"Board to Miniatures w' Ars Victor in 28mm / 40K" Topic

Translating board games to miniatures is as complicated as you want it to be.
1) You can start with just replacing the counters/blocks with figures or bases of figures but use the board – just eye candy.

2) Replace the board with a table, scaled to the board. Keep the hexes/squares, place the figures – still all eye candy

3) Get out the chain saw, it's rules mod time.
a) Replace movement from square/hex to inch/millimetre. Should change of direction be an issue? Terrain mods?
b) Check flanking, angles of fire. Depending upon the game this means you can only shoot at enemy in front of you, not beside/behind you. This is where converting C&C gets to be tricky.
c) Assuming it's a card driven game, you'll be wanting to keep the actual combat system. Does it bother with Morale checks or is that inherent in the combat results?

It's all a matter of how far do you want to take it and how much of the original board game you found inspiring.

I have played Ars Victor with 6mm miniatures. It worked fine. All we did was measure the distance of a move or weapon range on the board and use that on a table top. We used our own scenery rather than try to duplicate the game. I find weapons range in SF games are too short. Seems like if you can see it you should be able to shoot it with all the hi tech, etc.

very expensive to buy in the uk, unfortunately.