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Saturday, 21 November 2015
More cool than something really cool....
Airfix battles!
I came across this by accident.
Due out next year, this is a card focused game of tactical combat using counters on a square board. Alternatively use your Airfix soldiers and tanks. A "Collectors rule book" converts the rules to a full able top wargame. Check it out here. The publisher, Modiphius, looks like a serious player. As this game set covers US paras and Germans in Normandy, this almost looks like a combination of M44, Operation Squad and Heroes of Normandie. I don't know the price point but it looks very tempting.
It does look good - great to see a wargame product on the high street, hopefully it will ensnare some new blood, just like Airfix did for so many all those years ago.
I will be looking closely at this, even if it is just for the cards.
Of course, if they hadn't had their 'issues' and done this 40 years ago, they could have supplanted GW, been the importer of D&D and hex'n'xhit wargames, and we would never have had Warhammer.
The Airfix Blitzkrieg would have taken over the world, with stores opening across the globe and defining military history for a generation (eventually making 'simpler' kits of course)...and 'Space Marine' would still be but a little used term in the odd sci fi novel *sigh*
It does look good - great to see a wargame product on the high street, hopefully it will ensnare some new blood, just like Airfix did for so many all those years ago.
ReplyDeleteI will be looking closely at this, even if it is just for the cards.
So cool that I put a post on own blog :)
ReplyDeleteOf course, if they hadn't had their 'issues' and done this 40 years ago, they could have supplanted GW, been the importer of D&D and hex'n'xhit wargames, and we would never have had Warhammer.
The Airfix Blitzkrieg would have taken over the world, with stores opening across the globe and defining military history for a generation (eventually making 'simpler' kits of course)...and 'Space Marine' would still be but a little used term in the odd sci fi novel *sigh*
Ahhhh, I can but dream.
I agree entirely with your thoughts chaps. I only wish this was going to be by Xmas!
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