"What Scale Napoleonic Figures Do You Use & Prefer?" Topic

This is a double-shot poll question--two for the price of one thread. If run, probably should be split into two different polls. I ask both because I know some fellows will play one scale at their club but really prefer to game/paint a different scale.

When playing mass-combat Napoleonic games, what scale figures do you regularly use?
2mm
6mm
10mm
15mm-18mm
20mm or 1/72
25mm-32mm
40mm
54mm
Don't play Napoleonic games

What is your favorite figure scale for mass-combat Napoleonic games?
2mm
6mm
10mm
15mm-18mm
20mm or 1/72
25mm-32mm
40mm
54mm
Don't play Napoleonic games

15mm

28mm

Normally use 28mm, but just getting into 10mm and like what I am seeing

15mm all day.

15mm first
10mm second

28mm for Shako II
15mm for Age of Eagles

28mm but I use 28s for every period I play from ancients to moderns.

15mm

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28mm, 15mm, 20mm in that order.

Well, I used to think I was playing Nappy skirmish games with 54mm Britains Deetail. Until a TMP member informed me that this was not Napoleonics (no joke).

28mm

15mm. Only way. 10mm are just silly and 28mm are cost prohibitive for mass battles. I use the 20mm or 1/72nd plastics for skirmish gaming Napoleonics.

I use my 6mm Naps when a stand or two equals a Brigade. My 1/72 20mm when I have a unit equal a Battalion or a Regiment.

Thanks,

John

18mm AB are superb.

6mm for me.

I feel that any larger figures just won't give you the look of massed battalions.

But I use 15mm and 28mm for small-scale skirmish gaming.

15mm MF, BH, OG, etc.

15mm because I have them, and 25mm because they look good and someone else has them at the club!!!

6mm

25 or 28 mm!

10mm are just silly

If this is silly . . .
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. . . then I'll take silly every time.

10mm . . . with the character of 15mm, and the compactness of 6mm, it's a great compromise; the best of both worlds.

Jeff
warartisan.com

I can fully understand the idea of using a smaller scale, such as 6mm, to give a more realistic representation. But thing that I find absolutely baffling is the practise of using a scale like 6mm and STILL being no closer to a 1:1 ration!
Little 6mm "regiments" of 32 "men" (pinheads)

What's the point of that? Either stick with the eyecandy of a 15mm or 28mm tabletop or just use little pieces of card or somesuch.

1/72 & 20mm.

Perfect compromise.

6mm
And Lord Hill I use the 6mm at 1/60 so some battlions have 6 figures, it is not the battlion, it is the battlefield which is the goal. So in 6mm at 1/60 with a ground scale of 4cm to 100meters I can put multiple corps on the table and not only have flanks that are open but enough depth to reprsent most of the Battlfields of the period. And when you get literly thousands of figures on the table it does look more like a battle than a couple of battlions in 28mm will ever do.

My Eye Candy is the battlfield.
William

18mm AB. Beautiful figures and a practical size for gaming battles.

6mm

28mm for both questions.

I'm starting 10mm but that project is really secondary to me while trying to get enough 28mm Napoleonic troops painted.

15mm

There can be only one.

28mm. Time has taken it's toll on the eyes, which can no longer support 18mm ABs.

15mm, but if I didn't have so much of this I would probably switch to 10mm but not going there.

I prefer 15mm or 25mm metal but have and play 20mm 1/72nd plastic

6mm.

Adler (allegedly 6mm) and 15mm depending on the rules we choose to play with.

Love the look of War Artisan's 10mm. :)

15mm (but not 18mm)

25-28mm.

I use (and prefer) the well-painted ones!

(Writing seriously, I own an eclectic mix. I have no problem fielding units of different manufacturers, just have to be careful about what to mix within a single unit.)

Rick

1/72 soft plastic – 1:20 scale, GdeB rules

But also have large 15mm forces (well, ABs, but you know what I mean) – based in Fire and Fury manner, so probably around 1:33/1:40

And have bought some 28mm plastics to see how that takes me

And 25 Minifgs

And 5mm Heroic and Ross

Actually – pretty much any scale – except 10s, which is a silly size (nah, just kidding)

28s and 6s although my current collection is mostly 28s.

15mike mikes

15mm/18mm and 40mm for skirmish.

28mm

28MM

2mm.

Let the heckling begin.

But they are simply the best, en masse, to give the real look of a battlefield from our Giants' View, and offer the only practical way to game at 1:1 at any level higher than Sharp's skirmish rules.

Best regards…..Mark

Having a large 28mm collection, I would say 15mm. When I started my Naps the quality of the 15mm wasn't there. Given what is now on the market 15mm is the route I would go today.
In order to fit armies on a table top you have to fore go size in either the scale of the figures or the size of the units. I tend to like the large size units in a smaller scale.
The group I game with has recently begun playing around with the Command and Colors Napoleonic. For this I made up a couple of sample units in both 15mm and 28mm. While the 28mm have figures are mounted on magnetic bases (one figure equals a block in the game) and hits are recorded by the removal of a figure. picture
The 15mms are mounted on a single base per unit. This single base is made as a mini diorama and casualty figures are placed on the base to denote hits. picture

25-28mm

I'm not a gamer just a painter who collects, but as you can see from my name I love the 15, and you can see my Napoleonics at warin15mm.com just click on Napoleonic Gallery.

15mm…..TRUE 15mms
None of these oversized imposters.

I use 25mm cardstock flats.

15mm