What fictional universe is begging for a miniature game?

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**Pink Horror**

LunarSol wrote:
Kind of against the spirit of the thread, but I do think in general miniature games work better as their own property and not something licensed. The development time on miniatures is just so long that from concept to a finished model being played on the table makes it hard to cash in on a popular trend and licensing fees make an already tough business hard to sustain and always under the threat of losing access to the IP.

It's not impossible, but I'd find it pretty hard to do outside of a couple evergreen brands like Star Wars. Mass Effect really nudged my brain in that direction, for as much as I love that IP, I'd be just as happy with another universe with similar levels of care put into it that was in the hands of the game designers... and not EA....

Even my own desire for an Armored Core game is less an official want for a Raven's Nest and more wishing to see an anime inspired mech game with a robust, parts based model building system.

I generally agree that the threat of losing the IP makes me cautious about IPs like Star Wars. Sure, FFG has had X-Wing for awhile now, but how long will it last? Miniature games can take a long time for some people to get into. X-Wing doesn't require any hobby effort, but now they'll have Legion.

Maybe the best IPs for this thought exercise, if we want someone to go through with it, are IPs owned by toy companies that would make the models themselves.

So, the answer is Zoids. Zoids are begging for a miniature game.

**Arcanis161**

The MCU has some factions that could be flushed out into armies for a wargame. Unfortunately there's already HeroClix and the like, and something like a Superhero based wargame would work more akin to Warmachine or a tabletop version of a MOBA like League of Legends.

I would also love to see a Gundam themed wargame as well.

After playing Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, what I really want is a wargame for that franchise. I know there's the Board Game, and it's good, but it's not the same as a tabletop wargame with Battlestars duking it out against Basestars

**MFMONK**

Killzone

**Techpriestsupport**

A wargame set in the Dr. Who universe, maybe a time wars one, with various factions, not just ti e lords and daleks, could be good.

A miniature wargame based on a rebooted robotech series might be nice.

Maybe a battlestar galactica game set during the colony's Cylon wars would be worth it.

**torblind**

How about wheel of time?

Not sure how the game should be, but plenty of good mini material

**The Warp Forge**

Techpriestsupport wrote:
A wargame set in the Dr. Who universe, maybe a time wars one, with various factions, not just ti e lords and daleks, could be good.

Not sure if you already know:

https://doctorwhotimevortex.com/

**Techpriestsupport**

The Warp Forge wrote:
Techpriestsupport wrote:
A wargame set in the Dr. Who universe, maybe a time wars one, with various factions, not just ti e lords and daleks, could be good.

Not sure if you already know:

https://doctorwhotimevortex.com/

Cool. I remember gw doing a set of cybermen and daleks.

God, now I wonder if daleks could beat necrons...

**phallusmaximus**

3dog wrote:
The lack of an elderscrolls wargame is criminal.

I'd love to do a Hammerfell army with curved swords. Curved. Swords.

**Skinflint Games**

Having just watched the classic 1980 film, I'm going to cast a vote for Flash Gordon- Cold War earth military taking on Hawkmen and Arborians, A-10s taking on War Rocket Ajax...

**Fifty**

The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Crimson Guard
Dujek's Host
Bridgeburners
Bonehunters
Barghast
Tiste edur
Tiste Andii
Tiste Liosan
Forkrul Assail
Moranth!
K'Chain Che'Malle!!
Thelomen varieties!!!
T'lan Imass!!!!
Jaghut...

And best of all... The punitive army of the Seguleh.

My god, it would be amazing.

I just excited myself a little too much.

**Da Boss**

Agreed Fifty. Malazan has some awesome concepts that I would love to see in miniature.

**Coyote81**

torblind wrote:
How about wheel of time?

Not sure how the game should be, but plenty of good mini material

This was my thought. Armies of Various factions fighting each other, lead by the amazing assortment of characters these books contain. From Ta'veren to Aes Sedai to Darkfiends and Channlers of vicious powers. So many potential armies and combinations. I've been thinking about making a WoT army for some of my other games for a long time now.

**ChargerIIC**

The world from the Company of the Black Arrow. It was a universe in which armies had cool backstories, but it was always the grunts who got things done.

