Another Skirmish game to consider is The drowned earth it has a 2 player stater bundle for £135 terrain would probably be around £50-100 depending on what you can find. Warcrow may also be worth considering but it has only just been released. Stater set for that is £140 with rule book
ArcWorlde is fantastic. Such a unique fun fantasy skirmish game and the minis are brilliant. They also have lots of single faction starter sets as well. So you can pick whatever faction that takes your fancy.
Another great video and awesome list. I hope this inspires more folks to try smaller skirmish games, from small companies. You could do a 'Download and Print' video on skirmish games, One Page Rules, Wargame Vault has plenty from companies like Snarling Badgers (4 games), Garske Games (2) and Osprey Publishing (too many). Osprey does have print versions, but PDFs are less expensive and you can reference quickly on a tablet while playing. Keep up the great work and cheers!
I'm too old to be constantly scrolling up and down a tablet and I don't find it fun. I've always loved the thumbing through a book knowing where that table I want is. I've even been known to tab pages. With some publishers you can buy the book and get the pdf free and have the best of both worlds. On occassions I have found keyword search great but on the balance prefer dead trees to digital.
DBA & DBMM (De Bellis Antiquitatis v3.0 & De Bellis Magistrorum Militum v2.1). Basic and advanced versions of historical battle wargames, focusing on unit movement and unit types. Free PDF rules or £15 rulebooks. They're meant to be played with 6 or 10mm figures, but as the units represent 300-1000 men each, I prefer to use painted MDF bases with the unit banner drawn on instead to maintain the beyond epic scale (and it makes the cost pennies). Print off some terrain from your favourite non-copywrite Earth satellite website and you're good to go.
This is great, and I love Stargrave/Frostgrave - but they are miniatures agnostic. I do love the figures that North Star has brought out to support them, but they are just as good (if not better) for other miniatures agnostic games (like Five Parsecs, or Space Weirdos). Thanks for this video, very informative and fun.
Our group dropped 02 Hundred for DakAttack (Desert Rats). A Battlefield PC game Dev has a game called "Renegades". Others with Starter sets, minis & rules: Lunar, Hametsu (Black Site Studio games), Pulp Alley, Revelations, Eldfall Chronicles, Elder Scrolls: Call To Arms, Fallout Wasteland, Wild West Exodus, Spec Ops, County Road Z re-release (Modiphius) is coming with minis by Black Site Studios, Mortal Gods, The Chicago Way, Drowned Earth, and Prehistoric Settlement by Steve Barber.
I'd really like to try out a wild west game. If folks could recommend one (whether from this list or elsewhere) as "the one to get", what would that be?
Isley is the name I'd suggest just the sake of an "eyes" pun. Regardless, the pig mascot is really cute! On to the actual video, Crooked Dice 7TV, Steel Rift, and Blood and Plunder all really appeal to me. I'm definitely gonna look into them.
@@Wargamerofalltrades The lore will draw you in, and the sheer fun of it. The editors encourage you to take risks and have fun. When you get a Pulcinella on an ostrich jumping off a bridge onto a gondola back onto to wharf to cut a corner, then you know you've embraced Carnevale. It's mad. Having a good looking board is expensive though but it's lovely and mad
In the next one of these should definitely look at MESBG. There is no standard points level and it plays perfectly well at like 4-500pts where there will be an average of 20-25 models per side. Not sure if that's too many to count as skirmish though - if so look into battle companies which is their RPG-like necromunda-esque variant!
Have you thought about making a video about showcasing games that don’t use measurement for movement but has a grid like battletech. Other couple examples, godtear, super fantasy brawl and skytear grid map based board games. I’m just wondering if there’s more war skirmish using grid maps for movement
@@Wargamerofalltrades I was thinking Slime pork, but i do realize there is an item that is called a spork, and yes you would need one to eat this mascott.
Given some of your comments below, you are ambitious if you turn your wanting into doing and I hope you have a lot of space. I wish you well and look forward to seeing your progress on this journey.
@@Wargamerofalltrades Gaslands after the original MadMax film, oh yeah. I've just never been able to get cheap diecast cars and the ones in the UK always seem to be those vehicles you woud never use. I resorted to lego for a while but seemed too much like wanting to build something so much bigger, it felt like an intro to Transformers 🤣 But pirates and wild west, it's also the child in me.
