Quickplay for Hardwar, a Fast-Paced 6mm Scale Tactical Sci-Fi Miniatures Game, Now Available

Modiphius Entertainment has today launched a Quickplay for its new 6mm scale tactical sci-fi miniatures game, Hardwar.

Coming to Kickstarter on 1st July 2025, Hardwar is a 6mm-scale miniatures range and game set in the turn of the twenty-second century with fast-paced tactical rules and a hard sci-fi setting full of tanks, mechs and aircraft.

This quickplay streamlines the rules of the upcoming core book and allows players to try the core mechanics and gameplay before backing the crowdfunding campaign.

As part of the upcoming Kickstarter, the Hardwar rulebook has been fully edited and reformatted into a table-friendly digest-size hardback book, introducing solo and co-op rules, and features the Extended Hardware and No Heroes content previously only available in PDF. The starter sets have all been re-mastered to provide crisper details truer to the original sculpts.

Modiphius has also developed brand-new solo play rules for the game. These will let players take their force, select a mission and then face off against a determined AI force generated as they explore the battlefield. Players will choose from quick skirmishes or open battles, and see their force grow – but should watch out for the AI’s cunning strategies!

In Hardwar, players take on a variety of roles from leading a private security company, commanding corporate forces, a revolutionary rabble, or a marshal protecting farmsteads. They will have access to a range of factions using pre-built units or can create rules for their favourite models with the simple construction system.

The game has straightforward rules allowing a mix of classic armoured warfare, with mechs, spacecraft, exotic experimental weapons, cybernetics, sentient combat swarms and ECM.

Chris Birch, co-founder at Modiphius, said: “With the huge love for mech combat in the community, we saw a great opportunity in Hardwar to tell a different story – one that lets you get more units on your gaming table for fast-paced battles. When we discovered this fantastic range of sci-fi miniatures, we wanted to help the game reach a wider audience – and we think people are really going to love it!”

Originally developed by Strato Minis of Poland, with rules by Krzysztof Raczynski, Rafal Zerych and Robey Jenkins, Strato Minis Studio was acquired by Modiphius Entertainment in 2024.