What other TT wargames do you spend time on

[butchbird]

There was already a thread more or less on the subject, but it being 7 years old and not finding the right answer on what to do in a quick read of forum rules, I figured I'd start a new one.

Now inevitably, a wargamer usually spends far more time working on his miniatures, terrain and discovering more advanced or new rulesets then actually WARGAMING. I'm starting a new project next week and that got me wondering if the BT community tended to "see someone else once in a while" in the wargaming area, and what particular wargames. After all, it was here I learned of a few whose mechanics I discovered with delight.

Personnally, besides BT, I involve myself in 15 mm WW2 miniatures (land based and attack aircraft), with which I occasionally play flames of war with my family. Ain't quite in the age bracket of my kid, but we manage to get everyone to have fun usually.

Other thing is French-Indian War miniatures in 28mm. Play some Fistful of Lead: Horse and muskets with my battletech group for dessert (BT being main course evidently) when the BT game is quick enough...But they're mostly used to play "muskets and unicorns" (home brewed game) with my family (sometimes even only the kid). It's not quite an...adult's delight, but the kid is fully autonomous. Basically combined all the simplest mechanics of all the FIW compatible rulesets I came about, works like a charm.

To go along with "Muskets and Unicorns", I've started a small heroic-fantasy miniature collection. Its still limited to just a unicorn and an owlbear but I'm planing to add a bit of stuff as soon as possible...

Notably to go along with "The Silver Bayonet". Now its set in 1812, but I just pretend my 1755 clothed soldiers are not the trendy type. I was looking for a good horse and musket era wargame to play solo and frankly, TSB has amazed me. Now the decisional tree for monsters ain't all that great when said monsters (or bandits) have muskets, but everything else is just dainty for a solo game. Also dig the gothic horror theme.

But all this essentially to get to this point which, considering its a BT forum, is the most interesting.

So such is fate that 2 of my core BT players are co-workers. Being unable to gather as often as we would hope to wage tabletop war with big stompy robot, we pondered about plyting at the job (we got a monthly 4 to 6 to drink a few beers and chat...you know, team spirit). That's just dreaming in color, of course, much too complex and lenghty a wargame for that, but then...

Fistful of Lead is a wargame specifically deigned for very casual gameply that offers quick, hollywood like action with an initiative system that keeps everyone involved at all time AND FfoL is a core mechanic for many "themed spin-offs...one of which is for, you guessed it, big stompy robots. FfoL: Battlesuit Alpha. Just might manage a game with 27 'mechs in under 2 hours.

So we went what the hey and started talking about it. Next thing we know, the boss green lights the project (sure! I'll actually be curious to see you play.) and now we got 8 players and a possible ninth. I'll admit I find the thought mouth watering. Picture nearly 30 'mechs on a welding table with L-channels and flat bars for terrain. Friggin' gritty and mecha like. Next week is going to be the big attempt. Besides us 3 BT players, none of our recruits have ever played a wargame. Just one chance for a good first impression.

Well that wraps up my little projects, what other wargaming do you BT wargamers involve time in?

[Daryk]

You may find this thread: https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=85133.0 of interest... :)

[Garrand]

Besides Battletech, I do Warhammer Fantasy. But my #1 first love is historicals, specifically ancients/medievals. My 2 favorite periods are the 12th C & the Hundred Years War.

In the past I've done FoW WWII stuff, since my "primary" hobby is scale modelling (tanks & military vehicles, mainly). I don't mreally di that anymore, since I sold most of my stuff prior to moving to Ecuador. I MIGHT be tempted to do it again, but the culture is sometimes a turn off, in particular when people question why I would go out & buy a bunch of new models, because the ones I have are not historically correct for the period game I want to play (i.e. using PzIVF2s to proxy for PzIVJ Lates)

Damon.

[Colt Ward]

It is more of finding people to play . . . I ordered Leviathans even though I do not know anyone in the area to play.  I bought some Dripzone Commander as proxies and lime the setting . . . But again, players.

[garhkal]

For me, its star wars X-wing miniatures home made campaign, Heroes of the Aturi cluster, as well as Starwars legion.

[DOC_Agren]

Full Thrust
40K

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I backed the Leviathans kickstarter with the intention of trying to teach some of my Battletech buddies to play once it finally releases.

[Hellraiser]

Early 2000's when BT was going through it's ownership changes, I got conned into trying both MWDA Clickies & also trying 40K.

I regret both of those.

Over a couple years, I purchased entirely too many Boosters for MWDA & then picked up entirely too much 40K from the game store or ebay.
  And then never played again after a couple years.

Now I have SEVERAL totes in storage filled with minis for both & ugh, IDK now much $$ I spent, probably $1500+

Which is why now when anyone asks me to play this or that game, I'm like NOPE.  I'll play what I already own or go find something more active to do.

[Colt Ward]

Those MWDA figures are still useful . . . New vehs are closer in size- like making Po II acceptable.  BA absolutely works.

[Hellraiser]

Those MWDA figures are still useful . . . New vehs are closer in size- like making Po II acceptable.  BA absolutely works.

Oh I know, I keep having dreams of using them for Hexed Alpha Strike games on felt mats with 2" hexes.

They fit nicely there & we have enough space to lay them out nicely.

[Sartris]

Big pile of 40K stuff. Hooray pandemic hobbies

[elf25s]

dark age clickiee game was meh but minis for the time were very nice and detailed.....

[Prospernia]

AD&D2e Battlesystem rules; Chameleon Electric's Babylon 5 because it's basically, Full-Thrust, but in Bab5 Universe with cool ship-counters and sheets.   Renegade Legion's Interceptor and Centurion.  Leviathan, is, well, meh. We liked the fact we could just roll over and expose a new side of the ship's armor.  Once, using Roman army-men, we played a WoD (Vampire: the Masquerade) mass-combat game using the army-men as figures it was fun, until, you know, the main player-characters got impaled.

[ckosacranoid]

I did have a bunch of minis for the old Uncharted Seas game and the nice thing is it is the same scale for Smoke on the Water which is an American Civil War game. Everything is 1/600.
I also got into Naval Thunder and got lots of 1/1000 scale stuff and have no idea what ship is what right now and now really touched the minis beyond some paint.
We had some stuff in 1/43 for an old car combat game that never really took off very big. We did not have a bunch of cars done up for that, and we could go into Garlands if nothing else was in that scale.

[glitterboy2098]

besides battletech?

Kings of War, by mantic Games, where i play ogres. i'm not very good, but it's fun.
and i've been working on getting the minis for Warpath: Firefight, mantic's scifi large skirmish game. i won a starter set with Marauders (mercenary space orcs) and Enforcers (cybernetic super soldiers) for placing dead last in a major Kings of War tournament two years ago, and have been working on assembling and painting them up when i have time. not been a big priority for me to be honest, but i like the fluff and minis.

i have also been gradually collecting the minis and terrain i need to play some games of Zona Alfa (using the solo expansion Kontraband). which is basically S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the miniatures game, with just enough serial numbers filed off. mostly down to building the terrain at this point.

and i've been considering getting the starter set for "Quar: Clash of Rhyfles" from Wargames Atlantic, since they look really neat. it's a fantasy-ish setting where nations of Quar, which are sorta humanoid Hensonian anteaters, fight wars using deisel-punk armies. the game that WGA put out is a skirmish level affair, meant for 1-2 squads of infantry per side (or a squad and some support units like light field guns, or a small tank, using some playtest rules for the first expansion). the starter comes with 12 plastic figures for each of the two main factions.. the Royalist traditional Coftyrans, vs the industrialized anti-royalist Crusaders

[ActionButler]

BlitzBowl and Warhammer Underworlds (though maybe not as much after the new edition).

I also have a stack of Kill Team terrain to paint, but I’ve never attempted a game. Might give it a try now that there are solo/co-op rules in the new edition.

[elf25s]

ok ....chess ,,,,axis and allies and....the horror....candyland
yah i am a popular babysitter
if you think candylaand is not a war game try bunch of 4 to 5 year olds not to start fighting....

[Colt Ward]

"How can this be a game of Monopoly!?!  No one flipped the board."

My son's invitation to good sportsmanship was this year playing Sorry with his grandparents.  He played with his parents before but b/c the wife likes beating me he sort of got a pass.  Not so with the grands.

After a few months of object lesson I found out he was playing chess at daycare.  Grandparents came back for a funeral and he spent the night.  He took my chessboard.

I told him you will not be at your grandfather.  I have never beaten your grandfather, but I learned from losing to beat everyone else.   You ARE going to lose, and you better not repeat Sorry.  Learn from it and you will win more.  I even told him on the drive to drop off he is going to use a classic game and checkmate you in 4 moves.

My parents laughingly told me later that when it happened his first response was-

"Dad was right."

[elf25s]

"How can this be a game of Monopoly!?!  No one flipped the board."

My son's invitation to good sportsmanship was this year playing Sorry with his grandparents.  He played with his parents before but b/c the wife likes beating me he sort of got a pass.  Not so with the grands.

After a few months of object lesson I found out he was playing chess at daycare.  Grandparents came back for a funeral and he spent the night.  He took my chessboard.

I told him you will not be at your grandfather.  I have never beaten your grandfather, but I learned from losing to beat everyone else.   You ARE going to lose, and you better not repeat Sorry.  Learn from it and you will win more.  I even told him on the drive to drop off he is going to use a classic game and checkmate you in 4 moves.

My parents laughingly told me later that when it happened his first response was-

"Dad was right."

my grams was merciless when it came to chess she was an unofficial grandmaster taught my dad and aunt...sadly i never got extended lessons from her

[JadeHellbringer]

During the pandemic, i lost my job, my  hobbies, and my wife spent so much time at work (nurse at a D.C.-area hospital with a LOT of Covid cases) that I was ready to go insane. Some might point out that it wouldn't have been a long step to take, but still.

