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Cult Of Games XLBS: Which Fantasy World Would WE Love To Wargame In?
September 28, 2025 by crew
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For a fantasy world I’ll go with what I like to think of as Discworlds dad and that is Nehwon and the fabulous city of Lankhmar created by Fritz Leiber
Thanks @brennon. I just started replaying Halo and now I want to replay Fable as well. Where did I place that cd?
Hah back to the old days!
Krak de Chevaliers is a Crusader Castle now in Syria. So given his badge is a crusader flag I would suspect it is a take on the castle.
Coming in here with your facts Rob!
Nothing to do with Maurice and some inappropriate artwork then?
The more you know…
I never read the Golden Compass novels but I thought it was a shame that the films flopped and we didn’t get to delve into the world more.
Perhaps an RPG or a dungeon delve boardgame with choice of familiar and how that impacts your character. There are already fun minis out there of dogs, cats, badgers, squirrels etc.so the technology is already there. Lol. I am not sure it would suit a skirmish game unless it was very low model count. I guess a Frostgrave level game, but it could get complicated fast with too many characters and their animals to keep track of.
Thinking it through… I realise that young players may get upset if cute animals die in a game, but for a lot of adults the mechanics and the diverse options would win out over worries of pulled heart strings. Also, unless there are perils and consequences in a game you have no drama and the game can feel empty and unenjoyable. Golden Compass also seemed to involve a lot of politics and agendas and intrigues that could be fun in an RPG or a very narrative skirmish game or dungeon delve boardgame.
Very cool idea – hadn’t considered the world of the Golden Compass
As the owner of a feegle army, you’d think the answer is Discworld but honestly I’m pretty firmly for keeping it in the books for me.
World of Warcraft was my immediate reaction. In fact it came up on the Hobby Hangout a few weeks ago. I’d love it as a mass battles game to mimic the cinematics you see in game. Given the armies tend to be various races in together it would fit a bit of house ruling Oathmark.
I love the world in the Gentleman Bastards series of books. In terms of RPGs, Blades in the Dark is nailed on. For a minis game it would have the box skirmish but I don’t know what a skirmish heist game would look like. I’d play it though!
A skirmish heist game would be intriguing – Fantasy 02 Hundred Hours mayhaps
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Wouldn’t that make the water a rusty colour red and brown ???🤔
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I knew Ben would say fable. I agree it’s great. Still play them every now and again. The humour was great. The demon door you could only open by sleeping with sex workers until you reach stud status. The reward being a fantasy pimp costume.
Just found that Demon Door again last night. Heading off to the arena now though!
Fantastic work on the game figures for the Germans 🏅👌
5 leagues from the borderlands might work well for a fable style game exploring the world
That could be a good shout actually yeah
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Regarding the question on hand: I don’t think I can answer that in any simple way. Because my preference of the world is influenced by the type of game I want to play. Small skirmish band games with progression of troops like Gorka Morka and Frostgrave feel at home everywhere. Troop battles like you play them in Star Wars: Legion I’m having a hard time imagining in a fantasy setting. They need “powerful gear” like heavy weapons and maybe small vehicles to work and that feels wrong in a fantasy world. Large scale battles like Armoured Clash, Epic 40k or Warmaster again work in both settings. Just have *lots* of units. And I feel fantasy is more interesting to a degree due to it’s “Conan but with many swords” appeal.
Does any of that make sense? I don’t know. I like many worlds. 🙂
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Glen Cook’s The Black Company is a terrific dark fantasy series that is woefully under-represented in the gaming sphere. It’s about a company of mercenaries, supported by some very eccentric sorcerers, in conflict with a group of villains called The Taken who are like a cross between LOTR’s ringwraiths and a supervillain team. I think it would work great for anything from skirmish to mass battles.
How the heck……did I miss ‘ArcWorlde’ all this time?
Dang-it…….
Now I have to dig through the back alleys of the interweb looking for parts and pieces.
Thanks @brennon for he new side-quest. 🤓👍
Hah cool – dive in and let me know if you pick up one of the warbands 🙂
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I reckon Discworld might be my favourite fantasy world. From games I think Conquest might have the best setting. There’s a real rigour in the world-building.
Interesting topic. I’d probably go for Midkemia, the home world of the Magician in the Rifwar Cycle by Raymon Feist. I was 11 when I got my copy when it first came out in paperback and it had a profound effect on a fantasy novel loving child.
i have 2 picks for a world i think would be cool to game in from video games. The first Dishonoured, a skirmish game would be great, several different factions such as the guard, assassins, gangs etc, alternatively you could make it a game like 0200 hours, where you have Corvo (or another generic assassin) infiltrating a zone to kill a target
The second would be Overwatch, theres a lot of cool lore for that game, and I was really looking forward to the release of Overwatch 2 which was going to have a solo/coop campaign in it which explored the world a bit….then they scrapped that plan and just released a worse version of the first Overwatch. But the lore is still there, and im thinking theres 3 game “modes” that it could be played as. The first being a Marvel Crisis protocol type game, you have the factions, objectives to secure and protect and so on. The second being a solo/coop survival against “AI” waves of enemies, and the third where you could basically just make a tabletop version of the game, where its a straight up fight, with options for payload objective or something. Maybe it could include a drafting mechanic to select your squad so both players dont end up using the same character
I started off trying to kitbash some Fable 3 esq miniatures and it rapidly turned into the English Civil War with orcs. Cool but not what I was originally after. It would be a great setting, perhaps if Traitors Toll/WA did a fire arms sprue. Fantasy napoleonic would also be cool but it feels like Flintloque exhausted that some time ago.
If I was getting any world onto the table, it would be the Miles Cameron red knight books or the Christopher Buehlman Daughters’ War. They’re both strong settings and just different enough from standard settings to be interesting. And both of them have some involvement in table top gaming.
A world I’d love to game in would be x-com. Would make an awesome compact asymmetric skirmish. I’ve toyed with the idea of writing rules for it, who knows, one day!