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Purple wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:18 am And wearing a tricorn around my house.
That must be one huge tricorne.
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I'm a big 6mm fan, always have been. You can achieve different things depending on what you're after. Small games in a small space is one, or proper representation of big battles on normal sized tables is another. I like both.

I'm currently working on SYW games where there's plenty of scope to fit the approach march and pre-battle manoeuvring on a big(ish) table, with the armies only taking up a small(ish) proportion of it when they actually engage. This leaves room for reserves, Freddy's flank marches, Austrian converging column attacks, etc. Should be fun.
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And that's why Dave has volunteered to put on Rossbach in 1/1 next year for us.
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Smart ass, I was going to invite you and the local chapter over for a game but you can poke it now!
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Fair play, though Purps - he's giving you a choice of fingers.....
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I like all sorts of games 8-)

Spent about 18 months worth of Bank Holidays playing Empires of the Middle Ages:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/911 ... iddle-ages

And still have a board game which involves collecting dead bodies in a plague-stricken West Country town. I do fancy converting that to 28mm :evilgrin:

There's a thread on LAF talking about the Pete Berry article (which is just Pete being Pete) which made a good point about 6mm, that it's the terrain that is the key point, not the figures. It's a battle in a landscape, not a battle that has a couple of bits of landscape thrown in as a last resort. Railway modellers have a similar discussion about N and Z gauge.

I'd quite like to do it (6mm I mean) but can't paint 6mm with any degree of satisfaction - EB's yer man for small scale stuff. I'm looking at a few 10mm figures but really I don't think I can go lower than 15mm (it's my back doctor).
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levied troop wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:24 am And still have a board game which involves collecting dead bodies in a plague-stricken West Country town. I do fancy converting that to 28mm :evilgrin:
I'm intrugued. What game is it?
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Board games are branching out though, I mean look at the success of games such as Conan and Zombicide? Yes, they can be converted to tabletop games, however they were designed as board games
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Slugbalancer wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:55 am
levied troop wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:24 am And still have a board game which involves collecting dead bodies in a plague-stricken West Country town. I do fancy converting that to 28mm :evilgrin:
I'm intrugued. What game is it?
Sounds like an excuse for an outbreak of bad Monty Python impersonations...
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Slugbalancer wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:55 am
levied troop wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:24 am And still have a board game which involves collecting dead bodies in a plague-stricken West Country town. I do fancy converting that to 28mm :evilgrin:
I'm intrugued. What game is it?
Details here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2784/plague

Good fun in a beer and skittles kinda way.

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