I assume (?), most folk on this forum play games in 15mm.
Maybe they just use PP rules but with other sizes.
Gaming tends to spread naturally across many sizes. Which shows how flexible gamers and gaming can be.
Which games/periods do you play in sizes other than 15mm? Why?
I use 25mm for some show games. This is in order to demonstrate Vikings and Western, in an attempt to entice in 25mm gamers.
I play some fantasy/sci fi in 28mm at my club, mainly because if I didn't I wouldn't get a game. I could play RFCM most weeks to he honest but the club's interests flit around all the time meaning I have to spy my chances when I can.
28mm -
Saga - since the advent of plastics
Basic Impetus 2 and To the Strongest - Italian Wars simply because I really like the Assault Group and Steel Fist figures for this period
Ronin - again Steel Fist Samurai
Dux Bellorum - post-Roman Britain
10/12mm
Square Bashing - RCW, August/October 1914 in Belgium, 1914 Eastern Front, Middle East, FPW
Bloody Big Battles - FPW, APW, FAW, Pacific War
FOGR - Italian Wars
Days of Knights - Hundred Years War, 2nd Barons War
Dux Brittaniarum
Honours of War - the 10mm figures capture the crowded look of an C18th battle line
They Died for Glory - FPW
6mm
Altar of Freedom - ACW
Great War Spearhead 2
TtS - Republican Rome v Hellenistic Empires
2mm/3mm
Travelling armies and scenery for BBB and Altar of Freedom.
That is massive range. Lots of storage cupboards full of figures?
15mm all PP ranges and rules except fantisity
6mm Napolionic
25mm Zulu wars
Quote from: martin goddard on October 02, 2018, 01:24:42 PM
That is massive range. Lots of storage cupboards full of figures?
The oldest figures in my collection are from the late 70s, so there are in fact a large number of RUBs in my painting room, which used to be my study/library. My wargames room is becoming a mini-studio for my son and I have invested in a collapsible 6x4 wargames table. Fortunately I have a very large, airy and bright living room which will make a much more conducive room to game in than the old room which was quite dark and a lot smaller.
Sadly I even have the same period figures in different scales - wild west in 15 and 28, vietnam in 6,15 and 28, Dark ages in 15 and 28.
That's when you know you have issues. :)
Quote from: mellis1644 on October 03, 2018, 01:22:40 AM
Sadly I even have the same period figures in different scales - wild west in 15 and 28, vietnam in 6,15 and 28, Dark ages in 15 and 28.
That's when you know you have issues. :)
Or, one could argue that it shows remarkable focus ;)
I must be exceptionally focused with my four scales of Italian Wars!
Quote from: Leman on October 03, 2018, 01:55:57 PM
I must be exceptionally focused with my four scales of Italian Wars!
That could just be a statistical coincidence, given your appalling absence of focus elsewhere ;D
My active scale is 15mm mostly PP; Dark Ages, ECW, ACW, Western, SCW, Vietnam, PBI. Zulu and British forces on the stocks. 1/450th Pirate ships of course! 25mm ECW, Napoleonics, Byzantines. 54mm British Colonials. 1/600 WW2 aircraft is the latest scale and I will be running a 1940 Airwar game at the WWW.
25mm ECW. I think Rob has those too. Old minifigs??
28mm fantasy and science fiction simply because I purchased a load of Citadel miniatures back in the 1980's.
This reminds me I have a ton of old 25mm Hinchcliffe ECW to get rid of!
All 15mm for me. PP for WWI, SCW, AK47, Sudan and WotR. Mix of Essex,Minifigs and Musuem Miniatures for ECW and Ancients. Did try 6mm at one time but decided it was too fiddly!
My other scale is 10mm. Why? Wanted to wargame the SYW but didn't like what was available from other 15mm manufacturers at the time (as we know, PP don't do a SYW range and this was before PP's AWI range). Found the quality I was looking for in 10mm.
40mm Napoleonic Skirmish
28mm SAGA, Dead Mans Hand, Bolt Action, Chicago Way, Gangs of Rome.
