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Post by leecptinf on Apr 1, 2016 6:42:57 GMT
All Quiet is my first foray into 15mm, but I am becoming obsessed with the idea of 6mm wargaming. I don't want to fight a battle in the defense of Memphis, I want to go all out and play the defense of Memphis. 6mm troops on an 8x6 table.
Anyone else feeling the Overlord urge?
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Post by madmorgan on Apr 1, 2016 10:34:17 GMT
LOL please see my threads on 2mm AQMF!! Great minds...
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Post by boxholder on Apr 1, 2016 12:26:12 GMT
I share your interest in the smaller scales, leecptinf. The visual impression of large battles in a reasonably small space is/was particularly attractive. Sweeping vistas filled with troops, tanks, and action, but with models that did not require lots of time and $$ to build. That is why I was pretty strongly drawn to the GamesWorkshop Epic 40K stuff and was nibbling on their Warmaster series, both in 6mm. GW orphaned them, so that was that.
I am going to take a look at madmorgan's 2mm approach. It may be more attractive as the AD stuff becomes ever scarcer and ever more expensive. Putting together an alternative from other mfrs is a pretty good idea.
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Post by madmorgan on Apr 1, 2016 18:33:38 GMT
TY. I've got a huge collection of 40k Epic and have the command and specialty troops from WM - which I mix with 6mm foot troops from a nice little firm in NJ that does 'not GW' minis. I played some games of regular 3ed WH40k using full companies of minis with lots of fun. Using the 40mm hex system from Heroscape with great success, using each hex as 3" and all movement & ranges adjusted to that scale. Worked great, with the standard 10 figure, 2 squad unit either sitting together in a hex or side by side - that even conformed to the 2" unit cohesion rules! Burst weapons did either 1 hex or 2 adjacent hexes with a 4+ needed to hit the adjacent hex. And flamethrowers were a 3hex long x 1hex wide sweep. It all worked so well and I had several 4 player games (with me playing in the center as Chaos, with the other three players coming in to destroy me and of coarse some of each other). The Heroscape allowed lots of terrain display (even lava!) and elevation was easy as stacking one hex on top of another. And the rivers/toxic flows were just below the regular hex size (1/2 hex tall). Good stuff!
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Post by boxholder on Apr 2, 2016 12:07:59 GMT
madmorgan:
Is/are there any other 2mm threads other than the one above? I only found one.
Any game variant that I can get into for ~$100 for all the stuff you described and it fits a briefcase is inherently interesting.
I did not discover the possibility of using Battlelore terrain until EPIC was pretty well down the tubes and interest in it waned as people moved off the orphaned system. Most of my terrain was styrofoam, painted with acrylics. Sometimes books under the cloth for larger elevated areas. Foamcore board and Scultamold for bunkers, craters, etc. Colored paper for roads, lakes, streams.
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Post by madmorgan on Apr 3, 2016 10:51:40 GMT
I have the intitial thread under Fan Projects and a bunch of formations under Battle Reports tabs. Thats it on the forum. Hope you find these useful  |
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Post by phgamer on May 4, 2017 11:09:02 GMT
For 6mm, 2mm. Years ago, someone built a War of the Worlds, where the Martians were all transistors. And there was a cylinder, which was just a painted pill container. It all worked.
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Post by boxholder on May 4, 2017 12:35:37 GMT
Transistors for tripods--what a great idea! You can get buckets full of them for nearly nothing at electronics salvage places.
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