The reboot of the Battle Masters board game puts Godzilla on the front lines
Warmastersthe cult classic tabletop wargame best known for taking over entire kitchen floors in the mid-1990s will be brought back to life by Restoration Games (Fireball Island: Curse of Vul-Kar, Return to the Dark Tower, Crossbows and Catapults: Fort War) as Fight monsters. The reboot is produced in association with MonsterVerse, the joint venture between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures which has produced recent hits like Godzilla x King Kong. The final product will be funded through the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2025 and will feature the iconic kaiju. The announcement was made last weekend during PAX Unplugged and all social media.
The original Warmastersdesigned by Stephen Baker, used many of Games Workshop’s different miniature sculptures Warhammer fantasy battles – a feature it had in common with Baker’s other beloved board game, HeroQuest. And while that game’s owner, Hasbro, opted to simply archive Games Workshop’s serial numbers with the 2020 reboot, Restoration is taking the franchise in a completely different direction with an all-new IP featuring sky-high kaiju.
That of course makes perfect sense when you look at the original Combat Master‘s scale. The game was made famous with a five-foot playing mat. That means that unless you had a large table tennis table or a truly enormous dining table, the original had to be played on the floor.
Little is known about the reboot at this point, other than that it will feature “the Titans of the Monsterverse: Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Kong, and Mechagodzilla.” But as with all Restoration products, it’s designed with modern players, not necessarily collectors, in mind. To that end, fans can expect a solution that makes better use of today’s most common household furniture sizes.
“Not the (Twister) matte of the original,” according to Restoration on X. “(We thought most of our fans don’t really want to play on the ground.) But yes, (a) very large mat (is included).”