Bringing Back The Epic Wargames Of The 80’s And 90’s
October 22, 2014 by stvitusdancern
Bestial Wars, a new 12mm miniatures wargame has set out on a Kickstarter campaign to see if it can raise the funds to bring the game to fruition.
According to the game's designer Marco Sano, this game molds itself like years' past "epic" games that can have big battles but with the flow of skirmish games. In this game you play either the woodsy "Defenders" (elves, tree men and animals) or the "Tentaculars" (all kinds of creepy, slimy nastiness) and you battle for supremacy of the land.
To me the miniatures do have that look of miniatures made back in those decades. It will be interesting so see where this project goes. They also looking to expand to other races to include humans, dwarves and such.
It is being made and shipped out of Italy to the rest of the world so it will be interesting to see if backers will have concerns about shipping costs like some other projects. I will have to wait to see what you will get in the final package, but obviously if you increase your pledge the shipping costs seem more reasonable.
Do you think this would make an epic impact on your game table?
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12 mm ?!? O.o wow
Why 12mm? I do not understand why there have to be so many different scales for games. Just makes terrain really annoying. There is drop zone at 10mm, flames at 15mm and now this at 12mm. Let alone all the other historical games out there. I do like the idea of this scale for large battles over having to paint a million 28-32mm models.
A 15mm scale tree, hill, river, field, even buildings will still be ok for 12mm
Having played games with smaller scale figures for many years, our group has decided that it is better to go with smaller scale buildings eg with 10mm we use 6mm buildings and terrain. This looks better to us when fighting large scale battles
I presume the makers of this game have gone for 12mm as it ties with N Scale railway terrain and maybe because Kallistra already has a huge range of 12mm fantasy figures or sale
Looks like good fun, but a bit pricey for my wallet 🙂
Dodgy name.
“Who fancies a game of Bestial Wars?”
“Er, no thanks.”
Slightly better than Bestiality Wars I suppose. Good way to f*ck the dog, so to speak.
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Scale reference
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/942898773/bestial-wars-12mm-miniature-wargame-kickstarter-ex/posts/1044828