That must be one huge tricorne.
6mm? Might as well play a boardgame! ;)
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Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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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.
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.
Re: 6mm? Might as well play a boardgame! ;)
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.....
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Re: 6mm? Might as well play a boardgame! ;)
I like all sorts of games
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
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).
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
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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Re: 6mm? Might as well play a boardgame! ;)
I'm intrugued. What game is it?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
Re: 6mm? Might as well play a boardgame! ;)
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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Sounds like an excuse for an outbreak of bad Monty Python impersonations...Slugbalancer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:55 amI'm intrugued. What game is it?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
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Details here:Slugbalancer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:55 amI'm intrugued. What game is it?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
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2784/plague
Good fun in a beer and skittles kinda way.
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