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**reds8n**

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Warlord Games is absolutely delighted to have secured the licence to produce a miniatures game based on the BBC's enormously popular TV series, Doctor Who (back on BBC One on September 19th!). So delighted we might just have a celebratory jelly baby.

As lifelong Doctor Who fans ourselves, we are extremely pleased to have the chance to bring this iconic series to the tabletop with a game system you all know and love as well as the official range of miniatures to complement it.

The licence covers not just the latest series of Doctor Who but encompasses all of the Doctors, their companions and their foes. So, expect to see Sea Devils as much as Weeping Angels, Leela as much as Martha Jones, and a long, brightly coloured scarf as much as a fez (fezzes are cool, by the way...).

We'll bring you news, previews and work-in-progress in the coming weeks and months. Keep an eye on the Warlord Games website and weekly email newsletter for further details.

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**alphaecho**

There was me thinking Dad's Army would be Warlord's coolest licence ever.

Next stop for Warlord must be world domination.

Good luck to them.

**endtransmission**

So if they have Dr Who and Dad's Army... what is the next BBC license I wonder.

I'll be interested to see how their models size up to the Crooked Dice ones as they have produced some outstanding stand in models so far

**Wyrmalla**

Didn't Crooked Dice also call their game the "Doctor Who Miniatures Game" when they still had the licence? Could have possibly chosen a better name choice to avoid confusion. =/

**endtransmission**

They did indeed. They still sell the starter booklet, though the website for it hasn't been updated since 2013 (http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/). Time to do a site scrape before it (potentially) goes away. They did close down the Yahoo and facebook groups a few months ago though

I'll be interested to see what rules Warlord intend to use for these too

**Wyrmalla**

You can still buy copies of the Crooked Dice rulebook at shows, though those are presumably old stock. I picked up a copy at one and frankly its just 7Tv with different names (or rather 7Tv is that with name changes).

**endtransmission**

Ok, so the first thing I see on my Blogger newsfeed about this is the writer stepping forwards.

The rules are due to be written by John Lambshead, who has written a few supplement books for Warlord in the past:

- Bolt Action: Germany strikes!
- Hail Caesar: Brittania

He has also written Warhammer Ancients: Fall of the West

**Padre**

Fantastic!!!

**TPO**

Is it just me or is Doctor Who a pretty odd choice for a tabletop wargame? The central character has spent almost his entire life (the War Doctor notwithstanding) trying to avoid any kind of violence at all, never mind all up war.

I'm sure a fun game can be made of Cybermen fighting Daleks, but it just feels weird and not a good fit for the license.

**Nick Ellingworth**

As a wargame I agree Doctor Who makes little to no sense however the announcement does say miniatures game not miniature wargame. I can't help but wonder if Warlord are looking at the silly amounts of money being thrown by gamers at the likes of Zombicide and Imperial Assault. A campaign driven board game with excellent minis could certainly work with the Doctor Who license.

**heartserenade**

I lost it at "Dr. Who official miniatures".

**reds8n**

... might be another source of cheap space corridors then.

**alphaecho**

reds8n wrote:
... might be another source of cheap space corridors then.

Can you make space corridors for less than the original series scenery budget? Can someone make 28mm scale egg boxes so you can do authentic 70s Who sets?

**Herzlos**

endtransmission wrote:
So if they have Dr Who and Dad's Army... what is the next BBC license I wonder.

I hope it's Red Dwarf. I'd totally buy the lot, GELFs and all.

**BrookM**

I'm hoping for Life on Mars myself.

**Malika2**

Please do the British version then! And also do Ashes to Ashes

**Paradigm**

BrookM wrote:
I'm hoping for Life on Mars myself.

So basically a cops and robbers game, but if you ever roll a double 1 you must immediately have an existential crisis, mental breakdown or wierd dream sequence featuring creepy 70s children's TV?

A year ago, I'd have been jumping up and down at the idea of official Dr Who minis, but the last series was bad enough to kill my interest in the show for the most part. Still, might not be able to say no to some nice 28mm Daleks...

**BrookM**

WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE AMERICAN VERSION OF LIFE ON MARS. PEOPLE WHO DO ARE DEAD TO ME.

**reds8n**

Box better be coloured blue or .....

.. amazing how much they'll manage to fit into too one would hope.

**BrookM**

If it's anything like the other Warlord boxed things, plenty of empty space, not to mention a shoddy getting started booklet that will tell you to read the included rulebook and play from there.

**Kilkrazy**

7TV is a development of the Dr Who Miniatures Games.

Presumably Warlord will write a new set of rules. It will be a chance to put in some non-destructive elements, though TBH non-violent resolutions normally consist of the Doctor getting everyone to sit down and negotiate, which doesn't seem like a good rule mechanism in itself but if it can be made dependent on achieving non-violent scenario objectives I think it could be done rather well.

The big plus here is that we can hope for good 28mm figures for all the major monsters.

**Buttery Commissar**

I'm part excited, part hoping it doesn't make life difficult for Crooked Dice, as they're my favourite people.

**Rotgut**

Speaking of Warlord movie/show stuff was there ever any more news about the Kelly's Heroes stuff?

**edlowe**

Who's this doctor everyone's going on about?

**torgoch**

When's the Blake's 7 miniatures game coming eh Warlord? Eh eh?

**scarletsquig**

Very cool, I can see a really great skirmish game being made out of it.

Themed scenario games don't have to be violent to be fun, the "steal mushrooms from farmer maggot" lotr scenario was great.

If anything there's an opportunity there to create a different kind of wargame, one that focuses on objectives and outsmarting to win rather than violence.

**BrookM**

Chances are there will be a rule that the good Doctor has a special sort of plot armour that prevents him from being harmed by anything.

**AndrewGPaul**

Wyrmalla wrote:
Didn't Crooked Dice also call their game the "Doctor Who Miniatures Game" when they still had the licence? Could have possibly chosen a better name choice to avoid confusion. =/

Crooked Dice didn't have a licence, as far as I know. It was and is all unofficial.

**Manchu**

Kilkrazy wrote:
The big plus here is that we can hope for good 28mm figures for all the major monsters.

Debatable judging by Gates of Antares. Although all the design work is already done for Cybermen, Daleks, etc, and WLG do make nice miniatures (as opposed to the ones they buy from others).

**BrookM**

Thankfully there's another company out there already doing excellent not-Doctor Whoever miniatures: http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/