Doomdivers! Free Helldivers Wargaming Rules For Battling Bugs & Bots On Tabletops #OTTWeekender
April 26, 2024 by avernos
It's OTTWeekender time! Are you a fan of the video game series Helldivers? Make sure to check out the entirely free fan rules from Grimskald that have caught our eye called Doomdivers! These rules allow you to play out your Helldivers battles with Sci-Fi miniatures on the tabletop.
Talking of miniatures, we also look at some great miniatures that you can pick up from the likes of SkullForge Studios which would be perfect for those wanting to play as Helldivers and blast some bugs and bots on the tabletop. Have some fun this weekend and get your Helldivers group to the tabletop to play Doomdivers instead!
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Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week that caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
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- Home Guard British Shore Party From 1st Corps - Build on your Home Guard forces with some new miniatures
- Gangs Of Rome Starter Bundle - What do you make of the new Starter Bundle offering for the new edition of the game?
- Gangs Of Rome Plastic Miniatures - Do you like the brand new plastic miniatures from Wargames Atlantic?
- New Vauban Sky Fortress Set For Dystopian Wars - Get your French upgrades for Dystopian Wars with this new set of miniatures
- Darktide: The Miniatures Game Coming Soon - Is this going to turn into a good tabletop version of the video game?
- New Warhammer 40,000 T'au Pre-Orders - Could you be tempted to fight for The Greater Good?
- Grimskald's Doomdivers Free Rules - Find out about these free rules for battling bugs
- Download The Doomdivers (Helldivers) Free Rules - Grab the rules and start fighting for democracy!
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
3D Printing Is The S**t!
If you want some Helldivers for your collection (sorry, Heckdivers) or miniatures from a myriad of other Sci-Fi properties, make sure to check out SkullForge.
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Did you spot any miniatures that you'd like to snap up and add to your collection?
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Could you be tempted to pick up that new dragon-based board game or perhaps that selection of 3D Printing bits?
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The week has ENDED!
more like : the week has finally begon 😀
Doom divers … does it involve orks launching gobbos ?
Happy weekender people’s
i will be looking into the doom diversrules once i finish reading the new version of trench crusade playtest rules
FF Chkocabo cavalry ?
Don’t forget the French were the starting Nam meat grinders army.
Justin isn’t crazy — Elvis was drafted and stationed in West Germany in the late ’50s. I don’t think he ever saw combat. But “Elvis in the Jungle War” sounds like it was made for 7TV…
did say he was crazy, I knew he served and in my head it was closer to WWII than to Vietnam
We’re Doooooommed!
We all miss award wining Moonstone some of us just do not know it yet, so what is new.
Elvis was sent to West Germany
Hi Guys great show the Helldivers cool
hi guys great show as normal and can’t believe someone come up with Helldivers
Thanks for highlighting Enfilade figures! Had never heard of them before. Their Vietnam range looks excellent and like a good match for my existing 20mm Vietnam armies.
V
Fab show guy’s.
Orcs orcs orcs orcs
Come on you apes do you want to live forever?!?!
Love the doomdivers models even though I’ve never played the computer game. Agree with Gerry on the Wargames Atlantic bugs though – wanting them for my 5 Parsecs games too 😀
I have a small Home Guard / Early War British army for Bolt Action. The shore party looks like it’d be a nice addition to my force
Helldivers is great. So this looks very good.
Great episode as always.
Shall look over at Skullforge shortly.
“Something Below” hehehe
I’ve really got to get to the UK some time for UKGE…
Oh my, I want tiny attack rats now!
Sounds like we’re looking forward to Gerry’s unboxing then
Oh damn, Skullforge you’ve got Crabs!! Want!!
Now I can fight for managed democracy on the table top. Soon it will be in real life!
The weekend starts here
Thanks for spotlighting free rules! Plenty of good rulesets out there that could use some attention.
Getting serious Plebs vibes off of the Rome terrain. Should have those characters as part of the citizens packs!
Gangs Of Rome reminds me of the HBO series Rome (2005-2007)
The weekend is here!
My Fridays are not complete without these fine folks! Great show ? Loving Wargames Atlantic products, they’re knocking it out of the park lately!
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That Vauban is a frigging thing of beauty and I will have one! <3
you surprise me sir 😉
Ooo, Doomdivers…
It would be great to recreate the coop gameplay of the video game and I just happen to have a hive GeeDubs finest bugs. 🙂
dya know you could use those orcs as marauders the award (but not multi) winning firefight from mantic games?
Nice. Glueing my Tomb kings together on watching the weekender.
I had forgotten how long it takes to clip everything, remove mold lines and glue them.
But I’m getting there. 🙂
Hope the Tombguard and Warsphinx become available in the On Table Top store soon.
Manoeuvrability based aerial combat games are fun.
I have a fond memory of a Wings of War / Wings of Glory game where I made another player lose by letting him pursue me to the very border of the table (while sustaining heavy fire) and then taking a hard turn that his heavier plane couldn’t manage, due to its longer arc cards, without effectively “abandoning the battlefield”. Never felt so smug in my life.
Coffee in hand. Ready to start the weekend right. Morning folks.
I hate that I like what Skullforge has for Star Wars more than AMG has done for Shatter Point.
Nice one 🙂
Thanks for another great weekender show. I really likes the Darktide Miniatures will go good long side the Blackstone Fortress ones. Doomdivers, Heck divers and DragonStrike.
no lloyd = no trains lol
What a way to end the weekend!
Like the free rules, for a more Roughnecks TV show look I always thought the GCPS from Mantic, I think the recon variants look a good fit.
But now with Wargames Atlantics, Ooh Rah and Harvesters can go something like the movies, with the Wargames Atlantic Fantasy Spiders could be more like Heinleins original bugs with the sifi variant option that set has.
Weekender the best show on the weeknd!!
How dare you! Predator 2 was a great movie. Although this is just my opinion and i’ve been told that other people are also allowed an opinion, but i believe this to be incorrect. Predator 2 rules so suck it Justin, you Sir are incorrect!
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happy weekender guys!
I live near some real Vauban fortresses and they don’t look like they’d float! ?
@justin
I guess the only Problem using the rules and this minis is, it is set in Iran not Afghanistan!
Thanks for another great show guys.
Looking forward to the UKGE coverage and watching it back after being there to see just how much I managed to miss!!
finally I had time to catch up.