Hi From NW England

[CarlLeyland]

Hi,

My name is Carl and I live in the north west of England, I have been wargaming for around 40 years.

Recently I decided to have a go at 10mm so ordered some Late Romans just to see if I can paint them. 28MM is great but they take a long time to paint and a lot of room on the shelf.

I am looking forward to seeing what you Chaps do in this scale and what rulesets you use.

Thanks.

Carl

[Steve J]

Welcome on board carl and on being our 1,800 forum member

[Leon]

Hi Carl and welcome to the Forum!

[CarlLeyland]

Thanks Chaps, it's a long time since I was a cadet! Just reading through the forum and it seems some people skirmish in 10MM? Wow!

Also what rules would be best for 1900-1930's? Pretty much where the Black Powder set ends?

[Ithoriel]

Hi Carl and welcome aboard.

The Late Roman range is one of my favourite Pendraken ranges and what some people here can do with them is either inspirational or downright depressing, depending on your point of view

As to painting them yourself and rules to use, I'd say the main things to remember are that

a) you're going for mass effect rather than individual brilliance - less detail required, so faster to paint.

b) The smaller areas of colour will look darker than so slightly lighter colours than you'd use on 28mms is a good idea.

c) The forum is friendly and helpful, don't be afraid to ask questions.

d) The forum is weird and wacky, don't let the apparent (or perhaps sometimes actual) lunacy put you off. The personal hobby-horses and in-jokes usually become apparent quite quickly. Feel free to join in!

e) There are probably more sets of rules being used than members of the forum! Members are usually pretty vocal about likes and dislikes but let me start the ball rolling by suggesting DBA as a simple rules, small armies, limited space require rule set. Warmaster Ancients is another of my favourites and is based on GW's Warmaster Fantasy Rules.

[jimduncanuk]

Carl

Welcome.

I would do one or two things.

Find out which ruleset is used by your local wargamers, if you have any?

Look at Hail Caesar, they work with any scale or size of figures, it is the unit base size that is important. Hail Caesar is a successor to Warmaster Ancients  which is a successor to Warmaster. They all work.

Jim

[Womble67]

Hi and welcome

Take care

Andy

[CarlLeyland]

Thanks again for the tips Chaps! I was intending to base the Romans for DBA....I saw a pic or two on the web and thought they would give me a good idea of how 10mil would paint up.

Having looked at this forum I now realise that practically every period is covered.....even a motorcycle in the WW1 section. A motorcycle!

I will certainly try to keep my colours a shade lighter than normal and as you  say go for the group look.

Thanks.

[jimduncanuk]

Thanks again for the tips Chaps! I was intending to base the Romans for DBA....I saw a pic or two on the web and thought they would give me a good idea of how 10mil would paint up.

A bit like this with less fussy detail.



http://danbecker.info/games/articles/DBA/II56EarlyImperialRoman/

[CarlLeyland]

Those Romans are so nice! I cant wait for the order to arrive.....only 2 packs but thats 60 figures-an awful lot for my paint table

[Orcs]

Hi Carl,

Welcome to the forum.

As Ithoriel says the standard of painting of some of the members is impressive to say the least.  I swear they have a "Shrinking machine" and paint 28mms which they then shrink down to 10mm. But it is the overall effect to go for.

Rules for 1900-1930.   I have used both Blitzkrieg commander for bigger battles and Chain of command for skirmish in this period and scale.  One of our club demo games this year is the Balkan wars (admittedly in 28mm) using Chain of Command. They have been tweaked very slightly to fit in with the time period.
Blitzkrieg commander also works well for bigger battles in WW1 and A Very British Civil War.

We use multiple figure bases playing Chain of Command in 10mm and just mark casualties.

Also for this scale we use

Warmaster in all its forms
Black Powder
Honours of war
Fire and Fury
Dux Belloram

Most rules seem to work just by changing distances from inches to cm and a couple of tweaks to allow for bigger battles

[Orcs]

Those Romans are so nice! I cant wait for the order to arrive.....only 2 packs but thats 60 figures-an awful lot for my paint table

I have Early Imperial romans and used VVV shield transfers on all 500 shields. Initially I was going to only do the front row, but just got carried away 

[CarlLeyland]

Thanks for the information Mr Orcs. I have Black Powder and DBA which should cover my needs for now though I will certainly research the sets you mentioned for the early 20th century.

The standard of painting here is very high indeed, great for inspiration and for reference

[Techno]

A very warm welcome, Carl. 

Cheers - Phil

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello CL

Thanks Chaps, it's a long time since I was a cadet! Just reading through the forum and it seems some people skirmish in 10MM? Wow!

Also what rules would be best for 1900-1930's? Pretty much where the Black Powder set ends?

Welcome to the asylum forum. 1900-1930s eh, a man after my own pulp laden heart (my doctor can confirm my medical state). You haven't said where or what scale game (skirmish or big battle?) you'd like to play.

Rules to look at:-

Red Actions - A game of company level battles and ambushes in the Russian Civil War Period.  http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Actions
Beyond The River Don - A campaign game that takes maybe 30 minutes to create from scratch, with limitless scenarios, a different map each and every time, and has counters representing the following armies and their equipment: Reds, Whites, Greens, Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles, Armenians, Turks, French, Greeks, Japanese, American, British Empire and Freikorps. To go with Red Actions http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_The_River_Don

I'm currently having fun with 'Setting the East Ablaze' using stands as substitutes for single figures. It's an improved version of Contemptible Little Armies. If you do a search on "setting the east ablaze" wargame rules you can find an early copy to playtest.

I've previously used an 'up-perioded' version of Science vs Pluck as well

Also a flip through these can sometimes turn up gems - http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Early_20th_Century

Let us know if you need any more info.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan