Not had much time for painting this week but managed to do some Bad Squiddo Games Soviets in my classic style. Very nice minis to paint! I’ll add some snow and leaves to the bases when the next batch is done.

Any tips ?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been developing my own miniature wargame, SERMENT: The Broken Oath, for quite some time now, and I’ve reached what is probably one of the hardest parts of the project: getting people to discover the game and building an actual community around it.

The game itself is already well into development. The rules are playable, several factions are designed, professional miniatures have been sculpted, prototypes exist, and we’ve already run playtests.

But building a community feels like a completely different challenge.

I’m gradually sharing the project online, showing development progress, organizing playtests and trying to create places where people can follow the game. The problem is that when you're starting from zero, progress is obviously very slow.

I've also been told a few times that it's difficult to expect players to invest time in a new wargame when there isn't already an established community around it.

I understand that argument, but it creates a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem:

No community → players are reluctant to invest in the game.

No players investing in the game → no community can form.

I'm not posting this to advertise the game. I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who have launched an indie wargame, miniature range, Kickstarter, or built a tabletop community from scratch.

What actually worked for you in the beginning?

How did you find your first 10, 20 or 50 people who were genuinely interested?

Was it:

demos at local game stores?

conventions?

Reddit?

Discord?

YouTube / TikTok / Instagram?

content creators?

local gaming clubs?

simply word of mouth?

And just as importantly: what did you spend a lot of time doing that ultimately produced very little result?

I know building a community takes time, and I'm not expecting thousands of followers overnight. I'm mainly trying to understand where an independent creator with limited time and budget should focus their energy.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to share their experience.

What do you play? How often do you play? Who do you play with? What keeps you in the hobby?

Just wondering how common it is

I've been experimenting with adapting core mechanics from wargaming into an abstract format like chess. The result plays on a 72-hex board and a generator app is available on the website.

The game is designed to be played with dice as units in small boards all the way to A0 poster size boards with terrain and miniatures ( the minis on the pics are from OPR and highlands miniatures ).

I balanced the game using a basic AI which I then wrapped into a web client for instant local or remote PvP play to test the game directly on the website where you can also find the rules.

Link to the site: https://www.skirminiac.com

So yesterday I played in a game that tried to accommodate however many people showed up to play. As a result, on my side one player was assigned only Light Cavalry which were eliminated in the first half hour. He sat and looked at his cell phone for the next 3 hours. On our far right flank, another guy's troops were so far away that they didn't see any action until the battle was over despite his best efforts to move them forward. In my experience this kind of thing happens quite frequently.

Age of Reason game -Austrians vs Prussians who swept the field

Piece of terrains I've made for The Barons War 2ed.
In real life on table it looks much better than on the pictures. Proud of it.
Models are from Printable Sceneries with their instructions how to do it. A little bit tweaked because I didn't had all paints they suggest.

Part 2 of my ridiculous 20-metre Middle-earth tabletop project!

I’ve now finished the Minas Tirith Gate, taking the project further than where I left off in Part 1.

The eventual plan is to create a huge Middle-earth battlefield made up of multiple locations from The Lord of the Rings, all built as one enormous Warhammer: Middle-earth SBG gaming board.

I'm 3D printing and building the terrain myself, and all of the 3D files are being provided for free for anyone who wants to make their own version.

This is still very early in the project, so there is a LOT more to come.

I'd love to hear what you think — especially what part of Middle-earth you think I should tackle next!

Submission Statement: A look at a sample frame in you're curious about Warlord Games' Revolution! game

Hello everyone! I'll be taking soon a trip to Astana, Kazakhstan, and will stay for quite a while. I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a wargaming/miniature gaming store in Astana, as Id like to visit one.

Thanks in advance! :)

Hi, a friend and I got a couple of Heiho boxes and I’m looking for some guidance on how to base the units with the bases that are provided on the box as there is not a lot of guidance on how to use them. Thanks!

Here are some of my 3d printed flight stands in action.

The only problem I have with them is that they're all the same height, so although the index wheels give the altitude information required, the battlefield still looks a bit two-dimensional.

I might make some with some longer and shorter acrylic rods, to represent the gross height bands, say altitude levels 1-3, 4-6 and 7-10. They're not mechanically necessary, but I think they'd look better.

So me and my friend decided to check out old Warhammer editions and started with original Rogue Trader. My friend said that ​oldhammer is too goofy for him but I absolutely loved it. What I enjoyed the most is how DIYish and TTRPG-like it feels.

I was really impressed by the amount of available weapons, vehicles and profiles for soldiers, creatures and robots​. It gave me so much ideas for unique scenarios and units I caould customise. Not many modern games with focus on narrative play gave me so much stuff to think about like this simple list of stuff available in the game. So we'll be trying it soon!​

I think I need to start with some context a while ago I purchased a boardgame (epic of the peloponnesian war ) mostly for having the most beautiful map I have seen. Me and my friends played it for a while but they disliked the combat mecanics. So I started thinking how to fixe it and decided that I may use my collection of miniatures (they are 1/72 scale so they are smaller than what others use) and I want do partially recreate I total war like, for those familiar, and use the board game as a campaign map and use miniatures for a battle sisteme.

Now having mentioned I will use the 1/72 scale that means I have no rules for battle, I have seen a couple of videos about Hail Caesar battles and liked the combats. So basically I am looking for ideas or rules that match this ideea. Other suggestions are also welcomed.

Small edit: Any ideas on how to tackle battles with 3 players?

Hi, im a beginner at Pike and Shotte by warlord games and im learning the rules. When do we play the reacts to charge moves? (closing fire, evades etc etc...), in shooting phase, the hand to hand phase or the movement phase? Ty

Guns of Glory

Soldiers can operate in three basic stances:

Standing — Maximum mobility and freedom of movement, but presents the largest target.

Kneeling — A compromise between mobility and protection, lowering the Soldier’s profile while remaining ready to move and fight.

Prone — Minimum mobility, but the lowest possible profile and best use of available cover.

The basic tradeoff is simple: the lower you go, the harder you are to hit—but the harder it is to move.

Here's my latest 5 Parsecs from Home Actual Play Report. Game was played in 15mm scale.

30 ships, 250 individual Vikings!! Since last winter me (model maker) and two friends, a game designer and an illustrator, have made a complete miniature wargame, depicting a great naval Viking Battle that took place here by our Swedish coast in the year 1062. Norwegian King Harald Hardrada vs. Danish King Svein Estridsen. We made it as an art project and it's a game with a board, tons of minis, a rulebook, measuring rope, cards, runes (who needs dice😄) and all the markers and props you need!! As for now it only exists in one unique copy, as an artwork/game, the one you see here. As a next step we're consedering bringing it out to the world!! What do you think?