New Skirmish Wargames with POTENTIAL
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- These are some new wargaming skirmish games that have potential - what do you think about them?
BLKOUT: www.blkoutgame.com
Steel Rift: www.steelrift.com
Trench Crusade: www.trenchcrusade.com
This Quar's War: wargamesatlantic.com/products/...
Swill from Turnip28: / turnip28
Warcrow: warcrow.com
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Lmao "Neal Blomkamp style" is a super apt description for the style, I've generally spoken of it as "artstation scifi concept art photobash weta workshop call of duty black ops 3 style" which is admittedly more of a mouthful. Tho weta workshop specifically I think is why Blomkamp's scifi looks the way it does. That movie last year, The Creator, also had a very similar visual styling, and they also worked with Weta workshop.
ive come around to kind of loving it as an encapsulation of the mid to late 2010s LOL
Some of the models remind me of the robot soldiers from Titanfall.
Honestly, if someone made proxies for BLKOUT using Titnfall designs, I'd probably get into it.
If you like the "Neal Blomkamp Style", you can get something from the "original" designers. Weta Workshop did designs for Chappie, District 9 (and many other movies) and offer a skirmisher (boardgame) with giant killer robots in this style: "GKR Heavy Hitters". Its end-of-line, but now you get it from them really cheap, and if you like a quick skirmisher, its very casual and quick to play.
(They just obtained some warhammer license, so if you want you can drop down 1.2k$ (NZ) for a Lieutenant Titus Mini (in scale 1:6, so not so mini))
I met the BLKOUT creators at LVO. They were awesome and I picked up 2 teams.
Downloaded the ruleset, will see if it grabs my attention
@@argy8141 it's a great game
Met them at Adepticon, and got a game walkthrough. They were awesome indeed!
This sort of thing, along with the 'why I like it' series, are my favourite videos you do. It's not always easy to find out about games and they really help to highlight some stuff I would like to try. Particularly skirmish games on a 24x24, fits nicely on my kitchen table and I now have a decent sci fi cityscape to fight over.
Thanks for the This Quar's War shoutout!
It may not be super new, but Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone is amazing. The ReAction system is so fun and makes combat feel alive, and there’s a lot of room for roleplaying and interactivity. The main negative is the model’s material of soft plastic and its tendency for nasty mould lines that need a very sharp hobby knife. But that’s pretty minor overall
Seconded.
Thirded. it's the most clever, quick to learn and to run, and straight-up fun skirmish game I've played in years. Future generations of game creators will be stealing from Combat Zone.
I picked this up at adepticon and love the rule set. I call it Necromunda if it was designed by Fantasy Flight Games of the 2010's. All your stats are on cards and upgrades are also on cards. There's also a good number of factions to choose from. Minis need some quality control but the sculpts are great.
Played InCountry (modern-day BLKOUT) with one of the BLKOUT reps at Adepticon and he described it as Infinity for people who don’t have time, and it feels like a perfect elevator pitch.
Hey I'm one of them! Well consider me sold then. Those minis are cool as hell
Oh that's me. I'll have to check it out :)
Just finished a 6 hour game of Infinity. Sounds right up my street!
I cant recommend burrows and badgers highly enough. Has a fun roll-off mechanic and a light but fun persistent campaign rules. It's like mordhiem with animals. great minis too
B&B is one of my favorite games ever. I love the models so much
Ive got this game but i havent found anyone willing to play it
There are some B&B solo rules available free from the publisher’s website. Rules for creating villain warbands, enemy AI flowcharts, and several mission types. I haven’t played them
B&B is very unbalanced. The crit system is horrible and just makes bigger creatures even more dangerous. I've lost whole warbands in a game and in a campaign you'll never recover.
Oathsworn have the best customer service going, great little company
for new wargamers: "wizzywig" = wysiwyg = "what you see is what you get"
It just means the physical model accurately reflects any gear options you've taken
It started with things like the Windows operating system with it's wysiwyg gui or graphical user interface.
40K and Killteam players are BIG on wysiwyg when proxying, so surprise its not more common. I always used to think it was just a Robot Wars bot 🤪
Magnagothica Maleghast looks incredible. Skirmish game set in a city sinking into hell. How cool is that?!
