Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

[TREX]

It's been awhile since this thread has had a good bump. I just want to put all the fun and interesting miniatures games I've been actively playing, building things for, eyeballing, or hoping to pick up or get to the table. I've been more regularly playing and painting star wars legion. This game is fantastic. Really scratches my star wars itch. I'm yet again painting more models for it. I'm caught up printing and buying models for it for the time being. I've got tons of everything, all units, for all five armies. Anybody that's a starwars fan, and loves miniatures games should check this out. I've also been actively playing walking dead call to arms. I really love this . Its a very fun smaller scale skirmish game. There aren't squads or armies, but groups of individual survivors that you draft. There are a handful of fun objectives, and it's super fun to screw the other players over by moving walkers towards enemy survivors. It's got a really fun and thematic walking dead feel to it. Some games I have that I'm dying to get to the table are stargrave, frostgrave 2.0, ghost archipelago, and fallout wasteland warfare. These are all fun little skirmish games all except fallout of these are miniatures agnostic. Off and on I've been painting models for various versions of zombicide. The modern ones, especially zombies, make great additions to my walking dead zombie hordes on the tabletop. I'm currently getting ready to dive into middle earth battle strategy game. I absolutely love tolkeins work and the game looks pretty great. I've got quite a few lotr and hobbit minis based with scape bases that I'm going to rebase for this game since the HoME group is pretty stagnant anyway. I've already got all the pdfs for it and a gearing up to make an Isengard army first. At one point in time I wanted to put star wars, walking dead, and lotr into heroscape, but have come to the conclusion in the last few years, that everything doesn't need to be heroscape, and other systems can be great fun and should get a chance. Very exciting time to have sweet miniature games for all these fun IPs. Last game I've been eyeballing lately is called space station zero. A Sci fi mini agnostic game that can be played solo, coop, or in one off head to head games. The solo and coop are a survival type adventure where the players fight through the space station. I look forward to what any of you others are playing that you are excited about and are painting and making things for. I figure this is a cool spot to discuss something besides the Age of Annihilation in a time where it gets 99% of all conversation for reasons I can't in all honesty get excited about.

[AMIS]

Fair points @TREX
My youngest has been dragging me into Legion. It's a good game and he does all the painting for it (he's far better than I've ever been - I think he enjoys painting while I hate it). It's actually a fun game but I've "heroscaped" all his figures as well. But when we play Star Wars scape we do not tend to mix them with non star wars figures.
My oldest is into warhammer painting (not the game but Orks, space wolves and halflings) so that gets heroscaped too and again it's not something we generally mix in.
Bloodbowl is the big game right now and we've all painted teams for that - it's a game I was into in the 80's so I've far more teams than either of them - but together we have 46 teams that we play elimination tournaments with on an annual basis. We'll play 3-team matches in Dungeonbowl for 5 various cups then we each chose a team (not allowed to choose the same as last year) and put the winners and our choices into an 8 team elimination final. Lot's of yelling and fun.
Heroquest is another fun game that I've started painting the figures to after a year of using proxies from my old D&D and Heroscape collection.

[TREX]

Originally Posted by AMIS

Fair points @TREX
My youngest has been dragging me into Legion. It's a good game and he does all the painting for it (he's far better than I've ever been - I think he enjoys painting while I hate it). It's actually a fun game but I've "heroscaped" all his figures as well. But when we play Star Wars scape we do not tend to mix them with non star wars figures.
My oldest is into warhammer painting (not the game but Orks, space wolves and halflings) so that gets heroscaped too and again it's not something we generally mix in.
Bloodbowl is the big game right now and we've all painted teams for that - it's a game I was into in the 80's so I've far more teams than either of them - but together we have 46 teams that we play elimination tournaments with on an annual basis. We'll play 3-team matches in Dungeonbowl for 5 various cups then we each chose a team (not allowed to choose the same as last year) and put the winners and our choices into an 8 team elimination final. Lot's of yelling and fun.
Heroquest is another fun game that I've started painting the figures to after a year of using proxies from my old D&D and Heroscape collection.

That's awesome that your kids play these games with you. I have an 11yr old daughter that will only play minecraft along with the occasional other video game. She likes to paint and draw but I'm yet to get her mini painting on the regular. I've been trying to tantalize her with the airbrush lately. The answer is always, you do it better dad, can you just paint the stuff in question. I guess on the other games they could live in their own games and heroscape. I guess I just am tired of making customs and prefer to just play the game they came with. I don't play 40k but am very interested in the kroot models. I found and downloaded a bunch of awesome stls that I could build an entire kroot army with. I'm thinking I'll just make some smaller crews of them for stargrave or something. I've never played dungeonbowl. That sounds neat. I have been trying not to get into too many new games lately. But since I pretty much have all the middle earth strategy battle game pdf manuals, a bunch of models already, and a ton of stls, combined with my unnatural love for Tolkien stuff, I can't help myself.

[AMIS]

Originally Posted by TREX

That's awesome that your kids play these games with you. I have an 11yr old daughter that will only play minecraft along with the occasional other video game. She likes to paint and draw but I'm yet to get her mini painting on the regular. I've been trying to tantalize her with the airbrush lately. The answer is always, you do it better dad, can you just paint the stuff in question. I guess on the other games they could live in their own games and heroscape. I guess I just am tired of making customs and prefer to just play the game they came with. I don't play 40k but am very interested in the kroot models. I found and downloaded a bunch of awesome stls that I could build an entire kroot army with. I'm thinking I'll just make some smaller crews of them for stargrave or something. I've never played dungeonbowl. That sounds neat. I have been trying not to get into too many new games lately. But since I pretty much have all the middle earth strategy battle game pdf manuals, a bunch of models already, and a ton of stls, combined with my unnatural love for Tolkien stuff, I can't help myself.

My kids are 15 and 19 yr old football playing boys so war games and football is easy for them to get into. I think you'll have a bit more of a tough sell but hope I she learns to enjoy the hobby for your sake. I'm actually amazed my kids took to painting miniatures (I hate painting).
Dungeonbowl is just an underground version of Bloodbowl (fantasy football) and is faster paced and more chaotic with 3 players. Whoever discovers the ball first generally loses as the other 2 need to take him out. But if you take over the ball too quickly then you get taken out.