15mm SCW, Sudan, Square Bashing (plus Late Roman, Scots Common and Renaissance Russian, British and Spanish Napoleonic).
1/600th Hammerin Iron.
I prefer the bigger size for skirmish type games and smaller for battle.
All my armies are either 15mm or 25/28mm, I swing between both and to be honest have some armies in both!, but don't tell my other half who is already of the opinion I have far too many. My argument that you simply can't have too many does not get a sympathetic hearing nor does my opinion that you can never actually complete an army as you can always add a few of these and one or two of those ....
32mm
Star Wars Legion. (Hey, it's Star Wars)
28mm
Bolt Action (I do like 28mm WWII figures)
Black Ops (Great little game)
The Men Who Would Kings (Another well written game)
The Great War (Warhammer Historical) I'm a WWI fanboy. Especially in Palestine
To the Strongest (My dark ages fix and the number 1 game played at the club)
1/200
Blood Red Skies (plane game)
1/3000
Victory at Sea (my WWI & WWII naval fix)
15mm - Flames of War, Team Yankee, Nam, Ak-47, Square Bashing. Looking forward to the new War and Empire ancient rules from Forged in Battlle. I have hordes of 15mm ancients gathering dust.
I thought the question was asking other than 15mm, which is why there are no 15mm in my previous post.
We are Wargames Leman. We love talking about all our stuff.
Oh well, in that case:
15mm
Republican Roman
Hellenistic
Italian Wars Venetian, Papal, Spanish and French
Henry II period
Arthurian
Wars of the Roses
ECW
Mex-American War
ACW
WWI BEF, German, Belgian and a cobbled together mishmash of red-trousered French
That shows an admirable focus on 15mm :)
Must be committed to have bought dead elephants for my Hellenistics.
Quote from: Leman on October 07, 2018, 01:07:30 PM
Must be committed to have bought dead elephants for my Hellenistics.
Or pessimistic about your chances?
;D ;D ;D
I purchased some 20mm Rhodesian Bush War figures and they look very good. 20mm are the largest figures I would probably ever use for wargaming and 15mm the smallest.
My personal choices:
1:450 to 1:600
Age of Sail ships
1:144
Aircraft for SCW dogfighting (a nice project never finished)
15mm (& 1:100):
Ancient Greeks
War of Spanish Succession
the few Napoleonic samples I painted just for amusement
American Civil War
WWII
SciFi (for roleplaying mostly)
20mm (& 1:72):
Spanish Civil War (at this scale, a CV33 does look fearsome!)
28-32mm:
Lord of the Rings
For myself it is mostly in 15mm scale: various RFCM games, anything platoon to battalion scaled, a lot of science fiction (Imperial Commander, Laserburn, Fubar, Stargrunt), my own house rules; I do Warmaster and Lord of the Ring type stuff in 10mm scale; but still own a lot of 25-28mm scale figures (Stargrunt, Rogue Trader, Imperial Commander, Warhammer, Chainmail), though these are mostly just for the fun of painting.
There does seem a tendency for fantasy figures sizes to get bigger and bigger. The latest "fire and Ice" are about 38mm (pseudo medieval). Star wars latest is bigger than previous ones. The Warlord Dr Who is bigger too. I suspect that a lot of this size change is merely to stop players using other maker's figures. Old glory tried it with 18mm, which they have now renamed 15/18mm. Moving to a bigger size is always a gamble i feel. If the figures are good then they have a better chance. If existing sizes have enough quality and range they will probably win out?
Fortunately I find fantasy and sci=fi about as appetising as boiled tripe.
I agree with both Leman and Martin's "quality and range" point.
Please stick to 15mm / 1:100 - if it works, don't try to fix it!
Mine is mainly 15mm. PBI, CWB, Bloody Barons, ROF( when i paint them) Pirates same again. AK47. FOW and Team Yankee.
Westerns but i also have 60 odd figures in 54mm with scenery too !
20mm Battlegroup.
28mm for various project yet to be completed
1/300th Team Yankee, pick a side i have Loads !!!
1/450 POE
1/600 Hammering Iron and
MTB game. Night fighters and Bombers too.
