"Wargaming plan for 2022" Topic

Evening all,

My first wargaming post of 2022 -

You can find out about all my plans for the year, see the latest figures i've painted and find out about the three battles i'm planning on refighting this month, by clicking the link to my blog below

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Kind Regards

James

I am interested in 6mm and DBN, so I am looking forward to following your progress.

As I already have a large 15mm collection I will stay with that for 4cm wide base gaming, however I am looking at 6mm for smaller playing area games. I think there is real potential for using 6mm figures to increase the size of the battlefield, without increasing playing area size, or having a smaller playing area. This is my analysis of smaller bases.
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Does this make sense, or, do you feel that there is a demand for reducing the size of a playing area?

Sounds like a good plan and a great period to game in 6mm. I have the DBN rules and I think they are very good rules.

My plan is to actually do some!

pfmodel, obviously demand varies with individual circumstances. But I think it's never a bad idea to have a wargame set-up with can be played on a 4x2 folding table or a 3x3 card table. People do have their circumstances reduced sometimes. It's unusual for things to be so bad you can't set up one or the other of those two for long enough to have a game.

robert piepenbrink – i agree, as i get older i prefer to remain seated while playing. Most of my games are on a 3x4 ft playing area which allows this – just. I do have a 2x3 ft playing area which i use for micro-armour, which i would like to use for napoleonics as well.

Anyway, my experimentation is continuing and i just completed basing some old 6mm ancients on 3x3cm bases and they look good. That is the size i use for WW2, so i am going to take the plunge and get some 6mm French and Russian and see if i can refight Borodino on a 2x3 foot playing area using a figure game version of the old SPI napoleon at War, or perhaps BBNB? I would love to get a game of The Age of eagles on that format, but i suspect that is a bridge too far!

First objective is to complete my French Revolutionary rules and associated 15mm figures and then play some games. Other games will be SYW in 10 and 28mm, 54mm games for Napoleonics, ECW and Wars of the Roses ( courtesy of my wargaming friend), we have a permanent 10' x 5' table. Also in the pipeline are 10mm 1859 and 1866 games.

Nice idea for reducing the usual 6'x4' table to a 3'x2' game here:
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Uses blocks rather than figures, but could be done with figures too.

Nice idea for reducing the usual 6'x4' table to a 3'x2' game here:

Good idea. I am toying with changing inches to cm on BBNB and increasing the scale from 1:1000men to 1:2000men to get my playing area size down to something similar to your playing area.

I think a ground scale of 1:10000 is a sweet spot for Napoleonic battles as it allows you to refight almost every battle on a 3x4 foot playing area. Waterloo/Wavre & Jena/Auerstedt requires 3x6 foot, but everything else fits. This means a 3cm base has a frontage of 300m and requires a strength of at least 2000 men. Division size drops to 3-4 elements.