Editor in Chief Bill | 01 May 2024 1:34 p.m. PST |
For your miniature wargaming (land combat only), do you use the same scale figures exclusively, or do you use different scale figures for different games or rulesets or periods? |
Phillius | 01 May 2024 1:46 p.m. PST |
Different scale for different games. 40mm and 28mm. |
ColCampbell | 01 May 2024 1:50 p.m. PST |
Different sizes (25/28mm, 15mm, 6mm) for different periods although the vast majority of my periods and miniatures are 25/28mm. Jim |
etotheipi | 01 May 2024 2:14 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different scenarios. |
Parzival | 01 May 2024 2:24 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different rules and genres. |
John Armatys | 01 May 2024 2:34 p.m. PST |
Anything from 5mm to 28/30mm, depending. And I've an irritating number of armies in three different scales. |
McKinstry | 01 May 2024 2:36 p.m. PST |
6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 1/2400, 1/3000, 1/4800, 1/6000 |
The Nigerian Lead Minister | 01 May 2024 2:41 p.m. PST |
Yes, if I have it in 15mm, I want it in 28mm. If I have it in 28mm, I want it in 15mm. Different gaming experiences. |
Perris0707 | 01 May 2024 2:46 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different periods. 28mm and 15mm. |
FusilierDan | 01 May 2024 3:44 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different periods. 40mm, 30mm, 28mm, 25mm, 20mm, 15mm and 10mm. |
Micman | 01 May 2024 3:50 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different games. 28mm, 20mm, 15mm, 6mm for ground combat. But most of my 28mm is because that is what my weekly group uses for most of our games. |
20thmaine | 01 May 2024 3:58 p.m. PST |
Sadly different scales. Even the same armies in different scales. Madness! |
Greylegion | 01 May 2024 4:46 p.m. PST |
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79thPA | 01 May 2024 5:26 p.m. PST |
3mm to 54/60mm, depending. |
robert piepenbrink | 01 May 2024 5:35 p.m. PST |
2mm for travel, 6mm for mass battle and 28mm for smaller actions and skirmishes. Can't expect one scale to cover all circumstances. I have a full range of screwdrivers, too. There is also some 10mm ACW to take advantage of certain rule sets. And out in the garage are 1/72 and 54mm plastics. And my CLS 30's stay in Pendleton with their friends. |
gamertom | 01 May 2024 5:45 p.m. PST |
ACW: 5/6mm, 15mm, 25/28mm Napoleonics: 10/12mm, 15mm, 25/28mm WWII: 10/12mm, 20mm In over 45+ years of buying miniatures, it's hard not to get the same forces in different scales, even to play the same rules. |
Dal Gavan | 01 May 2024 5:52 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different rules and genres. +1 Parzival. |
pmwalt | 01 May 2024 6:07 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different periods and games |
Old Contemptible | 01 May 2024 6:17 p.m. PST |
Different scales for different periods. |
Tgerritsen | 01 May 2024 6:35 p.m. PST |
Luckily I remain one scale 1:1. However, for my land combat games, it is different scales for different periods and rules. I play mostly 28mm, but also do 10mm/1:144 and 6mm. I did do 15mm but gave it up in favor of more skirmish sized 28mm games as I just clicked with that better. |
Sgt Slag | 01 May 2024 8:13 p.m. PST |
28mm fantasy mass land battles, and 54mm Army Men games. Cheers! |
Grelber | 01 May 2024 8:48 p.m. PST |
Mainly 25/28 mm, but also a lot of 15mm and even some 20 mm. I almost forgot the 20s and was feeling pretty proud of myself for going overboard with the different scales/sizes. Guess I don't have all that much self-control after all. Grelber |
DisasterWargamer | 01 May 2024 8:55 p.m. PST |
15mm for most periods – 1/32 for World War II and 1/144 for WWI Aircraft |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 01 May 2024 10:45 p.m. PST |
