Reply To: Worst Miniature game ever?

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Probably going to get slammed for this one, but for me it was Conan (by Monolith). Don’t get me wrong, the game components were GREAT, but the game itself……..

Even after downloading the “fixed” pdf version of the rules (the rules that came with the box were a mess), it was fiddy (little gems going everywhere), and we found it just wasn’t fun in the end.

It looks like they went with a similar system for Batman (and again the game components look really nice), but after our experience with Conan none of us backed it.

 

I do feel that these days a lot of these Board game with miniatures seem to have excellent minis, but the rules seem to take a second place in the focus of the project design. About the only one I saw that perked my interest was the Core Space one from Battle Systems (BoW did an excellent series of Let’s Play videos that really highlighted the rules).

On “Old” wargame rules it definitely Newbury Fast Play Napoleonics (I think the only reason it got played was there wasn’t a lot of other options), followed by the “Empire” Napoleonic rules (that was definitely written with a bias for all thing Francophile). I was pretty famous for not bothering to fire with my Russian Infantry battalions (as even at point blank range you did about 20 casualties due to the rather dodgy “Russians had “bad” black powder rule that was added). I always thought that under Empire my best units were pike armed militia (as at least their pointy sticks were longer 😀 )

For Board games it was Star Fleet Battles, it was ok but then suffered for “creeping featuritis” with all the expansions. We stopped playing when one of our group got fixated on playing Kzinti (and wouldn’t play anything else). Problem with Kzintis is that nearly all there weapons were “drones” (think missile) which meant counters on the board for EVERY SINGLE SHOT….and the all moved individually. So about 2/3rds of the game was him moving all his drones. They should have left it after about the first 3 expansions (but then went on to publish over 45 expansions for the thing….ugh)