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Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Bolt Action’s Forgotten, Misunderstood, and Ignored Rules

Alexander Smith -
As far as wargaming rulesets go, Bolt Action is not a particularly difficult one to pick up and learn. With only two editions, it has not seen the regular parade of new editions, re-writes, and meta shifts that Games...
Getting Started

Goonhammer Historicals: Getting Started With Flames of War

Matthew 'chimp' Ward -
What is Flames of War? It’s Battlefront’s take on the company level second world war miniature wargame, at 15mm (or 1:100) scale, running on essentially the same core ruleset as their Team Yankee game (and ‘Nam, and Great War, and...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Warlord Games Panzer 2 Ausf. A/B/C Review

Momma-Negan -
Keen eyed customers of FLGS this month might have noticed the return of some old familiar kits to the shelves. And indeed, Warlord games has rereleased quite a few of their old resin tanks for the retail market. Among...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Wargames Atlantic French Infantry (1916-1940) Review

HardyRoach -
This week the Goonhammer Historicals crew turned their (somewhat) expert eyes to the French Infantry (1916-1940) plastic kit. This is a versatile kit with a lot of options, so along with a review of the models we’ll take a...
Goonhammer

Battlegroup: a Goonhammer Historicals review

Jackie Daytona -
Well, we've put this off for far too long really. Battlegroup is what drew me back into miniatures wargaming and started a fire that burns on the oak wood of historicals gaming. Today we’re looking at the ruleset, expansions...
Historicals

Goonhammer Historicals: Rating the Army Special Rules in Bolt Action

Michael O "Mugginns" -
Alex: I suppose if you come into historical gaming via Warhammer the idea of different armies having unique special rules wouldn't raise an eyebrow, but when you stop and think about it, it is kind of odd. Humans are...
Historicals

How To Paint Everything: WW2 North Africa Vehicles

Marc "Ilor" Renouf -
In today's installment of Goonhammer Historicals, we continue our focus on the North African campaign. For this article, Marc "Ilor" Renouf describes his methods for painting vehicles for tabletop battles fought in this forbidding and oft-overlooked theater of the...
Gaming

Getting Started: World War 2 – The Eastern Front

Edwin "Lupe" Moriarty -
World War 2 is such an enormous part of historical wargaming, there's no way we could hope to cover the entire scope of the war in a single month. We'll be breaking it down into the major theatres of...
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