"Do you play in multiple scales or just one?" Topic

Do you play miniature wargames in multiple scales, or just one?

(a) I only play in one scale (name scale, for example 15mm)
(b) I play in multiple scales (please specify which)

(b) 28mm, 15mm, 1/600, 1/2400 Naval (with 1/1200 scale aicraft).

B.

Multiple:

25mm (legacy) armies for mass battle or skirmish

15mm armies for mass battle or skirmish

6mm armies for mass battle or skirmish

3mm for aerial

rarely, 1:6000 for naval.

B) 28mm, 15mm and occasionally 1:2400 naval

A (40mm)

B. 54mm, 40mm, 28mm, 3mm, 1/1200 and 1/2400 naval.

Multiple. 28mm, 25mm, 20mm, 15mm, 10mm, 1/235, 1:600, 1:1200, 1:2400, 1/72, 1/144.

B: 28mm, 15mm, 6mm, (and soon-ish 1:4800 too)

B : 28mm and 6mm

Scale depends on the game/period. Generally 15mm, but 28mm for RPGs and ship scale for Naval and SF

I actually have a table for this.

I play in 6 scales and 4 broad periods.

25/28mm
16mm

Multiple. 28mm, 25mm, 20mm (1/72nd – 1/76th), 15mm (1/100th), 1/144, 1/285, 1/300th, 1/600 – 1/700th, 1/1200, 1/2000, 1/2400, 1/3000th.

Have some 1/6000th ships, but haven't used them yet.

1/3178th, or something like that, for the Star Trek universe.

6,10,15,20,"old"25 (Ral Partha),25/28,40,54.

Good grief!

I'll play whatever is on the table. I only collect 6mm and 15mm, and stopped buying 15mm a few years back.

28mm, 20 mm, 18/15 mm, 12 mm/1:144, 10mm, 6m/5mm 1/3000 naval and, today, my first game of 54mm.

6, 10, 15, 20, 28 some periods in multiple scales,

Tally Ho!

Multiple. Although As I get older it's mostly 28mm. I won't stop using 20mm for WWII, however.

B: 28mm, 15mm, 6mm.

Damon.

28mm and 10mm

6, 10, 15 & 28 mm

I WANT to do more than one scale. I HAVE minis in more than one scale. BUT I find myself sticking to 28mm.

SF 15 mm
Everything else (historical, pulp etc) 20 mm/1:72

1

20mm WW2, Vietnam war, Modern wars
28mm Fantasy, Horror, Pulp, French/Indian wars

I play in 1/1200 naval, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, 30mm flats, 54mm, 90mm and 1/12 action figure scales (each according to what works best for the historical scenario being explored) .. I plan to add 28mm to the mix once I find something that popular scale is best suited to.

Phil

(b) 1/2400, 1/1200, 1/600 for naval things.
15mm, 20mm, 25/28mm for horse and musket eras.
Just 15mm for WWI and WWII land.

I have armies in 6mm and 15mm from the Before Times, but I am.only actively collecting and playing 28mm.

B, mostly 28 mm and 15 mm, but have 40 mm and 10 mm. Then there are those scales that are hard to pin down like Battle Fleet Gothic.

B
40mm, 28mm, considering 18mm next.

b)

1/2400
1/1200
1/700
1/285
10mm
15mm
HO
1/72
25/28mm
1/35
54mm

B

6mm, 15mm, 25mm, 54mm

(B) In WWII, 15mm
In AWI 25/28mm and 40mm

B

SAGA, Ancients 25/28

DBA DBMM WW2 15mm

ACW Ancients Napoleonics 6mm

War Spanish Succession 10mm

Only play in one scale? Maybe back in 1971 when there was only Airfix.

2,6,15,20,54mm excluding air and naval, and in some deeply sad cases, several different scales within the same period.

Vive la difference!

I might play in any scale. It depends on whether the game sounds interesting to me, who is running it, and who else is playing.

I have been running ground combat games in 25mm for several years. I haven't felt like running micro-scale armor, although I could and have.

I have run space combat games, but scale loses some meaning there, because of the disparity between table scale and model scale.

Multiple but not at the same time!

(b) Multiple – 28mm, 15mm, n scale, 1:1, 1:600, 1:6000

Yes. My newest project is 54mm Song of Blades and Heroes.I am having a blast making the terrain for this,too!

Primarily 15mm with some 25mm. Naval 1:1200 and 1:2400. I have a bunch of 1/72 figures but they haven't seen the light of day in years.

I do Civil War 1:1 scale, but we call that reenacting not wargaming.

I'm happy to play other scales if someone else does all the work providing the figures.

Done micro-armor,15s,25s,28s,quite nice whatever the scale.

First, the way the question is phrased is slightly misleading. At my club or at shows I will play any scale the people putting on the game have chosen.

I'll answer the question "do I collect and play multiple scales or just one?"

I believe that there's a sweet spot for different eras and scales of gaming. For example, if it's historical and simulating big battles I'll opt for 15mm for the most part. I think that size hits the right balance between detail and having enough figures to fight a large battle.

For 20th century wargaming, I prefer 20mm. I have some 15mm for Flames of War but on the whole 20mm again is the sweet spot between detail and numbers for company level games.

Some of my collection is dictated by rules: For my WW2 naval wargames I have chosen 1/3000 because that's what the rules I own recommend. I'm considering buying Sharp Practice 2 and choosing 28mm for that will be a rules consideration, not because I prefer 28mm.

As for 28mm I reserve that for pulp style skirmish gaming. I don't like 28mm for WW2 because the figures look too cartoony. 28mm is impractical, in my opinion, when it comes to big historical battles.

Sometimes I wish I could say one.

B.
1/600 (3mm) All from O8 and I buy it from PicoArmor.
6mm
10mm
15mm
1/72
25mm (several boardgames cannibalized as well as traditional 25mm toy soldiers.)
28mm
40mm (plastic toy soldiers from the 80s.)
54mm (more of collecting only.)

Actively game in 1:72 of various periods. In the process of painting up some 6mm 7YW for my personal collection—at least until my wife saw some 15mm figures and commented that if she were to play, she would prefer the 15mm over the 6mm. FML.

Almost entirely 15mm except 20mm AWI, 10mm Great War mid-east, and 28mm FFL vs. Arabs (the last haven't been on the table in years).

Oh yeah, 1/72 plastic Rome/Carthage/Gaul and Mongols/Teutonic Knights. Also not been on the table in years.