Village Games' Blog

Monday, June 2. 2008

Boardgames in Miniature

INTERPRETING A NEW WAY

Recently one of the regulars (Doug M) and his friend (Terry) were playing a miniatures game at the shop that they had adapted from a board game. With the cool looking terrain tiles and well painted armies, it definitely caught my eye.

The original game was World at War: The Battle of the Eisenbach Gap from Lock ‘n Load games (which we carry), which is about a Soviet invasion of the West during the Cold War. Doug and his friend really liked the board game, but being miniatures players, they were looking for a way to translate it into a tabletop version.

Using some pre-printed hex tiles, and drawing from their extensive 6mm Micro Armor collections, the pair played a couple of great games that afternoon. Now with a new version of the game coming out (“Death of the 1^st Panzer”) they have even more reason to utilize the rules and expand their armies relative to the game’s scenarios.

After a great afternoon of combat, both agreed to come up and play it again. It appears though, that they are going to start using the new Oddzial Osmy 3mm miniatures for the pieces (that way a stand that represents a platoon will actually have 3-4 tanks on it, and yet will still fit in the hex).