"Wargaming with chocolate" Topic

Seems like rice model wargaming seems to be all the fad amongst the small-scale crowd these days, and for a very good reason.

However, since there are many people out here how prefer gaming in bigger scales, I think it is time to start talking about wargaming with chocolate figures, since the period of chocolate Santas is starting.

What kind of experiences do you have with wargaming with chocolate santas and bunnies? Any rules to suggest? What would be suitable (edible) colours for decorating the models? What about scenery - are the gingerbread houses best way to go?

And what other cool models there are out in chocolate other than santas and bunnies? I once managed to get a Spanish chocolate inquisitor (talk about nobody expecting Spanish inquisition!).

With sweet greetings,

Griefbringer

You should consult your dentist for this as the biggest damage will be your teeth.

I have considered wargaming with Jelly babies. Take casulties by biting their heads off.

hey i like the chocolate thing, because then players could each get there own torch for flamethrowers and really melt it down

As a beginning gamer, I like twizzlers to build bridges.

Teddy Grahams! They look like just like Eureka's teddybear line without the uniforms. And they come in different flavors for different factions.

"And what other cool models there are out in chocolate other than santas and bunnies? I once managed to get a Spanish chocolate inquisitor (talk about nobody expecting Spanish inquisition!)."

Our main weapon is flavour. Flavour and texture.

Our TWO main weapons are flavour and texture. And the sugar-induced coma.

Our THREE main weapons are flavour, texure and the sugar-induced coma. And those hormone-replicating enzymes that fool women into thinking they are in love.

Our FOUR main weapons are flaavour, texture, sugar-induced coma and those hormone-replicating enzymes that fool women into thinking they are in love. And a fanatical devotion to the woman in the Flake advert.

Cardinal Biggles.......the comfy chair!!!! Cardinal Fang, switch channels to......This Morning with Fern Britten and Philip Schofield.

[Dan-dan-daaaaa!]

I'll charge with my chocolate dragoons [chomp, chomp]...okay, instead, I'll push hard with my [munch] skirmish [slurp] screen [ chew]. Okay nevermind, how about these grenadiers.

Oh the heck with it I concede.

Oh no! Peeps!

RRRRrrruuunnnnnn!!!!!

Supercilius Maximus, you outdid yourself, ROFL
Look out for the chocolate rabbit with the holy orange-flavoured chocolate handgenade of Antioch.

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Christmas Wars!! I have to get a copy now, this could be a way to get all my non-gamer friends into the hobby...or at least to get them to share candy

looser has to eat casualties. will get very painful with a big army.

Good stuff Supercilius Maximus!

I recall a mate's birthday party in the early 80s when we were kids, and his mum made this birthday cake frontier fort out of those chocolate-stick things you get in the UK. Populated with Playmobil cavalry and Indians.

Alternatively, I see a sci-fi crashed spaceship. Deep in the hold your explorers come across row after row of sinsiter (chocolate) eggs. As you approach them, the foil wrapper starts to open...

(Based on the films Chocolate, Chocolates, Chocolate^3 and Chocolate Regurgitation)

"Christmas Wars!! I have to get a copy now, this could be a way to get all my non-gamer friends into the hobby...or at least to get them to share candy"

Remember, for the snow effect you just can't beat powdered sugar!

Griefbringer

My stomach started aching just reading this thread!

I think a "you fielded it, you eat it" policy would be better. Someone MIGHT just use that sugar free chocolate, and then where would you be?

"Someone MIGHT just use that sugar free chocolate"

Now that would be a horrible!

BTW: for terrain, big cakes might make wonderful hills - just avoid ones with whipped cream on top as that could get messy.

Griefbringer

Griefbringer

Thats the problem with war, it can get messy!

Blueberry pie for ponds.....green cotton candy for trees & shrubs....gingerbread houses.....

Whipped cream would work well for clouds, if you did an aerial warfare scenario.

It would definitely bring more women into the hobby!

"Whipped cream would work well for clouds"

Whipped sugar would work even better - though here it is usually coloured pink :-(

As for pools, if you don't mind it getting messy you could also use Jello.

And don't forget the always so useful marshmellows - always so good for building walls or igloos!

Griefbringer

Maltesers as cannon balls - if you roll one and it knocks over your opponents troops (maybe jelly babies) then the amount that fall are the casualties and you can eat them - or keep them as POW's and trade them for nicer goodies at the end of the game ;-)

My POW's dug a tunnel past my lips, down my throat and are even now looking for an exit. Is that light ahead?

BTW around here we have some metal/plastic moulds that can be used when making gingerbread to shape them like trees, stars, hearts, pigs or men. Are those available in the big world - if not you can make your own also from cardboard.

And you can easily use melted sugar for sticking gingerbreads together. Try mounting a man on pig for some cavalry. For a forest stick a tree on some round gingerbread for base, and then decorate with a mixture of water and powdered sugar (should be pretty thick) for the snowy effect. Should make an excellent winter gingerbread forest!

Griefbringer