(Includes free Hobgoblin Sticker)
Mike Hutchinson's Hobgoblin is a fast-paced and thrilling rank and flank tabletop miniatures wargame set in the fantastical underground world of The Rotvärlden. With simple and adaptable rules, players can collect and field any fantasy army they can imagine and engage in brutal battles that last under two hours.
The game features original artwork from graphic artist CROM and encourages players to let their wild imaginations run free as they battle alongside cavern fortresses and underground oceans. Whether you're a seasoned player of fantasy army wargames or new to the genre, Hobgoblin offers a fresh and exciting take on the fantasy mass battle experience.
More than seven years in development Hobgoblin is the slickest fantasy battle game yet. Every design decision seeks to provide a brutally fast game that allows you to scale up games to truly massive battles without exponentially increasing the game-time, or the brain-space, needed to play.
The core ingredients that make up Hobgoblin’s unique gameplay are:
- Rock-paper-scissors relationship of unit types, meaning no unit is ever master of the battlefield, and every sort of miniature can have a role to play in your army
- Simple and consistent stats and combat rules, making battles super-fast to resolve
- Magic, Cursed Artefacts and Fortune Cards provide a huge range of possible strategies and tricks to explore.
- Every design decision in the game pushes towards brutal efficiency and smooth, quick gameplay
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Hobgoblin provides an intuitive system for you to build your own unique factions and army lists, meaning that whatever models you choose to build and paint, you can build your army’s rules to match your playstyle (or even mix up your playstyle without having to buy a whole new army).
Play game designer and craft your own units and army:
- Create units that fit your playstyle
- Add strengths and weaknesses to create the army you want
- Utilize 30+ keywords to create unique units
- Draw from 9 unique spell books
The world of Hobgoblin is an endless maze of interwoven tunnels, caverns and catacombs forever growing downwards beneath the dead, frozen surface of the world. Vast subterranean fantasy kingdoms are thrown into chaos when the Cursed Artefacts are discovered: each granting the bearer the power to manifest vast magical armies, at the cost of draining their life-force and allowing the long-dead creator of the artefact to slowly possess them. The bearers of these cursed items of power become known as The Haunted.
More Cursed Artefacts are discovered, and this new power tears the underworld apart. Bloody campaigns of unstoppable conquest are waged by The Haunted.
Play out campaigns in which you take the Haunted, the bearer of a powerful cursed artefact used for conquest, mayhem, or power by summoning massive armies as you are slowly corrupted by your bargain with ancient powers.