This is the problem with 28mm gaming.

[FierceKitty]

Zulus, sah! Six 'av 'em!

[Steve J]

 

[Techno II]

Oh dear.......I was rather slow getting that. 

Cheers - Phil.

[steve_holmes_11]

Don't laugh now lad: get those eight mealie bags piled into a redoubt.

[Chad]

Because we're 'ere lad. Because we're 'ere.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Because we're 'ere lad. Because we're 'ere.

Can I go sumer else Sgt !

[d_Guy]

Can't you see their spear point gleaming.

[FierceKitty]

Cannon to left of them/Cannon to right of them,/Cannon in front of them/Volley'd and went Pew! Pew!/....Into the valley of death/Rode the two.

[mollinary]

Man of Harlech!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Man of Harlech!

Writ 1880 after the Zulu war

[Leman]

You can always rely on pedantry to kill humour 

[steve_holmes_11]

Writ 1880 after the Zulu war

Maybe they were demoing the chorus prior to publication.

[jimduncanuk]

More than a few here:

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.com/2021/02/ancientmedieval-arab-army-25mm-rebasing.html



And, there's still more to do.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You can always rely on pedantry to kill humour 

But you know I don't 'ave a sense of 'umor 

[d_Guy]

More than a few here:

They bestride the world like giants! 

[d_Guy]

Maybe they were demoing the chorus prior to publication.

The tune is MUCH older and acquired Welsh lyrics along the way  - although what they were singing G_d alone knows!

See your pendant, Ian, and raise you two pendants! 

[mollinary]

Writ 1880 after the Zulu war

Actually, Ian, the tune was 18th century, and a number of versions of the words were in circulation in the 19th, before Thomas Oliphant's version combining both was published in 1862. However, it appears the particular words used in the film were commissioned specially for it! Does that make me pedant in chief, or merely a lowly Wikipedia reader?

[d_Guy]

I think you raised my raise!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'll try harder in future

[Steeleye]

It's 'horses for courses' really.

For 'Big' battles I tend to use 10mm, for 'small' battles where the individual is more important I use 28mm.

It's simple really,no scale is 'right' or 'wrong', it's down to practicality and personnel preference.

These days, now that my eyes are shot and my hands tremble so much (coz I'm old an' had a shitty life) I prefer to use 28mm figures because I can actually see them and they're not to fiddly for my old fingers. I still have (and use loads of 10mm stuff) but I still have a lot of 10mm stuff that's unpainted and that will probably remain unpainted because I now find them too small to work with.

I don't care if this thread was supposed to be humourous or serious. There is no problem with 28mm gaming if that's what you want to do, like there's no problem with 10mm gaming.

Sure even I have a 'problem' with 12 figure battalions. But, in the 28mm games I play I use 12 figure units, but they represent 12 actual warriors/soldiers, so, no problem.

Whatever...