"Your Smallest Scale?" Topic

What is the smallest scale in which you wargame?

(Excluding air, space and naval wargaming.)

2mm

1/300 as I can't include the Trek ships!

John T

1/285

10mm

What is the smallest scale in which you wargame?

by this question, do you mean:

a.) smallest scale that a person has ever gamed with
b.) smallest scale that a person has lately gamed with
c.) smallest scale that a person regularly games with
d.) smallest scale that a person buys and paints models games with them

I have gamed with 6 mm figures, but I have never painted models in that size.

Also, does gaming with flat paper/cardboard counters count? I think those were somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 mm in thickness…

1/600 pico armor

2mm – and I think that probably fits all your criteria for me GB.

2mm is the smallest still manufactured (a couple of tries at supposedly 1mm were not much use and neither got anywhere).

The number of people using 2mm regularly is quite large and now 1/600th or 3mm has extended the scope of 'small' scale wargaming even further.

I suppose that you could include counters on maps but that would be stretching the intention of the question.

Actually, now that I come to think of it, the Land Ironclads from Brigade Models may be 1/1000th (in theory, at least) which is a bit less than 2mm. Splitting hairs really as the comparable models are around the same size.

15mm

15mm. I sold off the other scales a few years ago.

1/285 WW2 Planes. I have a couple of 1/1200 Napoleonic ships but I've never gamed with them.

One day I will do 1/4800 WW2 naval.

1/1200th

or do I have some 1/3000th ships tucked away somewhere ?

Oh hang on, have some Corgi/Hotwheels Star Trek models – they're ~ 1/3400th.

6mm ftw!

3mm.

15mm. I just can't see 6mm anymore. Nowadays, 25 and 28s look like 15s used to. As to painting, again 15s, but it has been a long long time since I picked up a brush.

10mm but the Pico Armor siren song gets louder and louder.

DM

28mm.

I lied. I have 1/2000 Age of Sail.

But have you seen that Pico Armor?

DM

1/2400, although I have some 1/3000 that was mislabeled by the seller on Ebay.

Should get rid of that someday.

1/285th, though I do have some armored vehicles (targets for the aircraft) in 1/600th scale.

15mm

1:3788 Star Trek by (nowadays) Amarillo Design Bureau, used to be Lou Zocchi.

Was 2mm but I switched to 3mm

1/12k Saganami Island Tactical Simulator
1/6k Figurehead Ships WW1
1/600 Picoarmor
15mm modern skirmish

WW2 1/285.

Everything else 10mm.

6mm

1/1200 Ironclads
6mm Adler
10mm AWI starting
15mm ACW & AWI
25mm Denizen
25mm Wild West

5mm.

6mm though I would not object to playing in 1/600 if someone else buys them – the detail on the ones I have seen is amazing.

3mm

15mm, but that is rare now.
Mostly gaming in 28mm.

15mm is my favorite scale but I still have a fair number of 28mm.

15mm right now, but that could still change in the future.

1:6000 Figurehead WW2 Ships

Once company sized element to a pixel?

Other than that, 28mm.

15mm

2mm

I normally play nothing larger than 15mm.

1/1200.

6mm

40mm only now

20mm

For land it's 6mm unless you count my 1/600 fortifications for my ACW Ironclad games. For naval it's 1/2400

1/600 ACW naval and WWII coastal. 1/700 modern coastal.

1/285

15mm

Board game counter thickness. Is that what 2mm is?

2mm, which I use fairly regularly for a range of periods.

Currently 3mm but am looking at 2mm terrain. Does that mean I should say 2mm?

Most of my miniatures involve aerial games so this is not representative of my interests currently.

My best decision decades ago was to stay true 15mm and below. As retirement looms, I still have space for everything (including terrain) in a much smaller residence!