Joy of Six 2025

[ChrisBBB]

Some big little battalions were on display at the Joy of Six 2025 show earlier this month. Plenty of 19th-century games. My report here also links to other fuller ones:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/07/joy-of-bbb.html

[fred]

The Le Cateau and Gravellote games look very good.

I'm normally quite happy with buildings a size down from the figures, but the above photo looks a little surreal!

[ithoriel]

The Le Cateau and Gravellote games look very good.

I'm normally quite happy with buildings a size down from the figures, but the above photo looks a little surreal!

Some really lovely games on show in the various show reports.

However, while the town model is rather charming in it's own right, I have long had an aversion to the tendency to use buildings a scale or two down from the figure scale.

I fail to understand why a gamer who can look at 24 figures and see a battalion can't look at a house and see a village.

I mean each to their own and all that. It's not like the Wargames Police are going to kick in your door and haul you away for using 15mm scale houses with 28mm scale figures. But it grinds my gears if I find myself in a game where my troops are attacking or defending a bunch of Wendy Houses or worse still, as in this example, the local Model Village.

Steam released. Rant over. As you were chaps and chapesses.

[ChrisBBB]

I chose that pic for this post because it's eye-catching, but I can understand that zooming in on the fort emphasised the difference in scales, which therefore jars a bit. But if you step back and look at the shot of the whole table it's fine.

[vtsaogames]

The fortress is lovely. Who makes it? I need one like a hole in the head, but it calls me.

[ChrisBBB]

It's from Baccus's Teeny Tiny Terrain range. TTW01 European Fortified Town.
https://www.baccus6mm.com/catalogue/TeenyTinyTerrain/