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WW2 Company Commander App Review

WW2 Company Commander is an upcoming augmented reality wargaming app being produced by Digital Wargaming in partnership with Victrix Limited. The app contains a complete rule system and handles all dice rolling, measuring, and score keeping digitally. The app appears...

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

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...

Undaunted: North Africa is a Fresh Evolution of a Fantastic System

World War II games are a dime a dozen. So are deck building games. And yet the Undaunted series by David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin breathes new life into both genres. Undaunted: North Africa is the follow up to the original Normandy and...

Goonhammer Historicals: Rating the Army Special Rules in Bolt Action

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...

The Soviet Women’s Rifle Brigade – Army Showcase and History

It’s time for something a little different than our regularly scheduled content, a historicals project showcase. This week we’ve got HardyRoach showing off his 28mm Soviet women’s platoon and running down some of the history behind it.  As a historicals...

Goonhammer Historicals: Deployment and Jump Off Points Showcase

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.

Goonhammer Historicals Roundtable: Running the Perfect Demo Game

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...

0200 Hours: German Sentries Model Review

Grey for Now Games' newly released 0200 Hours is a stealthy wargame of fast paced action, recreating commando raids from WW2 movies, comics, and actual history with a sneak-em-up styling and tension cranking mechanics. While your intrepid commandos are...

Getting Started: WW2 North Africa

Goonhammer Historicals is our series looking at the incredibly diverse world of historical wargaming – different scales, different eras, different rulesets. Today in Goonhammer Historicals Marc "Ilor" Renouf takes a look at getting started with World War 2 gaming...

Review: Campaign Stalingrad by Warlord Games

Disclaimer: The supplement in this review was provided to Goonhammer.com by Warlord Games.  Stalingrad is one of the most iconic locations of the second world war, and one of the few from the Eastern Front to have gained much traction...