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Oathsworn miniatures a was working on a miniature game called burrows and Badgers. I am unsure if the rules ever fully developed.
Panda Cult Games did an animals miniatures Board game called Wanderer, it is cooperative. They have a second one in production now.
I have great news for you. Oathsworn released a second edition of Burrows and Badgers in May of this year. They also are still producing metal minis for the game. I love metal minis, so this is great!
I am the opposite, I loathe metal minis. They are actually the reason I stopped with B&B. I started kickstarting their stuff many many years ago, and I do absolutely love Mike’s sculpting. But I am so done with metal minis.
Very happy to hear the system is still being made, I tapped out when it was in beta I think. (I have piles and piles of unopened boxes from Oathsworn)
Out of curiosity, what do you loathe about metal minis?
As plastic models became more widely used I noticed that metal sculptors tried to increase the detail of their kits. Sometimes this meant smaller pieces, that are more prone to breaking, but also smaller pieces means less surface area to contact with glue (unless you still solder your minis). Sometimes it meant more dynamic kits, which leads to more pieces, which are smaller, see the first point.
The breaking point for me was about 13 years ago my daughter was and avid player of the game Malifaux, she built her army, she painted her army. Her favorite unit was a young nephilim called a terror tot, he was skipping, one foot on the base, one foot in the air, arms out making him like t. Well for some reason each arm was its own piece. This was a tiny kit, and the arms kept falling off. She was devastated. One of my good friends was a retired professional model builder/painter. He took the kit to pin the arms for her. But they were so small there was not enough room to pin.
Not only were the arms falling off, but it happened during a huge tournament, it really upset her, she thought she had done something wrong, and wanted to withdraw from the tournament (she ended up coming in 3rd place, 1st of those under 18).
ETA: this has nothing to do with Oathsworn's minis. What I have done of Mike's kits have been great and do not seem to, for the most part, fall into these pitfalls. But I am too old and blind to mess with metal any longer.
Honestly, thats justifiable. I am as casual as you can get in this hobby, and I just like heavy shiny things. I only owned a small number of metal minis back when I played 40k because I played Orks; paying metal $$$ for more than 1% of my army would have put me in debt. And I noticed that trend too. It seemed unreasonable to sink that much money into an armless green tide.
I found a picture of the Terror Tots, these are not my daughter's kits, but an image I found on the web. The offender is the middle bugger. I tried to find some with some kind of scale, but they are on 32mm bases.
Thank you. Burrows and Badgers was exactly what I was looking for.
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