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I think the Destiny universe is perfect for a faction based tabletop wargame. You'd have the Last City, the Reef, the Hive, the Fallen, the Vex, the Taken and frickin' Roman space ogres as the Cabal.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I've heard of it, but I've barely seen any of the metal models, so I'm not sure how it fared. I have always wanted an easily accessible Samurai game as it'd be a easy sell to a buddy of mine.

At first I thought Test of Honour by Warlord games might work, but there's no supernatural or magic component, which is huge in L5R. I think I may end up just using Skaven as some really nice Nezumi (Ratmen), and Warlord plastics/metals for humans, with some metals for character. Probably Song of Blades and Heroes for rules.

The final edition of Clan Wars was called the Daimyo edition and it was a mess.

The basic rules are fine, but too much was added on, the flying rules and the skirmish rules are just too complex. The card system is pure bloat.

The fluff is the best I have ever read for a wargame, and I have read the fluff parts of the rules several times.

Fantasy Flight have recently (last year I think) bought the rights for Five Rings, so all the fluff is in the air at the moment.

I really enjoyed the Legend of the 5 rings RPG. A skirmish game up to mass battle would indeed rule.

Shadowrun. Whatever happened to the skirmish game that was being developed?
He-Man (Masters of the Universe)
GI Joe
Dragon Age
The Witcher
Monster Hunter International
The Dresden Files

 Orlanth wrote:
Glorantha.

Highly concur here! get some Darra Happan charioteers in there

I saw a few people asking for Serenity / Firefly early in the thread.

There is actually a miniatures board game on the way but not sure how good it will be. It's from Gale Force 9 and the first box (Brigands & Browncoats ) comes with 10 crew members (2 versions of the 5 main crew, passengers coming in expansions), 5 thugs, 5 cowboy looking guys, 6 tiles and 10 cardstock buildings (the inside of the box apparently also serves as the inside of one location).





More photos of the models here -

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2017/08/gencon-50-ffg-modiphius-gf9-more.html


For some reason they also appeared to have a resin naked Mal sitting on a rock at Gencon. Presumably they will be offering him as a promo at some point, perhaps in a Saffron themed expansion. Unfortunately I cant find the page now with the model.

Flash Gordon would be pretty sweet.

As mentioned by others UFO:Enemy Unknown, and Borderlands.

That hasn't been mentioned.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Brightly coloured units, FIBUA, property damage and a wide variety of capabilities and more types of stuff than Symphogear or VividRed.

Ok Sister Chantes might need 19 figures and Teana duplicates of her team for their illusion/clone magics but otherwise unless it's the Mariage or Gadget Drones or the like it should be suitable for the usual skirmish sizes.

I can think of a few universes that could use a miniatures game:
Metal Gear Solid
Dune
Star Trek ground combat (like what is seen in later DS9 episodes with the Federation fighting the Jem'hadar)
Starcraft
Stargate SG-1
WarCraft/WoW
Wing Commander

I also wonder why there isn't a game that's basically a tabletop miniatures version of SMITE, with teams of various ancient gods facing off in battle against one another. I think that could make an entertaining little skirmish game. Of course maybe such a game already exists and I somehow don't know about it.

Wing Commander! That would be a tremendous dogfighting game.

Would definitely love to see Starcraft!
I know Prodos showed some small scale Zerg a while ago (think was it demonstrating their manufacturing processes?) but unfortunately I don't think anything had appeared since.

Dune would be amazing, although you would need one hell of a design team to capture the essence of those books. And what kind of format would you go for?
Although arguably you already had that game with early edition 40k

 Dahak wrote:
As mentioned by others UFO:Enemy Unknown,

Know it's not quite the same, but the X-Com boardgame is absolutely brilliant. Well worth a play if you haven't already!

 ZergSmasher wrote:


I also wonder why there isn't a game that's basically a tabletop miniatures version of SMITE, with teams of various ancient gods facing off in battle against one another. I think that could make an entertaining little skirmish game. Of course maybe such a game already exists and I somehow don't know about it.

Mythic Battles is pretty much that, right? It's just greek right now but it's going to expand to different pantheons.

Sounds strange but Persona/SMT. If not, more than likely a board game can work.

Starcraft would be a big one, along with Mass Effect.

 Bromsy wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:


I also wonder why there isn't a game that's basically a tabletop miniatures version of SMITE, with teams of various ancient gods facing off in battle against one another. I think that could make an entertaining little skirmish game. Of course maybe such a game already exists and I somehow don't know about it.

Mythic Battles is pretty much that, right? It's just greek right now but it's going to expand to different pantheons.

Of Gods and Mortals by Osprey is exactly that.

I mean... HOW is there no Command and Conquer miniature game? Not the Tiberian universe, not Red Alert... nothing?

Oh, wait... EA... yeah, nevermind.

Yep, EA excels at wasting the potential of its IPs with ridiculous company-wide mandates.

That said, there's probably a market for a "Crazy Modern War" or "Crazy near future scifi war" game. They key is good miniatures.

I've considered a SMITE-like game, not so much a MOBA-like, but just players and heroes. Again, amazing miniatures is key.

BigDaddio wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
While Warlord makes some decent Samurai figures and there a lot of rulesets like Song of Blades and Heroes, etc would work just fine, a dedicated war/skirmish game set in Legend of the Five Rings would be really cool.

Did there used to be one years ago? I believe it was called Clan Wars.

Gah! Don't remind me!