One day I'll finish my C.A.R.C.A.S.S kitbashes...
I'm waiting on Swill. The Turnip28 game has been a blast. And it's not really full armies either. It's a bit somewhere between army and skirmish. But a skirmish game set in the same world is really appealing to me.
I'm getting obsessed with BLKOUT. Read the free rules, tried a few games with printed cards and proxy minis (yes, even the big bots) and it's just so much fun. As the new big box from GW doesn't really click with me at all, my resources will be diverted towards this title.
Good choice, lots of 40k refugees are coming over to BLKOUT.
I bought two 4 man squads for blkout a while ago and forgot (this was before the 2 player starter set).
I’m painting them up now and got the starter set as well, joined the discord etc.
I have to say, I love the design of the BLKOUT infantry, especialyl with those blocky angular helmetsmade up almost entirely of visor. that'S some good shit.
Gangs of Rome v2 is hands down the most fun ive had with a skirmish game in a long time. Great ruleset and the terrain and models are so good.
I'm waiting on Five Parsecs: Planetfall. Solo Planetary exploration and colonisation mini-agnostic skirmish with procedural campaign. I've playtested it and it's another winner. (Yes, I'm a Nordic Weasel fanboi). It takes the best of 5P and 5L and scrunches them together beautifully, with the world map being generated through play, colony events and development, scientific research, all good stuff.
Glad I read this, now I'm waiting on it too.
Cool, I'll check it out. Will they be doing something similar for 5 leagues from the borderlands?
I've been fascinated at the concept since it was announced.
@@CommissarMoody1 next for Five Leagues is some sort of expanded delve system, I believe.
What's 5L and 5P?
1:44 BLKOUT
5:05 Steel Rift
7:38 Trench Crusade
10:37 This Quar's War
11:44 Turnip28
12:30 Warcrow
Mythic Earth by mythicos studios. I currently own a Maya, Aztec, and Inuit force. Real world cultures with some fantasy thrown in the mix such as quetzalcoatl, camazotz, undead giants, and massive wolves. Rules are free and they even have a skirmish game.
I just got the Forbidden Psalm End Times edition in the mail, I can't wait to have some fun with that!
Aimed for a tactical sized rulebook wound up with a cute one, win-win
The hype for Warcrow is really building. We've been putting some videos out about them and the feedback has been positive. I saw it in Spain last year, really nice system.
New skirmish games that have caught my interest:
- Torch & Shield, a dwarves delving skirmish game.
- Zone Wars, a Mutant Year Zero skirmisher
I've been eying BLKOUT for a while, but man oh man Trench Crusade sounds right up my alley! I love discovering new indie games.
Blkout is definitely one I'm going to try out. Patiently waiting for my work bonus to get the 2 player set. Seems like a fun skirmish game to play when I don't want to play giant army battles.
The Silver Bayonet?
Not that new, but still great!
Such a great game
Speaking of mechs, Mobile Arms: Endless Destiny just came out published by Black Site Studios and it's a blast. Excited to play more of that.
I've loved the simple very swingy, not too serious One hour Skirmish rules by John Lambshead (black powder onwards). He is now putting out a swords and sandals version "One-hour Ancient and Medieval Skirmish Wargames" due for release early September 2025. These are miniature agnostic published rulesets. I've also got Half Tilt from TTCombat coming, they are saying it will ship at the end of May, if you can call a jousting tourney a skirmish 😀
Bought nearly the whole line of BLCKOUT minis. One more duster to go. Playing it for the first time this weekend!
Blkout is sick. My friends and I all got into Killteam a few months ago, and after a few games, I said I wanted to try Blkout. The rules were free so it was easy to just use our Killteam minis as standins. We haven't played Killteam again since. It's such a great game! It's so streamlined and punishing. It's dead easy to learn, and puts a lot more weight on strategic positioning instead of the abilities and stats of whatever team you ended up going with.
Feudal Patrol is a game I’ve been considering for some time. It’s by Buck Surdu, author of the WWII skirmish rules Combat Patrol, which I own but have not played, and, like CP, published by Sally Forth in the UK. It is equally suited to historical and fantasy settings, with card-based mechanics.
