Which is the biggest 10mm game you have played or seen?

Started by cbr3d.com, 26 January 2015, 11:16:49 PM

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I was wondering what the largest games have been that people have either played or witnessed in 10mm scale?  

This could be the largest battlefield (table or multiple tables) or largest actual quantity of figures used in a game.  



Luddite

These are the biggest ones that i play.

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/ACW

The largest Fire & Fury battles we put on have about 300 bases (3000 figures) total.

Usually fought on a 6x8' table
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Ithoriel

27 January 2015, 01:10:36 AM #3 Last Edit: 27 January 2015, 01:14:00 AM by Ithoriel
No pictures alas, but I did manage to get involved in a Warmaster game with five 4,000 point armies. High Elves and Empire versus Undead, Chaos and Skaven. I'd guess two-and-a-half to three thousand assorted infantry, cavalry, monsters, artillery and fliers and a sky full of heroes on dragons!!

My Empire ally and I successfully proved to our younger opponents that "youth and enthusiasm are no match for experience and low cunning!" :)

12' x 5' table was used, with beautifully sculpted terrain. Which looked stunning but was a pain to get figures stay in place on. Frequent heaps of figures slid to the bottom of hills and into rivers in evidence.

As all our figures had magnetic bases the next iteration of the landscape included iron filings in the flock which allowed figures to remain in place on some noticeable slopes.
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cbr3d.com

Pity no pictures but that sounds really impressive.  (The use of the iron fillings is a good tip to remember - noted for development of future slopes.  ;) )

Three thousand plus and 12 x 5 - nice numbers to note.  Now who can beat them?

kipt

Mine was 7 tables and 13 players.  Pictures in the Batreps, the FPW campaign game.

Leman

Luddite's game looks very impressive. Not keen on mega games myself as I have found they tend to degenerate into tediousness. My 'big' games tend to have fewer than 25 units per side.
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Hertsblue

Oudinarde 1706 at the club last year. About 2000 figures.

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DanJ

Played a Warmaster Historical game based on Yarmuk between Byzantines and Arabs, armies were about 4500 points per side,



Biggest physical games were WW2 Kusk, 2 SS panzer divisions at about a 1:5 ratio on two tables about 16' by 8', and a game based on Operation goodwood at at 1:3 scale with two British armoured Divisions on a table about 20' x 8'

Luddite

About 15 years or more ago my club did a 'full scale' Gettysburg (i wasn't with the club at that point).

As i understand, it was on a 24x6' table, and took 12 weeks to complete.

Not sure i'd have the stamina to cope with that.

I guess since it was 15 years ago, it wasn't an experience the chaps were eager to repeat? ;D
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"It is by tea alone i set my mind in motion.  It is by the juice of Typhoo my thoughs acquire speed the teeth acquire stains, the stains serve as a warning.  It is by tea alone i set my mind in motion."

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - Gary Gygax
"Maybe emu trampling created the desert?" - FierceKitty

2012 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

"I have become inappropriately excited by the thought of a compendium of OOBs." FSN