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Miniature wargaming is a tabletop game where players use miniature figures to represent soldiers, vehicles, and other elements of a battlefield, while engaging in strategic battles against other players.
Aug 5, 2021 · Most ‘person sized’ wargames, meaning those games where characters on foot can be seen and easily recognized on the battlefield, follow a millimeter measurement, with one of the most common scales in this area being 28mm.
Aug 28, 2021 · The scale of miniature wargames is a big deal, especially as you move from one wargame to the next. And, while we had a period where most games (aside from many historicals) were squarely in the 28mm camp, it seems like there has been a renaissance of alternate miniature wargaming scales.
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- Warhammer 40,000. Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 (or 40K for short) is the best-known and most-played tabletop wargame on the market. The sci-fi setting includes several factions with unique playstyles and aesthetics.
- Star Wars X-Wing. Star Wars X-Wing, originally by Fantasy Flight Games, now under the reins of Atomic Mass Games, sees players control ships from the Star Wars universe.
- Age of Sigmar Warcry. Warcry by Games Workshop is a skirmish wargame set in their fantasy Age of Sigmar setting. The game features a small number of fighters in each player's warband and a tight rules package with limited stats for each fighter.
- Kings of War. Kings of War by Mantic Games is a fantasy mass battle wargame. Players pick their armies from one of the 26 available including fantasy favorites like Elves, Dwarves, Ratkin, and Undead, along with races like the Nightstalkers, horrors from nightmares, and the Northern Alliance, a mix of men and ice monsters like trolls and wolves.
Miniature wargaming strategy has engrossed audiences worldwide for its thrilling synthesis of tactical acuity and narrative depth. Yet beyond just being recreational and fun, it’s also useful in understanding how actual military strategies have worked.
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A miniature wargame is played with miniature models of soldiers, artillery, and vehicles on a model of a battlefield. The benefit of using models as opposed to abstract pieces is primarily an aesthetic one. Models offer a visually-pleasing way of identifying the units on the battlefield.
