"SYW 15mm or 25mm?" Topic

What are the best SYW figures avaiable? and whats the best scale? I know I know-how long is a piece of string? but i would like to know peoples opinion.

Try Baccus 6mm – affordable (you could do both sides without breaking the bank), easy to paint, good quality, look great en-masse!!

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IR1

I chose Minden 28mil.
( Yes you buy them only off Frank, the blog's author ).
mindenminis.blogspot.com

I used to have large 15mm armies and now have large 25/28mm armies.

In 15mm there are:

Essex
Old Glory
Frei Korps
Lancashire
Minifigs
Eureka
and maybe some others I have overlooked.

In 25/28mm there are:

Old Glory
Crusader
Foundry
Minden
Eureka
Front Rank
and maybe some others I have overlooked.

I have moved to 25mm because I have a large table that can accomodate large armies and because I've given up painting smaller figures. Your choices might be based on a) the size of your table b) what your friends have c) what scale you prefer painting.

Nigel

15mm. Time/cost/space.

Take a look at Pendraken 10mm figs, great figs and they allow for really big battlions with out taking up to much space on the table. I know this is not what you asked but take a look at the ground scale and battflield size that 10mm allow. On top of that contray to most periods in 10mm this is a very complete range with nice figures.
William

de Ligne sums up the main criteria rather nicely. With linear warfare, table size really is a bit of a clincher: Me, I'm happy playing smaller scenarios in 28mm, but if you want to replay larger battles, then 15mm is almost unavoidable. Of course, different rule systems and figure-to-men ratios influence that.

As for "best" in terms of sculpting and value for money, I'd say Minden in 28mm, Eureka in 15, but tastes will differ.

We play 10mm, for the reasons MKeyser outlines, and because we can replay the actual battles, rather than portions of those battles.

15mm is a very good compromise though – great figures and bigger battles.

but the 28's are lovely.

two comparison web pages for you to look at, so you can see a 10mm battle and a 28mm battle.

10mm Zondorf

link

28mm figures (these guys win loads of awards and have big tables)

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Freikorp15s can be seen here: link

Geoff
quickreactionforce.co.uk

There are very good castings in ALL scales for sure!!

As to what is best, well sorry, but that remains your choice as to how much room for wargaming you have, how much you can afford, how much time for painting, and frankly what scales YOU prefer. You can get personal opinions from lots of folks here,out the wazoo, but it is all just babble based on OUR preferences mostly, so evaluate your situation and by all means suit yourself. You can't go wrong if it pleases you!!

I only started collecting SYW in the last 2 years and I'm still in the preparation stages for my own armies which were only officially started this summer. 28mm is what I'm all about. If I'm gaming a period with flags, I like to be able to see those flags with the troops on the table. I like some personality to the figures and I get that feeling more with 28mm than smaller scales. 28mm represents for me a painting challenge that can give a good table top effect, without the extra effort I feel is required to give larger size figures justice. It is also a scale for which I have lots of existing terrain.

Best 28mm? That's too subjective. Best Cost? Best Accuracy? Best Detail? Best Other?

I'm currently in love with the non-commercial Minden range of 28mm SYW for their detail and proportion. That is my vote for best. Here's some of my painted Minden Prussians
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However, I have several other ranges I enjoy too, so I incorporate them based on what I enjoy. Eureka is coming out with some exciting stuff. I've got a number of the Saxon Cavalry on my workbench, but I absolutely love their bassoonists and oboists! My favorite artillery is Front Rank. I like Sash&Saber because of the pose variety allowing both sides of a line to look left or right to face their color guard and there are several NCO poses. RSM is an older range, but very affordable and also has very proportional figures and is a great source for artillery limbers. And I'm also collecting F&IW along with SYW, where Conquest Miniatures are clearly my favorite.

28mm Front Rank and Foundry here but I have a 16 by 5 foot table .

I second Timmo uk's comment; 15mm for the time, space and cost. Do not overlook the other aspect of collecting 15s or 28s; table size, terrain, and buildings and lacking opponents will you have to collect two armies?

My Prussians: link

Cheers,
Robert
18thcenturysojourn.blogspot.com

Well I went 15mm way back when Minifig 15s came in strips.

After a pause I came back to it with a variety of ranges but feeling that OG 15s are superb.

However, having done FPW in 10mm more recently, I have to say that if I was starting SYW now, that scale would be a serious contender (but I'd be doubling the number of figures on a 15mm base to get mass effect)

I started 10mm, lovely old glory and pendraken, at brigade level but for this period I think you need at least 15mm for the detail and lace. 15mm allow big units at a reasonable price, but if money were no object I believe I would play 28mm and I am trying to build one unit a year for the SYW convention BAR games.