Wilco's Mass Battle Rules mk2 (Spring Clean Challenge 2021)

About 10 years ago I started imagining up a game bringing together two of my favourite games,  “The Battle of the Five Armies Miniature Game” and “Sid Meier’s Civilisation PC Game”. I’ve always wanted to after playing and seeing on the table top BotFA my own mass battle ranked game and have always wanted to build a table top version of Sid Meier’s Civilisation so I started to create one. Sadly after creating the first prototype I moved house and didn’t go back to it.

I am still interested in creating a Civilisation creating game and have ideas I hope to post in the future but for now I will let you know what I had done for the mass battle 10mm side of the game.

As part off the game each side used different kinds of resources to recruit different units and advance them across the table to defeat the enemy keep. I wanted to develop a rule set that would make when different units engaged there was a early desirable winner and no need to roll dice. This developed in to my core mechanics that I will talk about in another post (watch this space)

I also split my BotFA core set in half, not worrying about races but to give more unit types and to keep each army balanced. I will add images of the armies I made in there Red and Blue colours that were my game play prototype. I did also add a couple of other minis such as dragons and young fire drakes to give more unit types (i believe they are from the original Mighty Empires set from GW). 

Hope you like the images of these painted armies, personally I think seeing large blocks of tight ranked troops look so epic and the idea of a force that stance a large table will look amazing.

Let me know what you think of the GW Minis that came in the “The Battle of the Five Armies Miniature Game”. Will be talking more about game play ideas I had in my MK1 rules and how im developing them in the next posts swell as how im upgrading the miniature forces using Forist Dragon STL File miniatures. 

Small Look at Forest Dragon’s Prints agents the old GW BotFA Minis.