IHMN in 54mm? And general new person questions

[nathan]

So lately I've become enamoured with the wide range of 54mm plastic soldiers that are available for the late 19th and early 20th century.  And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind a colonial mashup game.

About 10 years ago I did a "Stargate: 1889" type game where a stargate is discovered in Anatolia and the great powers carve up the Ottoman Empire in order to have access to it.  The General Act of the Berlin conference ends up being not about African colonialism, but about access to this new world.  A treaty is struck and the great powers of the colonial era begin exploring a world filled with dinosaurs, solar powered crystal heat ray projectors, city states reminiscent of angicent Greece (complete with hoplites) and and a verity of VSF goodness.

I'm definitely looking for something that would support a mashup game where I can use whatever sort of appropriate figures I fell like.  Is IHMN the kind of game where I can take a handful of British Zulu Wars figures and a handful of American Civil War Union figures and fight it out over a clutch of dinosaur eggs in the hopes of developing a new kind of cavalry?

I was also planning on using some Schleich dinosaur toys.  Do the rules give any guidelines for large, dangerous creatures?

What adjustments am I going to have to make for 54mm?  I haven't based any figures yet but was planning on basing them on clay poker chips for additional heft.  The base size for a typical human would then be 1-1/2"/38mm and the figures are a bit more than two inches tall.  Would the rules work as is or would I need to increase measurements and get a bigger surface?

What size table is normal for the game?

[Craig]

Interesting idea 

For 54mm I would simply double everything and play on 6'x4' tables.

Btw, I had a similar idea to yours some years ago and published Stargate 1895, wherein the gate was actually found by a British Archaeologist, Lord Conway, and taken back to his Yorkshire estate.

[nathan]

I originally got the idea for Stargate: 1889 from stealing it from someone else.    Les from Westminster, Colorado via the Gaslight yahoo group circa 2003.  He was also the one that suggested using various ancient nations instead of sticking to Egyptians like in the Stargate movie (I'm not familiar with the shows).

I can definitely do 6x4 without any trouble.

Any ideas about big beasties like dinosaurs or maybe elephants or whatever?

[Craig]

A few chaps here have fielded dinosaurs in the past, so have a scan down through the threads below

As for elephants they do feature in Heroes, Villains and Fiends Bestiary...