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UK wargame designer behind Gaslands, A Billion Suns, and Hobgoblin. Co-host of the Rule of Carnage podcast.
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Mike Hutchinson

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UK wargame designer behind Gaslands, A Billion Suns, and Hobgoblin. Co-host of the Rule of Carnage podcast.

Mike Hutchinson designs tabletop wargames as Planet Smasher Games. His games include Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Mystic Skies, Perilous Tales and the fantasy mass battle game Hobgoblin, which Electi Studio publishes under license.

He co-hosts the Rule of Carnage podcast and lives in the UK.

Games

The Gaslands: Refuelled hardback, with a blue muscle car on its cover, lying on a wooden table surrounded by fluorescent yellow acrylic movement templates labelled with gears and names like Veer, Swerve, Hairpin and Slide

Gaslands: Refuelled

Mike Hutchinson's post-apocalyptic car combat game from Osprey, played with kitbashed Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. Gears, skid dice and movement templates, plus sponsors, perks, death races and campaigns.

Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · $21
Painted fantasy regiments on rectangular movement trays, skeleton spearmen, cavalry, and beastmen, facing off in front of ruined stone walls lit in teal and purple

Hobgoblin

Mike Hutchinson's rank-and-flank fantasy mass battle game from Electi Studio. No preset factions: you stat your own army from any fantasy miniatures you own, and a battle is done in under two hours.

Army · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · $20