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Reply To: Why is it that Skirmish Games Dominate the Gaming Scene?

June 18, 2021 at 6:34 pm #1657176

onlyonepinman

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I cam think of a number of reasons, some linked.

For a lot of gamers, who are cash rich and time poor, the idea of collecting a skirmish force of 15 miniatures is more attractive than a game requiring tens to hundreds of miniatures
Smaller games with smaller commitments allow casual gamers to collect mutltiple games or multiple skirmish forces for a single game for the same overhead as a single army in a large wargame. This allows gamers to experience several genres or settings.
People who enjoy painting can paint each miniature as a unique individual and still reasonably expect to get their full force painted.

Many small skirmish games os part of the reason that we see such a fantastic variety of games at the moment. The market probably couldn’t sustain that number of games if they were all the same size as 40k. I would also say that the rise of the miniatures boardgame is also linked to similar reasons