Chortle  | 20 Nov 2009 10:26 p.m. PST |
At a Salute show in London, around 2002, I spoke with some Napoleonic wargamers who played with foot (or more) high figures in their garden. I don't remember the rules which they used. I do remember that infantry were based in 9s (3x3) and cavalry were in 6s (3x2). I think they might have used the old WRG rules. Are there any other garden gamers out there? I know that some people game with tanks and ships. |
| Tom Bryant | 21 Nov 2009 12:33 a.m. PST |
I've done 1/1200 naval out on the lawn at dave Winfree's old place in Hastings a few years ago. The ships were placed on large foam hexes and moved about that way. Very cool way to game on a sunny summer afternoon. |
| Sterling Moose | 21 Nov 2009 6:03 a.m. PST |
Did Russian Front WW2 in 20mm some time ago. Armour only of course. Fun times. |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 21 Nov 2009 11:53 a.m. PST |
Probably most garden gaming is done in 54mm scale, with metal or, more often now, plastic figures. Besides HG Well's original "Little Wars," a variety of rulesets are available, not least being Padre Paul Wright's "Funny Little Wars". Which, by the wildest coincidence is available from TVAG |
| Mulopwepaul | 21 Nov 2009 8:14 p.m. PST |
Two words: gnome grenadiers. |
| Diogenes | 21 Nov 2009 9:31 p.m. PST |
The tennis court in my block of flats goes unused much of the time. I've often thought that with a reduced ground scale you could do a killer 28mm battle on a space that size… But I also like gnome grenadiers |
| (Phil Dutre) | 22 Nov 2009 5:31 a.m. PST |
Some ppl on gardenwargaming.com have reported using Playmobil figures for their garden wargaming. There have been occasional photo reports in different wargaming magazines as well – can't remember the exact issues right now. It's also not that uncommon to use classic plastic army men, mounted in squads to one base, to use in the garden for wargaming. At one point I suggested a project to my gaming group to use tennis balls as artillery shells, and elastic band launched planes as gliders, to make it 'more realistic', but that was a step too far for them ;-) |
 20thmaine  | 22 Nov 2009 6:03 a.m. PST |
There was an article on nthis years ago in Practical Wargamer – the lawn was the sea across which ironclad navies sailed and there were various warring nations in different flower beds. Fortifications studded the rockery, ships went into harbour for repair, etc Two words : patient wife ! |
| Gunfreak | 22 Nov 2009 7:34 a.m. PST |
I've allways thought about buying a 30x30 km space in russia, then buying people from kina, cloth and equip them. give them live ammo, and fight borodino, I'd play as russian commander to see if I can win the battle. I would ofcoure have to spend alot of time traing my "figures" but I think it would be the ultimate wargame. |
| Dave Jackson | 22 Nov 2009 9:05 a.m. PST |
Ahhhh yes….but have any of you ever seen this: peterswar.com Stand by to be stunned! |
| Ditto Tango 2 1 | 22 Nov 2009 1:52 p.m. PST |
NOthing compared to Peterswar (he has TMP on his site as a link, I bet he's a participant), but we started wargaming outdoors in the 70s and much later "graduated" to indoor games on basement floors and later to our current table games. I've posted the following many times before on similar discussions. My web site has one battle report of the mother of all wargames we played in 1977: link which is part of an overall text missive on how we got started and some of the hijinks involved with playing out doors: link
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Tim |