> blkout >sci-fi > on a ball planet
Cyber-soldiers using AK-47 with wires.
Sure does like like an AK, doesn't it?
I also picked up the BLKOUT starter set a while back, haven't had a chance to dig into it much yet, but really looking forward to it!
I've been enjoying CORE Mech Warfare from the Nth Level. It's played with 1-3 1/144 gunpla models per side and hast a simple ressource Management component. Your mech generates energy each turn and everything you do is paid with energy. As you Store unused energy for later turns, you have to decide when to burn your energy. Really easy to pick up and I like to assemble 1/144 scale gunpla models like the 30 Minutes Mission series from bandai.
Currently running a Tanks for the Apocalypse campaign, we have had two practice games with no objectives and 7 participants, we go campaign Tuesday. Ran a Silver Bayonet campaign over Christmas. Just bought my second copy of Majestic 13 to give as a birthday present to one in the group. And lastly, for now, just got in the Quar starter set, such a cool looking game.
Lovely roundup, thank you!
I'm very excited to see more and more game systems coming out with ready to play games in a box, where everything you need to get started is there and ready for you. I know some folks love hunting down bespoke minis and playing off a PDF, but for me the presentation of a boxed game as a complete artifact helps me immensely.
Warcrow looks good, I'm tempted!
I know it’s not new, but our local club is getting going with Dead Man’s Hand Redux, played on a 2’x2’. It’s great.
DMH Redux is actually very new.
BLKOUT is a great game and I'm happy to see one of my favorite RUclipsrs shout out one of my favorite skirmish game.
Its not skirmish, but I'm liking the rules/models for 'Full Spectrum Dominance' by the STL creator The Lazy Forger.
6mm small band wargame with reinforcement waves and picking from pre-rolled dice pools for actions and special actions.
Its nice to be able to print off a full force on a single build plate on a 3d printer.
Thank you! I definitely consider FSD a Skirmish, but I imagine it wouldn't fint the criteria for many. And people are sadly diffident rergarding small-scales! :S
As a Mutant Chronicles fan since the 90s I am waiting (and actually already playing with the Beta Rules) Warzone Eternal from Res Nova Games, the skirmish version of the Warzone game from 1996. Warzone was huge in Italy, and I think as well in the US, and I hope it will be possible for all the people who enjoyed the game in the 90s (and afterwards with the subsequent versions) to play Warzone Eternal: it is a very good skirmish game from what we tested so far.
What im seeing out of trench crusade is fascinating, and im liking the community im seeing slowly pop up around it... Plus that ART
Really like the Blackout game idea, getting shot is very bad. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for this one Uncle Adam. Always love to hear about up and coming games..
Great video! Love learning about new games to check out.
While my friend got me into miniature gaming with Killteam I was able to get them into other games like Frostgrave and forbidden psalm. Next is burrows and badgers!
I'm pretty excited by steel rift, quars war, and blkout. I thought Warcrow might be cool but I went on their website and watched some videos about how it works, and I think its going to be far too complicated for me to enjoy it. I prefer just the right amount of crunch, and a lot of games just have a bit too much for my tastes. I feel like the basics of moving and fighting should be really simple to communicate. I move X inches or w/e and roll X dice to see what happens when I attack you etc.
Then the spice is what special weapons and abilities do.
Warcrow looks like it has lots of custom symbols, and markers, and game aids and rules about morale and special characters doing X when in a unit vs Y when on their own. My eyes were glazing over with just 6 mins of watching a person talk about the rules.
That's OK though, plenty of other games to be excited for!
This one I need to watch again and take notes. Thank you for all the information you gave, as it just might be a great way to enter more into this hobby.
They all look really cool thanks for the heads-up! Just picked up the starter set for Kill Team.
Oooh, Warcrow. I got pretty disillusioned with wargaming, but those minis might bring me back.
You should really try Infinity if you haven't already, beautiful minis and a good time.
Back to your (skirmishing) roots with this one Uncle Atom. Very diverse list, and intriguing for that.
