"Why I hate the Perry Brothers" Topic

I have to admit it. I hate them. Just as I am finishing up their 28mm Crusader range, and just having done hundreds of 15mm ACWs, they come out with more 28mm ACW, and plastics to boot. I must now toss and turn about whether to scrap hours and hours and dollars and dollars of 15mm ACW for the every expanding Perry ACW range. Bitterness is all I feel. If that is not enough, I continue to find myself eyeing their 40mm Napoleonics. 20+ years of a successful marriage in jeopardy from having to hide expenditures on lead was bad enough, but now plastic too?

Give in to what you cannot fight. That will at least save the tossing and turning at night.

That alone might balance the lead expenditures, women are much more manageable when they sleep. And with you tossing and turning I bet your wife isn't getting much sleep. Buy the Perry plastics for her sake.

Why does owning 15mm preclude purchasing 25mm (and these are 25s not 28s!)? I have ACW in 6, 15 and 25/28 myself, and have been eyeing 40mm for skirmish games as well…

Duke, let me help ease the pain. Send me all the 15 mm ACW. Then you can honestly tell the better half ACW is a range you do not have. Then tell her how much money you will save because the figures are plastic.

(No, it did not work with my wife either.)

I've just based up 240 15mm Union infantry, another 100 to go. Will that stop me from buying Perry plastic? Ha.

The 15mm are for battles. The larger figures are for skirmishes. Sure. You betcha.

Well, big battles are just lots and lots and lots of skirmishes all in the same neighborhood, right?

Do big battles in 15mm and skirmish in 28mm or 40mm. Different rules sets need a different figure scale. Hey it could work and if it doesn't … well thats how flower shops and jewelry stores stay in business

Dave

20+ years of a successful marriage

What is the definition of a successful marriage?

Definition of a successful marriage? He hasn't had to sell figures to pay alimony.

Get the figures! Lie, cheat, steal! Stay focused on the figures and move forward. (I feel dizzy. I am going to ly down, now).

Have not been kicked onto the couch since I can remember.

Can set up and leave my games out on the dining room table.

Successfully stealing her yard tool space to store my terrain boards.

Very seldom nags.

Let's my dog sleep in the bed.

etc

= successful 20 years.

explain to her that the new and improved 28mm figs will allow you to portray bigger battlefields.
start your games with 6mm figures as the armied enter th board. when they are halfway to a point of contact you bring in your trusty 15mm guys and when they contact, you replace those with the new 28mm guys.
You can portray a 3 mile deep battlegield in the same space as a 50yard deep battlefield.
Im sure the wife will understnad if you 'splain it to her using small words and talk slowly.

DukeWacoan-

IN the bed or ON? I'm curious……

Give in to the Dark Side….

15mm is the One True Scale. All else is distraction.

I share your pain – in 15 mm I have 27 Confederate and 36 Union infantry brigades, and probably enough guns to re-create the Army of the Potomac's gun park on a 1:1 scale – however, as ACW is my first and enduring passion, I will probably expand the (small) number of 25 mm ACW figures I have (about 48 infantry and three guns with crew) with Perry figs – to be honest, the ACW is the only area that I have figs in multiple scales (6 mm, 15 mm, 25/28 mm, 54 mm) – none in 40 mm yet!