Largest wargaming table?

[AJ at the Bank]

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

[Dewbakuk]

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

[shandy]

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

[AJ at the Bank]

15 meters ....1 long table?

[Golgotha]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Revfan]

Deedles wins... he has a pic!

[von Lucky]

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]

15 meters ....1 long table?

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

[Billchuck]

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]

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]

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.