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First Look: Combat with Wartile’s Tactical Minitures

A very large subset of videogame players also engage in tactical miniature battles, even fielding and painting their own armies, building elaborate game boards and participating in leagues and tournaments. Wartile from Playwood Games attempts to take that same level of fun and provide it to players without having to travel to their local hobby or gaming store, or to that one friend’s basement who has the huge train board setup and a very understanding wife.

We jump in and play the first tutorial mission plus two tactical battles, expanding our Viking army of heroes three fold, drinking a lot of mead, and spilling gallons of blood.

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John Breeden II
John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.