"What percentage of your tabletop figures are ..." Topic

… civilians?

About 40% for me, with the largest contingents being mid-19th Century (Old West, Victorian Era Europeans, and camp followers) and Fantasy (villagers, including non-combatant monsters for warrens, etc.).

Maybe 5%. i don't do a lot of skirmish gaming.

Only the potential Zombie Fodder

5-6 Victorian ladies out of maybe 400 figs.

2% or less.

1% if that. Mainly none active pieces on camps.

Just a few. I wish I could find more in ACW, AWI, and F & I.

Does militia count?

A check of memory says… apart from town militia, none.

Low single percent.

Probably one percent but that is because civilians are usually the last thing collected to round out a period or particular era. Much depends on the type of game and time line. The other issue is of course if there are appropriate civilians for the era I am gaming. I would say the percentage is higher for my Lion Rampant games as there are many scenarios where they are part of the game. Plus there are all the units of armed peasants I am working on.

I plan to collect more civilians for my 15 mm Science Fiction games as there are a number of available options of both armed and unarmed civilians that will add spice to particular scenarios. I would like to at some point add more civilians for my Victorian Science Fiction Games and Colonial era scenarios.

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30 or so of 6,000 or more.

Don't really know. There's a decent number of non-military if you count figures bought for role-playing (bards, thieves, hackers etc) but they can all take care of themselves in a fight. If you want true civilians, who don't know the business end of whatever is the current prevailing weapon type, then probably less than .1%

Technically, all Zombicide Survivor figures are civilians, but they are survivors. Some have military or martial arts training, and those who didn't quickly learned what worked on Day Zero as they are still alive. So I don't think of them as civilians like the helpless sheep who need rescuing by the big damn heroes.

15-20% mostly Arabic or Chinese

Hardly any, and those that I do have are generally colonial types lugging things around or able to drop their cups of tea and pick up a rifle.

I do have some ww2 partisans who may be considered civilians.

A few for my VietNam games or are they VC? Zombicide is a great civilian game

How can we have twons, beautifully represented on our tables, but not depict who lives there? We spend many hours researching what our armies looked like, yet squat on their civilian contemporaries where we are about to struggle to occuy their homes!

Now that I have amassed a quantity of nicer buildings, I must get to populating the villages. It is just as important to depict the inhabitants of those buildings if we want to model what the bildings really represent!

Besides, what is a game of "The Creature that Ate Scheboigan" without civilians?

Unarmed, less than 5%

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1 in nearly 5000 (Count Pierre Bezukhov)

A bit more than a 3%. Ancient romans and WWII civilians, not counting a group of partisans.

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A little less than 2% overall. I varies a lot by scale, under 20mm, and it is around .5 percent, at 28mm, it is more like 30-35%.

70-80%

lots of sci fi adventure
and the occasional zombie

I have several thousand AWI figures, based for both "skirmish" and brigade level play.
I also have hundreds of FIW but skirmish only.

If you want to call militia civilians, and I do, then civilians account for about 30-50% of my forces.
Technically limber drivers were civilian.
Indians were certainly not organized as Magua's Own Foot Dragoon Guards, so do they count?
Finally I have a dozen or so ladies with muskets and some children.

And what about musicians in some armies who were technically not soldiers but employees of the Colonel?

4 Platoon 20 Vietnamese civilians. hmm….
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Besides VSF as few as possible.

Best guess 1-2%. In most battles, I figure the civilians are huddling in basements

For my Dark Ages armies, I have about 700+ warriors and perhaps 50 civilians, or about 6%. Other eras just have five or six civilians.

Grelber

Occasionally an unarmed civilian acts as a tactical objective, i.e. escort/snatch a VIP or rescue a hostage. Most of the time, everyone in the tabletop warzone – military professional or otherwise – is armed and a potential combatant.

About 10% of my wild west figures…..none for WW2. So in total about .01%

Less than 5%.

Less than 5%, I'd say … as in other areas of my collection I pretty much have what I need for the historical battles I do (civilians tend to keep out of the way if they can).

Phil

None.

Do dancing girls count as civilians?

Do dancing girls count as civilians?

All of them except Mata Hari! :)