| captaincold69 | 01 Nov 2018 8:07 a.m. PST |
Played a IABSM game a couple nights ago on a 3x3 area using 6mm. Anyone have a similar setup and if so, have any pictures to show what it looks like. Rather not commit to buying anything until I see what it looks like. |
| Thresher01 | 01 Nov 2018 8:35 a.m. PST |
I don't see why not. Sorry, no pics available, but 3' x 3' should be plenty of room to do that. |
| BorisTheSpider | 01 Nov 2018 8:57 a.m. PST |
Infantry battles would be fine imagine… |
 Mister Tibbles  | 01 Nov 2018 9:02 a.m. PST |
I've regularly played a platoon per side on a 3x5 dining room table with plenty of room. I played a couple of the same level games on a 3x3 in urban terrain, which makes for a tense game. |
| advocate | 01 Nov 2018 9:07 a.m. PST |
PBI uses a grid 8 by 8 I think, for company sized games. You might get away with 4.5" squares rather than the recommended 6". |
| captaincold69 | 01 Nov 2018 9:19 a.m. PST |
Might just stick with IABSM in 6mm and CoC in 15mm on the same table size. Guess it's that easy :) Thanks folks |
| 22ndFoot | 01 Nov 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
Those are approximately the true ground scale of the respective rules so you should be fine. I haven't tried IABSM in 6mm but I've done CoC in both 15mm and 28mm and both work very well. If anything, 15mm is better because of the groundscale thing as long as you can identify weapons. |
| captaincold69 | 01 Nov 2018 10:31 a.m. PST |
that and I just love 15mm over any other scale! :) |
| Thresher01 | 01 Nov 2018 5:17 p.m. PST |
You could get a couple of folding tables, if you need more room. Two would give you a 5' x 6' playing surface. A folding ping-pong table will give you 5' x 9'. |
| captaincold69 | 02 Nov 2018 5:57 a.m. PST |
We downsized into a 1 bdr condo. There won't be a folding table in my future:) Realized that there is a game store 10 minutes away from home. Not a place I'd want to play a casual solo game of anything, but he has pretty big tables AND I could go 20-28mm if I wanted, but at 15mm on a big table I could still do big battles. |
| Martin Rapier | 02 Nov 2018 8:59 a.m. PST |
Fireball Forward has lots of pint sized company level scenarios at a very similar scale to IABSM. Brecourt Manor is on a 2x3! We played that in 15mm and was fine. |
| Walking Sailor | 02 Nov 2018 9:25 a.m. PST |
DBA is played on 2x2. FLGS had lots of 2x2 tiles (blue board), some with roads inscribed. At one time we played Command Decision (1"=50 yds/m thus 24"x50=1200 yds/m), in 15mm, on single tiles. A reinforced infantry company per side. Use lots of terrain to limit long range shots. Any game using that ground scale should be playable on that size board. You might also consider Extra Crispy's Battlefield in a Box link |
| Thresher01 | 02 Nov 2018 12:49 p.m. PST |
Ah, I see. Game store is a decent option then. Our local club uses meeting rooms at local libraries for free on weekends, so you might check into that too. They have many folding tables. |
shows off the U.S. infantry from the Flames of War starter set.
