Author Topic: Largest wargaming table? (Read 4670 times)

AJ at the Bank · « **on:** November 21, 2015, 06:19:21 PM »

What's the largest wargame table you've seen please?

Dewbakuk · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2015, 07:19:04 PM »

Mine is 12'x5' but I've certainly seen bigger.

shandy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2015, 07:22:28 PM »

Jon Sutherland's on Crete - I think it was 15 meters by 2 meters...

AJ at the Bank · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2015, 08:28:37 PM »

15 meters ....1 long table?

Golgotha · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2015, 08:36:58 PM »

I have played a number of games on 5 large trestle tables - was really wonderful as it allowed for great flanking manoeuvres especially for ones cavalry. It was also great for having games with 4 players each one with their own sizeable command. But now that I live in UK such expanses have had to be drastically curtailed to the extent that 25/28mm games have to now be small level skirmish type affairs and I play with myself. Yes solo gamer...

Why the curious question? Hope your planning something BIG!

Remgain · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2015, 08:47:12 PM »

40 years ago we played WW2 on a 7 x 4 meters table.
It depicted a whole island in 20 mm and had two opening in the middle (lake and mountain) in order to reach and move the units otherwise out of teach from the sides.

Marco

tyrionhalfman · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2015, 10:14:53 PM »

I once took part in a 6 a side 15mm American civil war game in a school hall, where one of the club worked. It was an immense table.

von Lucky · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2015, 03:59:57 AM »

I took part in Megagame 2008 (run by the guys that would go on to start Little Wars Melbourne), a large Flames of War game.

Details included:
- 6 players + 1 GHQ player per side
- ~7000-8000 points a side (we each controlled a 650 point infantry force of our own miniatures plus pooled divisional support choices that were divided out as needed by teh GHQ player)
- on a 32 foot wide table
- a total playing area of about 296 square feet

Edit to include pic below. Nevyen and werekake can attest to the game's size - it's where I first met them and thrashed their sorry hides.

Deedles · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2015, 08:24:07 AM »

The one (made up of 3 in parallel) at the Wargames Holiday Centre, Scarborough and Basingstoke .. 28feet x15

Revfan · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2015, 10:32:15 AM »

Deedles wins... he has a pic!

von Lucky · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2015, 01:04:10 PM »

Added pic, but I concede that that game is far from the largest; there's many that have had more miniatures and table size.

All I can say is, that if as a wargamer you've got the chance to play a large game - definitely try to take part. The scale is simply something different (there's a real fog of war).

shandy · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2015, 02:29:04 PM »

Quote from: AJ at the Bank on November 21, 2015, 08:28:37 PM

15 meters ....1 long table?

Well, it formed a U, but it was one table… this was half of it:

Billchuck · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2015, 02:43:56 PM »

The Jackson Gamers played two games on a large split table. The center was 5'x16' and each side had a "back field" table of 2.5'x16'. Total playing area 10'x16'. Here's a link to the first part of one game's battle report. http://colcampbellbarracks.blogspot.com/2009/09/affair-at-alt-kirchendorf-part-1.html. It has pictures, but I didn't see any that really captured the size of the table.

fastolfrus · « **Reply #13 on:** November 22, 2015, 07:38:17 PM »

The biggest we put together at school was 32 feet long, 4 feet wide most of the length, but 8 feet wide at one end, for an Arnhem mini campaign in 15mm.

Thargor · « **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2015, 10:13:44 PM »

I took an 8'x4' table to Warfare a few years ago to run Freebooters' Fate demo games. It was in 4 2'x4' sections. I have now added another 3 sections to make it 14'x4'. It forms a whole island.

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