Different scales depending on what I want to do: usually micro (1:300-ish) for company or conceivably battalion engagements, 25mm for platoon or squad engagements. I'm generally playing in relatively hard science fiction, contemporary, or near-future settings. |
Titchmonster | 01 May 2024 11:31 p.m. PST |
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Martin Rapier | 02 May 2024 12:08 a.m. PST |
2mm, 6mm, 15mm, 20mm…. Often the same period and even the same units in some cases! |
advocate | 02 May 2024 1:17 a.m. PST |
Different scales, 2mm, 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, 28mm. Sometimes with the same rules (but not at the same time). |
GildasFacit | 02 May 2024 1:56 a.m. PST |
2mm, 3mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 20/25mm, 28mm & 54mm Mostly the lower 4, getting progressively less until about 10 54mm gladiators. 15mm are DBA armies, 20/25mm are for VBCW & 28mm are skirmish gaming Pirates. Smaller scales are almost all mass battle armies from Ancients to RCW. |
ZULUPAUL | 02 May 2024 3:06 a.m. PST |
I have duplicate DBA armies in 25/28 & 15mm. |
martin goddard | 02 May 2024 4:20 a.m. PST |
I stick with 15mm in order to make the most of space and my scenery collection. martin
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Timbo W | 02 May 2024 4:34 a.m. PST |
Different scales for different periods 6mm: ACW 15mm: ECW, SciFi 20mm or 1/72: Ancients, Napoleonics, WWII 25/28mm: Fantasy, Dark Age, Medieval |
mildbill | 02 May 2024 5:14 a.m. PST |
All in 15mm except for 25mm ACW. If I was starting in WWII I would use 10mm now. |
Dagwood | 02 May 2024 5:38 a.m. PST |
While I have 6 and 15mm armies, mostly unpainted, my painted figures are nearly all 25/28mm |
ccmatty | 02 May 2024 5:47 a.m. PST |
15mm WWII and Arab/Israeli Wars, 20mm WWII and Modern, and 28mm Napoleonic, ACW, WWII, fantasy, 30K, and 40K… Wow, I have way too manner unpainted figures… |
KarlBergman | 02 May 2024 8:02 a.m. PST |
Different Scales. 6mm for WW2+ ground but 15mm for other periods. |
IronDuke596 | 02 May 2024 9:34 a.m. PST |
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ron skirmisher | 02 May 2024 9:43 a.m. PST |
54mm for WWII, Sino-Japanese war (pre WWII), and Mexican Revolution & 28mm for Horse and Musket armies. |
Dave Crowell | 02 May 2024 9:47 a.m. PST |
For land combat 2mm to 54mm! Some periods in multiple scales. |
14Bore | 02 May 2024 10:40 a.m. PST |
One scale Napoleonic guy, do have some 28mm D&D but haven't played them in 40 years |
blacksmith | 02 May 2024 12:20 p.m. PST |
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Doug MSC | 02 May 2024 4:35 p.m. PST |
Now days its 54mm War of 1812 and 54mm WWII, although my War of 1812 is now slipping into 54mm Napoleonics also.Just to beautiful to stop. |
TimePortal | 03 May 2024 6:05 p.m. PST |
Yes. When I first started, I played 15mm and 1/285. About 20 years later I started painting 25mm colonials and Battletech. |
Last Hussar | 04 May 2024 2:09 a.m. PST |
Because I'm a REAL wargamer I have different scales for the same period. Sometimes the same rules… :) |
UshCha | 04 May 2024 2:23 a.m. PST |
Last Hussar +1 Actually I am a reluctant 1/72 scale gamer, far too big to be any real use for gaming, but the model oriented folk insist on this scale. The other is the one and only true scale 1/144 ;-). This is my perfect scale, 6mm are too small for me as I am always a 1 to 1 man gamer. Like Last Hussarr same rules diffrent figure scale and groundscale, however some aspects of the rules become more prominent at diffrent scales. Particularly moving longer distances at high speed is less relevant at for the smaller 1/72 scale battle field as it's too snmall. |
The Last Conformist | 06 May 2024 4:33 a.m. PST |
I've used 10mm, 15mm, and 28mm recently. |
Captain Pete | 06 May 2024 9:29 a.m. PST |
I have mostly 1/285th scale WWII but do have some Napoleonics and American Civil War in 10mm. I am happy to play in other scales and periods but don't have the miniatures. |