Wut Even W.A.R.R.?

I used to work at a game store.

Pretty early on I was exposed to mini's games like Warhammer, Battle Tech, and Star Wars Armada (R.I.P.). And while I loved most of the mini's for these games. Warhammer wasn't complicated but I couldn't really jive with it's aesthetic, Battle Tech is cool, but there's something about controlling mechs at that scale that really put me off,(and this is all while I love Lancer). Star Wars armada let you control a whole fleet, which I loved conceptually but It was really expensive, and this was while I was still hating on star wars and I didn't really want to give Disney any money even indirectly.

Then I found Infinity.

My Metal Babies

It was perfect. You control squads of individual dudes, you can have at max 15 dudes in play, The cyberpunk military aesthetic was made for me, and It just so happened that the Japanese Secessionist Army was 80% off.

Fast forward about 6 months. I'm 200 minis in (Black Friday and a work buddy gave me their old stuff)and I'm assembling a basic line troop(a basic guy, unnamed, dies really easily), I somehow lost it's arm. I happened to have a left over ninja arm with an smg, and I decided, In my hubris, to glue it on.

It looked so cool, but it was just a nameless trooper. 

In the next game I played with him he'd go on to kill three named characters 3 times his point value.

I knew I wanted to share that joy I had when this impossible thing happened. the frustration that comes from point values not matching your hopes for your ideal list. etc.

Then I remembered I'm a writer and I can do whatever I want.

So I gave real people point values. and made their deaths meaningless.

Welcome to W.A.A.R Games.

By Alex Hiedman