Precinct Omega

I met up with Alex Handley of Aotrs Shipyard to discuss his work designing an enormous range of spaceship miniatures as 3D sculpts, and his experience of getting them to retail through third-party printing services.

Shooting is a critical part of most tabletop miniatures wargames, but it is frequently given woefully little consideration by designers who think in narrow terms about the experiences of the soldiers they represent. Players, too, often think purely in terms of "hit" or "miss", without engaging creatively with the imaginative space of the tabletop.

In this episode, I think about what designers can do to more effectively communicate the experience of shooting and range combat, be it with historical, modern or science fiction weapons.

I take at look at:

Bad Squiddo Games 

North Star Military Figures 

Wyrd Games 

Avatars of War 

Antenociti's Workshop 

DGS Games 

All of these business have faced or are facing challenges to their market relevance, either through personal circumstances, shifts in the market, technological drift or commercial miscalculation. And each has addressed or is addressing these challenges in different ways. I take a look at different approaches small businesses have taken and consider what Precinct Omega and other businesses in the industry can learn from their example.