"Skirmish or battle?" Topic

At what level do you play most of your games?

- Section: fewer than a dozen men represented on the table
- Platoon: 10-50 men represented on the table
- Company: 50-200 men represented on the table
- Battalion: 200-1,000 men represented on the table
- Brigade/Division: 1,000-10,000 men represented on the table
- Corps: 10,000-20,000 men represented on the table
- Larger: more than 20,000 men represented on the table

Varies. I've done them all.

Usually Company level or lower.

Battalion, usually. However, not that many figures. Typicallywe have a ratio of 10:1, or even 20:1.

Battalion level and above – depending on period

Company or less with a platoon of AFVs

Mostly Section and Platoon.
Never more than that. Unless I am using my IG 40k Army. 130 ground troops, and neary a tank on the table.

I'm a big battle sort of guy, although it varies by period.

Ancients & Horse & Musket & C19 I usually do whole battles so anything up to half a million men.

WW1 generally division/corps although have gone up to Army or down to brigade on occasion. In the last 12 months I have probably done more army level than corps level.

WW2 generally brigade/division/corps, although sometimes smaller or larger. In the last twelve months brigade/div level probably predominates.

Moderns tend to be smaler scale although still often brigade/division. In the last twelve months, generally brigade level.

Ultra modern tends to be small scale – platoon/company.

Company or above, almost always

For modern or sci-fi, I really prefer company or battalion level, although I end up playing a lot of lower-level stuff too. For earlier periods, I prefer brigade/division through corps, although those terms are meaningless for ancients.

Section and Platoon

Skirimish level games. Seldom about platoon level. I do have some AWI troops that would be 8 to 12 batt each side and am working on an 1812 force.

Company

By that definition, Corps; having been playing mostly with my 7YW figures of late.

WWII in brigades.

Usually large battles. I'll change it up with a platoon level skirmish. Pretty much nothing in between.

I prefer that gray area between skirmish and larger battles. somewhere between a platoon and battalion.

Moderns & WW2 = Platoon – about 20-30 figures per side each representing 1 man

Ancient / Medieval = Batallion about 80-120 figures per side each representing several men.

I do pulp and sci fi skirmish at the section level.

Section to platoon. Don't have the patience for any larger battles anymore. Just too many models on the table not doing anything for any length of time.

Black powder period, corps to division.
My idea of a skirmish in that period is company to battalion.

Medieval and ancient, one army per side.

Great war to WWII, company to brigade.
I'm toying wth using FUBAR for platoon level dustups.

Nap's so larger of course

Medieval and ancient, one army per side.

Pretty much the same, but I would like to do more section to platoon stuff. I have some SYW skirmish I would like to break out again.

All of the above in 28mm Napoleonics.

I've run a gamut between battles that involve Jackson's men chasing Seminoles in the swamp or French infantry attacking Haitians in the mountains with 10-25 figures on the table at a 1:1 roster scale, to the French vs. Europe at Dresden with about 11,000 figure at a 1:20 roster scale, so 220,000 men represented.

Rick

"11,000 figure at a 1:20 roster scale"

!!! There must be lots or room in Florida. In New York City I'm lucky to have a 6 X 4 foot table.

We have found that club members can usually find & book a community room at a local church, bank, mall, college, etc. that has the standard banquet tables on hand. The other possibility is to establish a relationship with a local gaming convention and put the game on there. You probably would want at least 30-40 running feet of table space for a game of that magnitude.

Rick