>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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miniature_wargames 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 (gorkamundheim).
Not until Baccus send my order of 6mm infantry for Horizon Wars. Once it arrives, I will have my two huge alt history armies as good as done, and I can begin my next project - a super robot anime homage using Hordes models as kaiju.
I have all the fluff written, a few sample units painted and just need to buy a few more monsters of the week.
I've heard something about a fan-revised version of the main rulebook, that was way better than the vanilla one? Iirc there were no big changes, just small balance nudges and "why didn't we think of that?" adaptions. I can't remember the name though...
Wyatt Sullivan
pages of random minis Thanks, I guess.
Jace Bennett
>You have any /awg/ WIP to share, user?
Got a supply drop from Ramshackle.
Took a while to get delivered so I think Curtis put in extra stuff for me as an apology.
Yeah, they do a bunch of cyborgy not-admech dudes.
Not enough for an army, but you could make a nice Necromunda warband or something with them.
Michael Miller
Just filling out an admech squad, diluting the unit monotony, is gudenuff4me. Those other guys look a little IG tho but whatevs.
Tyler Bell
From what I've heard they are generally a good company, and their stuffs aren't that expensive either. Thanks for sharing your experience, I should order at least a little something from them...
Carson Evans
I've gotten a fair bit of stuff from them and can basically back up that statement. Curtis is a pretty cool guy who often throws in free stuff just for the hell of it.
If I do have criticisms it's that they can be slow getting orders out (understandable considering I think it's literally one guy doing it all) and their casts tend to have a problem with bubbles.
Levi Garcia
Repainting a bunch of Mageknight prepaints for a friend, and there are quite a few useful sculpts in there - if you haven't checked them already, I can recommend them.
Ryder Flores
Looking good! And cool model, but... but... >square bases
Jaxson Robinson
This. Round bases are love, round bases are life. Takes 10 years off a model, removing Goblin Green and painted flock bases.
Henry Carter
What's wrong with square bases? It's just a temporary base tho, the guy will put him on a 30 or 40mm round, he didn't have any other bases to mount it on. But seriously, what.
Luis Cook
Nothing wrong with them, just a matter of taste.
Michael Cox
I was started to think of remounting my LotR minis to squares because SBG wouldn't need much minis (so I'll leave a couple of them on rounds), in WotR it doesn't matter, and ranking them up will be much easier, plus I can play mass battles with them too. For the Infantry, the 25mm round can be utilized easily for other systems, but the 40mm round for cavalry makes them pretty much useless if I want to play Rohan in AoA or KoW. So eh, I'm getting in favor of squares more and more.
Juan Phillips
Cavalry is a tough one, 40mm is rather a lot for ranking them up, but there's load of companies making movement trays for round bases.
Wouldn't be too hard to make your own with a 25mm hole saw drill bit either.
Adrian Taylor
pic related
Ethan Ross
Eh, I'm fine with using the same basing system for all my fantasy stuffs.
William Rodriguez
hole saws are great for making forests bases with inset removable trees, don't think the cut is fine enough for minis though, plenty of cheap laser cut options out there though
Daniel Walker
Hey, like those. ERM right?
Alexander Rivera
>You have any /awg/ WIP to share, user?
DWfag here. Painting some more of my Polan for Dystopian Wars. Basing and his squadmates todo.
Anthony Rodriguez
Adorable.
Ethan Campbell
I was going to play Dystopian Wars as the League of Italian States but no one at my FLGS wanted to play
Daniel Miller
Story o' my fucking life, m8.
Nolan Mitchell
qt!
Henry Parker
Grab two armies, paint them up, and if still noone's interested, play solo. It sucks, but it's better than not doing what you love and being forced to play Warhammer or the local equivalent.
Well, you have an excuse to visit home other than "I need to do my laundry."
Brayden Gutierrez
Has anyone tried the Otherworld Miniatures Skirmish game? I love their models, but there's so little info on the game itself I have no idea if its worth buying or not.
Carson Hughes
Trying to get my friend into wargaming, he's interested in anything fantasy. I'm more of a /hwg/ guy though so not really sure what's out there let alone what's enjoyable. Any recommendations from people more in the know?
Easton Baker
So I ended up getting the following for $50. I don't really know anything about Wrath of Kings though and just bought them cause I like the minis and I'm a sucker for a deal.
Is the game any good? Is this a decent enough start for an army? What would be a good starter to pair this with if I was to run a demo game?
I mean worst case I have several Frostgrave warbands and some conversion bits for my Legion of Everblight dudes.
James Lee
Try Mordhiem I think you'll both like it
Logan Anderson
Where can one get Mordheim stuff these days?
