"Should 25mm be shoehorned in 28mm?" Topic

Given all the claims that 28mm and 25mm are somehow "different scales" (sizes… But I digress) and somehow incompatible in the same unit, should there be a separate 25mm board where there is a 28mm board? Say in Fantasy and Science Fiction, for example?

Given Iron Wind Metals rebirth, as it were, of Chaos Wars, is this a one-off or a trend that will take off with war gamers?

Yes

No

No Opinion

Only in these cases (provide what subforums should be affected, please)

Melt them down and cast two 15mm figures from the metal

With my eyes I can't see to paint 25mm, (when do we get the sarcasm emoticon?)

I don't have any problem with 28s being shoehorned in with 25s on the forum, or on my gaming table.

No.

They both occupy the same market segment….

Bring on the 32mm…

25mm and 28mm are the same thing…

Put them on the history shelf along with any flats you might own. Creeping Scale is a dubious maketing tactic.

I tough question. Plastic 1/72 and metal 20mm are very different from metal 25mm just as are the mostly plastic 28mm. So three different forums? Seems that for now, 28mm is the new fashion. In the words of a great country song,
"He's an old hippy and he don't know what to do.
Should he cling on to the old?
Should he grab hold of the new?
He's an old hippy and to him life is a bust.
He aint tryin' to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust."

Keep them out of the same units, but otherwise they mix pretty well on the tabletop following the "3 foot rule"

we need a complete selection of boards in every possible size!

No.

Whether or not you believe that 25mm and 28mm and even 32mm mix on the board or in a unit, they all are compatible with the same rule sets and have nearly all the same painting, converting, and basing concerns as each other, as opposed to other scales. They certainly are different things (heck, different lines of any one of the scales are different things, too), but WRT boards, the question should be, "Is most of what they say about one applicable to the other?"

Keep them off the table.

28mm, 29mm whatever it takes

14Bore,

Are thinking caliber?

25-35mm minis can work well together, they all can fit within normal human variation

I just found it interesting that there are 6mm, 15mm and 28mm in Science Fiction; 15mm and 28mm in Fantasy but historical forums do not seem to have a dedicated set of "size based" boards for assorted historical eras.

No. Keep them as one board. Otherwise you'll need 30mm board, 32mm board Where would it stop?

How many plank lengths are 25 or 28mm
I think there are quite a few plank lengths in those extra 3mm and so naturally not the same thing.

Planks… Boards… Wooden humor?

Definately not!!
There are already much too many split boards here. When i want to see what people are doing in eg. fantasy there are around 20 different boards. I want see the fantasy battle rports, the fantasy painted figures, questions about fantasy, etc and unlike other forums here i have look into every board sparately and as some of the questions are also on more than one board you trawl through loads of repeats.

No

If you do, you would also need 3mm, 6mm, 12mm, 15mm, 18mm, 20mm, 1/72, 25mm, 28mm, and 32mm, as there are genres that have all these scales represented.

Hoi! What about 2mm? And 10mm? And there used to be some 9mm around at one time. And 1/285 and 1/300 are different really.

I happily mix 25mm, heroic 25mm, 28mm and 39mm figures in the same army. I don't see any issue.
So my answer is NO.

There shouldn't be scale boards at all, IMO

There shouldn't be scale boards at all, IMO

I once used 1/72 plastic WW1 germans in a 40K game as Ratling snipers. Looked dorky but we didn't have the real models painted up.