Mini Hirds - 28 mm viking gaming

A couple of years ago, we ran a Mega Game at school about the Viking Age. For that, I painted a lot of miniatures.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a special day at school—a dress-up party with costumes and various activities. We ended the day by playing board games.

I decided to bring a small miniatures game. I spent some time re-skinning the Mini Gangs game by Ramshackle Games—a small, super easy miniatures game. It worked well, with six kids playing at a time, some in pairs.

What was awesome was that the kids it attracted were usually the hyperactive ones, but they were completely absorbed in the game. Everything else was ignored for 1.5 hours—something that rarely happens in school. It just goes to show that ADHD only seems like a problem because our system is structured a certain way. If we changed the teaching parameters, that energy and focus could be a strength rather than a weakness.

I'll be tweaking the game further—switching to a d10 instead of a d6 and making room for army vs. army battles. It should be easy to do. We’ll have another board game module in the autumn, and I’m really looking forward to it.

My focus was on game mastering during the game. So these photos are just quick snaps and not edited at all.