"Preferred scales for skirmish games at cons?" Topic

A. 6mm
B. 10mm
C. 15mm/18mm
D. 28mm
E. 20mm/ 1/72
F. 40mm
G. 54mm

Vote for as many as you like. Just wondering what size miniatures you all like to play at a con. Skirmish could be from 1 mini per player up to what you define as Skirmish, like the Rampant or xGrave games.

28mm and 20mm for me at skirmish level at cons. I tried 15mm, but too small for my aging eyes.

d, f and g

Preferred G

D – 28mm

Jim

D, F and G.

D

D.

all of the above

D

D, F, and G

D

I've got excellent Graven Image WWII figures including zombies that I think were sold as 35mm but are closer to 40mm. Americans were in the pipeline but they closed shop before they were produced. I've used these for more than one convention games.

D and SM is right. Those are great figures. Too bad they couldn't stay in business longer

D.

D

25mm allows for movement and good scenery

martin

25mm is great, but I like 54mm as well.

Eric

I put on modern skirmish games at conventions. My preferred scale is 28mm as you can get great figures, good looking buildings and a lot of different scatter terrain which is essential to skirmish games. Overall, I think that I can get a better looking game with 28mm.

I am doing a skirmish game next year that needs a number of more difficult to find vehicles. It is again a modern game, but not involving the usual combatants. To find the right models I have had to use 1/72 (20mm) kits and so that has forced a change of scale on me.

Never played a skirmish game but was talking to a game master and commenting on his 54mm troops.

I prefer larger scales for skirmish. D-G. I have run skirmish games with 90mm knights as well.

Skirmish – D

Skirmish Games: D then F

D, E

You left out my most preferred scale for skirmish games at conventions: 25mm

D, F.

28mm Heroic scale.

Definietly E and C. These are good compromises, bigger really fails for me too larger discrepancy between figure and ground scale if coveting a decent area of real terrain.

E for small games with infantry and C for vehicle based games. Although we are doing a vehicle games at 1/72 (E) but its very tailored to keep it simple.

Oberlindes Sol LIC, I always lump 25mm into 28mm along with 'heroic' 28mm. Heresy, I know, but I'm a rebel. lol

Well, if the man-to-figure ratio is 1:1 there is no discrepancies regarding ground scale.

Of course, when the ratio goes up to, say, 1:5, there could be scale issues.

I've played many skirmish games in my time (Wild West, especially), but some Medievals, and a fair amount of WW II.
In most cases, they were in "G Scale"/54mm, the ideal size (to my mind) for 1:1 games with the opportunity for maximum individualism in the figures (moustaches, scars, 5 o'clock shadow, sweaty armpits, rank badges, etc), plus the benefit that even on a really big table (e.g. 6' x 12') there is still only so much space for maneuver, so overall numbers of figures are entirely manageable. This is especially true in WW II gaming as it also demands smaller numbers of tanks/vehicles.

All in all, it's also considerably less expensive than
smaller scales, and that's not a bad thing either!

TVAG

D, E

F & G

I can't imagine playing a skirmish game in anything less than 20mm. 6mm just sounds ludicrous to me, unless you want to be able to play on a 11 x 8.5 sheet of paper.

D and the larger varieties of E. Figures that are actually about 20mm tall strike me as unsuitably small for skirmish gaming.

C – easier to transport and provides for better maneuver options during a game on a standard 6' x 4' footprint table.