Remember this was before the CGL Clan Kickstarter, so all Battletech painting was still via IWM- and we had just adopted a new kitten (and a second one since), so having fragile miniatures out on the desk was NOT a good idea. So... I branched out a bit and started painting for my other favorite fictional universe... Fallout.

If you haven't seen it, Modiphus makes a fantastically-detailed game called Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. You name it from the games, and there's miniatures for it. You name a faction from the first-person era games, and there's miniatures to make it work. So... I dove in headfirst. Near my workbench is a shelf covered in my rather well-equipped Enclave army (lead by FO2's final boss, Frank Horrigan), a large super mutant army to match them (complete with a behemoth), and a few odds and ends such as robots, creatures of assorted types, and even Liberty Prime himself. All in resin and plastic- far less vulnerable to curious kitten attacks (particularly when stored in plastic cubbies)

Now, of course, with the pandemic, the same problem was here as with Battletech- no ability to take those armies on the road and roll dice. I'm back to Battletech these days, though even that only over the last few months, but Wasteland Warfare? Still haven't been able to run a single game- I just paint the miniatures near-obsessively. There's a matriarch-Deathclaw on my workbench right now, in fact. Fantastically detailed minis, I strongly recommend them if you're a fan of the series- there's even a set out there now of the four protagonists from the recent TV show (Lucy, Maximus, Cooper, and Doggie 404), and a new spinoff game called Factions featuring the raider gangs from Fallout 4's Nuka World expansion.

[rebs]

There needs to be more TT games based in the Eurasian Steppe circa 500BC to 1500AD.  Manchuria to Panonia or anywhere between. 

I specify all this because most games set there are WWII campaign type games, or, yeeesh, contemporary.  Neither of those are a viable choice for any kind of enjoyment. 

[DOC_Agren]

BlitzBowl and Warhammer Underworlds (though maybe not as much after the new edition).

I also have a stack of Kill Team terrain to paint, but I’ve never attempted a game. Might give it a try now that there are solo/co-op rules in the new edition.

??  what is Warhammer Underworlds?? 

[Garrand]

There needs to be more TT games based in the Eurasian Steppe circa 500BC to 1500AD.  Manchuria to Panonia or anywhere between. 

Plenty of peopled have Mongol armies. At one point I considered doing an Alan army, but Palmyrans won out in the end...

Damon.

[ActionButler]

??  what is Warhammer Underworlds??

Underworlds may be the best game that GW makes right now.

It’s a small-scale skirmish game that takes place on a hexmap. Think 3-9 minis per side on a board roughly the size of a Battletech map sheet but with larger hexes. Regardless of what anyone thinks of the game, the warbands are unquestionably the best non-character minis that GW makes. The amount of details packed into some of the sculpts is staggering.

Any given game takes 30-40 minutes. Play are limited to four turns each, in which you can activate one fighter and give them one order. All play styles are viable. You can play for aggro, objective control, or some combination thereof.

Randomness is introduced through dice rolls that determine combat success and two small decks of cards that gives each player access to upgrades, one-use abilities, and other things to spice up play.

The second edition of the game released less than two months ago. It introduced a ton of changes in the name of making things more streamlined and reducing the page count of they’ll book. The effect has been that it’s basically a totally different game now. A lot of veteran players are still livid and insist that they’ll keep playing 1st edition. I’m of the opinion that a lot of the changes are for the best and that the overall game is now less concerned about what cards you have access to and draw.

They definitely need to tweak some things, though. There are a lot of obvious typos and errors on some of the new cards and two warbands are currently dominating play. Once they iron those wrinkles out, though, I’m confident that 2nd edition will shine on its own.

[DOC_Agren]

interesting and I'm guessing classic warhammer not 40K based?

[ActionButler]

interesting and I'm guessing classic warhammer not 40K based?

Age of Sigmar. There was a similar game themed to 40K called Fire Team, but it was a B&N exclusive that was only ever meant to get people into Kill Team. It’s a shame, too, because I would play the hell out of a properly supported version.

[butchbird]

There needs to be more TT games based in the Eurasian Steppe circa 500BC to 1500AD.  Manchuria to Panonia or anywhere between. 

I specify all this because most games set there are WWII campaign type games, or, yeeesh, contemporary.  Neither of those are a viable choice for any kind of enjoyment.

There must be gazillions of sets of rules for that. Of the top of my head, "Art de la guerre" seems a pretty well appreciated set of rules. "Field of Glory" must be a pretty good choice also, I play the computerized version and have a blast, pretty much the video game I play the most, excellent rules, pretty close to the TT I reckon.

As for minis, A quick search on my standard canadian retailer shows scythian/parthian horse archers available, so I guess they're pretty easy to find in USA citys.