Best Way To Start Historical Wargaming? Give These A Go! Wargames & Creators You Might Like
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Historical wargaming can often feel like it's quite impenetrable. Hopefully, this video will open you up to the idea of giving it a go with some Historical wargames that are simple and easy to get into and often let you have plenty of freedom when it comes to painting and hobbying.
► HVM Workbench www.hvmworkbench.com/
► SAGA www.grippingbeast.co.uk/SAGA....
► Ravenfeast www.ravenfeast.com/
► Bolt Action store.warlordgames.com/pages/...
► Blood Red Skies store.warlordgames.com/collec...
► 02 Hundred Hours greyfornow.com/collections/02...
► Flames Of War www.flamesofwar.com/Default.a...
► The Barons' War footsoreminiatures.co.uk/coll...
► Test Of Honour greyfornow.com/collections/ga...
► Dead Man's Hand www.greatescapegames.co.uk/de...
► Victrix Limited www.victrixlimited.com/
► Perry Miniatures www.perry-miniatures.com/
► Wargames Atlantic wargamesatlantic.com/
► Peter's Paperboys peterspaperboys.com/
► Peter Dennis Wargame Series www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=peter+de...
► WoFun Games wofun-games.com/
This video looks at some historical wargames across all manner of periods of history. We're going Dark Age with Vikings and Saxons plus World War II, Feudal Japan, the Wild West and even Medieval during The Barons' War.
Maybe there are some good historical wargames out there that YOU should suggest for newcomers? What miniature creators do you go to when it comes to picking up miniatures for your army?
#HistoricalWargaming #Wargaming #SAGA
00:00 Introduction
00:58 SAGA
07:21 Ravenfeast
09:28 Bolt Action
13:18 Blood Red Skies
15:06 02 Hundred Hours
16:36 Flames Of War
18:40 The Barons' War
21:36 Test Of Honour
23:46 Dead Man's Hand
25:07 Miniature Creators
28:04 Peter's Paperboys
30:21 WoFun Games
31:45 Conclusion - Hry
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Some excellent recommendations there, nice jumping off points. I'd add in Mortal Gods and To The Strongest for Ancients - easy rules that aren't as historically in depth so are good for people coming into this side of the hobby. TTS in particular is cheap to pick up as well which helps massively. Also had quite a lot of fun with One Hour Wargames by Neil Thomas. Includes several different periods in one book.
I am a massive fan of bolt action (owning all 5 major nations).... I kinda bounced off Flames of war it's a good game but the scale doesn't do it for me.
Blackpowder is fun (but a big investment unless your going with 1:72 scale airfix kits like I did because ironically the scale for that doesn't bother me) as is 'the men who would be king' by ospray...
Historicals are honestly on it the best to get into as the many of the models can be picked up in 1:72 scale for very cheap.... Love the paper craft suggestion at the end.
Nice
Yeah - one of the massive benefits of Historicals is being able to snap up a lot of models for pretty darn cheap!
What a good review video. And a nice range of featured rules too. Thank you.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment :)
Awsome list! Battlegroup in 15mm is lovely
I bet! I have been very tempted by Battlegroup it has to be said
Good to hear some love for the Hawker Hurricane!
Gotta support it!
I would add Blood & Plunder, Blood & Steel (upcoming), and Clash of Spears to your list.
I would wholeheartedly agree on those three too - I might have to do another video looking at more options!
Nice one, Ben. I'm a huge fan of Bolt Action but it's tough to find anyone to play with because my gaming group are all into Fantasy and SciFi stuff (mostly GW).
Ah that's always the kicker! Bolt Action is awesome fun though. I played a while back and I think the rules are excellently done and it's really easy for a new Historical wargamer to get into them. Hopefully some folks will pull their finger out and play some games with you!
Good introduction to these games, might take a look at Saga.
Thanks for watching - yeah, I would really recommend SAGA. Solid system that allows for cool battles with a bit of a heroic edge to them.
@@BecauseOfDragons I'm looking to an alternative to anglocentric dark ages skirmish games.
I started with Sails of Glory and Lion Rampant, the latter of which can be quite inexpensive to get into. You can get an entire retinue in the Perry Miniatures plastic Hundred Years War English box.
I have been very tempted by Lion Rampant. Seen a lot of good things about it!
It's a lot of fun.
Came for the dwarves, stayed for the awesome insights! :)
Thank you! I hope to have more Dwarves in the future here!
@@BecauseOfDragons I would be happy if videos like yours got more ppl to step away from the table and look around and see there is more to gaming than handfuls of dice and crushing metagaming.
There seems to be some interest locally in Raise the Black (B&P) but then again you would have to be a cold hearted bastard to not at least be curious if someone offered you the chance to play pirates, particularly Blackbeard.
I know a lot of folks who love Blood & Plunder - it does seem a neat game. I was very interested in the Fire On The Frontier expansion. I am eager to maybe give Blood & Valour a go as I think World War I is fascinating
@@BecauseOfDragons Or Blood and Steel, Māori wars, or American-Mexican, or what-if like Zulu vs Māori.
I do agree WW1 is such an under (and mis) represented period. Likely cause most people have the trench warfare stuck in their heads but that was only a small part even in Western Europe which was a (geographically) small part of the conflict.
With Blood and Valor moving into the Russian Civil War there seems to be quite a bit of interest there. And anything that gets someone to pick up a book and read is a good thing (I include myself here).
Have to say, I think Saga is looking pretty shabby now, and it was always basically about logistics - piling up points to do things that would be utterly impossible in ANY period. For ‘dark age’ or Early Medieval skirmishing I would recommend Blood Eagle, or the adaptation of Baron’s War, or even the old but wonderful set of rules in Don Featherstone’s Skirmish Wargaming book.
Didn’t know there was plastic cowboys yeehar…
For sure! Get on it - those sets are great
Mortal Gods is the best historical wargame
I have heard very good things about it :)