reviews

Paint Review: DarkStar Molten Metals

If you’ve ever painted any miniatures you’ve probably used some metallic paint. If you paint Chaos Space Marines or Titanicus titans then you probably spend more than half of your painting time doing metallic trim and you’ve probably googled...

Plague Purge: The Goonhammer Review

Although it wasn’t included in our preview materials a few weeks ago, we’ve finally gotten our hands on Plague Purge, the newest Crusade expansion for Warhammer 40,000. And in our quest to devour and review everything Narrative-related in 40k,...

Magic: Legends Review — Beta Luck Next Time

Generally speaking we try not to review games before they release too often on this site -- we’ve broken the rule before, usually for games deep into Early Access, and we’re going to be breaking it again for Magic:...

The Goonhammer Review of Codex: Chaos

This week we're taking a look back to 25 years ago and some of the key releases of 1996. Perhaps no release had a bigger impact on the future of Warhammer 40,000 than Codex: Chaos. While Rogue Trader's Realm of...

Codex Drukhari: The Crusade Rules Review

We spent most of the weekend reviewing the new Matched Play rules in Codex: Drukhari and talking about how the faction has been transformed in some very cool ways - check out that review here. Today we're back to...

War Zone Charadon: The Book of Rust Review – The Narrative Play Rules

Next weekend sees not just one but two massive releases for Warhammer 40,000. In addition to the 9th edition release of Codex: Drukhari (find our review of that book here), Games Workshop will also be releasing their first major...

Kill Team: Killzones Review

Lost in the shuffle a few weeks ago with the release of Kill Team: Pariah Nexus was the release of Kill Team: Killzones, a stand-alone book/expansion that collects the missions, tactics, and narrative content from six prior Kill Team...

Loop Hero: A Boardgame-RPG Hybrid with an Excellent Gameplay… Flow

The game begins with the universe being destroyed, and then you move forward from there, on a loop. Loop Hero is not really an idle game, as it’s been somewhat curiously -- and a bit frustratingly -- tagged. You will...

Games for Young Kids: Rhino Hero Super Battle Review

I've written before about the challenges of introducing a small child to board games, specifically in my review of Dragon's Breath, another HABA game designed for young players. In the short time since that was written my four year-old son...

White Dwarf #461 Flashpoints: Charadon Phase 2 Review

In the Narrative Forge, we talk about playing games with more of a storytelling focus in mind. From bespoke missions to Crusade armies to sweeping campaigns, we cover the ways to add flavor to games. In today’s article, we’re...