"In what scale(s) do you play AWI?" Topic

Yeah yeah yeah. "It's not s SCALE! It's a SIZE!!!"
Moving right along…

Way back in the previous century, I started gaming AWI. I pretty much stuck with 25mm Hinchliffe. Any other ranges were in the whole 25mm size. More or less. I never saw any 15mm figures that I considered decent looking.
Now, I have friends who do AWI in 15mm and current ranges look pretty nice.
But I've never regretted sticking with 25/28mm. BTW, as far as I'm concerned, those two scales are equivalent and have never had any issues mixing them. YMMV.
The last time I bothered to check, we had a game with 15 different AWI manufacturers on the table, all nominally within the 25/28mm category. The sky did not fall.

I'll let suggestions flood in, and will let Dear Editor structure the poll as he wishes.

For me:
28mm, combined with 25mm.

By the way, one of my favorite manufacturers is Fife and Drum, and Jim calls his figures 1/56, but to me they're 28mm.
Separating them in a poll would needlessly dilute results. But maybe that's what you want.

Basically, I consider 25mm, 28mm and 1/56 equivalent, because that's how I have collected.

6mm. I like to try and get the terrain components of historical battles more or less right and I feel this scale gives me the best option for a 4 x 6 table. For me, 6mm represents massed units quite well, so regiments look more like regiments.

I also am more of a gamer than figure craftsman and collector. But I have been amazed by the beautiful details some create with 6-8mm.

I play in 15mm, 1/72, 28mm and 54mm.

28mm.

25/28mm

25mm. Or 28mm. Or 1/56th scale…

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

When I get back, John, I do have one request…

The Wyoming Massacre.

Please and thank you.

Eric

28mm using Front Rank miniatures. Playing a battle with my brother as I type this using Carnage & Glory for rules.

When we did play AWI, 15mm.

I play in 15mm, 1/72, 28mm and 54mm.

Why do you limit yourself so much?

15mm for me, but I consider this a sideline period for my tastes. If I were serious about the period I think that 25mm would be the best option due to the small size of the battles. F&I also is a sideline for me.

15mm only.

My terrain collection is scaled for 15mm miniatures, and I started into this period by buying a large painted collection at a flea market.

10mm Pendraken (When I get around to ordering them)

Eric, it will be on the calendar.

15, 28 and 40.

28mm with Perry and the superb Fire & Drum figures

15s for our group using F & F AWI.

28mm at a 1:10 ratio using figures from several manufacturers.

25/28mm

15mm to 25mm to 6mm (quick dalliance with 18mm) and back to 25mm using a mix of Hinchliffe, Perry and Fife and Drum. That's where I am staying.

28mm. In fact, the AWI was my first venture away from 15mm

15mm (Peter Pig).

25/28mm "horse & musket." I've done 1/72. There were 10mm armies. There are 54mm in the garage, not all painted, and 6mm in the house at the very end of the painting queue. The AWI has battles of a comfortable size for tabletops.

1/72 – 20mm, 28mm and 54mm.

Thanks

John

I have a 25/28mm collection and play smaller battles and skirmishes.

Recently bought Blue Moon 18mm to flesh out my Napoleonic armies. I was impressed…tempted to build armies in this scale…but I need more figures like I need a hole in the head….but Command and Colors Tricorne may look good with minis…resist, RESIST!

25/28mm and 54mm.

25/28mm

Perfect scale for this period as you don't need a whole lot of figures to have enough. Although my collection has gotten out of control. The Perry figures are so nice, how could you do any other scale?

40mm

15mm and 40mm

Whatever scale/size the BMC/Marx/Current knockoff toy plastic bagged sets are— I think 1/32?

I also have downloaded, printed, and based the paper minis from the Junior General website, so whatever size/scale those are.

I have a small 28mm collection for large skirmish action. Were I going for battles it would be 10 or 15mm. But I'm not going to start another collection. No sir. Absolutely not.

25/28mm

15mm

"True" 25mm!

Jim

15mm

15mm from Peter Pig, Stone Mountain, and a few Minifigs.

When I played AWI 20 years ago, it was Old Glory 28mm using Age of Reason.

At a game meet one Saturday when I and old friends were playing a 28mm AWI game, a few guys at the neighboring table were playing 15mm AWI. It was heresy to us! (The figs were Stone Mountain.)

Now, I like all size figures. So many choices. A couple years ago, I watched a beautiful 40mm AWI game.

54mm

28MM

15 mm. Rank and File for rules, manufacturer agnostic but mostly they are all represented in my collection.

Full size.

N-gauge

2mm

28mm
Front Rank, Old Glory, Perry, Fife and Drum. Firing Line, Foundry, Brigade Games, Eureka.

25/28mm Started with Hinchliffe and Minifig 25mm figures, but have added Redoubt, Perry, Foundry, and a few "who knows?" to the lot. My core units have seen rough usage over the years with missing bayonets and shortened muskets (certain Hinchliffe poses in particular are prone to this) that I haven't bothered fixing.

28's. Mostly Front Rank and Perry figures.

For AWI … 25/28mm, 40mm, 54mm.

AWI is one of four eras that I have more than one scale of figures. Medieval (25/28, 40), F&IW (25/28, 40), and WW2 (6mm, 15mm, 20mm, 25/28mm) are the others.

I could probably track down 54mm for Medieval, ACW (25/28 as well) and WW2 if I pulled them from my parent's attic. So that'd make AWI being 1 of 5 eras in more than one scale.

1/72 though they have never made it to the table…

1/32

See some after action reports and a campaign here:
link

15mm