**Ork-en Man**

The Warp Forge wrote:
Doom.

Elder Scrolls.

Metro Franchise.

Halo needs a 28mill - 32mill wargame/skirmish game.

War of The Worlds.

Cthulhu-Verse.

Bioshock.

Titanfall.

Overwatch.

http://quietmartianfront.com

AAR

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=493636

I've never played, but it looks pretty cool!

**Easy E**

After seeing the Aquaman movie, it is begging for a wargame. The big hook (pun intended) could be adding elevation to a traditional tabletop game since it is all underwater!

**Jammer87**

One of my favorite childhood games: Lords of Magic
Armies:
Order - Bring back Bretonnia! basically knights and stuff, special units are spectral knights and Sir Lancelot
Chaos - Barbarians, special unit is a hydra
Light - Good elves riding raptors with long staffs, special units are pegasus riders and a phoenix
Death - Dark elves with necromancy, vampires, and lich. Also the main leader rides a bat
Earth - dwarves, hobbits, shambling constructs, special unit is a giant worm thing
Air - storm giants, fairies, dragons, wizards, special unit is an ice dragon
Water - amazons, lizard men, spiders, water knights, special unit is a giant octopus?
Fire - giants, dwarves, special unit is a fire dragon

All of the races have generals, wizards, archers, infantry, cavalry, special creatures. They balanced armies by making some factions better at specific roles.

**Monkeysloth**

Easy E wrote:
After seeing the Aquaman movie, it is begging for a wargame. The big hook (pun intended) could be adding elevation to a traditional tabletop game since it is all underwater!

Look into Shadowseas and Deepwars from Antimatter games.

**Oshii**

I would like to see game based on Jakub Ròżalski paintings (there is already board game called "scythe"). This could be a hit. Of course we have something similar (dust tactics) but it's based on IIww, scythe is more like Iww and it's a lot different theme.
Or there is Andrzej Ziemiański saga called "monument to the empress Ahai" (I think it's only in polish for now, but I've translated the title), that's also a very interesting world.
Also mentioned before shadowrun would be really nice.
The last one is world of darkness, but it could be very hard to catch in rules I think.
I feel also lack of Lovecraftian world, there is achtung Cthulhu, there are some nice board games also, but still it's not enough for me.

**leopard**

Farscape?

given its set against a mix of war and various infiltration options, plus some amazing aliens it could look amazing, half decent space combat game there as well

**DeffDred**

Titanfall. Perfect for multi-build kits.
I wanted a model of one of the Titans so bad but all I can find are collector statues or a single action figure of the same character from the second game.

**The Warp Forge**

DeffDred wrote:
Titanfall. Perfect for multi-build kits.
I wanted a model of one of the Titans so bad but all I can find are collector statues or a single action figure of the same character from the second game.

After seeing Wyrds "The Other Side" A Titanfall game on that scale with the movement trays for units would be fantastic!

**Blazmo**

Arcanis161 wrote:
The MCU has some factions that could be flushed out into armies for a wargame. Unfortunately there's already HeroClix and the like, and something like a Superhero based wargame would work more akin to Warmachine or a tabletop version of a MOBA like League of Legends.

I would also love to see a Gundam themed wargame as well.

After playing Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, what I really want is a wargame for that franchise. I know there's the Board Game, and it's good, but it's not the same as a tabletop wargame with Battlestars duking it out against Basestars

You might be interested in Super Mission Force and Super System by Four Colour Studios.

**JohnHwangDD**

Marxist artist wrote:
Babylon 5

B5 got THREE (3) miniatures games:
* Babylon 5 Wars
* Babylon 5 Fleet Action
* Babylon 5 RPG - a slight stretch

It could be done much better, but the games exist.

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MagicJuggler wrote:
A Conan the Cimmerian wargame would be boss, especially if it let you field THULSA DOOM!

You mean like the Conan Kickstarter by Monolith? I received that ages ago, and sold it forthwith when my group didn't like it.

**Jimmy Zimms**

Dune's been brought up a couple of times in this thread.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/08/14/dune-tabletop-rpg-board-games/