"Translating Kings of War to 10mm or 6mm." Topic
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| Joe Rocket | 30 Aug 2016 9:35 a.m. PST |
I've watched a bunch of KOW videos on youtube. Looks like a good game, but I already own lots of 10mm and 6mm fantasy figures. Anyone tried translating KOW to 10mm or 6mm? How do you translate basing? If infantry troop are 40mm x 20mm are cavalry troop 50mm x 25mm? |
| Weasel | 30 Aug 2016 9:53 a.m. PST |
A friend of mine did it in 6mm. He kept the base sizes the same and just crowded the bases. |
| photocrinch | 30 Aug 2016 10:07 a.m. PST |
I know Chris of cigar box battle mats has done a lot of KoW with warhammer ancient battles 10mm armies basing I believe. Check out his post here: link Search for Nashcon and you'll see some pictures |
| RetroBoom | 30 Aug 2016 10:33 a.m. PST |
I do KoW in 6mm. I base mine on 20mmx40mm and call one stand a troop. I use centimeters instead of inches. Works great as far as I can tell. link |
| Joe Rocket | 30 Aug 2016 12:20 p.m. PST |
If I used a standard Warmaster unit as a troop 20mm x 120mm (three stands) so that I don't have to cut strips apart, cavalry would be about 40mm x 150mm (three stands). 40mm x 50mm is a tough product to find. The other option is to use KOW base sizes as sabots/movement stands and insert the Warmaster bases into/on to them. Six stands of Warmaster cavalry would be 40mm x 120mm. |
| Black Cavalier | 30 Aug 2016 3:04 p.m. PST |
I've done it using my warmaster armies too. 1 warmaster stand = 1 troop. 2 stands in column = a regiment. 4 stands = a horde. The problem comes with cavalry, large infantry, and armies based on 25mm bases like orcs. For cavalry, since they're based facing the short edge, you can only replicate regiments and hordes. You'd have to turn a cavalry stand sideways to do a troop. 25mm based armies, large cavalry and large infantry are the tough ones. As Joe rocket said, cutting larger bases to the correct sizes to stick on the bottom of the warmaster bases would probably be easiest. You could cut them out of some artistic mat board or card stock, paint it green and blu tac them to the bottom of the bases. |
| Frostie | 01 Sep 2016 3:04 a.m. PST |
I play in 15mm and just use my own basing convention that the armies originally had. Standard frontage is 80mm although giants are on 40mm and some giant spiders are on 120mm. As long as both armies are the same it does not matter, as far as I'm concerned |
| kmahony111 | 07 Sep 2016 11:28 p.m. PST |
Check out this guys blog. Amazing stuff. I think he went with 40x40mm bases for his units. link |
| Joe Rocket | 09 Sep 2016 10:43 p.m. PST |
Picked up an Anvil of Doom and a Throne of Power/Dwarf King. Trying to translate into KOW. Should be cool. |
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will finish this project in time for the release of the next edition!