Durrati | 13 Oct 2016 3:13 p.m. PST |
Recently my boy has wanted to start playing toy soldiers with his dad. Finding the correct sets of rules / game to play with him will be a bit of a journey and have started a new blog to share my experiences / thoughts with people that are also looking for games to play with children. I am also a teacher and run a games club so will probably be drawing on this to share thoughts as to how to get youngsters into playing wargames. The first game that we are playing that I am going to review in some depth is One Hour Wargames – specifically the Ancients rules. So if you are looking for a game to play with people of a younger persuasion, or want to know how One Hour Wargames works for ancients, or indeed just have some time to kill, please take a look. thatwargamesblog.blogspot.co.uk |
davbenbak | 14 Oct 2016 3:29 a.m. PST |
Try any of the "Rampant" series. |
Lucius | 14 Oct 2016 6:35 a.m. PST |
You can pick up a copy of Battlemasters on Ebay for $70 USD-80. Thinking of my two daughters crawling around on the floor on the huge vinyl hex mat, while they shot the cannon at the ogre, is a great memory. This game should be in any wargame father's inventory. 100 or so GW miniatures, bases, mat, cannon, dice, cards, etc. It is still a great deal. |
Albino Squirrel | 14 Oct 2016 7:20 a.m. PST |
I wish there were some miniature games that aren't all about people killing each other. I'm not sure what else they'd be about, but I'm not sure how I would explain what's going on to my daughter. I guess she'd have to be older to try playing any miniature games anyway. But even then, it's hard to imagine her getting enthused about people killing each other. |
Lucius | 14 Oct 2016 8:54 a.m. PST |
Well, my daughters at age 5 and 7, never had trouble with Battlemasters – humans are killing monsters, after all(orcs, beastmen, ogre). What kid doesn't want to kill monsters? |
davbenbak | 14 Oct 2016 8:58 a.m. PST |
Lots of replay value in Battlemasters so don't wince at the $100 USD price. Hell I paid that much of Zombiecide. After Battle master you're going to wish there was a Warhammer Junior. My kids just couldn't make the leap up to Warhammer and Dragon Rampant wasn't out then. Our next step was 1/72 plastics. Lots of easy play rules and the figures usually come molded in the right color. Good luck on launching the next generation of gamers. |
Shaun Travers | 14 Oct 2016 5:22 p.m. PST |
I found that Songs of Blades and Heroes was ok with my daughter (8) as her band was competing against her brother and I for treasure on the board. I also found WarhammerQuest was great as it was a co-op game. She is not so keen on 1:1 competitive games, but did like it when she beat me in a Neil Thomas One Hour Wargames game. She played it with my 15mm medieval figures, she took a side that was all horses. I have found if the game has horses, she is a lot more willing to play :-) |
tmason | 15 Oct 2016 3:29 a.m. PST |
Have a look at battlelore from fantasy flight games. Its a board game, but with miniatures. Easy to expand to add other figures if you wanted. Not much more complex than battle masters. |
Marshal Mark | 15 Oct 2016 1:16 p.m. PST |
I wish there were some miniature games that aren't all about people killing each other. I'm not sure what else they'd be about, but I'm not sure how I would explain what's going on to my daughter. I guess she'd have to be older to try playing any miniature games anyway. But even then, it's hard to imagine her getting enthused about people killing each other. What about something like Mice & Mystics. |
Marshal Mark | 15 Oct 2016 1:25 p.m. PST |
Recently my boy has wanted to start playing toy soldiers with his dad. Finding the correct sets of rules / game to play with him will be a bit of a journey and have started a new blog to share my experiences / thoughts with people that are also looking for games to play with children. I am also a teacher and run a games club so will probably be drawing on this to share thoughts as to how to get youngsters into playing wargames. I'll be following your blog with interest. I'm in pretty much the exact same situation as you – I'm a teacher and I run a boardgames club at school, and I have two six year old boys. We play quite a lot of boardgames together. We've played X-wing (with a few rules missed out) and Star Wars Epic Duels (which they can play together on their own), and other games such as Ticket to Ride, Black Fleet, Scotland Yard, Journey Through Europe. We haven't played any wargames yet, but I would probably start with a skirmish type game rather than a big battle game. Probably get a few LOTR figures on the table and make up some simple rules. Using a hex map would also make it easier. |
Durrati | 16 Oct 2016 12:18 p.m. PST |
Not sure if figure games depicting killing is a thing for daughters. My daughter enthusiastically plays sword fights and kung fu with her older brother and will happily chop peoples heads off with the best of them. There could be a question about games where fighting is depicted for children in general of course. Thanks for all the suggestions of games to try – am hoping to get around to them all. Not sure that skirmish type games are automatically simpler than big battle games. With OHW for instance, each army has 6 units to think about, not very many extra rules to differentiate units and no resource management or complex activation sequence. It is a big battle game but it would be difficult to come up with something simpler. Although skirmish games might be helpful for smaller children to understand as each figure represents a person which is easy to identify with. 16 figures representing hundreds of people is an extra slice of the concept complication cake. |
Durrati | 08 Dec 2016 3:12 p.m. PST |
I have now played a few One Hour Wargames Ancients with the boy and have written them up – with comments on the rules and scenarios. Please pop on over if interested. thatwargamesblog.blogspot.co.uk Cheers |