@@joesturn7740 If memory serves 0200 hours has one starter set, the rest are expansions, so keep that in mind. Can be a little boring for the defender.
@@Wargamerofalltradesthere is a common practice in italy to give wild animal really "out of date", or uncommon, name for comical effect (to emphasize the unusual encounter or situation). So Gervasio, Gianfranco, Sigefrido, Antonio, Lucrezio are all male names used for this reason (and many others). The habit does not really work with female names, because there actually aren't old names for girls that are not used anymore (i mean, there are, but are so uncommon that they do not work for the joke itself).
I've watched all the videos over the past month but cannot remember of you've included RUMBLESLAM? +Pro wrestling with a fantasy setting (think Halfling high-flyers, Dwarf luchadors, Orc brawlers etc) that plays like a cross between a Survivor Series match and a Royal Rumble +Starter box contains everything you need including the ring as a playmat, dice, and 2 teams +Even if you buy the MDF ring it'll still cost
@@Wargamerofalltrades It wasn't created, it was summoned unto the world to sow chaos and destruction. At first meant to collect coins, it was hungry for SOULS! Not content with siphoning a child's innocence, it has taken over a dark corner of the internet (sorry, no offense to your channel). Porculus Prime, the Harbringer of Greed, is not to be owned... it wants to own it all!
Love the content!! Keep it up!! If you're looking for a new video idea, can you do one for getting terrain for cheap. I noticed stuff like Carnevale had some interesting terrain, but I was curious to see what else is availableand would love a video talking about some options for people that play the less supported wargames.
Thanks for the round up. Definitely seeing some new games worth checking out. A suggestion for a future project: maybe a terrain video? You mention terrain as part of the cost round up and got me thinking, where you were sourcing, or were planning on sourcing the terrain, especially those starter sets that don't come with their own.
Flintloque, a very cheap skirmish game of Orcs, Elves, Goblins ect... all in a Napoleonic setting. Plus other spin offs, the starter set is £25.00 at the moment. Plus you can download the taster rules for £2.50 and the main rules for £16.00 Striling.
Great list! Also from the makers of Carnevale, is Rumbleslam. It is amazingly fun and easy to learn. For any fan of pro wrestling and Bloodbowl, this is a MUST TRY game.
I loved the minis, detested the gameplay, for me it took all the worst bits from wrestling and bloodbowl, put them together and it fell flat for me. It was such a cool idea, such a cool set of minis but went south from there. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love Carnevale from TTC and am waiting for Half tilt to drop via KS any day now. So I'm not down on the publisher, it just wasn't what I was looking for in a miniatures game. Substance won over form for me for once.
I can personally recommend Stargrave. Play it in any sci fi esq setting, one book, 20 minis total, a flat table with a smattering of terrain a friend who’s fun and a couple of monsters to terrorise your armies. Sort of what you always thought wargaming would be like when you were younger.
@@Wargamerofalltrades oh well that is one issue with Stargrave. A game might take a bit less than an hour but you end up doing a bit of admin to work out how much cash you get to spend on ur crew after each mission. You learn to have fun with it tho lol
You forgot to mention that Carnevale actually comes with a cheaper "taster" edition called Escape from San Carciano which contains everything you need to learn the game (2 half-sized gangs, dice, playmat and terrain) for less than $50 US... here in the UK I picked up my copy for £35. Great vid though, I might check out Blood & Plunder.
@@Wargamerofalltrades I wasn't suggesting instead of, just a word at the end, as it's not really a Starter set more of a taster. Please don't think I'm criticising, I haven't the guts to do this sort of stuff myself so I've great respect for those of you that do. 😁
Great video! Some real hidden gems in there. Would you be able to make a video on non-traditional miniatures for wargames? So like paper minis, acrylic standees, Jenga bricks, LEGO minifigs, green army men, plastic mesh (Check RLJ's video on it), etc. Some game suggestions to go with these could be: - One Page Rules: They made their paper mini catalogue free a while back and support a wide variety of other kinds of miniatures. - Brikwars: I mentioned this in another comment but it's a long running system made to be used with LEGO pieces and other construction toys. Very chaotic but in a good way, you're encouraged to use the rules you feel comfortable with and to not overthink it, let your inner kid be free. - Battle Blocks Sengoku: Easy to make yourself be it with paper or with some Jenga bricks. - Peter's Paper Boys: Historical wargaming with paper miniatures.
