Miniature Wargames
Tabletop battle games played with painted miniatures — Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Bolt Action, Star Wars: X-Wing, Blood Bowl and historical miniature wargaming.
14 sports in miniature wargames.
Blood Bowl
Fantasy football miniature wargame. First published 1986 by Jervis Johnson (Games Workshop). Parody of American football with WARHAMMER FANTASY races (Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Skaven, Undead, Goblins, Chaos). Second Season Edition (2020) current. Combines football tactics + violent fantasy. Long-running cult classic; leagues + digital versions.
Bolt Action
WWII 28mm miniature wargame. First published 2012 by Warlord Games + Osprey Publishing. Designed by Alessio Cavatore + Rick Priestley (both ex-Games Workshop). Uses ORDER DICE mechanic — one die per unit drawn from bag; introducing tactical uncertainty. Third Edition released 2024. Most popular WWII historical miniature wargame.
Flames of War
15mm WW2 wargame — company-scale operations from Battlefront Miniatures, played across gorgeous terrain boards.
Historical Miniature Wargaming
Refighting real battles with painted miniatures — Napoleonic, Ancient, Medieval, English Civil War, WWII and beyond.
Infinity
Spanish sci-fi skirmish game — small elite forces in a Ghost-in-the-Shell / Blade Runner near-future universe.
Kings of War
Mass-battle fantasy wargame — regiments on movement trays with fast, elegant rules and no unit removal.
Necromunda
Skirmish game set in Warhammer 40K's hive-city underbelly — rival gangs fight for scraps in Underhive tunnels.
Star Wars: Legion
Ground-combat Star Wars miniatures game — squads of stormtroopers, rebel troopers, AT-STs and named heroes.
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars starship combat miniature game. First published 2012 by Fantasy Flight Games; Second Edition 2018; Third Edition 2024 by Atomic Mass Games. Uses hidden simultaneous MOVEMENT DIALS + templates for spaceship combat. Iconic Star Wars ships (X-Wings, TIE Fighters, Millennium Falcon). Most popular miniatures game 2015-2018.
Star Wars: X-Wing
Pre-painted Star Wars starfighter miniatures game — assign secret manoeuvre dials, then execute simultaneously.
Warhammer 40,000
Iconic tabletop miniature wargame set in the grim dark future of the 41st millennium — players assemble, paint, and battle armies of intricately detailed plastic + metal figures across science-fiction battlefields.
Warhammer 40,000
The world's biggest miniature wargame — grim-dark far-future sci-fi with Space Marines, Orks, Tyranids and Eldar.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Games Workshop's high-fantasy tabletop miniature wargame — successor to Warhammer Fantasy Battle after 2015 'End Times' reboot. Stormcast Eternals + Sylvaneth + Skaven + Nighthaunt + Ogor Mawtribes + 20+ factions battle across Mortal Realms. 4th Edition launched 2024. Sister game to Warhammer 40k.
Warmachine
Steam-powered fantasy miniatures game — 'warcasters' control massive 'warjacks' in the Iron Kingdoms.