New...ish : HALO : Flashpoint by Mantic Games. Ok, it's a re-skin of the tried and proved skirmish game system for Deadzone but it might make it more popular with this new IP stuck to it. It's a great skirmish game played on a 2x2 board that started up, if I'm not mistaken, with Mars Attacks. The movement and ranges, calculated in 3''x3''x3'' cubes which is a great accelerator. The system is, for me, the perfect mix of crunchiness and simplicity. Definitely worth a newish look...
I doubt it. It looks really cheap
Cheap in what sense? The quality of the pre-primed minis, which look great IMHO? The fact that they're putting hardstock scenery instead of their regular plastic one to lower the buy-in cost and reduce the time/skill set necessary to have a nice board? The production value of the rulebook? The proven simplicity and efficiency of the ruleset? Might not work for you, but it might for a lot of others though...
I was all for it until they revealed that its basically an emulation of Halo multiplayer, and in the less popular 343 era to boot. Not interested in any of that at all. The multiplayer for Halo Infinite is free to play, so why would I spend hours painting models to get a lesser experience?
They said that other units and factions will come if it sells well enough but I'm like...idk Halo hasn't been relevant in like 5+ years. The only attention its gotten recently have been regarding its terrible show and lackluster gaming experience.
They should have come out with a Bungie-era REACH box or a HALO 3 multiplayer game to really pull in the long time fans with that sweet sweet nostalgia bait.
I'll stick with the fan driven Halo Ground Command.
@@DarthP00P00 valid opinion... but why spend hours painting models? Because I like it :) Same resaon I paint historicals even though I do reenactments. Same reason I paint modern stuff even though I play Milsim airsoft. If you like miniature wargaming and you like the subject : it's might be enjoyable to reproduce the subject on the tabletop, no? Especially if the game rules are a good match for you.
Great great video! Love it. All of these games deserve being in this video. Would love to see all of them covered more in depth.
Met the blkout guys while cruising local games stores. Cool dudes.
Oh one more skirmish game I hope I'll soon get to the table: Conquest: First blood (the little simbling of Conquest: The last argument of kings).
I like their activation system on paper a lot (but haven't tried it in action yet):
At the start of the round both players take cards for each of their units on the battlefield (when you buy a box they come with a card with nice art and a qr code allowing you to pull up stats for the respective unit in their army builder app very quickly) and arrange them in a stack (not shuffled, you decide what is where).
Now players alternate between activations, but you have to activate the top unit of you stack (and then you discard that card).
So you have to prepare in which order you want all units activated at the start of each round :)
Looking into other games like this is awesome, keep it coming. Battle reports of each would be cool as well.
Tonks and Banggurang in gutterlands
Really love your coverage of these indie games. Would love to see a deeper dive on some of this stuff.
Surprised to hear Quar War here.
I recently read through all the free PDFs and am interested to see what a more experienced gamer thinks of the rules.
Warsurge is worth a look. Can be played from Skirmish to Army depending on points and how you build your force. Various play styles from easy/beginner to a much more advanced game. Fully customizable to any minis you have and also provided with many army lists to dive right in. Another cool feature is the app you can use to build forces/weapons with.
Been playing The Doomed and collecting/kitbashing minis for it. Fun game, plays fast, and can devolve into brutal chaos that's deadly as hell.
Only played 1 solo game but I love it
Im still hooked on 15mm Sci Fi using the Gruntz 15mm rules by Rotten Lead Games.
I'm about to bring my own skirmish game, Gauntlets of Glory, to Kickstarter this year. Fantasy battle royal, that was inspired by Guild Ball, Call of Duty, and Frosthaven. It won the "Best of Gen Con 2021" award from Gamer Trend magazine. 15 miniatures, (32 mm) swappable hands/weapons/heads and tons of weapons and spells to find and utilize to be the last surviving hero.
I'll send you a copy.
All of these look interesting - I’m especially excited to see more about Trench Crusade! You missed one new/upcoming new skirmish games, duder! Check out Warzone Eternal! It’s old,but new again.
Lots of folks are hyped for Halo Flashpoint around there. I'm also pretty excited for Fallout Factions, depending on which models we can ultimately use with it. And I wanted to give Necropolis or InCountry a try.
