I was up for some simple gaming last night, so I grabbed some wooden discs I had to hand, a tin of green spray paint, superglue and eight small dinosaur figures and produced what you can see above. The dinosaurs effectively come pre-painted, all that would be required is picking out eyes, claws, teeth and maybe slapping on a wash. But I didn’t bother, it was 9pm and I wanted a game.
So I set up my gaming corner:
Drew up some statlines for my dinosaurs and played a quick game of 56 points aside using my own home brew dinosaur rules which I’ll be posting alongside my Deathzap rules in the menu above. So if you have some toy dinosaurs give them a go!
The red dinosaurs seemed to dominate early on, you can see Ceratosautus caught in between Spinosaurus and Dilophosaurus near the centre.
However, Ceratosaurus broke from the combat and made a speedy escape scoring an objective (far left) as Brachiosaurus and T-Rex finished off Eucnemesaurus (top middle).
This meant the dark coloured Dinosaurs only needed to score one more objective point to win the game, and they did just that once T-Rex brought down Spinosaurus.
Funnily enough I’d forgotten about the dark dinosaurs’ Corythosaurus in reserve at the back of the board. He looked lonely back there…
This really is a testament to wargaming on a shoestring budget. Both sets of figures cost pennies and the terrain was all stuff I had lying around. I wrote the rules myself so that saved a butt load of gold coins too. I think sometimes the more time and money you invest in gaming the less fun you end up having because it puts too much pressure on the final experience of measuring distances and rolling dice. I can’t tell you how much I’ve invested in Games Workshop Miniatures over the years, but the cost to fun ratio of my warhammer collection is much lower than my discount dinosaur collection.
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