{"id":1123797,"date":"2026-02-01T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=524316"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:50:03","slug":"gundam-assemble-miniatures-game-will-start-small-bandai-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/gundam-assemble-miniatures-game-will-start-small-bandai-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Gundam Assemble miniatures game will start small, Bandai says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bandai Spirits first announced its Gundam Assemble<\/em><\/a> miniatures game in January, setting off a firestorm of speculation among fans. The giant toy robot models are finally being shrunken down to the size of tabletop miniatures, and a new tabletop skirmish game<\/a> is on the way. But with little more than a brief trailer<\/a> to go on, consumers have largely been left in the dark. Polygon recently spoke with the Japanese development team via translator, and we\u2019ve learned that the toy arm of the multinational entertainment company Bandai Namco isn\u2019t ready to take any options off the table.<\/p>\n

The game that Bandai shows off in the trailer looks to have a similar footprint to card-based skirmish miniatures games like Warhammer Underworlds<\/em><\/a>, which also uses a grid for movement. Representatives from Bandai told Polygon that the smaller footprint was indeed inspired by games like these, but also by more traditional board games like Catan<\/em><\/a>. They clearly want Gundam Assemble<\/em> to fit on a kitchen table \u2014 not the lunchroom-sized 8-footers that wargames like Warhammer 40,000<\/em> are usually played on.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the goal is to introduce Gunpla \u2014 those giant, articulated robot models that Bandai alone can expertly craft \u2014 to the wider, global audience of tabletop gamers.<\/p>\n

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