Burrows and Badgers

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Burrows and Badgers is an RPG style wargame produced by Osprey Games. Its characters are anthropomorphic animals. [1]

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Gameplay

Burrows and Badgers is a skirmish style miniature wargame. Each character is played as an individual hero, meaning that no ranks of units or sorting is required. Instead of armies, each player has a group of such heroes, known as a warband. Players keep a log of the individual experience gained by all characters in their band. [2]

Characters and Classes

Players can have a variety of species fight in their warbands. The characters include rabbits, mice, badgers, snakes, shrews, and birds. The classes that characters can assume include wizards, barbarians and rogues. [2]

Release

The first edition of Burrows and Badgers was released in 2016. [3] A second edition was published on April 17 2018, by Osprey Games. [4]

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References

  1. "Burrows & Badgers". United States. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  2. 1 2 "Burrows & Badgers - the skirmish miniatures game of anthropomorphic animals". burrowsandbadgers.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  3. Burrows & Badgers Rulebook v1.5
  4. https://ospreypublishing.com/uk/burrows--badgers-9781472826657/#:~:text=Burrows%20%26%20Badgers%20is%20a%20tabletop,swords%2C%20and%20cast%20magic%20spells.

3. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204680/burrows-and-badgers-skirmish-game-anthropomorphic