob...

Gotham Knights Review: The Kids Are Alright; The Game Design Is Not

What’s a Batman game without Batman? I’ve been stewing over various formulations of that for some ten years. I got into Batman comics in the Nineties; I didn’t hide from all the dumb stuff that they did there. I embraced...