Frostgrave at 15mm - Just a few Questions

[Skipper]

I'm about to get back to Frostgrave as my football (Soccer) season has ended and Basketball shold take up less time.

I' ve been slowly building terrain and painting miniatures for a bit, but still need a lot more work on both.

Anyway, my question is down to game scale.  I'm leaning to not modifying the ground scale, but leap just seems out of proportion  for 15mm scale. Anyone doing 15mm have an impression on this?

My plan is to lay out terrain on a 4x4 or 4x6 mat and the only use a smaller 3x3 portion of it for actual game play. This way it maintains a overall grandeur feel and not have that end of the earth transition.  This will also allow larger train pieces to be used on the margins but not.dominate the playing area. I believe someone else was doing this at regular scale and it seemed to work fine. I'll need some sort of line markers to delineate the play area.  Any ideas?

I'm also havi n g trouble with coming up with some of the hostiles at this scale and am working on much larger scale versions.  My white ape looks more like a barsoomian white ape from the John Carter series.  I'm contemplating making them much more challenging to make them dangerous.  I see a lot of tournament limit sugestions,  but I was thinking more of a threat level limit where the longer you are on the table the more frequent monsters arive and more deadly they are.  Sort of a sliding scale.  Any thoughts?

Ok, this rambled a bit,  but I wanted to kick the ball onto the field of play and see what happens.

I'll eventually start another thread with images and terrain as we get further into it.

Comments greatly appreciated.

Skipper

[Roger]

Well 15mm is just over half of 28mm (.53 to be precise ) so your table could be 2' x 2' but most play 3' x 3' , so in your case thats 18" sq,
leap would be 5", spells and arrows 12" a fall of 1 1/2" with no damage.
I can see the interest for the figs, but monsters will be hard to find and even harder to make.
It will take you forever to get off a 3'sq table with treasure only moving at 4 1/2" per turn.
But hey , its your game ,I suggest you play a few games against yourself / wandering monsters
and see how it works.
Good luck with that one
Roger

[Skipper]

We are using full scale movement and range and it works fine.  It's just that the 10" leap appears odd.  We end up with a lot more, but less tall terrain which makes leap  behave differently. Maybe a bit more powerful.  I suspect it will be a more sought after spell.

Skipper

[Stéphane]

The apsolute rule for playing 28mm in 15mm is :
Take the size in '', add half and you've got the good lenght in cm.
12'' for 28mm = 18 cm for 15mm miniatures.
1" became 1,5cm or 15mm. Very easy very usefull very absolute

So, a boardgame of 60'' for 28mm miniature will be a boardgame of 90cm for 15mm miniatures.
Replace feet by "; 3feet for 28mm mini -> 36" -> 48cm for 15mm miniatures

[Darkson71]

If you're not modifying the movement (as you've said twice) then Leap needs to be 10" as that's what the spell is balanced around.

[Skipper]

Darkson- We are of the same mind on tbat.  You Are absolutely right.  I was mainly commenting on the perception and affect the shorter train seems to have.  I'll post some pictures later to show scale.   

I may. have to make the levels of each new terrain piece taller.  The advantage,is that the,soldiers with raised Spears or staves would be able to fit......... inside buildings and tower levels....... 

I have no problem scaling down,   I've been doing it for years including my 6mm Wild West board,  but my goal is to really load the field with eye cat catching terrain.  I can acomplish that easier with regular scale.

Thanks for the. moments so far.  Much appreciated.

Skipper