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I think you are right, as even though I enjoy board games as a seperate thing to wargaming, I am now conditioned to look for miniatures in a board game, even though I am very happy to play board games which don’t even have the wooden needles in them.
Miniatures do often add an unneeded cost that put otherwise great games out of wallet reach and and can be added as a deluxe version which has been done for several board game kickstarters and also for well know board games like cludeo (and yes I do have these versions).
A great example of a board game that might have miniatures in it if released now is ‘Fearsome floors’ (originally in German) which is a great game with lovely mechanics and has cardboard counters for your ‘scooby’ gang as they try to escape from the monster and doesn’t need any models, they would be an embellishment.
My first game that I can remember playing that had miniatures in (As opposed to single colour featureless standees that you normally find in cludeo or Ludo) was Zombies!!! By twilight creation that had lots of (20mm?) Single pose zombie models and then 6 player models (single pose human with a shotgun in different colours), which did add to the atmosphere but wasn’t the main reason you got the game.
And we have now got to the point where ‘board’ games (used loosely) have been released by Gw (and maybe other companies) where most players buy them for the miniatures and the rest of the game is not even glanced at, which I think is the point at which they need to not be classed at board games but instead as miniature games.
Don’t get me wrong, some of GW’s board games are actual games in tbeir own right, like lost patrol, theShadespire series and bloodbowl where the game works without having miniatures but is enjoyable by adding them. And this includes space hulk, space crusade and heroquest.
But these are my opinions, what do you think?
