Precinct Omega Weekly Miniatures News #17 - Miniatures Board Games
Added 2020-08-29 12:05:05 +0000 UTCCMON's Massive Darkness 2 Kickstarter concludes with $3.8m in funding, while Core Clash scrapes in at $46k, and New Osaka has "successfully" funded at about $10k. Oh, and if that weren't enough giant robots, there's also Galaxy Hunters* which is about one-third of the way towards its funding goal.
But rather than talk about Kickstarter, I'm interested in miniatures board games. For some reason, they rub me up the wrong way somehow and I'm not sure why, because on the surface they seem to make a lot of sense. So I take apart what my problems might be and reflect, as ever, on what that means for Precinct Omega.
*Incidentally, is it just me, or is a game that involves killer mercenaries being hired by mega corporations to hunt down and kill invasive mutants just a teeny-weeny bit dog-whistley? Perhaps I'm just becoming over-sensitive. Not sure.
Comments
4e pretty much was.
Precinct Omega
2020-08-29 20:43:23 +0000 UTCMust say I prefer to play miniature board games with painted minis, and just consider painting as part of the fun of board games, as I do with miniature wargames. If I wasn’t going to paint the figures then I’d prefer standees in a boardgame, though they do historically less well at KS (gloomhaven aside). I think minis add nice eye candy to a boardgame but don’t make a bad board game good, though generally the figures can be repurposed for DnD or wargames if the scale is right. Now is DnD a boardgame with miniatures?
Patick Grey
2020-08-29 20:28:01 +0000 UTCDamn, yes. Dark Future. Technically that was a miniatures board game. That was so much fun when it decided it wanted to be an RPG!
Precinct Omega
2020-08-29 18:40:58 +0000 UTCI think my first experience of a miniatures board game was Dungeonquest (the GW version). It only came with mini's for the heroes, but they were good quality. I then moved on to other GW games like Blood bowl, Dark Future and Space Hulk. Blood bowl was probably the easiest to get to the table. Dark Future and Space Hulk were too big to fit easily on a table. Blood bowl was just the right size to get on a table, you could teach people quickly and it definitely looked better if you painted the models. I find it interesting to see GWs recent return to the miniatures board game market with both big, expensive boxed games and smaller, simpler games like Space Marine Adventures and Blitzbowl. It's like they have gone back to the MB games Heroquest/Space crusade days...
Jonathan Lupton
2020-08-29 18:34:39 +0000 UTC
