Ilya Muromets | 23 Oct 2002 8:24 p.m. PST |
I wanted to know how many people use 54 mm plastic figures as their primary scale to game in? If so, what rules do you use? What period do you like to play? I am having a lot of fun using these figures and am surprised at their versatility and the abundance of accessories. However, I prefer to play using simple "toy soldier" rules because I find the simpler the game with larger figures the more fun it is. Anyway, I was just curious about others who use these figures and how they use them. |
IGWARG | 23 Oct 2002 9:19 p.m. PST |
My friend Charley has a huge collection of 54's and we play very large battles at his house once in a while. He uses his one rules which have toy soldier feel and a lot of fun. He has very good ACW and WW2 rules. I believe his WW2 rules are even published. |
The Lost Soul | 23 Oct 2002 10:39 p.m. PST |
Try the little wars group on Yahoo: link Nicest bunch of guys on the web. They play in 54mm. |
Conrad | 24 Oct 2002 1:31 a.m. PST |
There is a website, sorry can't remember the name, of an independently wealthy chap who has enormous armies of 54mm scale stuff that he games with, using his own idiosyncratic rules, on his own extremely large property. He has photos of the games in progress and they have to be seen to be believed! |
Gordon of TFP Games | 24 Oct 2002 2:47 a.m. PST |
I have some pics from a contributor at Battle Shots Gallery,- link Pics are near bottom of the page. |
Chris Wimbrow | 24 Oct 2002 5:46 a.m. PST |
Conrad, could this be the site you meant? link |
Sgt Slag | 24 Oct 2002 6:18 a.m. PST |
I got into 54mm gaming because of my sons: they wanted to play with my fantasy 25's, and because of their ages, this was not going to happen. I noticed they had green plastic army men figures in their toy chests, so I wrote up some rules for these. Later, I published my rules, and a gaming hobby was born (for me: other people have published rules for army men, too). Games are not limited to army men, though: there are medieval figures and rules, as well as sci-fi, pirates, cave men/dinosaurs, and more. I believe the army men games are the most popular, though.
I find this scale to be a lot of fun. It is a hoot to pull out my circular blast templates, and be required to use both hands to handle the it… (LOL)
I ran some games at Con of the North 2002. Here is a link to some pictures of one of the games:
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Kent Reuber | 24 Oct 2002 6:49 a.m. PST |
Frank Chadwick, the designer of Volley and Bayonet and other games, uses 54mm figures for V&B. V&B is designed for large battles from the black powder era, 1 stand per regiment or brigade, 1"=100 yds, and 3" wide stands. The pictures in the V&B rulebook show 4 54mm infantry in 2 ranks or 2 cavalry on 3"x3" brigade stands. |
paintingbird | 24 Oct 2002 9:29 a.m. PST |
There is mention of a man planning to do Waterloo with 54mm in the new Wargames Illustrated. He "only" have to paint 500 cavalry. Not that much if you know he already painted around 10.000 miniatures... Not sure what rules he's going to use. I also have no idea were to find more of this project. Except maybe at www.chapzka.co.uk or something like that. This site is owned by the man who wrote the article. |
vtsaogames | 24 Oct 2002 4:11 p.m. PST |
Used to play DBA with one 54mm figure per element, so each army had 12 figures, not counting the camp follower. |
Part time gamer | 10 Sep 2016 2:18 a.m. PST |
Waterloo in 54mm? Wow. Im wondering what figure to troop ratio he is planning to use. This would really be somehting to see, even still as a WIP. |
(Phil Dutre) | 10 Sep 2016 4:43 a.m. PST |
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McLaddie | 11 Sep 2016 8:32 p.m. PST |
Frank Chadwick, the designer of Volley and Bayonet and other games, uses 54mm figures for V&B. That inspired me to use 54mm figures for my Hungarian 1848 games with 3" X 3" stands. They work for C&C Napoleonics and others. link
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The back of the stands have a place for the unit designation and a slot for chits that count off the damage. For instance, the horse artillery below has two.
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nheastvan | 11 Sep 2016 10:51 p.m. PST |
I play low figure count games that represent large battles. Like 8 infantry represents a brigade kind of a thing. Rules are my own and tend to be very scenario based and very much in flux from game to game. When I'm not working on those, I like Neil Thomas' approach. Or Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame rules. It's primarily late 19th century. |
DDONVIL | 13 Sep 2016 11:20 a.m. PST |
With our group, we are playing large battles for almost 20 years. Our own rules, for Napoleonic, Ancients and Renaissance. They are published by Caliver Books. We did last year LOTR battles (not in 54mm)with modified ancient rule. Battalions = 8 figures, cav rgt 4 figures, art 3 to 5 (light to heavy) With our group, we are playing large battles for almost 20 years. Our own rules, for Napoleonic, Ancients and Renaissance. They are published by Caliver Books. We did last year LOTR battles (not in 54mm)with modified ancient rule.<br />Battalions = 8 figures, cav rgt 4 figures, art 3 to 5 (light to heavy) Hät contribution
youtube postings Marston Moor in 54mm Club blog |
nheastvan | 13 Sep 2016 8:34 p.m. PST |
DDONVIL, I really like this picture:
I've only run one 54mm game in public at a local con and it's the cavalry that gets everyone to come check it out. You can see them from across the hall and everyone has to come look. Even if I was doing WW2, I'd make sure there was some sort of horse on the table. Perhaps pulling a supply wagon or something. Then again, I'm sure 1:32 or 1:35 scale tanks would be just as eye catching. Here are some of YesThatPhil's:
The other main scale I game in is 15mm and the only reason I don't go completely into 54mm is the painting time. I get so many more 15mm figures and vehicles done in the same time as 54mm. But I see each 54mm figure finished as something I'm going to have my entire life. They're the only ones that get space in my display cabinet. |
DDONVIL | 14 Sep 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
IW this WWII 54mm? Wow. I'm also planning to start WWII. Have seen nice pics links here. thanks for sharing. Inspirational! |