"54mm Ancients?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 09 Feb 2019 6:07 p.m. PST |
Writing in Slingshot issue 322, Steve Neate extols 54mm as the "scale of the Gods." Have you ever played an Ancients game with 54mm figures? |
| dBerczerk | 09 Feb 2019 6:15 p.m. PST |
Tried to get into a 54mm Ancients game at HISTORICON 2017. Sadly, it was full-up -- but looked magnificent! |
Perris0707  | 09 Feb 2019 6:18 p.m. PST |
When I was a kid! Not since then though. |
 etotheipi  | 09 Feb 2019 6:51 p.m. PST |
I've used 54mm figures as tokens for divine influence for 28mm forces. The gods would battle, changing the odds for the humans, the humans would fight, creating power for the gods. So … yeah. Scale of the gods. |
 Grelber | 09 Feb 2019 8:46 p.m. PST |
I took part in a 54mm game based on the Charlton Heston movie "The Warlord." Grelber |
| Bob in Edmonton | 10 Feb 2019 7:24 a.m. PST |
Yes, Commands and Colours Ancients with 54s instead of blocks. Hurray for HaT! |
 20thmaine | 10 Feb 2019 10:49 a.m. PST |
Not sure if they are still there, but there were pictures on the HaT site of a DBx game played with 54mm plastics. Looked superb. |
| Green Tiger | 10 Feb 2019 12:13 p.m. PST |
Yes – did DBA with 54mm Punic Wars figures. 42mm too… |
| Gone Fishing | 10 Feb 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
For a long while I've been tempted to do a Gallic Wars project in 54mm. This blog contains a lot of inspiration: romansgohome.blogspot.com Asterix and company would need to make an appearance, naturally! |
| Pan Marek | 10 Feb 2019 1:04 p.m. PST |
I play Pigs Wars with 54s. I have some photos posted on the Pig Wars yahoo site. |
 Sgt Slag | 11 Feb 2019 9:40 a.m. PST |
Recently played a "fantasy" 54mm Army Men game, Green attacking the Tan forces, with a beach landing, a fight up a hill, attacking water turbine generators along the way to the city, where the Green had to stop a train coming in, with reinforcements. It was played out on a 30-foot long, by 12-feet wide, table. It was a blast! Developing and constructing multi-story buildings, out of MDF, for a city fight, building to building. The Green will be attempting to rescue hostages from one of the buildings, with the Tan defending. The table will be the same size: 12-feet by 30-feet, virtually covered by buildings. We will have a river, a green-space city park, and DUKS navigating their way up the roadways, and possibly the river, too. I've gamed in 6mm, all the way up to 54mm. I love my 25mm fantasy games (I do! I do!), but I really enjoy my 54mm games with Army Men figures. If you have never gamed in 54mm scale, give it a try, whatever the genre. It is a blast! I highly recommend 2"-square MDF bases. Hot glue your figures to the MDF, texture the base, and game! Cheers! |
| 79thPA | 11 Feb 2019 10:24 a.m. PST |
Ancients, no. ACW and AWI, yes. |
| GUNDABAD | 26 Feb 2019 2:22 a.m. PST |
I did a Cremona / Bedriacum Roman Civil War game a while back. Since then been busy converting Weston Mexican Peasants into Gauls, Germans and Dacians as some opposition for the Romans. I detail my hobby progress here: link These Belgian gamers also do Ancient battles with 54mm: link Why 54mm in this scale? Failing eyesight / ease of painting, the spectacle, space – I now have a 12x6 table, lots of figures available ranging from Expeditionary Force to Del Prado to A Call to Arms plus conversions etc… |
| DDONVIL | 28 Feb 2019 12:54 a.m. PST |
Thanks Gundabad for sharing the link to our blog, Our biggest Ancient battle was Gaugamela:
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But we did Punic and Medieval wars also. |
| DDONVIL | 28 Feb 2019 1:04 a.m. PST |
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