>What is /awg/? A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks. /hwg/ doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to very specific games, so this thread isn't tied to a game, or a genre, lets talk about fun wargames.
Any scale, any genre, any company, any minis. Skirmishers welcome. Rules designers welcome.
>Examples of games that qualify Mighty Armies, Dragon Rampant, Of Gods and Mortals, Frostgrave, Hordes of the Things, Songs of Blades and Heroes, and anything that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread (gorkamorka, necromunda, mordeheim).
>Question of the Now: Why is the 15mm sci-fi community obsessed with making dropships out of cheap toys despite their complete lack of utility in games?
>Why is the 15mm sci-fi community obsessed with making dropships out of cheap toys despite their complete lack of utility in games? Rule of cool
James Davis
So what are we being alternative about in our wargaming this weekend?
lucky quads confirmed
Anthony Russell
>not linking the old thread Confirmed for GW shill.
Joseph Myers
>Why is the 15mm sci-fi community obsessed with making dropships out of cheap toys despite their complete lack of utility in games? Terrain. Objectives. Deployment points. Scenarios, like "stop Abdul Goldberg stealing your bloody ship." Plus, drop a concrete patch and put a ship on it and your western town becomes the other kind of frontier outpost. Same with farms, bars, whatever.
Also works for X-COM.
Benjamin Brooks
Works in 28mm too, often with some of the same toys. They just become helo equivalents and small shuttles.
There's this one Star Wars TFA toy that's a perfect 28mm skimmer - two crew seats that fit 28mm seated figures and a gun up front with enough space to fit a standing gunner, or replace it with a proper gun because while the rest of the model is nice prepainted metal, the gun's flimsy plastic. It's like £10 from the Disney site - makes a great little patrol/response skimmer. Even comes with a little clear block to sit on as a flying base.
