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Eternøl is a 15mm sci-fi wargame where you design your own units. From futuristic tanks to warping immobile emplacements — anything you can imagine goes. Each unit has its own base, so although you field a whole army, it plays more like skirmish. You play one-off PvP games of 1.5–2h.
Eternøl is a pure PvP, one-shot game with no campaign, solo, or co-op modes. You field a full army, but a compact one: roughly ten bases per side, and each base is one unit. A base might hold a single tank or ten infantry glued together, and all rules key off the base.
Every army is built from the same shared keyword list, so you always know what the units across the table do. You never have to take your opponent's word on some unfamiliar faction rule, and games speed up noticeably once the keywords become familiar.
Eternøl is a small to medium hobby project. An army is around eight to ten bases, and terrain requirements are light: you can realistically go from zero to army plus terrain in one or two dedicated weekends.
The main hobby hook is the fact that each unit is a base. This gives amazing opportunities for creating beautiful mini-dioramas for each unit with whatever minis and basing materials you like. The only hard requirement is the base sizes, which are somewhat unusual, so plan on sourcing or printing those.
Eternøl is miniatures-agnostic and built for kitbashing. The game was designed at 15mm, but the scale of your minis doesn't matter as long as they're on the correct bases. Standard units use 60–80mm bases, and behemoths go on 100–120mm.
Electi Studio sells STLs for some of the creatures and vehicles shown in the book's artwork, so they are a great place to start. The community also often uses Full Spectrum Dominance minis as they scale up to 15mm really nicely (natively they are 6mm).
Eternøl is terrain-light. A gaming mat with several hills or rocks is more than enough.
For buildings and other detailed terrain, you can easily scale existing ranges up (from 6/8mm) or down (from 28/32mm) since 15mm sits comfortably in the middle. As with miniatures, Full Spectrum Dominance terrain is a community staple.
You design your units yourself. Pick one army-wide keyword that goes to every unit, then give each unit its own keywords. Combined with free-form diorama bases, you can build pretty much anything you can imagine.
Since you write your own list, you're never stuck with a faction that has no answer to what your opponent brings. If a list doesn't work the way you expected, tweak it and play again. Need to deal with some heavy tanks? Paint up a 15mm super cannon and give it an armour-piercing weapon.
Eternøl is open sci-fi: not hard sci-fi, and not grimdark. War spans the universe, and news travels so slowly that by the time a peace treaty reaches the front line, it's already been broken and a new war has started. The result is an endless, hopeless quagmire of asymmetric, alien conflict.
The book includes a couple of short stories that you can use for inspiration, or simply to get a taste of Eternøl's universe.
There are no official factions and no timeline. Where your army fits is up to you.
The free Indie Tabletop Club army builder is available at eternol.indietabletop.club.
Written in September 2026 by Artur Müller (Indie Tabletop Club), based on an interview with Greg Horton (Electi Studio) and the content of the Eternøl rulebook. Images used with permission.