Spring Clean Challenge: Every Game is Miniatures Agnostic

I’ve had this set of figures from the cast of Predator for so long I can’t remember where I got them, and I’ve been looking for a way to get the action of the original film to the tabletop for at least as long. I even got as far as using HeroForge to make Anna, as I could never find a suitable model anywhere else — it’s perhaps not so surprising that weaponless characters in vaguely paramilitary clothes are scarce, and Anna not having a weapon is a major part of the film.

Predators themselves aren’t hard to come by. The one you see here is a rebased Horrorclix figure, and I’ve also got several from the Prodos AvP game.

When I heard about The Doomed, I thought it might fit the bill for a game involving a group of characters fighting a single enemy. The game supports solo play, which might be the best way to play out the events of the film, but I’m more intrigued by the semi-coop 2-player mode. Players each have their own warbands who are at odds with each other, but they also have a massive NPC monster that they’ll likely have to work together to take down.

At first I was thinking that I’d just split the Predator crew in half, with Dutch in charge of one group and Dillon leading the other. I still might try that, but on reading the rules in more detail, I’m thinking that AvP might be a better choice, with one player running the humans and the other player running a small group of Predators, with the Aliens as the bad guys.

I’ve got all the miniatures I need, so now I just need to work up some stats and get a table set up.