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Does anyone play these games? I like their miniatures in general, but I mostly just use them for RPGs... but I've been curious about their actual game, and wonder if anyone plays them or knows much about them personally.

Dark Heaven is merely a line of generic fantasy figures; there is no actual game. Many Warlord characters do use models from the Dark Heaven line.

I play Warlord (Elves, Crusaders, Darkspawn). The game is easy enough to learn. There are quite a few factions (Elves, Dwarves, Crusaders, Reptus, Nefsokar, Mercenaries, Reven, Overlords, Darkspawn, Necropolis). Each faction gets it own list of units in the rulebook, as well as some faction-specific items, spells, and special rules. There's an expansion coming that is going to add another half a dozen factions.

Reaper has really loose proxy rules, so you can nearly use any models you want from Dark Heaven to represent units in your army.

RustyKnight wrote:Dark Heaven is merely a line of generic fantasy figures; there is no actual game. Many Warlord characters do use models from the Dark Heaven line.

I play Warlord (Elves, Crusaders, Darkspawn). The game is easy enough to learn. There are quite a few factions (Elves, Dwarves, Crusaders, Reptus, Nefsokar, Mercenaries, Reven, Overlords, Darkspawn, Necropolis). Each faction gets it own list of units in the rulebook, as well as some faction-specific items, spells, and special rules. There's an expansion coming that is going to add another half a dozen factions.

Reaper has really loose proxy rules, so you can nearly use any models you want from Dark Heaven to represent units in your army.

Oh, well that helps. How many miniatures in a game? Is it more skirmish level? Can you give me a general overview of how the game works, that sort of thing? I just want a decent overview to see if its worth buying into.

Miniatures in game can vary pretty wildly. Horde armies can push well into the fifties or higher, while it's also possible to make an army with only a dozen or fewer figures. Generally, I wouldn't expect to see more than thirty figures unless you're playing a horde army.

It is more skirmish level. Models are divided into "Troops", which are basically squads. You get to make the Troops when you make your army roster, picking a leader, soldiers, and maybe some elites (mages, clerics, heros, etc).

Instead of taking turns, you make an initiative deck with one card for each troop you have. When one of your cards is drawn, you activate a single troop. Each troop may be activated once per turn. Within the Troop, each model gets to take two actions when activated. Moving, shooting, fighting, casting- those are all actions. Each figure has its own statline that degrades as it takes damage.

I'd reccomend trying to find some players or Black Lightning near you. They could give you a hands-on demo game to introduce you to the game.

well there was a Dark Heaven game at one point, but it was mainly warlord with less wounds one each model.