Dogs of War

Making a tiny version of a board game

I got the German version at half-price because it seemed like an interesting game. Played it with an English-language reference sheet and then got to work on making it mine. Parts that were not necessary:

  • Huge box
  • Plastic miniatures
  • Board that is only used to hold cards in place
Everything in the box

The box is now a quarter of the original volume, barely big enough to hold all the stuff. The board got turned into faction cards that also hold the Battle tracks. These need to be shuffled every round, so it works well.

Six factions in the game

Original game used very fancy plastic miniatures with giant hats. I replaced them with regular meeples as I was down-sizing, which also made them more pleasant to hold when placing on the board. Since I needed English text on the player screens anyway, I went ahead and added the 4 Kickstarter bonus colours.

5 player colours
4 additional player colours

Of course I needed to make rules summaries and reference sheets for all the icons.

Reference cards

I kept all the tokens from the original game, because they had no German text on them. The bottom half of the box is used as the faction value track.

Faction value track
Plastic coins from the Kickstarter version
Point tokens
Faction tokens

Hardi Kõvamees is a designer, board gamer, and coder

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