Fistful of Lead is a great skirmish game. The rules are very inexpensive, miniatures agnostic and fun to play. Just what I love in wargames.
There are several themes of Fistful of Lead for whatever type of games you like to play. Sci-Fi, Wild West, Mecha, Historical Army Combat, and even Spaceship combat.
The gameplay is really good and somewhat different because it uses playing cards as well as dice.
It’s so inexpensive, miniatures agnostic, and easy to learn, I don’t see why more folks don’t try it out.
Wargame Vault is were I picked up the rules. The rules are also available on the designer’s website.
Picked up Actung Panza from Warlord which I very much am enjoying and picked up Verretwood because of the the folklore aesthetic, the core rules cant be classed as new but the old west supplement looks really interesting and I can use my wild west terrain in it.
What size board are you playing on and what are you seeing in terms of game time? Cheers in advance
Burrows & Badgers from Oathsworn Miniatures! More people should try it out! :D
Does it play like Frostgrave/ Stargrave? I know its same company. Just wondering if maybe i can use that to jump in to gameplay
@@JarottM No, different designer different mechanics…B&B is based around die size (d4 to d12) and comparison of roll offs. If a Redwall skirmish game sounds like a great idea, this is the game for you.
I’ve loved the Quar since the first releases in metal. Nice to have a plastic option now. You can see some of their inspirations in classic comic art. Josh Qualtieri has design credits in several Pixar movies, so he’s another experienced artist bringing his talents to miniature game design.
I was waiting for a trailer teaser for your new game upcoming game. I'm excited to see the new release.
BLKOUT looks like the tabletop version of Titanfall, and it even has mechs!
Bought a starter set of This Quar's War. Cant wait for it to deliver!
Blood, Bilge, and Iron Balls! It’s an Age of Sail skirmish game that uses card drawing to determine where on the ship was damaged, almost in the style of BattleTech. Works on 1v1 ship battles up to about 6 or 7 per side. Not super granular like many historical rule sets can be.
Good stuff! I'm currently working on some Trench Crusade guys & gals myself. Couldn't resist the call of the Heretic Legions between Naval Raiding Party frogmen & the Artillery Witch pulling 2000lb bombs out of hammerspace they're just too dope. Trying to thread the needle between dieselpunk, steampunk, grimdark & weird war, harder than you'd think.
I cannot WAIT for Trench Crusade to release.
I downloaded the playtest rules for Trench Crusade a couple of weeks ago, and I agree, it looks phenomenal. Both the art, and the ruleset
Interesting list, there's a few on there that I'm extremely interested in seeing more of. Just released (although a 2nd edition of an existing game) is Dead Man's Hand Redux - great fun if you want a knockabout wild west game.
Great video again buddy. Opens the flood gates to more skirmish games !!!
Got introduced to Space Weirdos last October, and just grooving on that. Currently messing around with Zona Weirdos, a homegrown Metro 2033/Stalker setting for SW.
Sláine by Warlord Games needs more attention. I don’t want that ministure line to disappear.
Great lore from the comics and good system. The rulebook could be better.
Feel the same about all the 2000 AD range they do tbh. So much potential and cool models but not a great rulebook.
@@TrickysFlyingBurrito I concur, great models but the books put me off playing 'em.
Great stuff! BLK OUT looks a lot like one of their earlier games Killwager. I'm sure it is still a brutal game system. Thanks for the list. Definitely put me on to a bunch of guys I hadn't heard of before.
I am interested in the new Fallout skirmish game (Wasteland Warfare is unnecessarily complex, imo). Trench Crusade is going to inspire some great kitbashes and 3D prints!
3:25 tactical is probably what they were looking for
great, get me into more games ! Would love a follow up, you tried X and what your opinion on it is. How did it play etc. Love the content bro
I love the video and am definitely keen on checking out a few of the systems you mentioned! I was wondering if you had any advice on how to get people interested in ne game systems? My current group loves most things AOS. We all play aos every Thursday, except every last Thursday of the month is "skirmish game day" where we play both warcry and underworlds. There are about 12 of us. How would you recommend bringing up other potential games systems into my group?
