Reply To: Why is it that Skirmish Games Dominate the Gaming Scene?

[limburger 21711xp 0]

I kind of doubt that ‘mass battle games’ need to be time consuming to play, but they can be time consuming to build and paint unless you ‘cheat’ like KoW rules allow by only painting enough to represent the unit instead of all the soldiers in said unit (kind of like how wargames from the dawn of time functioned out of sheer necessity …)

You’re still pusing the same amount of things around (ten soldiers or ten blocks with soldiers isn’t *that* different).

Where it gets ugly is the apparent need to throw dice pools in order to represent those blocks … which is were certain skirmish games tend to slow down too. Abstract that away … and you get a game that is as fast as any skirmish game.

I think the narrative potential in skirmish games is indeed much higher.

 

(with everyone more or less agreeing I think we can now skip the show ;))