SOLO MINIATURE SKIRMISH GAMES - Positive Reasons To Try Solo Wargames
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I'd say Five parsecs from Home is the ultimate solo experience. I just got a copy of Five Leagues from the Borderlands, and I'm stoked to try it out, as well.
Have you like Five Leagues from the Borderlands? I've been thinking about getting it.
5P is also my favorite of the bunch I’ve tried.
I have thoroughly enjoyed both five leagues and five parsecs.
We're looking at doing Five Clicks from the Zone as a Zombie Apocalypse multiplayer RPG.
I’d be more interested in rules to turn competitive games into cooperative and/or solo games. Like Kill Team and Warcry. It’s a lot of fun to have my son and his friends team up and play against the xenos/chaos threat (me) in Kill Team and Warcry. But it would be great if we were all teamed up against a common enemy - maybe a boss fight scenario - where the bad guy was being run by the game.
You should look up 2+ Tough's Lonesome Road, solo rules for Warcry, pretty decent simple AI that could work for coop, I think.
The game I've almost finished has a campaign like this building up to a big boss battle at the end. Can't wait to share more about it!
Give Battlespace a try
Ive been looking for something like this because I got a few godzilla figures that would make a great big bad to team up against
Give planet 28 a blast, it has rules for single play and cooperative play. And it's miniature agnostic
Ranhgers of Shadow Deep is my favourite in solo gaming. I like it very much to think about and work on terrain pieces and other stuff for the scenarios - you always know you can play it because you don't need to search for people. Nevertheless I mostly play with others - but it's very motivating for my hobby to know that you have the option for solo if you want to.
Pulp Alley is not only my favorite skirmish game, it’s my favorite solo game as well. Although technically created to play old-fashioned pulp adventures, the rules work for literally ANY setting with zero modification! I’ve used it to play Star Wars, 40k, hardcore cyberpunk, vampire hunters, Cthulu, Ghostbusters, pirates, WWII, and Redwall based games and campaigns. Pulp Alley is a beauty of a system.
I'm just starting to get into Pulp Alley. I haven't figured out all the rules yet, but I'm working on it. I got their free downloads to check out the game because I didn't want to spend the money on the rulebook and then find out I wasn't so interested after all. That's the good part about the free downloads, they're not complete, but they give enough information to get a basic understanding of the game system.
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms are brilliant solo skirmish games right out of the box. Personally, I enjoy Fallout a little bit more, but they are both excellent and have beautiful models.
Thanks for the recommendations!
Second these two games; they are both excellent solo games!
Big + on this one. Fallout Wasteland Warfare has a superb AI system, and the models are wonderful :)
Chiming in with another recommendation for Five Parsecs From Home. It's brilliant both solo and Co-op. The procedurally generated campaign is a superb system, combat is very playable without too many rules to forget!
Great thank you for the recommend!
Rangers Of Shadow Deep is my favourite solo game, great campaigns and feel of adventure
I dont have anyone to play, there is no hobby store next to me, and Miniature Games are not as popular as in other countries (Portugal here). So my only option is to create some rules for games as Warhammer, kill team and all the others. I have my own adventure miniature game that i'm creating as it goes :) .
One of the best solo games I've played recently is an indie game called Cazadores. It's thematically just big monster hunting but it has a lot of fun mechanics.
That sounds interesting, will take a look. Thanks for the recommend!
any link ? =)
It's a little boardgamey but I like Blackstone Fortress for solo and co-op gaming
I have been looking for a solo Kill Team mode since its first edition. Really looking forward to this!
Rangers of Shadow Deep, Five Parsecs from Home, Fallout Wasteland Warfare and Forbidden Psalm are the games I am currently playing or building/painting stuff for. Oh, and Zona Alfa!
Nice!
I bought the core space core box and the space station box for use with SSZ.. Almost ready to play.. so chuffed. I have to have all the bad guys painted as well as my crew though .. I know even solo I still want all my stuff painted.
Yes, would love rules for a solo version of WarCry and Kill Team.
2+ Tough has a great looking solo mode for WarCry on his TH-cam channel! 🙂
This resonates so much with me :D. I paint models mostly for fun, It's hard to get a group to play any wargames they usually like to play boardgames more.
Zombicide might be a good middle ground between board games and skirmish?
Frostgrave and stargrave is very enjoyable.
I really should get hold of one of these. Thanks for the recommends!
Liked and subscribed. I started my solo experience playing Star War Imperial Assault and now I'm into Skyrim CTA, Rangers of shadowdeep. I have the PDF's for Forbidden Psalms and 5 Leagues from borderlands and 5 parsecs from home. So a lot to keep me going. I enjoy crafting my own terrain and painting minis. Oh one game not mentioned yet is Horizon Wars. Cheers.
I bought my first minis last year from Northumbrian Tin Soldier-The Time Bandits Box Set. I’ve been both eager but nervous to begin painting them. I’m very excited to get into the hobby of solo wargaming, so I’m looking forward to learning more. Thanks for the great content. I think I’m going to try out Forbidden Psalm first.