Full Thrust and Star Trek ships loads of not sure of the scale 1/2000-3000 ?
Don't knock the tripe my next door neighbours have it regularly, and their well into their 80's, so it can't be all bad.
Often the figure scale is matched to the style of the game and the rule set being used. Skirmish style games with fewer figures seems to becoming very popular.
Tripe...yuk Les!
Well, I seem to have quite a few periods and scales depending how my interests and club projects have changed over the years
32mm
Tombstone - Black Scorpion Wild West
28mm
Saga - Late Roman, Romano British, Saxon, Scots, Welsh, Viking, Irish, Jomsviking, Crusaders, Saracens, Mutatawiwa
Ronin - Samurai
General Ancients - Republican and Early Imperial Roman
Medieval - Viking, Frankish, Crusader, English - Lion Rampant
20mm
WW2 - German, British, American - mostly Rapid Fire
15mm
Early Imperial Roman, Classical Indian, Welsh, Norman, Ottoman, Crusader, French Ordnance - all from my days of DBM
Vikings - PP Longships
ACW - They Couldn't Hit an Elephant / PP Civil War Battles
Samurai - PP BAW
Napoleonic - French, Spanish, Austrian, Russian - mainly Blucher / Black Powder
ECW - PP RoF / FK&P
SCW - PP B&I
WW1 - Belgian, British - PP SB
WW2 - German, Italian, French, British, American - CoC
Old West - Plains Indians, Army, Cattlemen, Mexicans, Townsfolk
ACW ships - PP HI2
10mm
ACW - Altar of Freedom
Napoleonic - British, French, Prussian
FPW - French, Prussian, Bavarian and Crimean War British, French, Russian - mostly Bloody Big Battles
Fantasy
28mm - Frostgrave
10mm - Dropzone Commander
Cut my teeth with Airfix, then after a break jumped in to 6mm.
Currently using
6mm
* A division of Russian Napoleonics (Black Powder Rules).
15mm
* Several age of exploration forces (Dragon Rampant rules). Portuguese, Somali, Javanese/Malay, Ming, Japanese (and Orcs).
* Urartu - Chariot age proto Armenian civilisation (Hail Caesar).
28mm
* Various small warbands (Frostgrave, Song of Blades and Heroes) - Orcs, Early Tudor, Ottoman, Viking, Landsknecht and a Cricket Team.
My 5mm adventures
In 5mm i had some of the mini fig blocks. solid blocks with detail carved out. A bit like the 3mm ACW from PP but before them.
Also had 5mm Minifigs WW2 tanks etc. I really liked Minifigs back in the 70s.
Did a fair bit of 1/300th tank warfare, in the early 1970s again. Firstly with Kirk miniatures. A very helpful seller. This is when Ros and Heroics were separate companies. The Ross tanks came as two track units, hull and turret. Very fiddly. had some GHQ. amazing detail but delicate barrels, went down to Portsmouth Tricorne centre to buy them.
In those early days, infantry were difficult to get hold of (until the fantastic Heroics WW2 figures). Thus i made a large number of WW2 bases, but all in prone positions (just press the detail into Plasticene then pour in resin, so that they could be cast in "plasticraft"( A hobby resin for making transparent blobs with things in them).
Made a large collection of WW 1/300th buildings, including converted Christmas cake buildings.
Put a 1/300th game on at Sussex university in 1973. Pictured in model soldier magazine (short lived gaming publication)
Did some figure gaming with Heroics ancients. Good fun, but probably chose too small a base size for easy handling.
Used little fir cone things (from the local woods) for trees.
Then did sci fi . A 6x4 table with 10 men per side. Based upon Starship Troopers (the book not film). Each man had an "on foot" variant and a "flying" variant stuck on a long pin. The board was of beaver board and the men could be stabbed into the board. Great game with plausible ranges and movement, but figures literally got lost amongst lichen etc (lichen was the modelling scenery for all periods and scales in 1972).
Also the Peter Pig range "interceptors and Intruders" with an accompanying range of fighters on stands.
After all this i wandered off to 1/150th and 1/200th for tank gaming.