How Do You Make A War Board Game?
War board games run the gamut from simple strategy games to detailed simulations. Before you make a war game, decide just what you want to end up with. Do you want a game for casual enthusiasts, or one for serious gamers? Do you want a quick, easy game or an all-day campaign? Create a rough draft with temporary game pieces and a sketched-out paper game board to test. Only invest in nice miniatures and create a finished board once you have ironed out all the kinks. Figure out your scale. Decide if you want your war board game to simulate a single battle, a war, or an ongoing campaign. Look at some games that work on the same scale you want to work with. For example, a game like Warhammer simulates an individual battle in a fantasy universe; Axis & Allies simulates World War II; and Risk simulates an ongoing campaign for global domination. Come up with a setting. Do you want your game to take place in a particular historic setting, in an imagined future, or in some fantastic world? Part
