"Units That Scale Creep" Topic

Reader dejvid once said:

…if I have two units that are nominally the same scale I will deploy them along side each and pretend to believe the manufacturers rather than my eyes.

Would you do the same?

I'd put the bigger ones closer to the action, they'll fight better naturally, having more physical prowess.

Maybe. It depends on just how egregious the difference is. Blue Moon 18mm nappies along side Der Kriegspielers true 15mm would be a stretch

If you check closely, you usually find that the offending unit is of converged grenadiers.

Yes, particularly for guards or heavy cavalry!

Rick

If they are close in size yes – but will not mix 18mm with smaller 15mm for example

One exception is terrain – I do use some 10mm terrain with 15mms well as some 1/72 pieces – but only 1 size typically on the field of play

I don't play with my face 5" away from my miniatures, so this rarely comes up.

I prefer my figures to be pretty close in size. With my Colonial collection, which I started 34+ years ago, that means I still buy primarily from manufacturers that existed at that time or 2nd hand from eBay, TMP, convention flea markets, etc..

As I have noted in other discussions on scale creep, this is my gripe with Xyston – the discrepancy in size between the hoplites and psiloi is significant.

However, i will use the figures in the same armies.

The same with the Xyston Indian sword and clubmen goliaths that will be used with my Republican Indian DBA armies. Although I have thought that if I do a fantasy Indian army for HOTT that they (in keeping with Splintered Lights concept of having 18mm command and hero figures in their 15mm lines) will be a hero element.

Generally, if I got an additional unit to fight alongside a similar one, I would mix the figures together.

Once I did put all the tallest of a set of miniatures together in a unit, and mixed the rest. The tall unit was a family (that operated as a unit) from Harper's Ferry who mustered in support of John Brown's raid. The idea was that they6 were all tall when no one else was because they were … um … "more genetically similar than most families".

Good thing about Sci-fi … sometimes size can be "negotiable" or even required.

My RalPartha colonials will never see the same table as my Old Glory figures. I do have some Tiger figures that fight side by side with the Old Glory, however, the Tiger figures are mainly officers and two elite units. I did replace all the Tiger horses with Old Glory models.

Who you going to believe? The manufacturer or your lying eyes?

Since I do individually-based figures, it's not so bad to have tall and short mixed together.

I've honestly not come across this problem in 28mm. But then I don't have many "older" miniatures. The only 28mm ranges I have that I won't mix with other manufacturers are crann tara/minden but that is based on style not "size"

Since I seem to to be finishing my Russian army with Blue Moons I am trying to keep them somewhat together though a few snuck into Minifig2 units. My biggest is probably a Russian Horse Guard battery, they don't come out much so haven't compared them in awhile.

I guess.

Artillery that scale creeps can prolong further!
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