by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 29 June 2023
Spotlighting a couple of features we saw at Origins, here’s some photo galleries of places we lingered a bit.
Origins Awards Winners
- Retailer Game of the Year – Boop (Smirk & Laughter Games)
- Origins Fan Favorite – Flamecraft (Lucky Duck Games)
- Board Games – Social/Light Strategy – Creature Comforts (Kids Table Board Gaming)
- Board Games – Strategy – Planet Unknown (Adam’s Apple Games)
- Board Games – Thematic – Dead Reckoning (Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG)
- Card Games – Scout (OINK Game)
- Children’s Game – HONK! (Sinister Fish Games)
- Collectables – Magic the Gathering Universes Beyond Warhammer 40K Commanders Deck (Wizards of the Coast)
- Miniatures Game – Lion Rampant: Second Edition (Osprey Games)
- RPG Core – Coyote & Crow (Coyote & Crow)
- RPG Supplement – Agents of Dune (Modiphius)
- Accessory – Deluxe Board Game Train Sets (Little Plastic Train Co.)
- 2D Art & Illustration – CowBoys with Big Hearts (Bully Pulpit Games)
- 3D Art – Fallout: Wasteland Warfare – Super Mutants: Swan (Modiphius)
- Graphic Design – Pathfinder Savage Worlds Boxed Set (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
- Reviews – Mind MGMT Review (Board Game Quest)
Here are all the nominees, in no particular order
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Warlord Games
With a large and well-decorated sponsored play area in the gaming hall, Warlord Games definitely made a visual splash with their minis, and some fantastic laser-cut terrain from Father & Son Gaming
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Polyversal
Collins Epic has been working on Polyversal for a bunch of years and got it released last fall. We showed off an unboxing of the base game, but you bring your own minis to the table. As a minis-agnostic system, you can use whatever you want, including old epic-scale WH40K minis, or any other 15mm or smaller that you’ve got laying about.
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Stay tuned for our Origins AAR, and other galleries of the rest of the convention, too!
photos from Patrick Rice, Brant Guillory, and others
ORIGINS 2023 COVERAGE
WARGAME HQ EVENTS ~ MiD PREVIEW EPISODE ~ WARGAME HQ EVENT PREVIEWS ~ ADVICE FOR ROOKIES ~ CONSOLIDATED WARGAMING EVENT GRID ~ EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT ~ THE MAILBAG
SETUP & FIRST GAMES ~ ABOVE THE SHOW ~ DAY 1 REPORT ~ DAY 2 REPORT ~ DAYS 3 & 4 REPORT ~ EXHIBIT HALL ~ GAMEPLAY PHOTOS ~
WARGAME HQ EVENT REPORT ~ THE SPIRITUAL SOJOURN ~ SPOTLIGHT ~ THE RAFFLE ~ CONVENTION PHOTOS ~ AAR
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Hey Brant and team, thanks a bunch for covering Polyversal and checking out the game at Origins!