"Preferred Scale for SYW?" Topic

What scale or size of figures do you prefer for the Seven Years War? (Not including the French & Indian War.)

I'm doing 15mm.

I've got the figures to do it in 6mm, just need to get around to painting them!

30mm

I prefer 1/60 scale for SYW la petite guerre games.

20mm, supplemented with 1/72 plastics.

No particular preference, but my friend does 15mm Age of Reason.

15mm

I like painting the 1/56, but don't think they'll ever get on the table.

6 mm. I like the "big picture".

15mm is our prefered scale

15mm

10mm, on the spur project, very nice figures from Pendraken,

Tally Ho!

15mm

28mm cause I don't think we need so many troops on the table and uniforms worth your while to be well detailed.
Matrco

Blake's multiple 15mm armies!

Even if all the scenarios are meeting engagement with town in center with/without river/stream crossing board left to right.

10mm for me – Pendraken stuff is very nice
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Since I'm exclusively Minden and Crann Tara, 28mm. As Sharpe mentioned, the lovely uniforms are worth it.

15mm

6mm

35mm (1/48)

6mm

20mm

Since SYW is one of my favoritye periods, I have them in 6, 10, 15 and 28's. I, most recently, have become charmed with the likes of Black hussar and Cran Tara.

40mm.

Got a lot of 15 mm, but it's a period I would really like to do in 28mm- the Minden figures look superb

28 to allow for the magnificent uniforms

28 to the beauty

I have painted--and sometimes even played--SYW in 2mm, 5mm, 6mm, N-gauge, 10mm, 15mm 1/72 and 25mm. On balance, I think you need two. One set no bigger than 15mm and probably around 5/6mm and mounted on 2"or 3" frontages to represent the great battles of the era, and another set of at least 20mm, and probably 25 or 28mm individually mounted for smaller battles and skirmishes--and, as is noted, the beauty.

I'm a broad church wargamer. It's fine by me to say "I'm not interested in big battles (or skirmishes)" but certain scales and basings lend themselves to certain tables and battles, and if you get it wrong--or fudge too much instead of deciding--you'll drive yourself nuts.

Preferred battles + available table=ground scale, and from this you see your figure scale options. Do it any other way, and you'll wind up with brigades of six 28mm figures or foraging in a village with individually mounted 5mm castings. (Don't laugh: I've seen both.)

I have 28mm for SYW Imagi-Nation gaming, but also do 15mm for "real" SYW gaming (figures owned by another gamer). Both sizes work well for smaller (28mm) and larger (15mm) battles.

Jim

currently 15mm, busy building the armies for Kolin

10mm Pendraken, great figures and great options for massive battles

25s.

28mm

28mm using Volley and Baypnet

25 & 28mm

Sadly I have large collections in both 15mm and 28mm. Each have their appeal and charm.

I first gamed the SYW back in the 70's using Scruby 20 MM figures. but now am doing it in 15 MM, using mostly Essex figures.

Terry

15mm

15mm. Can do all the battles and still appreciate the uniforms.

15-18mm

Price and numbers
Better relation to height of terrain than possible with 28mm.

Last small scale to really see the flamboyant uniforms of the time.

By the way could we call it mid 18 th century as WAS is just as interesting .
And could someone do the Dutch in 18mm?

10mm – it just looks right.

My group does 1:72 plastics. I've started painting my own army in 6mm, but will start doing 15mm soon as well.

15mm for bigger battles and for storage. But I get doing it in 25/28mm.

I prefer Adler 6mm figures with a scale of 1 figure to 10 "real" men. Battalions of 60-90 figures or 12-16 figure squadrons look great! And the figures are fantastic sculptors.

15mm.

18mm – Eureka miniatures

I have two sizes of figures in my armies. There is the 1/56 scale (~29-30mm) Minden Miniatures figures using a 1:20 figure to men ratio.

And then there is the 30mm collection of old Staddens, Surens, Hinchcliffe, Elite Miniatures and many others. These are done in a 1:10 ratio.

I love the look of epic battles with lots of figures. I also love the splendid uniforms of this period. Using 10mm figures, I get the best of both worlds. Pendraken figures for me!

I have a ton of 25mm, but if I had to start over I would probably go for 15mm.

Now for skirmishing in North America, I would stick with 25 or 28 mm.