"micro FOW" Topic

My group is going to try useing micro armor for FOW. I know some of you are doing this and would like your oppinions. what infantry stand size do you find works best for this scale? I was thining of useing the small fow stands for this. I was wondering how the inf stand size effected the assault rules in this scale

I have considered getting into FoW in this fashion, using half-squads on 25mm-square bases.

I have no idea how you could use "official" bases with 6mm- how do you even pick them up?

As long as the same basing convention is used it shouldn't be too bad.

For 6mm at our clubs we just base down one size, so anything on a rage base in 15mm would go to a medium, and small bases get cut in half.

Most of the folks I've read about talking about it have just used the standard base sizes and rules as written. Which gets the short-range groundscale much closer to the figure scale. No hub-to-hub tank phalanxes because the tanks are 1/27th the volume, and the infantry looks better when spread out that much.

Changing the stand size will mostly affect assault and artillery as opposed to anything else. Artillery because the stands are a little smaller and increase the number of stands potentially under the template, and assault because the stands will have to be a squidge closer to give defensive fire.

And since I like to screw with rules as little as possible, that means leaving the stand size alone. Besides, it makes the infantry look better when they're ~5m apart instead of 5 feet apart in groundscale.

I have run FoW in "half scale" and it works a treat. In fact I'm in the midst of cataloging the collection and working toward a "big" game this Spring.

I make rulers marked in half inches, and put everything on half-size bases. So large bases are 1 x 1.25". Medium bases are 25 x 16mm and small bases are 15x15mm. I just ordered custom steel bases.

It makes your table huge and a $10 USD pack of infantry will get you three big platoons!

I hope to post some pictures of my figs in the next few days….

We found that the smaller bases didn't affect things too much – artillery maybe an extra stand or two under the template (except for Russian infantry hordes) because the largest part of the manoeuvre units footprint was separation distances between units rather than the unit base size. Assault still came down to the same platoons involved usually.

So used the smaller base size with the rules on ranges, templates, movement distances etc unchanged….essentially shrinking the minis for aesthetic value.

For extra room to manoeuvre we found it was more important to play on a large enough table for the points – the steady increase in 'standard' army size from 1500 points crowded tables badly and we found even at 1500 points we played better games on 7'x5' table spaces and for 2000 it wa vital to be that large.

For extra room to manoeuvre we found it was more important to play on a large enough table for the points – the steady increase in 'standard' army size from 1500 points crowded tables badly and we found even at 1500 points we played better games on 7'x5' table spaces and for 2000 it wa vital to be that large.

This is soooo true!

1500 points on a 4x6, 2000 on a 4x8. 2500-3000 needs to be on a 6x8.

We did 10000 on 18foot by 7 foot tables….that was a heavy day