Rules for this period 10mm?

[CarlLeyland]

Hi,

I was wondering what rules you chaps usually use for gaming this period? I am currently coming to the end of my current painting project and was thinking of a change of scale.

Usually I paint 28mm but to save room, time and money (and just to experiment) I have been looking at Pendraken 10mm. Would the Peter Pig rules work? What would you recommend?

I have a copy of World Aflame which maybe OK for the period, has anyone used them?

Thanks in advance.

[James Morris]

I too am trying out Square Bashing with Kallistra's 12mm figures. They are pretty good though not quite as user-friendly as some rules sets, but they have a good Great War feel about them. A 12-16 man unit represents a battalion so they are pretty good for bigger battles.

[CarlLeyland]

There are not that many sets out there for this period/scale, I may have to get a copy just to check them out

[Golgotha]

More important question might be what level of combat are you hoping to portray? So do you hope to have each figure represent 1 soldier or more? So squad/battalion/division size? see no reason why the Peter Pig rules would not work for 10mm indeed were they not written for 15mm in mind?

You may want to try "Through the Mud and the Blood" http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5
However the rules are intended for "one figures representing one man, Mud & Blood are designed for large scale skirmish games of between 30 and 120 figures per side". 

[CarlLeyland]

Hi Golg,

thanks for the reply. I was hoping to have a few stands represent a company. I may end up going with PPig for the whole thing or his rules with 10mm figures. Its a great problem to have, so much choice now in this period.

[monk2002uk]

If you go for a few stands to a company then consider Crush the Kaiser. Square Bashing uses a stand to represent a company so it is a higher tactical level than you are interested in.

Robert

[James Morris]

Good idea, I might have a look at Crush the Kaiser too. Do you know who sells it?

[monk2002uk]

Early War Miniatures carries CtK for one:

http://earlywarminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1959

Robert

[Metternich]

Can try Bloody Picnic - 10mm would be a good scale to use to represent a brigade.

[fred]

We've used Great War Spearhead - but its at a rather larger scale than you are looking at as each stand is a company, and you play with divisions of troops.

TFL If the Lord Spares Is, is another option, it is more aimed at the Middle East, but is probably at the representative scale you are looking for.

Most rules that use stands, rather than single figures, will work with nearly any scale of figures.

[Metternich]

Bloody Picnic (from Partizan Press) is playable in two scales - one for Divisional level games, and one for Brigade level.  At Divisional level, one infantry stand equals a company.  At Brigade, one infantry stand equals a platoon. (Machine guns can either be represented with models, or the firepower can be built into the other stands, at the players' choice.).  Very detailed and well-conceived set of rules (usable for the period 1900 - 1920's).

There is also an oldie goldie Over the Top, by Command Decisions, where one infantry stand represents a platoon (so three stands for a company, plus a smaller command stand).

Flames of War has a supplement for WW 1 (for 1917/18 period).

[fastolfrus]

The PP rules are based on stands of figures grouped as a unit. So will work with any scale of figure if you group them on a base.

[monk2002uk]

Watch out for any rules system that has been transferred across from WW2 to WW1. Unless significant changes are made in the derivative, the ground scales versus unit frontages will be completely wrong. A WW2 infantry platoon occupied the same frontage as a WW1 company.

Robert

[eilif]

It's going to be rather abstract, but maybe give the Panzer8 WW1 version a shot?
http://panzer8.weebly.com
We enjoyed the Sci-Fi version.  The PZ8 rules seem to be fast and fun.