Awesome! I'm a bit the same with the painting. I've painted the Battle Bear and primed a load of them now and because of the metal think I will varnish before I go on to do the details. Forbidden Psalm is a neat book, love how different it is in the design. Thanks for watching, more to come!
I have Core Space and I did exactly what you mentioned. I use the mat, terrain and minis for Space Station Zero.
Try forbidden psalm with your warcry minis or forbidden psalm last war to use all your Astra militarum minis
Solo is pretty much my entire current gaming outlet these days due to the remoteness of where I live. I will say, don't be scared to mix rulesets and scales for a grand campaign experience. I go from Fleet scale, to war scale (10mm), to Battle/Skirmish scale (28/32mm). Also, look outside of wargames to RPGs. There's a lot of cool supplements there to help you out as a solo, and some of the rulesets make great skirmish wargames with some pre game stat crunching (getting stats down to only what is needed for combat). Enemy combat AI, campaign creation tools, random lists for inspiration. There's all kinds of tools out there. Get playing!
Great advice!
Mythic Battles: Pantheon has a great solo mode! It ranges from easy to hard for each god. Pretty awesome!
Really? Where'd you find the rules for that?
I would say my favorite miniatures game is Melee & Wizard by steve jackson games. hardly ever mentioned as such, and it totally is.
I've never heard of that, will take a look. Guessing that's the Munchkins creator and I love Munchkins?
@@tabletopskirmishgames it Is. Melee Is Also free. Its really good AND it has solo modules
The greatest thing about solo gaming is that there is NEVER an argument about the rules.
Five Parsecs from Home and Five Leagues from the Borderlands.
Nice!
Only thing in learning rules alone is that mistakes stuck. In 'vs' rule misunderstanding is quickly discovered and fixed, but alone it may remain in play for a long time.
Oh that's a really good point!
I've just discovered your channel and I am on a search for solo games. I used to play Tunnels and Trolls way back in the early eighties (there, that dates me). As an advanced-in-age player who is still a beginner, you are talking my language! I don't want to get into the competitiveness and cliquey-ness of joining an already existing group. I would love to be able to play warhammer or old world warhammer games on my own. One beauty of it - as far as Games Workshop are concerned - I would need to buy, build and paint TWO armies! I lack the imagination to write my own rules, so what you are doing is brilliant. I'm going to be spending a lot of time catching up! Hmmmm...where do I start!
That's awesome, John, glad you found the channel! You can expect a lot of content around solo/co-op play going forward as I am launching a new Solo Zombie Survival game in January 2024. Thanks for watching! 👊
Chrome Hammer Ascension is a solo miniature game. It is cyber fantasy like Shadowrun with lots of sneaking around. Insurgent Earth is another game where you fight alien invaders. Some hiding from alien patrols etc. Also, Space Station Zero is a good one as well.
I play those, jsut 'cuz I prefer coop over pvp.
I think those random events are very important - that's something Rangers of the shadowdeep did great and in comparison to Space Station Zero I can tell it was great change, 'since with AI it is easy to predict its actions (since GOOD algorithms for AI are simple).
I like the random events tables too.
The channel "Me, Myself, and Die!" is doing a solo game of 5 Parsecs From Home and it's great. Very, very deadly too...
I tried playing a solo game of Space Weirdos. It took me a while to figure out building a team and then more figuring out how playing even works. I didn't have time to do more than one turn but I want to try again soon. I used the Gallowdark terrain but I don't think that fits the game well. I think a solo Kill Team ruleset would be awesome.
I hope you do put out some rules :) I love painting the minis but don't have friends that play. And I don't mind playing by myself but having some specific AI rules would be fun!
I've been looking at solo games and ways to play games in solo more and more. I've been looking at Five Parsecs from Home and using Necromunda minis/terrain. Similar to Stargrave I think with good RPG elements and campaign rules. Silver Bayonet which is Napoleanic Gothic Horror, that could be adapted to use AOS/Warcry or even 40K minis with.
Thanks for the recommends!
Great topic, I feel they are the perfect place to start.
Nice one!
Song of Blades and Heroes is very solo friendly.
Nice one, thanks for the recommend!
I like "Rise of the Orcs" and "Labyrinth of the Necrons" for quick, pick up and play solo games.
Sellswords and Spellslingers, and Battlespace: Ultra Modern Solo Skirmish are great
I got Cursed City to solo pay and sometimes play with others. I've been looking at Zombicide to solo play, but I've not picked it up yet and also looked at Core Space.
I just played a game of Zombicide this afternoon, good fun.
Core space : first born the second starter set is actually geared toward solo/co op play
Thanks for the vid. I may need to try a solo game.
Thanks for watching! Good to give it a go.
I still haven't been able to convince a friend to play killteam yet so i may end up needing this
I played the Intercession Squad against another Intercession Squad so I could get their rules down and it turned out to be good fun!
i believe Doug from 2+Tough made some solo I rules for Warcry back when covid hit back in early 2020, and the rules where pretty good as i can remember. Maybe you can convert the system to kill Team, but it will need to be tweaked a bit. But solo AI rules for Kill Team would be awesome. It would help out a lot when doing battle reports in my case, especially on the narrative stories haha. One Page Rules also has some AI rules, but i never tried those.
