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stevebasting23 Mar 2015 3:17 a.m. PST

I've just discovered fog and I'm looking in to getting an army the club I go to uses 15mm figures. I took part in a comp and they used 15mm but I've recently discovered 10mm. The company I use magister militum there 15mm is only sightly different in size. If the 10mm are based on the standard fog bases can they be used or is there a comp rule governing the scale to use ie 15mm carnt be used with 10mm

stevebasting23 Mar 2015 4:45 a.m. PST

God knows how but I've put this on twice

Yesthatphil23 Mar 2015 5:28 a.m. PST

This question was asked some time back re Armati and it is clear some players prefer the illusion the figure game provides to be consistent across all the troops on the table.

From a game mechanism perspective, it clearly makes no difference what size figures are fixed to the bases (as in modern games like FoG, it is the base that is the playing piece, not the figures stuck on it) …

You could also argue that, size-wise, there is no more difference between small 15s and some recent chunky 18s than between 15s and larger 10s – but the convention has grown up that (for some reason) 15/18 is an acceptable fudge.

I would work on the assumption that although it makes little practical difference, eyebrows would be raised if you turned up at a 15mm competition with 10mm figures on your bases …

Hope that helps

Phil
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steamingdave4723 Mar 2015 7:06 a.m. PST

Do what I do- produce both sides in 10mm, then you can offer club opponents a game. Does not cost a lot to put together half a dozen DBA armies in 10mm. Might not work for competitions though, but do you really want to get into those?
Phil has a point about size as well, I have some '70s era 15mm Minifigs Sassanids and they are only slightly bigger than my Kallistra Mongols, Romano Brits etc.

MH Dee23 Mar 2015 8:06 a.m. PST

I would assume 15mm became the 'norm' because DBM players migrated to FoG with pre-existing armies? Well, a possible factor anyway.

Marshal Mark23 Mar 2015 10:24 a.m. PST

If most people at your club play in 15mm then I'd recommend you go with that scale. I think it would look strange playing a 10mm army against a 15mm one.

platypus01au23 Mar 2015 12:59 p.m. PST

I have lots of 15 mm armies. I had just started collecting 25 mm Greeks in 78 when I saw my first 15 mm figs, and immediately swapped because of price, storage and ease of transport. I had friends who did the same, so we could fight each other.

I do think if I was to start again, I'd be seriously thinking of 10 mm.

For club games I suspect most people wouldn't blink twice fighting 15 mm vs 10, though collecting a pair would sooth my aesthetic concern. And I doubt too many people would complain about it in tournaments, but you would have to check with the organiser, they can be a finicky bunch.

Cheers,
JohnG

IUsedToBeSomeone24 Mar 2015 4:14 a.m. PST

I've seen 15mm vs 10mm a few times at our club because one member has a 10mm Ancient British army he wanted to use but the vast majority of people have 15mm armies because they have moved from DBM (as mentioned).

Mike

williamb24 Mar 2015 5:07 a.m. PST

There was a site that had photos of 6mm vs 15mm in European tournaments from the mid 2000's "DBX in 6mm"

As noted the bases are the same size, though I suspect there will be those who won't accept a game with different scale figures. On the 6mm Yahoo group there was one person who wouldn't accept games with 6mm vs 5mm.

madaxeman27 Mar 2015 5:06 p.m. PST

At Roll Call, we've had 6mm armies on 25mm bases before, so no-one would have an issue with 10mm on 15mm bases.

ID presume you'd be fitting more figures per base in 10mm?

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