| Ney Ney | 08 Jul 2015 6:35 p.m. PST |
This isn't about personal favourites or what you think SHOULD be hot…. It's about what you see others playing or keep asking you to,play. What rules are they? |
| nevinsrip | 08 Jul 2015 7:30 p.m. PST |
Musket & Tomahawks seems to be very popular.
SAGA is another. I don't game, so I'm only going by what I see a lot of on the various blogs and forums. |
| Pictors Studio | 08 Jul 2015 7:40 p.m. PST |
Most of my con games are full when I run Black Powder. |
| dandiggler | 08 Jul 2015 7:44 p.m. PST |
Black Powder, DBA 3.0, Battlegroup, Chain of Command. |
| D6 Junkie | 08 Jul 2015 7:47 p.m. PST |
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| kallman | 08 Jul 2015 7:49 p.m. PST |
Not a clue, we play a lot of Battlegroup Kursk, et. all., but that is our little intimate gaming group. From what I see at the local game stores nothing much in the way of miniature gaming is hot. A recently opened GW store pretty much pulled the 40K crowd from my favorite gaming store. There is a regular Flames of War group that meets there every second Saturday. |
Shagnasty  | 08 Jul 2015 8:31 p.m. PST |
BBB and SAGA at our group in Austin. |
| Blake Walker | 08 Jul 2015 10:01 p.m. PST |
Warmachine at my LGS. They also have a large Bolt Action group on Tuesday. Most of the WH40K gamers and FOW have gotten into it. Tuesdays used to be FOW night. The WHFB gamers were bigger than WH40K players. I still game WH40K but am learning how to play Warmachine. But my WH40K gaming group is about dead. Warmachine has made major inroads here in St. Louis. They now have the national Warmachine Weekend in November here and they also hosted Privateer Press Weekend at Die Con 2015, too. |
| normsmith | 08 Jul 2015 10:06 p.m. PST |
Anniversary themes are always popular, so Waterloo has just generated a big Napoleonic spike and being amidst the ongoing WWI centenary has seen a lot of figure lines come out. Last week Plastic Soldier Company released their board / figure game for WWI in the Commands and Colors game series. Judging by forums, I would say that the most played new boy on the block is Lion Rampant, which feeds in to the popularity of playing games that do not need huge amounts of figures to get going. |
| Forager | 08 Jul 2015 10:57 p.m. PST |
Martians and Victorian sci-fi seem to be pretty popular now. |
| snurl1 | 08 Jul 2015 11:34 p.m. PST |
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| jdginaz | 08 Jul 2015 11:46 p.m. PST |
Chain of Command my local group have been bringing in BA player left and right. |
| Fish | 09 Jul 2015 2:31 a.m. PST |
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| Caliban | 09 Jul 2015 2:33 a.m. PST |
Most of my gaming is ancients/medievals, and people keep asking me to play Art de la Guerre. |
| Martin Rapier | 09 Jul 2015 3:49 a.m. PST |
What do I see other people at the club playing? The same old games they always have done, although the 'early adopters' subgroup seem to be playing a lot of Blucher right now. Vast battles of the hundreds of 28mm figures which don't appear to move anywhere before it is time to pack up also seem to be popular. The 28mm guys seem to like TFL rules too. (TTMADB etc). I seem to get asked to play a fairly eclectic mix of things, but in recent years a fair proportion of Neil Thomas rules, various versions of Command & Colours, Fletcher Pratt on the floor and 54mm Funny Little Wars and variants thereof. Someone brought a train game along last night with carboard trains, which was nice to look at. I would hesitate to predict that cardboard trains are 'hot' or the next big thing based on that though. |
| Florida Tory | 09 Jul 2015 4:36 a.m. PST |
TSATF, at both Recon and Hurricon for several years now. Rick |
| Dave Knight | 09 Jul 2015 4:48 a.m. PST |
Chain of Command and Malifaux Lots of people going to try Frostgrave Some interest in giving Age of Sigmar a go |
| mbsparta | 09 Jul 2015 5:43 a.m. PST |
Bolt Action … Its the local cocaine of wargaming |
| Winston Smith | 09 Jul 2015 5:43 a.m. PST |
I play regularly The Sword and the Flame, Age of Reason, Empire and Flames of War.
Yup. All the cool kids are playing them. |
| Acharnement | 09 Jul 2015 5:47 a.m. PST |
Malifaux is sustaining its popularity with our group. We just had a successful 40K tournament. Several members are building and painting Saga forces so that should be getting some table time soon. And Age of Sigmar trial games this Saturday. |
| Andoreth | 09 Jul 2015 9:24 a.m. PST |
Maurice, Zombicide, Saga and Skirmish Sangin. |
| TheBeast | 09 Jul 2015 10:18 a.m. PST |
I think FOW is the main one at the store, but SAGA and Bolt Action strong contendahs. As this is on a Historical Wargame board, I'll leave it at that. Doug |
| Inkpaduta | 09 Jul 2015 10:58 a.m. PST |
I would say, based on how many postings I see on various gaming sites and that it hasn't even been released yet, the Frostgrave rules and figures. |
| (Phil Dutre) | 10 Jul 2015 10:36 a.m. PST |
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| Mick in Switzerland | 10 Jul 2015 11:53 a.m. PST |
Lion Rampant appears to be popular for Crusades and medieval periods |
| nazrat | 11 Jul 2015 7:32 a.m. PST |
I have no idea. I don't go to the local stores regularly enough to see what's going on there (if anything). |
| wrgmr1 | 12 Jul 2015 2:49 p.m. PST |
Usually anything that is new.
However our group plays some of the old standards.
Armati 2
Shako 2
Rapid Fire |
shows how to build a structure from common materials.