12mm on a 4' x 3' ACW

[Norm]

A small action on a 4' x 3' table, while trying to convert my rules from hex based to open table.

I am using Kallistra 12mm and it does also give an idea of what can be done with the 'about to be released' Epic ACW that Warlord Games are doing.

LINK
http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2021/02/1863-action-at-mill-creek.html

[General Kirchner]

thanks for posting this, super interested in the new ACW, and am looking at Kallistra to help with it.

[jambo1]

Good looking game Norm really enjoyed the report as well. It certainly makes the Epic ACW very tempting when you see what can be done on a 4'x3' board.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Great AAR! It has the "feeling" of ACW combats, indeed. And the fact that can be represented in a small table is a plus.

[vodkafan]

I like games like that that come down right to the wire. Very exciting. Did the players enjoy it more without the hexes?
Also 12mm looks a good scale for ACW. I am too heavily committed to 28mm to change but your whole table and miniatures looked very nice.

[Norm]

Thanks all.

Vodkafan, yes, a down to the wire game makes all of the difference. Re the hexes, I was playing solo, so I only had an audience of 1 to please :-)

I am pulled both ways with the hexes. As a boardgamer, I am quite happy with them as a mechanism, and while I enjoy their very obvious convenience, on this occasion, I enjoyed the aesthetic of the open table.

I had actually set the hex game up first, but by the time I added the road, water and hill, which generated some raised surfaces with the more obvious hex lines that it caused, I took it straight down and put out the terrain cloth, so it was just a snap choice based on visuals.

having done that, I took the opportunity to run through my conversion notes for taking my hexed rules to a non-hexed surface, so it was a useful exercise anyway.

The 12mm does work very well. One of the things I find odd is that, even as someone who enjoys photography and has a decent camera - the resulting photo shots do not do justice to what the eye sees. The 12mm looked very good, but somehow they lose presence to the lens of the camera, perhaps that is why our media is 28mm focussed.

I am told that the eye sees images at the equivalence of a 50mm lens, so perhaps there is something in that.

[vodkafan]

The 12mm does work very well. One of the things I find odd is that, even as someone who enjoys photography and has a decent camera - the resulting photo shots do not do justice to what the eye sees. The 12mm looked very good, but somehow they lose presence to the lens of the camera, perhaps that is why our media is 28mm focussed.

I am told that the eye sees images at the equivalence of a 50mm lens, so perhaps there is something in that.

I suppose it's like when I see a fantastic big moon but when I photograph it with my phone camera and it just becomes a tiny point of light.