BLKOUT immediately caught my attention. I loved the video game Blacklight Tango Down as a kid and that style it uses for it’s characters and gear immediately hit me with nostalgia. Just need a spider tank for decor and it’s 👌
ALSO OH MY GOODNESS, I COULDN’T FIND MICHEAL FRANCHINA’S ART AFTER I DELETED TWITTER. I KNEW THE STYLE BUT COULDN’T REMEMBER THE NAME! I am so happy to be able to find it again after all these years and so happy to see a wargame in their style.
I frickin' LOVE BLKOUT :D been playing it a bit and getting my butt handed to me lol. I think I'm the only one who's uploaded batreps of that game; one out now, one in the edit.
Word of warning; man isn't lying. BLKOUT is VICIOUS and even the toughest of units can get overwhelmed and slapped pretty easily. I play mainly UN Raid Team and they fold like wet paper if you misstep.
Another fun bit: their rules are free and have a print friendly black and white version for an easy booklet and TTS has mods for them already. I've been letting a friend of mine throw Infinity models in as proxies and we're having a blast.
Good video with some nice pointers. Any chance of a follow up on some of the previous games you have recommended such as Star Breach?. Keep up the great work!
Star Breach is still a good game - I don’t think they’ve made anything new for it, but that’s not really necessary. They may have gone through their print run, so you can probably only get it digitally now. Thanks for watching!
Very excited for the new Forbidden Pslam system game, Endless Horrors Between The Stars, where you build a band of cultists that worship a randomly generated eldritch god. The kickstarter for it just launched
Great video - it's good to see some other minature skirmish games getting a mention 👍 It's how I found Carnevale - not a new skirmish game, but another alternate history which has some cool mechanics & models
As to the recent trend with shortening words/names such as Blkout - I suspected as well as to look different/cool, it is to allow copyrighting of the name if it is something that would ordinarily be in the English language (and thus can't be copyrighted) 😁
Yup going to find Warcrow at Gencon this year. Thanks bubba.
One I'd add to the list (although not new) would be Bot War ahead of the 3rd Ed release next month. Not played it yet, but heard good things.
I keep looking at that game and I'm like "man I wish transforming was a thing in this game"...the visual style is ON POINT but its like watching an episode of Transformers but nobody transforms. It just feels like something is missing.
Hopefully an actual Transformers skirmish game will come out eventually.
Brutality skirmish- the new epic rules set and upcoming mass edition. Whole series is really cool and mini agnoo
I’d add Rogue Warriors from table top skirmish games to the list. They have a really cool rules for Dirty Dozen/Guns of Navarone style missions with sentries and alarms etc…
Also BLKOUT looks awesome so thankyou for highlighting them to me!
This was awesome, its fun learning about new games.
Love BLKOUT, super light and fun. Next mist hype for me is trench crusade.
All good picks I think.
Anyone know why they changed Killwager to Blkout?
V for Victory - WW2 skirmish game from the studio that makes the popular Saga game. It is smaller than Bolt Action. That said, still think one of the best skirmish games on the market is Shatterpoint. Great game!
I second this. I didn't hear/read about V for Victory until the lads from OnTableTop mentioned it. And Star Wars Shatterpoint is one of my favorite and mostly played games atm. Very, very underrated game.
+1 on V for Victory
Not a new game but new to me, looking forward to messing around with Forbidden Psalm!
This is such a cool time for new games!
Just started kitbashing some figures for Trench Crusade :) I like the aesthetic a lot.
Thanks for the recommendations
Ttcombat (the company behind dropzone commander, dropfleet commander and a lot of mdf terrain) has been teasing striketeam commander as a skirmish with infantry supported by vehicles. We don't know much beyond that yet, but the premise seems fun and they'll probably unveil more details in 2 weeks at ukge.
This year "Ascending Fate" will be released by Freebooter Miniatures, a german company. It's a sci fi skirmish game inspired by Freebooters Fate, a pirate-themed skirmish game that's been there for round about 15 years (or even 20?).
Although not a skirmish war game, there is a Cyberpunk Rugby game that has been out for a while now; Takkure. It is slowly building up a community, but the minis look cool and it plays a little similarly to Infinity.
On top of that it is only 4 models per team.