Angel Robinson
From what I remember, that is an army, not just the start of one. WoK uses an army list system where you have a set amount of guys and slots that you can fill with whatever you want, as long as they match the slot and ranks needed. For example, If you had 18 troops, you could choose any troops to fill them, with Ranks determining how many slots you take. So Rank 1 takes one slot, Rank 2 takes two, etc.
I can't pull up the rulebook, because for some reason, none of CMoN's game sites have been working for me for over a month now. But I think the largest game size was like a troop box or two away from what you get in the starter set.
Evan Evans
Third party, mostly.
Austin Moore
Zog me, it's beautiful. More of this, please.
I actually like the unpainted/barely-painted ruins. Makes them stand out without detracting from the land and those glorious trees.
If you can get your piratical hands on any of the other 7tv-based games, it's the same basic system. 7th Voyage might be closest, it's mythic fantasy.
Owen Garcia
All the starter play reasonably well with each other iIRC. I think tekkies is the most annoying as the pigment are 2 wounds and need to be kept track of. Last I checked what you have is more than the standard army size, so unless you want some skew lists, you only need newer boxes/maybe the character packs. I would buy the hadross equivalent at that price in an instant.
Anthony Howard
check the trove I got the pdf from here.
Aiden Torres
Mordheim (as already mentioned) SAGA (if your friend likes only Fantasy stuff, he could go for fantasy-viking-chaos-barbarians for example) Frostgrave (mordheim-lite, your friend can go nuts with a fantasy warband while you could build a semi-historical group of men at arms with perry minis like pic related for example)
Christopher Adams
>You have any /awg/ WIP to share, user? A couple of threads ago I ordered a couple of 15mm.co.uk minis.
After looking into it a bit I'm digging the system. I like how damage and wounds work, and the motivation system is a pretty elegant way of handling scenarios.
Might get the Hadross or werewolf dudes so I can contact someone into playing it with me.
>Songs of Blades and Heroes Anyone checked out the Advanced rules?
Jace Campbell
Haven't check the basic rules yet, despite all the expansions and shit...the "one stat fits all" keeps me away a bit.
Evan Thompson
>"one stat fits all" It is a somewhat dull concept but it works pretty well for 1p40k.
Jackson Allen
>SAGA (if your friend likes only Fantasy stuff, he could go for fantasy-viking-chaos-barbarians for example)
Technically there is a "Totally not zombies" list for SAGA based on undead from Norse Mythology.
It's called The Revenants.
Lincoln Foster
Thinking of which, it works well for Bolt Action too...tho it's a different animal.
If nothing more, I'll give it a try. Right now there are around 4-5 fantasy skirmish games are on my "to try" list, and one sole Warlord on the "have tried" one. I liked it, but I wish it had some kind of a custom unit builder or something.
Matthew Rodriguez
Just wrote up my review for Fallen Frontiers which I backed on KS and now is on general sale. I need to play it some more to form more opinions on the gameplay, but first impressions are good. Plus the models are great. darkerdaysradio blogspot co uk/2016/09/review-fallen-frontiers.html
Brody Martinez
Oh Frostgrave seems cool. Interesting setting.
Caleb James
Does anyone have a link to download Into the Breeding Pits for Frostgrave? I've been unable to find it.
Logan Fisher
Yeah it was limited edition though and it's out of stock, you might still be able to find it somewhere I guess.
Personally I never liked the models, if you could just get the dice and the battle board I'd pick it up in a heartbeat but I could never bring myself to fork over £80 or whatever it was for loads of minis I didn't want to get some rules I did.
Christopher Martin
Does anyone have a copy of West Wind's Empire of the Dead? I've been looking for it for a while and haven't turned anything up.
Luis Wilson
I had wondered what happened to that game.
Caleb Sullivan
Interest bump.
Michael Flores
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Aiden Cox
/hwg/ is better than you autists
Lincoln Phillips
2numbersinarow of truth
Owen Reed
Thanks for the shitty opinion bump.
Anyone here plays Warlord? I'm looking for the pdf of the 1st ed, and the expansion of the 2nd ed, or possibly an user who's willing to sell his books since postage from Reaper to Europe is fucking killing me.
Saw it, but not my cup of tea...their first KS failed quite a bit, they even cancelled it, tho I wonder what they'll come up with this time.
Jayden Watson
I wasn't aware there was a previous KS by them. It seems they are able to reach their goal this time though.
Jose Taylor
Does anyone know where I can download a PDF for the LOTR miniatures game GW produced? I didn't see it in the trove, and I think this is the only thread where someone might have it.
