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

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I see that there is no standard to the name, so maybe I will example what I think an skirmish/warband style game is or maybe what it is not.

To me a skirmish game is a low figure count, up to maybe 60 models per side, there the units or individuals have special rules and character. This means that a lot of the newer games full under this I know.

So what I think it is not. Mass Battle Battles, like Kings of War, Impetus, Hail Caesar, Black Powder, Under a Lily Banner, where the game is around the stratagems and tactics and it is not on an individual level, the game is not 1 to 1 scale. I would also include company level games Company level games, with 100 plus figures and tanks per side like Flames of War in this too but games like 30/40K, AoS, even Bolt Action not as they are meant for a small Platoon level, around 50 figures per side, size game.

So Skirmish/warband games are in general games with small figure count, under 50 figures but generally less, can be simple or complex, can be semi character driven and can be played in a couple of hours.

To me games like Blood and Plunder, Donnybrook, Saga, Mortal Gods, Barons War (drink) fir in here but also warband/gang games like Gangs of Rome, Mordheim, Legends of the Old West also do too.