Figure size

[Westie]

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.

[John in York]

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.

[DorchesterBede]

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 ....

[pbeccas (Paul)]

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.

[Leman (Andy)]

I thought the question was asking other than 15mm, which is why there are no 15mm in my previous post.

[pbeccas (Paul)]

We are Wargames Leman.  We love talking about all our stuff.

[Leman (Andy)]

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

[Colonel Kilgore]

That shows an admirable focus on 15mm

[Leman (Andy)]

Must be committed to have bought dead elephants for my Hellenistics.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Must be committed to have bought dead elephants for my Hellenistics.

Or pessimistic about your chances?

[Leman (Andy)]

 

[Mike Tanner]

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.

[Lluis of Minairons]

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

[Batko]

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.

[martin goddard]

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?