>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.Archon Studio, Atomic Mass Games, Black Site Studios, CMON, Goblin King Games, Mantic, North Star Military Figures,OnePageRules, Osprey, Para Bellum, Seb Games, Spellcrow, TTCombat, Victrix, Wargames Atlantic, Warlord Games......and many other publishers.>Places to get minis; Updates to the minis list are welcome.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2DbNJ2mYAUxh5P9Pq9NZqS5tXHGn0i2JhZchEwbA2I/edithttps://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373197.page>Novice Troves, meant to serve as a sampler of available systems. Check out the Share Thread for up-to-date troves.https://pastebin.com/MjtsC8AXhttps://mega.nz/#F!zSYW0I4a!vXh8-UPi_tWXpJES_-p4zg>TQWhat do you love and hate about the wargaming industry the most?
Anybody know of some free wargames?>inb4 pirateI mean free from the start and intended to be free forever. I only know of Ninth Age Fantasy Battles. How's it holding up these days?
>>97209602Here in Poland some professional 3d printers market nearly exclusively to them and that community apparently has regular tournaments etc. But I've mainly heard bad things about that game.
>>97209675>But I've mainly heard bad things about that game.Such as?To be honest I'm looking for a nice rank and flank fantasy wargame.
>>97209675>some professional 3d printers market nearly exclusively to themI forgot to also ask:Do you mean 3D sculptors or just printing services? And can you name them if they are just sculptors distributing STLs digitally, please?
>>97209701Mostly that the community was very cuntish at the start and that the rules are based on the worst editions and the desires of sweaty competitive types. But you know how the Warhammer edition wars are - very subjective.>>97209724Printing services.
>>97209602Loads of them, though I don't think there's much reason not to pirate things. "Free" isn't a sensible requirement: what do you actually want to do?Xenotactics is a great stripped down version of Infinity.Do the Net Epics and Warmaster Revolution count as free? GW certainly didn't intend them that way, but the fan versions are technically distinct.I think No Quarter and No Limits are WFB/40k descended free games.There's a bunch of ultra short rules like OPR and FUBAR.Most common I think are sci-fi skirmish games. I think Planet28 is free, and Star Breach, and probably loads more.
>>97209767Thanks anon!I'll admit something free can often times make something more appealing and even affect one's enjoyment of it because no money (for the rules at least) were spent.
im not 100% sure if this is the right place to ask. but iv been trying to decide on a smaller squad type of wargame.I liked Trench Crusade, but apparently, there is some weird drama related to it, and the player base shrank. turnip28 seems fun, but the rules look a little fucky. I'd just like to play a smaller-scale squad game with a playerbase I don't need to pull teeth to find a game, with rules that don't have a lot of bloat, so I can build an army for my hyper fixation. Any ideas?
>>97210189SOVL -overload
>>97209602>Anybody know of some free wargames?Dirtside 2 and Full Thrust have been free for ages from Ground Zero Games. Dirtside uses a fascinating, if awkward, chit-based combat system with many of the statisical advantages of a card-based one without all the extra faff. You can fit everything you need to play it in an envelope and a small file folder. Full Thrust is a generic space combat game with optional inertia rules; almost every SF universe you can think of has been statted up for it, and it has unit building rules.7TV has had multiple free releases of the core rules with varying levels of extra shit removed. I recommend 2e for now, the first edition has some weird mechanical choices and they pulled a bunch of stuff from 3e. Conceit is you're playing out a pulpy TV series/B-movie with an emphasis on Spy-fi (James Bond), hedge horror (Wicker Man, Dead and Buried), crime dramas, and trashy SF (V!, Dr. Who, et. al.). There are a bunch of paid setting books that expand to 30s pulp, superheroes, sword-and-sandal, etc.I'm quite partial to WarEngine. It was a late 1990s 40k competitor that went to some kinda wild places. The core system has been released for free several times, with various plugins for their own post-apoc setting, a 40k knockoff, a batshit pulp anime setting called "Golgo Island" that's still available for free on DTRPG, and the GWAR book in the OP trove. It's got simple, easy rules for making your own units. The caveat is, there's not much statted up to begin with so you kind of have to build your own for most settings. I like it as a convention game because the rules are short and intuitive. For checks you roll against a target number, most involve throwing several dice and then picking a few to keep (EG "roll 4, keep 2", or "roll 3, keep 3"). Vehicles and monsters use the same rules as infantry, and it does scale well between them. Miniatures support is LONG dead, and there are only a couple of active groups I know about (one in France)
>>97209602You get what you pay for. Nothing decent in life has ever been free, save for the beauty of Gods natural world
>>97210189I still have a catalog for the old VOID somewhere.
How come there aren't more Napoleonic inspired fantasy settings? Doesn't Not!Medieval Europe get old?
>>97210948Antoine LaSalle was a certified White Ass Nigga Going Hard as Fuck
>>97210948There are more ways to make a setting interesting than changing one inaccurate timeperiod for inspiration for another.
