Just Cannon Fodder: How A Bonapartist Speedpaints Space Marines.Search this blog Search for: Recent blogs I prefer 6mm these days, but to all gamers who left God’s own plastic scale to play the giant 28mm resin scale loved by the Devil, I ask: what was ever wrong with 1/72? And they looked damn fine – diorama bases, quickshade, tadaa! the overall look is convincingly good. Fellow wargamers donated me their old 1/72 miniatures, 1/72 is the cheap scale Thomas recommends. The use of the scenarios means quick campaigns can be set up and played in an evening. The rule do allow quick battles on a smaller scale but makes it feel like a bigger engagement. While it covers nothing extensively, what it does cover is sound and well done. Would I spend my money to buy it? I believe ultimately I would.
So what? I had a nice ‘snack’ fastfood wargame, and next time when I visit a board game club or board game shop to promote miniature wargaming, I can bring a shoebox with a few big bases, a second shoebox with simple terrain, set up within 10 minutes on any small table and invite any newbie to play a wargame.Ī BoardGameGeek reviewer called Thomas’ approach ‘beer and pretzel’, ‘entertaining’ and also ‘a study in compromises’. Such games might not be as deep and megalomaniac as my beloved smallscale 3-5hr big battles. The scenarios are more important than the game as such – maybe the game is not too challenging, but the puzzles are.
My first trial game happened more than a year ago, shortly after I had finished the simple 1/72 Airfix/Revell big bases recommended by Neil Thomas. Today I played my 2nd 1hr-wargames-wargame, a ruleset I analyzed earlier.