"Boardgames easily converted to miniatures" Topic

Was reading how one of Compass games (Battle Hymn) is easily converted to miniatures play (not Campaign Games).

Was remembering easy conversions of some of Craig Taylor Games (Fire Power and Close Assault) and was wondering what other Board games easily make that transition?

AH's Mustangs, Flight Leader and Tobruk.

Conflict of Heroes.

The Panzer series being reissued by GMT Games are convertible. Squad Leader and Advanced Squad Leader – AH published 2 games specifically to use with 1/285 or 1/300 scale figures.
Ironclad and Ironclad Expansion.
Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader.

GDW first battles system translates well.

The Commands and Colors series can be easily adapted: ancients, Napoleonics et. al.

The most beautifully painted army I ever saw was done by a fellow doing counter replacements for AH's Waterloo.

Each "stand" was a glorious mini-diorama.

‘Ancients,' by Bill Banks.

Conflict of Heroes (Academy Games), Undaunted (Osprey), Nations at war (Lock and Load Publishing). Wooden Ships and Iron Men (Avalon Hill). For solo play Combat! (Compass Games).

I've always though that Kingmaker would be great for a minis campaign.

Wooden Ships and Iron Men.

AH's original Squad Leader is great with miniatures.

Britannia
Blue Max
Civilization

There might be a difference between converting a board game to a miniatures game as opposed to playing a board game with miniatures.

Victory In The Pacific

I always wanted to convert Samurai Blades to a use miniatures I think it would work well as a miniature skirmish games.

MBT (Avalon Hill) in fact, the original edition had a small set of rules at the end suggesting how one could use 1/285 micro armor and GeoHex terrain to play the game in 3D.

It was that game that got me to move from board games into miniatures. Went right down to Brookhurst hobbies, bought a bunch of GHQ armor and a box of GeoHex. Never looked back.

The La Battaille series is essentially miniatures rules played with board and counters.

As Sundance notes The 'La Bataille' series and the old "System 7" are miniatures with cardboard counters. You also replace counters n board games with miniatures. I saw a guy make up AH Blitzkrieg using GHQ miniatures instead of counters.

The freeware game rules by Pz8 (forget where they can be found) in the WW2 divisional set uses one counter to represent a battalion. Those can changed for based miniatures quite easily.

Yes, even the old AH Panzerblitz and Panzerleader …

Kingmaker, using the Peter Pig, Bloody Barons rules. Bloody Kingmaker is a supplement. Search around to find it, I think it is free.

AH Tobruk and Wooden Ships TSR Dawn Patrol

AH WS&IM as noted above.

AH Bismarck as the advanced rules are just like a miniatures game and therefore I presume AH Jutland, which uses the same combat system, would also convert well.

Richtofen's War would convert and the WoG models would be ideal but it might need a large playing area and I always thought the rules were/are flawed.

I have converted the "awful green things from outer space" into a game of miniatures in both 25 mm scale And 75 mm. Also "the creature that ate Sheboygan." I converted the board game Clue into a miniatures game where the players are fighting zombies in the house instead of looking for a murderer.

Soldier King Avalanche Press for SYW.

AH's U-Boat – the first printing actually had miniatures.
AH's Jutland.

Some of the games mentioned above such as TSR's Dawn Patrol (aka Fight in the Skies) are actually miniatures games masquerading as board games.

Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader are frequently cited above. To them should be added the rest of the SPI Tactical Game series.

Blue Max
Britannia
All the Commands & Colors series

Another vote for the old La Bataille series.

The Commands and Colors games are again cases of miniatures rules masquerading as board games.

Panzer, Armor, and 88 from Yaquinto.

Can't remember the magazine, maybe the AH General, maybe not, but I recall someone did a "3D" PanzerBlitz board with thick cardboard contours and the map glued atop it so you had "real" hills, gullies, etc. No trees or buildings (beyond those printed on the map), but the 3D effect looked cool. Must have been painstaking work to cut along the hexlines to separate one contour level from another. The guy used the 6mm GHQ tanks in the photos.

Now with the Pico 3mm figures and Irregular (?) 2mm figs, you can populate such a hexgrid with a fair representation of multiple figures per platoon. Who knows, bigger hexes might be available as well.

Yaquinto's Ironclads. Play with hexes with 1/1200. Toss the hexes with 1/600.