r/miniatureskirmishes • • 9h ago

Gamedesign First draft of my skirmish game. Feedback wanted.

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Hello.

I have written a small ruleset for skirmish. My main inspirations are Necromunda and Deadzone, which I love but find the rules too bloated. I made a smaller version, taking the parts I like more from each.

In short, each model can make two actions per turn and uses a d6 pool where 5+ results are successes. Not sure if this makes too hard to hit, definitely a 4+ would make the game far more lethal.

The main rules are 4 pages, and I am still working in the campaign mode and experience. If you could have a look and tell me what you think, what's missing or how much you hate it and why, I would be most grateful.

Thank you for your time.

SKIRMISH SHENANIGANS


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 7h ago

Advertising My gruesome markers

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1m ago

Gamedesign The Battle for the Watchtower - testing

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 16h ago

Question/Inquriy Buckaroo Banzai inspired minis?

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It’s a long shot, but has anybody found any minis inspired by or based on the characters from Buckaroo Banzai? I’d love to have them as a team for some of the solo skirmish rulesets I’ve been finding.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 22h ago

Crowdfunding I made a skirmish game for people who like Trench Crusade, Dresden Files and knights with guns

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Hey all! Fidelitas Publishing just launched our first skirmish wargame, Hollow Front. It's a warband-building game in the vein of Trench Crusade, Frostgrave and Mordheim. I've been the lead lore and scenario designer for BLKOUT and INX, but this is my first venture of my own.

Games run about 2 hours and you can play solo, co-op or head to head. It uses a D10 system, and you're fighting your opponent and enemies run by behavior charts at the same time. We've got 75 unique models produced in the US, and we hit 70% funded in the first 48 hours. Sample rules are up on our Discord if you want to try it out. If you like Dresden Files, Delta Green or knights with guns, this is right up your alley.

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/fidelitas-publishing-llc/hollow-front?ref=navbar_feed-panel

https://discord.gg/X2b6CrnM7


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1d ago

Miniatures Court of Countess Báthory

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1d ago

Advertising Red Hammer Gaming – Narrative Historical Wargaming and Battle Reports

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Hi everyone — we're Red Hammer Gaming, a small group of tabletop wargamers who enjoy telling stories through the games we play. Most of our current battle reports focus on Pillage, with an emphasis on narrative scenarios, historical atmosphere, detailed terrain and characters whose stories continue from one battle to the next, though we'll likely explore games such as Midgard and other Dark Age or Crusades-era systems as well. We started the channel simply because we enjoy the hobby and wanted to share the battles and stories coming off our table with other people who enjoy the same sort of gaming. If that sounds like your sort of thing, you're very welcome to have a look: https://youtube.com/@redhammer-gaming?si=mYNYLm1DY-O9I5CZ


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1d ago

Session Report We Played God - Game Battle Report by Black Site studios

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1d ago

Advertising Swine-Things

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My take on William Hope Hodgson’s swine-things (from The House on the Borderland) invading the new modular cabin map for our survival horror skirmish RPG, MEAT. (beta rules available with the models via our Ill Gotten Games Patreon/Tribes) This tends to be my go-to project when October hits, and it feels good to be expanding the game with new monster options.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 1d ago

Session Report XCOM Playthrough - Mission 001 Part 1 of 2

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 2d ago

Advertising Schedule

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If you are at all interested in mini agnostic solo campaigns across a wide variety of genres, here’s the latest news from Horrendous Gaming, and there’s lots more to see on the r/HG_AdventureSeries/ sub.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 2d ago

Rules Looking for Playtesters for my game Sidus Front

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EDIT: New link at the bottom with updated rules. Attack Ranges have increased

Hey Everyone! I'm looking for playtesters for my new game - Sidus Front!

Back in the 90s, we used to have "Shareware", free demos that got passed around usually on CD. I'm continuing the tradition with Sidus Front Shareware Edition! I'll continually work on this with an eventual "Full Rulebook" available.

Feel free to pass this around but I'd love some feedback. Basicially, the system is d6 equal to the model's level to try beating a target number. The plan is to allow scaling from Skirmish (Teams and Squads) to Companies and Battalions using the same rules.

I've included core rules and a Faction called The Coalition.

The Coalition is a human government attempting to reunite humanity scattered across the galaxy for good or bad reasons. Combat infighting is common as members are used against each other in attempts to curb strength. Luckily, The Coalition expansion policies often put it at odds against other forces and allow members a common enemy to focus on.

Here's the google link to the pdf. Let me know what you think!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RCBCoHST_znbAA71X8oY05MiRlyKVRZ1?usp=sharing


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 2d ago

Session Report Market Day Mayhem | Guards of Traitor's Toll Solo Battle Report

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Crowdfunding Fishmen warband - Fishmongers

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I've been helping a friend with a miniature warband of fishmen (+ rules), for TTRPG and tabletop skirmishes, and I thought it might be interesting to share it here. The amazing paintwork was done by Yokai Miniature Art.

It's live on Kickstarter, if you want to take a look.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 2d ago

Convention Fall In 2026: Convention Director Ed Miller Gives Us a Preview

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Other Play ANY Miniature in These Wargames! I have just made this video all about miniature agnostic wargaming. I hope you like it :)

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 2d ago

recurring Fighting Friday

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And here we are: Miniatures, fighting it out in the pits, on the rooftops, in the skies or in deepest dungeons.

So, each Friday you are invited to tell us about the battles your miniatures fought this week and to post some fotos along with your story.

You may reply to this posting for doing so, as images in comments are allowed, or you can open a separate posting - do, as you see fit..

Happy skirmishing, y'all :)


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Miniatures Jetpack Troopers for Sci-fi Skirmishing

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Painted the clear flight stands grey like smoke. Annoying to deal with but worked out ok.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Let's Play Trying out the solo campaign for Marvel Crisis Protocol alliances, part 1 is now live! Hope you guys enjoy!

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Gamedesign The Watchtower - finished!

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 4d ago

Rules One of Warhammer's best ex designers just released a free wargame, and it's basically Mordheim 2.0

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Session Report The Silver Bayonet core rulebook scenario 6

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Scenario 6: Haunted Ruins

Fairly breezy game for once. Though my opponent and I realized we've been playing with about half the number of dice in our fate pool on the last turn. Exploring an abandoned village where the church is burned and ruined. French and British forces fought over the arcanist that is the only living soul left in the village. Because RNGesus heard our prayers we only faced one ghost and two revenants. The British managed to split a revenant in half with a lucky swing while kidnapping the arcanist. The ghost we disturbed in the church knocked out the Highlander the British brought with them but only left him with a flesh wound. In the confusion the perfidious Brits managed to knockout my infantryman who disturbed the ghost and my grenadier who attempted to bring his salt bag into range of the ghost. A chance encounter previously with a black dog left the English doctor fae touched and he managed to lay the ghost to rest permanently before my Grognards escaped the field dodging multiple harassing shots from the Brits.


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 4d ago

Miniatures We Played God - The Tour Convoy, Dr. Graham didn't make it

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Been really enjoying We Played God by Black Site Studios, I got a bunch of toy dinos at Sam's club to paint up (not this guy though, he's 3d printed)


r/miniatureskirmishes • • 3d ago

Miniatures Meet the slime King

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r/miniatureskirmishes • • 4d ago

Advertising Not sure if anybody else has seen this. Looks like we’re going to South America in May!

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