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Hogs Of War has gone Mini in the Hogs Of War Miniatures Game.
Command one of four Hogs factions in a conquest of Saustralasia.
Recruit your favourite classes of Hog from the original PS1 title including Snipers, Engineers, Bombardiers, Grunts and more! As well as Tanks, Biplanes and Airships, modified to be as you have built them!
Build an expansive Base to secure your economy. Upgrade your forces to handle new situations, outsmart your opponent or master the terrain!
Featuring;
96 Miniatures in the box, with Airships, Tanks, Armoured Cars, Biplanes and Infantry!
A unique RTS-style "Base building" mechanic that uses polyomino Building tiles to add an upgrade system, varied Unit recruitment and more to your faction. There are thousands of Base setups and Building combinations available!
A Campaign Book with five core "Mission Modes", as well as a customisable Co-op / Solo game-mode.
Out of the box terrain, including Mountains, Forests, Roads and Rivers- to turn any Battlefield into your own unique creation.
Hundreds of tokens, high quality Unit/ Upgrade cards, deployables, custom dice and more!
- A great strategic/tactical scenario-based game.
- Fun and funny sculpts that are easy to identify.
- Campaign introduces new elements progressively, acting as a tutorial.
- Engaging campaign with persistent unit upgrades.
- Unique thematic elements like building an airship and carrier pigeons.
- Surprisingly deep for a game with a silly premise.
- The miniatures can be fun for photography with other figures (Calico Critters).
- Took a bit to learn the rules.
- The rulebook is dense, typical for a wargame.
- Some components (plane stands) are reported as not robust, though the host found them to be functional.
- Pigs going to war and battling it out.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Component-based unit building — An airship can be built from different parts, with each part offering different actions and abilities.
- Resource management (time/victory points) — Victory points function as a timer, with ways to gain back time by achieving objectives like knocking out enemy units.
- scenario-based play — The game features a campaign with five interconnected missions, each with different objectives.
- Solo AI — The solo mode involves an AI that can act defensively, aggressively, or with special abilities dictated by cards.
- Terrain effects — Terrain tiles can provide cover bonuses or create impassable areas like lakes that require specific units.
- Unit customization/upgrades — Players can find upgrades in crates, such as a flamethrower for a bomber unit, which persist between missions.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hogs of War the Miniatures game
- This is actually a pretty great strategic sort of tactical scenario based game.
- It did take a bit to learn the rules.
- There's a lot of cool stuff in here.
- This is one of the things that I really enjoy about games that do this which actually sort of get you into the game through sort of tutorial scenarios but in a way that they're not tutorials.
- This is another cool element of this campaign that when you pick up crates typically you have a choice between either getting again one of these upgrade cards for a specific sort of unit or you can get more hog tags.
- Hogs of War the Miniatures game in this fairly large box with all that shininess has been really really fun.