"Airfix Battles - time to dig out your WW2 plastics!" Topic

Hi there I wanted to let you know about our fun quick and simple introductory wargame Airfix Battles which is coming out this summer. We're hoping to preview it at Salute otherwise it will be launching at UK Games Expo at the end of May and in stores in June.

You can see more here modiphius.com/airfix – it all started life with me ages 6 playing with Airfix figures (including those wonderful soft plastic tanks and trucks), lego trees, Britains farmhouse hedges and so on. One day I remember me and a friend were playing – bowling over figures with our hands and machine gun sounds and I suddenly suggested we start rolling dice to see how many we could knock over – and we then filled in a foolscap sheet of ideas like – the general had more lives, tanks could roll more dice and so on.

This inspired me to create a simple set of rules with my friend Nick Fallon and Alan Paull that would get geek mom and dad's playing with their lunch boxes full of airfix figures again, that would give us wargamers a fun and satisfying wargame experience inside 30-60 minutes all for just £25.00 GBP

My brother just interviewed me for Miniature Wargames magazine (this month's issue) and you can find 7 pages talking about the story behind the game.

The box comes with everything you need – maps to play on, dice, rules, campaign and counter sheets for tanks, infantry, guns, objectives and so on. We don't include plastic figures as this keeps the price right down for everyone and let's face it you already have most of the Airfix figures in your attic or garage plus a box of 48 1/72 Airfix figures is just £6.00 GBP in your local toy or hobby store. The aim with this is to get lots of people play fun battles with Airfix figures (well in fact you could use any figures including based up wargames figures since we provide you with hit counters to mark causalities instead of removing figures.

The game plays with Force Cards representing squads and tanks, then Command Cards to move and fight your forces.

Hope you'll check it out

Chris

Chris, I pre-ordered it as soon as the email notice arrived in my box a week ago! Looking forward to the free-form tabletop version this summer too. What caught my eye, were the force cards (well, the whole game cards format for that matter), and that the game looks easily playable in the shop/pub/con setting.

Best of luck with the project!

Dave

(will check out MW for the interview too)

Well, I just bought myself a birthday (May 6) present. Thanks Chris.

Read the MW interview Chris: this is a great idea, I reckon. Real 'joined up thinking'.

More power to your elbow!

John T

Will be interesting to see how it is marketed outside of us grognards. I wish it well (from a guy who is still painting and playing with AIrfix, Naps mostly but WW2 as well)

Airfix Battles, an introductory wargame! its fantastic!! I put a board together with four boxes to get lots of mapboards, added some terrain around the edges, but left the centre flat for the counters to move in the squares,I have a train set going round thr edge for when I am not playing it, I am going to have a travel by rail rule. the rules are easy and REALY good. The game is cheap, you get two flipmaps and about 150 chits with vehicles and infantry, you get some nice force cards and an action deck, it even has a solo mode.

Very interesting idea. I often think about about buying some airfix union and confererate soldier and creating a american civil war game. I would probably use a figure game version of the old SPI Blue and Grey rules. I would expect it would be reasonably cheap to do.

Incidently the link does not work.

Thanks, it works for me, it may be in my cashe , yes i always thought i would have a train in a western too.

try this or search airfix on site

link

thanks thats cheap!

try this or search airfix on site

This link works, thanks.