Down scaling The Great War Tabletop

[clyde85]

Greetings all,

I have finally managed to get some of my friends to sit down and play a game of warhammer historical's "The Great War" tabletop. After a fairly small points game they complained that the game required to many miniatures to play and that playing larger games would be impractical and difficult because of it. We began to discuss if we could down scale the number of models needed to make it easier to play. The first idea touched upon was making one model count as two for wounds and representation on the table top. Another idea was to have one model equal 5 for wounds and representation.

Of the two ideas I fell like the one to two scale works better, especially when dealing with templates and line of fire rules. Does anyone here have any other or (probably) better ideas on how we could change this?

 I'd rather not change the game at all as I love the big battles with large mini armies fighting each other, but this  is what I have to do if I want to play the game.

Thanks in advance
Clyde 

[von Lucky]

Welcome Clyde. Yes, it needs a lot of figures (played a game 4 weeks ago). That was a few thousand points a side.

I think the 1 figure, 2 wounds will work best. Then slowly encourage a few more points each game to bump their collections up.

[clyde85]

Thanks for the advice Von Lucky, I was thinking along the same lines

We had actually been using an Axis&Allies map in conjunction with the Great War game as sort of a campaign system but I think I'm going to have to abandon it. Can't seem to drum up any enthusiasm among my gaming group, oh well 

[von Lucky]

Don't hit anyone with too much if they're just getting into somrthing new. You're trying to achieve many things already (new ruleset, scale, time period, whatever). K.I.S.S. will never fail, but that doesn't mean the game has to be boring.

Another option is you loan out your collection to them, ie their 750 points and your 750 points of Germans gives you an opponent to your 1500 point French army.