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Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Force Focus on the Virginia Regiment in the FIW for Sharp Practice

Michael O "Mugginns" -
A few years ago at AdeptiCon we ran our first organized Sharp Practice game and I chose to center it around the Virginia Regiment. The provincial models from Galloping Major were beautiful so that made my choice easy. Why the...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Lard America at HistoriCon 2023

Michael O "Mugginns" -
HistoriCon, an annual convention put on by HMGS, just happened last week in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is one of three yearly cons - the one that happens in the summer. I took the opportunity to attend this year because...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Mugginns’ Days Out At AdeptiCon – Sharp Practice, Chain of Command, Lard America, Bolt Action!

Michael O "Mugginns" -
As most wargamers will know, AdeptiCon 2023 took place last week / weekend and it was a great time. Over 6,500 gamers played in 735 events - it certainly felt like the biggest ever, with the parking lot full...
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Goonhammer Historicals: Mugginns’ Road to AdeptiCon 2023

Michael O "Mugginns" -
It is that time of year again! Three weeks left to AdeptiCon and I'm still grinding through a huge project. This year I'm helping to run the 2nd Annual Lard America gathering at AdeptiCon on Friday and Saturday, playing...
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Goonhammer Historicals: The Economics of Printing Rulebooks

Michael O "Mugginns" -
Wargames Twitter is a great place to get inspiration, news, and new techniques to use - but it's also a fascinating place to find opinion from leaders in the industry. Recently Richard Clarke of TooFatLardies was opining about printing...
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Goonhammer Historicals: Deployment and Jump Off Points Showcase

Michael O "Mugginns" -
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.
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Goonhammer Historicals Roundtable: Running the Perfect Demo Game

Michael O "Mugginns" -
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...
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Goonhammer Historicals: Recreating History at Moore’s Creek Through Wargaming

Michael O "Mugginns" -
A few years ago I went on a short vacation to visit my parents in North Carolina on the coast. At the time I had a four year old and a 1 year old so I wanted to get...
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Goonhammer Historicals: ACW Confederates for Sharp Practice and Black Powder – the 4th Kentucky Regiment

Michael O "Mugginns" -
You may have noticed Sharp Practice and musket-era wargaming dominating the Historicals section lately. Its fair to say its my personal favorite period to think about and research, and since there are some really accessible games to play, it...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals – Choose Your Own Sharp Practice

Michael O "Mugginns" -
You may have read the recent retrospective review of the Sharpe series and thought to yourself “Self, I love this series of novels and movies and would literally die for Richard Sharpe in the dust at Talavera - how...
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