Has Anyone Tried 15mm Warmachine?

[Ahistorian]

It seemed like a really good idea on the face of it, but then I started trying to think of suitably steampunk-ish miniatures and failed miserably.

Anyone else?

EDIT: Perhaps certain DUST miniatures could be modded into 15mm walkers?

[eilif]

Sounds like an interesting project. If you're willing to get away from the design aesthetic a bit you could probably pull it off.  Dust Walkers would be much too big, but various golem figures from mage knight might be good warjacks.

[robh]

As well as Mage Knight there are great steam golems in the D&D plastic minatures series and the older WotC Chainmail (Thalos faction) range.

[Ahistorian]

Oh my god, I just googled those suggestions and they look awesome!  

Sounds like an interesting project. If you're willing to get away from the design aesthetic a bit you could probably pull it off.  Dust Walkers would be much too big, but various golem figures from mage knight might be good warjacks.

I am indeed! I'm not a massive fan of some of their design choices, and if I end up playing in 28mm, I'll probably mostly use proxy models. I actually meant the various "power-armoured" gents from DUST, but I looked more closely and they didn't really seem right for warjacks.

EDIT: Does anyone know where I (based in the UK) could get faction decks for reasonable money? I am primarily interested in Circle Oroboros, Cygnar, Khador and Menoth. Ebay & Amazon have not provided much/anything of use.

[eilif]

I just remembered one of the names of the Mage Knight Golems that looks like a warjack. It's a Bow Golem.
http://www.trollandtoad.com/p123857.html
I've got one of these and IIRC, it's 30-40mm tall, which would look great as a 15mm Warjack.  Maybe a smidge large, but in a good way!

No idea about the cards. I don't know much about WM, but I do have a unit of 6 Warjacks that I use as "Obsidian Golems" in my KoW army.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/11/more-reinforcements-knights-and.html

[Ahistorian]

I had some other thoughts on proxies last night:

Winter Guard: Streltsy, or men in greatcoats with furry hats
Gunmages: Highwaymen, of course!
Man'o'War: Low-tech power armour (which is what it is, of course).
Bastions/Cinerators: Retained Knights "Terminators"
Rangers: FIW Rangers
Trenchers: The non-Retained soldiers of Prydain
Stormgrunts: Retained Knights
Uhlans: Polish Winged Lancers (they're just cool!)
Knights: Knights, obviously.
Long-Gunners: mobile-looking ECW/TYW musketeers

After some rough calculations, I worked out that LOS is equal to roughly 1.5x the base width. I thought 20/25/40mm might work well with 15mm miniatures.

[robh]

If you have the table space I would not change moves/ranges. Better visual effect if distances look long in comparison to the figure size.

I am looking forward to seeing you pull all this together.

[Ahistorian]

If you have the table space I would not change moves/ranges. Better visual effect if distances look long in comparison to the figure size.

I am looking forward to seeing you pull all this together.

I do indeed, since Warmahordes only needs a minimum of about 30" square. However, I was referring only to the arbitrary "height" of any miniature on a given size of base within the rules. I quite agree with you about ranges when moving from 28 to 15mm.

[The_Beast]

By the power of threadomancy...!

Just wondering if this got anywhere, or was sufficiently intriguing to inspire someone else.

As an aside, the side I was googling the concept of Mage Knight for Warmachine and I found this old post, here's a BGG thread of someone trying to do 'regular' scale.

using-mage-knight-golems-warmachine-proxy-models

I was never that interested in WM, but have to admit, I've got a fair number of old MK lying about from collections bought with an eye for VSF proxies.

Doug

[Ahistorian]

That Mage Knight stuff looks great! How big are the miniatures?

[The_Beast]

I don't have those particular ones, but I think under 50mm.

Nothing for your BIG jacks in regular scale. But this IS a thread about 15mm WM. 

Doug

[Hobby Services]

That Mage Knight stuff looks great! How big are the miniatures?

You can judge the size by the bases, which are the standard ~30mm clix designs.  Be aware that those are some fairly major conversions (added weapons, modified arms and poses) in the link photos, the base MK models don't really look much like those at all.

Personally I don't see the appeal to trying to do Warmahordes in 15mm.  The real models are (mostly) excellent sculpts, and saving money by going to a smaller scale cuts you off from playing with the vast majority of potential opponents, including the entire tournament scene.  I could maybe see going cheap with 28mm proxies for some stuff (Reaper Bones most likely - I like some of their big trolls and earth elementals for that, partly because I hate the "Flintstone robot" look of the Circle Woldthingies) but shifting down a scale leaves me scratching my head in puzzlement.

[The_Beast]

Absolutely right; heck of a lot of folk at my store are all about tourneys.

However, leaves me cold.

Though, have to admit, so does the work in those conversions. I'd be fine leaving them as is, maybe a BIT of paint, if I were that interested in the game.

Doug

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