"New gaming term: Micro Skirmish" Topic

Maybe there's already a term for this, but otherwise I am coining it now. You can all pay me obscene amounts of licensing moneydollars to use it.

Microskirmish

Playing a skirmish game with a small figure count where each figure is based individually and all figures are in a scale no larger than 15mm and often smaller.
Games played on a small gaming space, often 3x3 feet or smaller.

Meh.

Skirmish is skirmish. Figure scale is irrelevant.

Would you like to be paid in Quatloos or Woolongs?

cheers

I like the concept Weasel and I like the term. Nice one

Killer – Fresh bananas or mostly unpeeled oranges will do. Please flatten to fit in a standard postal service envelope.

I use this term to describe a game in which each side only has two or three figures (essentially, one step up from a duel.)

Good for old west and samurai street fights.

Nah, that stuff is just bait. I'll check the trap in the morning. Maybe I can send you a dead squirrel in one of those flat rate boxes.

I forgot to add: Each figure represents exactly what it looks like: 1 soldier.

That is the definition of skirmish. Individual stats and reactions. Doesn't matter whether it's rifles and grenades or swords and spears. Playing skirmish in small scales (even 6mm) is not new – but the 28mm mafia here on TMP would have you think it's impossible. Any skirmish rules can be adapted to a different (in this case smaller) scale with a little thought. How to physically handle the figures in confined spaces is the chief impediment to game play.

cheers

I like your definition of individual reactions. Some have raised games like Chain of Command as a skirmish game which doesn't seem to fit (as good as that game is)

Don't bank those oranges and bananas just yet. I think you will be hearing from GHQ's lawyers; they have already trademarked the term: ghqmodels.com/store/tm5.html

Nanoskirmish.

Where each player has a single 2mm figure representing the limbs, senses and major organs of a single human. The game is played on a beermat.

Coming soon: Quantumskirmish.

"Quantumskirmish."

Key selling point: Comes with its own random results generator.

The main problem with quantumskirmish is that when you start to move the figures you no longer know where they are.

And figures can be at several locations simultaneously, so measuring distances can be a pain.

Schroedingers Skirmish?

And figures can be at several locations simultaneously, so measuring distances can be a pain.

Have you read the Exoarmor rules for DP9's Lightning Strike? The Exos can be anywhere within a circle, where the radius is their speed and centerpoint where the Exos ended their last turn.

I can pay you in Draconian currency, Weasel, but I have to warn you that the exchange rate is pretty brutal…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal a Express
metal-express.net

I would certainly class Chain of Command as a skirmish game.

There you go. Ask ten wargamers to define skirmish and you get 11 answers.

Microskirmish: A fancy name of playing with/by yourself.

I'm calling dibs in Nano-skirmish and Pico-skirmish.

Don't sneeze.

Plank skirmish? Each figure is smaller then a string