Fallout Wasteland Warfare

 

I got Fallout Wasteland Warfare for my birthday but wanted to do a blog post when I had painted the miniatures, so I have been busily painting away and now I have finished the minis. So let see inside the box

First of is 2 paper mats that go next to each other. They are quite nice with a post apocalyptic theme (as you would imagine), they are on glossy paper folded up so the folds when you lay out the mats will be annoying at the start but I'll get used to it and they give you a great starting point. 

Next up is a load of bags in preparation for the amount of tokens you get! Always worried that if a police officer came to my house, saw the flock and random bags like this around the House he would be quite concerned! 😂😂

Next up is the tokens. Two sheets of many many many tokens! The game is token heavy but after watching play through videos, some tokens can be ignored and some tokens only apply to certain scenarios so you wouldn't be using them all at once most of the time.  There are tokens for activating models, movement rulers (the game uses several different coloured  length rulers for different ranges of weapons or movements), damage counters, investigation markers etc. Nice quality cardboard tokens with very Fallout style artwork. 

The dice look quite foreboding when you open the box and I would definatly reccomend watching some play through videos first but the dice help add the Fallout video game effects. Things like helping lowering the dice score so you are more likely to hit, extra damage, armour breaks and special effects (laser rifle can set people on fire).

The rule books. You get three books and an erata of the rules. They all have great artwork and I love the Fallout style to them all.  First off is a short intro booklet to give you the basics of tabletop warfare. Most gaming veterans won't need this but it's a nice touch for new players.  The rulebook is a nice thick book and explains everything quite well and uses examples which I particularly  like. The other book add rules for expanding the game with settlements, quests and exploring the wasteland etc.  The settlement rules give your band of survivors a chance to form a home where you can add buildings which give you bonuses, just like Fallout 4. The rules also cover an AI section which allows for single or Co op games. This is a big thing for me especially with the on going pandemic it means I can get some games in by myself. There is a linked set of missions in the book to introduce the rule. I also found Guerrilla Miniatures Games on YouTube and they do a great couple of  Fallout games. Click  here to see one of the videos. He does a great set of battles which are linked by the RPG and settlement rules.  There is also an RPG book for Fallout which allows for a Dungeons and Dragons style game. I have this on order also (Yes I'm a fallout fan boy).

Here be the cards. There are unit cards for each unit in the starter set, AI cards which are used to decide actions for models when using AI play. Then we have faction cards, there only 2 in this set but obvisouly there will be more with the different sets. Ghouls, Brotherhood of Steel etc. I believe these are free to download  but can be bought in a physical set also.  Last are lots of smaller cards that cover lots of things Fallout. Perks, quests, in game events plus items that can be found in game or equipped to characters. 

Last of all is the models! 

First up are the survivors. You get our heroine the vault dweller sole survivor, obviously  no fallout game would be complete without Dog meat! There are 2 settlers and an enslaved / freed tech depending on which faction he is in. Last is Aspirant Goddard a Brotherhood of Steel member in power armour. 

Above is the sole survivor in X-01 power armour and armoured Dog meat. These were an extra set bought as another present for me so don't come in the starter set. I painted the power armour in the Nuka Quantum colour scheme. 

Next up is the super mutants, you get 3 super mutants and 2 mutant hounds. 

The biggest model of the set is the fearsome deathclaw! I was quite intimidated by painting this model but I am happy with the paint job I did. 

Last of all is the free Zetan alien you get with the starter set. 

The models are plastic pvc I believe, you can buy a starter set with resin models for a higher price I'm sure.  The models have decent detail on most of them. Dogmeat could have done with a bit more fur detailing. That would have helped the painting as I found it hard to get the fur to pop out as there aren't any real details for wash to sink in but other than that I am happy with all the other models. 

I forgot to mention so this is an update to the blog, the game is accompanied by a free  fantastic app which runs all manner of game mechanics for you. It has a battle tracker and settlement tracker plus many more things. You do have to purchase any new card sets on the app if you want those in the app just to make you aware. 

That's the set, really can't wait to play this game.