Yeah, but if you COULD?

[getagrip]

And bowled his middle wicket

[Fenton]

And bowled his middle wicket

Thats a better one

[Last Hussar]

Its been alluded to above but here is the maths - if you do 1:1 figures ground scale needs to be figure  scale, because of unit footprint.

10mm is approx 160th scale

that is 10 meters (10 yards 11 inches) to the mile, 6m25 to the kilometer

That makes the table for Waterloo about 30 meters wide.  Lommel to Arnhem is 720m

Unless you meant 1:1 - and that's called re-enactment.


1 British Battalion at Waterloo is about 20 packs from Pendraken - £90

French
73,000
50,700 infantry
14,390 cavalry
8,050 artillery and engineers
252 guns


Anglo-allies: 68,000
United Kingdom: 25,000 British and 6,000 King's German Legion
Netherlands: 17,000
Hanover: 11,000
Brunswick: 6,000
Nassau: 3,000
156 guns

Prussians: 50,000

Total: 118,000


The moulds would wear out.

[Roy]

In light of the above...

I'd recreate the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1:1 scale.

I think that would be manageable.

Oh, right, I've millions to spend creating it.

Okay, the figures would all be cast in Gold - then painted! 

[WeeWars]

Austerlitz with the French appearing out of pyrotechnic mist. That would be cool.

[getagrip]

Okay, to clarify, I meant 1:1 in terms of forces (1 man = 1 mini, unless you're playing blob games: 2mm), the scale would be up to you.

But hey, you'd be rich enough to do what you want anyway...

I'd probably buy the forum too and close down any thread which mentioned Centurions

[fsn]

Yeah! Stick it to those Roman lovers!

[getagrip]

Yeah! Stick it to those Roman lovers!

Splitters...

[Roy]

I meant 1:1 in terms of forces (1 man = 1 mini)

Or boat models 

I was going to jokingly say sheep, for some reason ... and that made me think about the terrain and table dioramas for such a layout.

How many trees would a wood have? A forest, even? Sheep to a flock?

Crikey, how big would a hill be!

[Matt J]

has to be Cannae for me

[getagrip]

has to be Cannae for me

I'll need a bit more than that Matt; not one of the history boys

Also, why that battle?

[fsn]

Cannae was a battle fought in what is now Lowland Scotland. It stopped the Roman march north. The XX Legion advanced upon a village by a river (which may have been the Clyde) and asked for permission to cross.

The chieftain of the village replied in the negative, and a fierce conflict ensued, in which the locals peppered the Romans with empty bottles and biological hand grenades (or out of date haggii, the records are unclear). At close quarters the Roman armour was no protection against repeated head butting and the XX Legion was thrown back.

The tired and dispirited troops were questioned about the defeat. They told the same story. When they asked to cross, the response was "ye Cannae". When they asked to treat the answer was "we Cannae" and when individual Romans asked to surrender they were cruelly slain with the cry of "ye Cannae".  

[Roy]

The Scots seemingly didn't know a good thing even back then!

Prosper under the Empire, or slum it with independence.

Ya Cannae make it up, laddie

[getagrip]

Cannae was a battle fought in what is now Lowland Scotland. It stopped the Roman march north. The XX Legion advanced upon a village by a river (which may have been the Clyde) and asked for permission to cross.

The chieftain of the village replied in the negative, and a fierce conflict ensued, in which the locals peppered the Romans with empty bottles and biological hand grenades (or out of date haggii, the records are unclear). At close quarters the Roman armour was no protection against repeated head butting and the XX Legion was thrown back.

The tired and dispirited troops were questioned about the defeat. They told the same story. When they asked to cross, the response was "ye Cannae". When they asked to treat the answer was "we Cannae" and when individual Romans asked to surrender they were cruelly slain with the cry of "ye Cannae".  

Foolishly, I started reading that and was genuinely this was in Scotland

In my defence, I've had a busy week

[Roy]

If I won a very large amount of money I'd fund a film (two-parts, so it could be over five hours long) following the career of Marshal Ney.

Got to 'big up' the gingers!