 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 Dec 2018 10:45 p.m. PST |
…and more time playing. With 6mm figures/models. True or false? |
| mumbasa | 22 Dec 2018 11:26 p.m. PST |
I would say true although I paint very slowly ;) |
| Calico Bill | 23 Dec 2018 3:23 a.m. PST |
Agree. That's one of the attractions of the scale. The other is that with many more minis on the table, my battles begin to look like battles, not skirmishes. |
| Durban Gamer | 23 Dec 2018 4:07 a.m. PST |
Always worth keeping in mind that the smaller the scale of one's figures the more manageable gaming and storage become. |
Frederick  | 23 Dec 2018 4:24 a.m. PST |
Probably although doing 6mm means you have ambitions for much larger numbers of troops |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Dec 2018 4:49 a.m. PST |
Someone actually did a test in MWAN, years ago and concluded that it took him about the same time to fill a V&B 3"x3" base regardless of scale. I suspect that's about right. So probably a slight edge for 6mm, given most of us don't go as deep or use smaller stands. |
martin goddard  | 23 Dec 2018 4:55 a.m. PST |
That is a very strange ( read illogical) correlation.
I play about 180 full (2 hour +) games per year in various scales. I don't spend much time painting. Thus a 6mm player in the above scenario, gets in about 300+ full games per year? Don't think so. |
 miniMo | 23 Dec 2018 9:05 a.m. PST |
Depends on how many 6mm figures you're painting! |
 Legion 4 | 23 Dec 2018 11:16 a.m. PST |
Not in my case … I spend a lot of time on my 6mm figures/models … |
 aegiscg47 | 23 Dec 2018 1:59 p.m. PST |
"Probably although doing 6mm means you have ambitions for much larger numbers of troops" Which doesn't happen that often. While everyone dreams of massive armies most 6mm gamers I know do just enough stands to play a basic battle, which is pretty consistent with most gamers. |
| Fitzovich | 23 Dec 2018 6:37 p.m. PST |
I game and collect (exclusively) in 6mm and I spend as little time painting as possible. I much prefer paper ships and figures whenever possible. I would rather be gaming than painting. |
| khanscom | 23 Dec 2018 7:20 p.m. PST |
For me, the attraction of 6mm (or thereabouts) figures is the ability to field larger armies-- not to play on a smaller table. Details on the smaller figures take a bit more time to paint, so with more figures to paint there isn't much of a time saving. IMO 10mm is the optimal scale-- small enough to field large armies with details more readily rendered (within reason). Too bad I have so many 15s waiting in the painting queue :-( |
| von Schwartz | 23 Dec 2018 7:42 p.m. PST |
With 15s you can field relatively large armies on a smaller tables and still get reasonable detail with the painting.
That's why I went with 15s, well that and the fact that I "Suck out Loud" at painting. Tried doing 25s Biblical once, naked Libyans didn't require much for detailing but they still looked horrible. |