Clan War was a mass battle game similar to the old Warhammer Fantasy. Figures moved in rank and file formations. I loved the samurai/oriental theme of the game and bought multiple armies. Then one day the manufacture just dropped it with no warning and suddenly no one in my FLGS was interested in playing anymore. I held on for a couple years trying to generate interest locally before finally giving up selling off my collection.

 mdauben wrote:

BigDaddio wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
While Warlord makes some decent Samurai figures and there a lot of rulesets like Song of Blades and Heroes, etc would work just fine, a dedicated war/skirmish game set in Legend of the Five Rings would be really cool.

Did there used to be one years ago? I believe it was called Clan Wars.

Gah! Don't remind me!

Clan War was a mass battle game similar to the old Warhammer Fantasy. Figures moved in rank and file formations. I loved the samurai/oriental theme of the game and bought multiple armies. Then one day the manufacture just dropped it with no warning and suddenly no one in my FLGS was interested in playing anymore. I held on for a couple years trying to generate interest locally before finally giving up selling off my collection.

Yeah, very good little gem, loved the rules for the general's HQ and how characters interacted with units.

These days L5R is owned by FFG, so if the LCG, boardgame and RPG do well, I would not rule out the possibility of a Runebound-like Clan War game.

- HALO - if there is one it must be crap cuz I've not heard of any. Surprised GW never pursued it as it seems an IP right in their wheelhouse.

- EXTRAORDINARY LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN - Good luck dealing with Alan Moore but there is a goldmine here.

- RICK & MORTY - it's only been 3 seasons but R&M have made a TON of enemies.

- PLANET OF THE APES - Lots of potential here. Apes/humans/mutants- time travel/area control. Flip the boards to the Forbidden Zone/Jungle/ruined NYC

- SAMURAI JACK - this could be really crazy. The future/ the past with a metric tons of armies from yetis/highlander girls/Robot bounty hunters/tiger assassins/giant monsters.

- THE THING - Who is human & who's a thing? Yeah it's Ultimate Werewolf with minis but you start out on one side with your fellow humans but then your paranoia goes through the roof as you fight for survival or you blow up the base to save humanity.

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:
- HALO

Spartan Games, which recently shut down, had two Halo miniatures games: a space fleet game and a 15mm ground combat game.

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:
- EXTRAORDINARY LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN

Take a look at:

https://ospreypublishing.com/in-her-majesty-s-name

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=65_191&product_id=221

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:
- PLANET OF THE APES

There are some great non-licensed PotA minis out there. IDW recently pubished a licensed board game. I agree, I would love to see somebody like WLG do a licensed minis game.

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:
- THE THING

This would work best as a board game or card game and there are many unlicensed versions of it, including some recently funded on Kickstarter. That said, if you look around you can find miniatures inspired by this movie.


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 Albertorius wrote:
I would not rule out the possibility of a Runebound-like Clan War game.

Yeah it seems like a no brainer ... but when you think a little bit more about it, it seems like a lot of the factions might feel a little samey to the non-initiated. If you're not a L5R fan, one army of samurai is much the same as another. maybe a Shadowlands versus Rogukan game? But there again, not enough factions.

There is a "Thing" boardgame: "Infection Of Outpost 31". Elijah Wood was even in a video advertising it.

Regarding Mass Effect...

I always thought it would be fairly simple (and awesome) for Corvus Belli to build a ME skin for Infinity.

Freedom Force could totally use its own tabletop implementation , complete with in-depth hero-creation rules.

HALO. In 28mm. Preferably by a solid gaming company.

 Manchu wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
I would not rule out the possibility of a Runebound-like Clan War game.

Yeah it seems like a no brainer ... but when you think a little bit more about it, it seems like a lot of the factions might feel a little samey to the non-initiated. If you're not a L5R fan, one army of samurai is much the same as another. maybe a Shadowlands versus Rogukan game? But there again, not enough factions.

Well, that's part of why they're color-coded for your convenience, you know

As to them feeling a little samey... er, well, if you limit yourself to unaligned units, sure, otherwise each clan would play very differently (for example, you could probably link Crab gameplay with dwarves and Crane with High Elves, thematically). And then there's the naga, nezumi, tengu and assorted supernatural stuff that you coul add even before of touching the Shadowlands at all.

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:
- PLANET OF THE APES

There are some great non-licensed PotA minis out there. IDW recently pubished a licensed board game. I agree, I would love to see somebody like WLG do a licensed minis game.

There's also a board game coming to Kickstarter from WYSIWYGames in the spring. They've been showing off the roughly 1:48 scale game at various shows, including the (rather good looking) miniatures.

Most of the ideas I could come up with were already hammered out by others, so I will go with something that will probably be rather unpopular:


I'd like some established games to delve into deeper parts of their licenses. For instance, unless I'm wrong, there are no Milestone minis for DC's Heroclix, and certainly no New Universe or Ultraverse stuff for Marvel's Heroclix. THAT is a travesty to me.


I guess I'd love it if someone came up with mods for existing games. X-Wing mod to accommodate some new ships for an Enemy Mine expansion. That'd be saucy. Or pretty much ANY sci fi ship battle game to take on add on rules for other properties. Battlestar Galactica, Wing Commander, there are tons...

Gundam. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am it hasn't happened (Gundam Vs is the same idea as a viedo game). The universe is such a perfect fit for small-scale skirmishes with heroes and grunts from different factions going head-to-head.

Feng Shui: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/FengShui

It's an action-movie RPG where there are sorcerers, cyborg apes, fascist oppressors, martial artists and gunslinging assassins seeking redemption, who are travelling through time and battling at critical site to control the future. The pre-existing factions and countless ideas for action heroes across time would make this perfect.

How about Titan - From the Fighting Fantasy World (anyone remember this?)

How about a Futurama Miniature game?

A game based around the Warhammer world...oh wait....

Futurama could be a fun RPG lite style boardgame.