Previous thread:>>97209588>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 are your 2026 /awg/ projects and aspirations?
>TQI'm looking forward to Oathmark 2e.
Hello /awg/Whats your favorite skirmish games?I already play killteam and want to try some other stuff.Been looking into 5 leagues from the borderlands / 5 parsecs from home to play coop with wife.Frostgrave and Stargrave are also easy to get around here, including minis.Bolt action sounds fun but WW2, even though i like the theme, is pretty boring.
>>97275538This is Not a Test -- extremely flexible post-apoc skirmish that also does sci-fi reasonably well. Can do pretty much anything you want, from "The Hills have Eyes", to Fallout, to Necromunda. Just got a new edition that shakes a bunch of stuff up, but 1e is fine. The force list does an excellent job of balancing flavorful, limited lists while giving you enough archetypes to play pretty much anything you want. The all-Robot lists, extra power armor stuff, and the Mutant Cannibals still haven't made the jump from 1e to 2e. No vehicle rules7TV is a goofy 1970s British TV pulp game. It's got a lot of randomness baked in, if that's a problem for you. Many, many plugin modules for zombies, hedge horror (think "Wicker Man" or "Dead and Buried"), spy-fi (Bond, Archer, Danger 5), sword-and-sandal, detective shows, post-apoc, dungeon fantasy, 1930s pulp, etc. Uses profile cards and a fairly basic dice system. It's very effects-based, so a miniature of Christopher Lee's mummy might be a "diabolical overlord" in one scenario, and demoted to an evil magical lieutenant in another. There are a lot of cool tools buried in the rules, like using a Cop's "Command" ability to corral panicking neutral civilians and get them away from the monsters that are attacking them. Decent vee rules.En Garde is my favorite fantasy skirmish system. Campaign system is weak and the fantasy element is low-key. I also feel the terrain rules are quite bland for something that advertises itself as a swashbuckling game, but it's still entertaining and evocative enough that I'll forgive it. The actual combat has a really cool bluffing/exhaustion mechanic that rewards swarming more powerful characters but still lets them buzzsaw through isolated mooks or make heroic last stands against the odds. Officially it's Early Modern/late Renaissance, realistically the rules pretty much work from Stone age all the way to the 1800s. Has unit and army construction rules baked in.
>>972755385 Parsecs is great for the solo campaign stuff. The skirmish battle mechanics are simple and serviceable - for my money it could use more crunch, but you can add that yourself.The X-Grave minis are generic but excellent. Lots of bits and all very interchangeable.I like Xenotactics, which is heavy on reactions. Probably sucks to play with someone that gets decision paralysis easily.
>>97275454what game is this?
