cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49854495
Came across the Bunnies and Burrows ttrpg, and it made me wonder if there was a wargame equivalent. I mean, the Warriors series is still super popular, sk there’s gotta be a cat-bases wargame somewhere!
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Root! Cut throat war-ish game, and cute as hell.
A wargame isn’t any game that features war as a theme, it’s a very specific genre of game where you move units around on a map simulating actual battles or wars. Think Warhammer as the most well-known example.
Yeah, I’m specifically looking for a thing that will give me lots of minis I can paint with my fiancee, who isnt interested in faceless military dudes or ugly monsters or mechs but is perfectly down with role-playing realistic war in her D&D campaigns. Something in the vein of Watership Down or the Warriors series would be perfect.
If the minis are what you’re after, surely there are some cute animal minis for RPGs you could paint?
We have a bunch of guinea pig warriors sitting around somewhere. Never got to use them. Its different when the whole game is built around the minis
Ah, so you want something you can paint with your fiancee but then also actually play? In my previous comment I was assuming the painting & collecting were all you were after.
Yeah, we are both D&D nerds, but role-playing doesnt actually require minis tbh. The game takes place almost entirely within dialogue between you and the DM, everything else is there to facilitate that.
Now see, as a war gamer (ASL, GMT, Colombia games) I wouldn’t consider Warhammer a true “wargame”, but the definition has changed over the years. WotR and Root are considered “wargames” these days.
I won’t comment on Root because I don’t really know it and am not really involved in wargames myself, but in what way is Warhammer possibly not a wargame?
That’s the thing, my definition shouldn’t really matter. For me, war games are the hex and counter games, in any scale. But I understand it when people say warhammer is a war game. I consider it a tabletop miniature game.
war games are the hex and counter games
Oh, that’s interesting. So you would also not consider something like Flames of War to be a wargame, because it uses exact position rather than hexes?
Isn’t root a boardgame
Yes, there is also Ttrpg.
Bunny Kingdom!
Someone else said ROOT, that was my first thought.
Unstable unicorns, and it’s spin off with llamas. Not really conquest games, but they battle in lore.
Check out Burrows and Badgers.
I sometimes like to play Animal Royale. It’s a free to play battle royale available on steam and every console like Fortnite or PUBG, but 2D and top down. All the character skins are just cute animals.
Edit: Er… Not the kind if wargame you meant I think. But imma leave it.
I think he might be asking about a tabletop wargame, rather than a video game wargame; the question was originally posted to [email protected], which deals with tabletop wargames rather than video game wargames. The crosspost kind of lost that context.
Yeah, I’m specifically looking for a thing that will give me lots of minis I can paint with my fiancee, who isnt interested in faceless military dudes or ugly monsters or mechs but is perfectly down with role-playing realistic war in her D&D campaigns. Something in the vein of Watership Down or the Warriors series would be perfect.
I don’t play tabletop wargames, so I can’t personally recommend it, but looking online, I see a lot of references to Burrows and Badgers.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/review-charming-skirmish-game/
I’m not sure if that’s what what you’re thinking of wargame-wise, but it has miniatures, and is described as a “skirmish-style wargame”. It’s also called an “RPG-style wargame” on Wikipedia, though, so I’m not sure if it falls too close to the RPG camp for you.
I think Burrows and Badgers is exactly whay i am looking for.
Still have nostalgic memories of Conker Live and Reloaded. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcJxp0jnzo
