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Goonhammer Historicals: SAGA Age Overview – Age of Crusades (Bonus 2024 FAQ Content!)

Your tabard hangs wet around your shoulders, heavy with sweat and blood. The final rays of sunlight can barely be seen, blocked out by the vast trees looming around you. The last of your brothers died in the ambush...

Goonhammer Historicals: The Barons’ War Conquest Review

It’s time to strap on your kite shield, call up your mercenaries and unfurl the papal banner - there’s a half-wild land over the sea and only The Bastard can tame it! We’re moving from the 13th to the...

Goonhammer Historicals: Bandua Age of Vikings Terrain

With SAGA Summer in full swing, we've covered how to build, play and paint warbands. For everyone diving in to a new period - or if we've finally convinced you to pick up Historicals (welcome, it's great isnt it?)...

Variety is the Spice of SAGA: The Book of Battles

One of the great joys of historical wargaming is the huge potential variety of scenarios, both balanced and extremely not that present themselves. In this respect, the single scenario in the main SAGA rulebook is, shall we say, slightly...

Starting SAGA: Building a One Kit Anglo-Saxon Warband

Can you make a good Saga warband out of one box? Variance Hammer Eric picks up some Saxons and gets going!

Goonhammer Historicals: SAGA Faction Review – Byzantines

Who Are the Byzantines? The Byzantine Empire stretched from Southern Italy across Greece and Türkiye at its height. Within Saga Age of Crusades, the Byzantines represent the Eastern Roman Empire, present from approximately the 4th century to the 15th century,...

Victrix Medieval Knights: The Goonhammer Historicals Review

Medieval Knights are a staple of historicals wargaming and it's a rare mini collector that hasn't at least thought about strapping on some plate and mail in order to mount a trusty steed, but plastic knights always leave a...

Wargames Atlantic Werewolves – The Goonhammer Review

Thank you to Wargames Atlantic for providing a box of their Classic Fantasy: Werewolves for review. If you’d like to pick up this kit and support Goonhammer while you’re at it, get it through our affiliate link. The Contents Each box...

Goonhammer Historicals: Bad Squiddo Shieldmaiden Review and Saga Warband

First off, a big thank you to Annie of Bad Squiddo Games for supplying these minis free of charge to review! The selection of minis on offer there are far beyond the shieldmaidens I'm reviewing today and worth looking...

Goonhammer Historicals: The Barons’ War Review

The Barons' War is a high medieval skirmish game from Footsore Miniatures. It's been out a while and is a firm favourite in the historicals community, winning the Wargames Illustrated Best New Rules award in 2021 and filling out...