I didn't realise OPR had solo rules until someone commented earlier, will have to have a look. I watched his video when I started playing, will have to go rewatch, thanks for that!
@@tabletopskirmishgames You're very welcome mate. When you click the game of your choise on their website (one page rules), you can find the solo AI rules under the section supplements 😉. Yeah, when Warcry was released i loved the game and with covid our group was not able to get together and it is how i started playing the AI rules he made. It has been so long ago that i forgot what they were, but i remember them being a solid system to play.
Solo is mainly not my thing, but a co-op variant which might use rules similar to solo would be very welcome. I’m mainly thinking killteam.
Co-op Kill Team would be pretty fun especially with the larger kill teams.
Last Days by Ash Barker is great solo
Oh nice one, I've got that book so should have included it. Great recommend!
In my case it's not having a store to play at , it's that it's so far to go. Also my work schedule is a late night job, so I just went to solo play and actually I'm enjoying it.🙏😇🇺🇸
Great ideas. Me too i play Five Parsecs from home. But having a solo version of kill team would be awesome, even though i think tweaks would be too many and lot of difficulties to keep teams characteristics.
Please let us all know if any upgrade with this big (literally) and challenging idea
Since the video I've been back working on my own game, Population Z and focussing on solo rules for that. You're right, the Kill Team idea was a bit challenging lol
I’d like to spotlight Battlespace: Ultra Modern Skirmish Game and Rusty Dagger Solo Adventure Game. How to play videos on my channel.
I have played mainly solo since I was a child... it's convenient and I usually win. Maybe I'm a little schizophrenic. In KT the biggest problem is having habitual style play and the tac ops are often not balanced so sometimes I just use the same 3 for both sides to even it out. I roll dice to randomize deployments (also use this method for Aeronautica Imperialis starting altitude and speed and Adeptus Titanicus)
I like games with randomised deployments and activations too.
Take a look at zombicide:gear up for some new and different play mechanics. It's quite different from the original game.
Very interested in solo gaming both due to my '"advanced" age / lack of like minded, similar aged players and enjoying games that it seems no one living locally is interested in playing anymore (inc. Underworlds, X-wing and 40k / Kill team skirmish games - maybe I should have taken up MTG or Pokemon ?). The most important aspect for me is enjoyment and simplicity - no continual referring to rules, errata, stats etc. - so I basically make my own basic rules for movement and combat. No spells, no upgrades, no modifiers etc. - might be extremely boring for some (especially 40k players) but being able to get through a game in the time it could take to have a 40k "Army" take a single turn makes sense to me.
Never too late for Pokémon! 🤣 Ive never played it either lol
Great idea.. because its rare I get to play with other people because of time
Rangers of Shadow Deep is my favorite solo game.
I'd love to do this, I have kids and struggle to get out this would be great
It's a great way to play, and if you don't have time to finish a game you can always leave it set up and carry on another day.
I've got Zombicide in Spave and Zombicide Wild West lol Walking Dead was pretty good too.
One page rules is my go to solo game.
Solo can be easily adapted to cooperative. A mechanic to let the "enemy" actually play itself is one of the cool things. Not everyone like to play against hyper-competitive players. I for one don't.
Is there a way you could play kill team using Lego figures and maybe Lego city if you couldn’t afford warhammer figures
You could definitely use Lego figures but if you want to follow the rules properly, you'll need to use the right base sizes. Lego as terrain will be perfect, especially for the Into the Dark style space hulk terrain and buildings. If you are looking for a GW game with rules that are a bit more fun and forgiving, I'd recommend Necromunda, that would be really fun with Lego.
Fallout wasteland warfare, by modiphius
Hey guys, if you want to play solo skirmish in the 40k setting. Check out OnePageRules. Simple rules, alternative 40k factions so you can use your kill team models. I actually bought the octarius and into the deep box sets to play solo kill team using OPR ruleset. It's all free and has been around for years now. We'll established and I actually prefer their rules to GW kill team.
not just a thumbs up from me, I must say that this makes Kill Team easy to play solo. (I use the Grimdark Future rules rather than the Firefight rules but low points)
Hmm thats an interesting idea. Not using the firefight rules. What size board do you use? Do you use the kitchen table rules (half all measurements?).
I have been using full range on all models with the small KT mats, it's a bit chaotic yes, but I'm an ork player hehe
Thats cool, I didn't;t realise they had solo rules too. Thanks for the recommend!
Whats that white book with the gasmask soldier on it? 0:55
That's called Forbidden Psalms: The Last War. It's an interesting take on a Great War skirmish game with all different beasts and creatures to do battle against. The artwork is totally different to anything I've seen in other games. Here's an overview video I did for it ... th-cam.com/video/IhPYgaP-IaQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wUnjvIwh1HjtOtkK
@@tabletopskirmishgames Thank ya
frostgrave is awesome
Thanks for the recommend!
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I liked the art and base mechanics in Space Station Zero, but found the missions quite badly designed.
I’m looking at Planet 28 and Five Parsecs now.