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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Conquistador on 11 August 2014, 10:50:46 AM
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Saw these https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176713488/a-house-in-your-hand-architectural-miniature-model?ref=nav_search on KS, naturally, the source of all temptation...
Since I am becoming an aerial (3 mm) and (15/6/3 mm) land war gamer predominantly but still have 25+ mm figures this looked mildly intriguing. How useful do you think these would be for war games?
1/144 - 8.7x4.9 metres approx - according to TMP 11.2 mm
1/148 - 8.9x5.0 metres approx - according to TMP- well, did I miss it?
1/152 - 9.1x5.2 metres approx - according to TMP - well, did I miss it?
1/160 - 9.6x5.4 metres approx - according to TMP 10.06 mm
so, if I have the chart right, these are variations of "10/12 mm suitably sized" buildings?
reference: http://theminiaturespage.com/ref/scales.html
Gracias,
Glenn
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Since I am becoming an aerial (3 mm) and (15/6/3 mm) land war gamer predominantly but still have 25+ mm figures this looked mildly intriguing. How useful do you think these would be for war games?
It really depends on the kind of game you want. Let me pose you a question:
How often do you find your ground (terrain) scale matches your figure scale? I.e. in 15mm (1:100 roughly) a normal 4x6 table represents 400' by 600' ?
Always? Then you want matching scale buildings.
If not, you want something smaller. How much smaller depends on a variety of factors.
I wrote about this a while back:
http://www.smallcuts.net/articles/building_comparison.jsp
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It really depends on the kind of game you want. Let me pose you a question:
How often do you find your ground (terrain) scale matches your figure scale? I.e. in 15mm (1:100 roughly) a normal 4x6 table represents 400' by 600' ?
Always? Then you want matching scale buildings.
If not, you want something smaller. How much smaller depends on a variety of factors.
I wrote about this a while back:
http://www.smallcuts.net/articles/building_comparison.jsp
In my games, as a rule of thumb 15 and 6 mm can run from skirmish (yes, you can skirmish in 6 mm) which might include entering buildings (literally putting the figures in the buildings or off table on a series of room layouts) to mass battle of varying sized conflicts where you indicate what units are in what buildings. My 3 mm would be mostly aerial and these would be targets.
Edit: Room clearing skirmishes could quite easily fit in a 400' x 600' representation.
Gracias,
Glenn