Heed the call 10mm Gamers!!

[Blaker]

Howdy Bishop,

Where do you get the download for Scottorum Malleus?

[Bishop Lord]

Hi,

The best way is to drop Dan Mersey an e.mail via his Blog here's the link:-

http://merseybooks.blogspot.co.uk/

Jason.

[Blaker]

Thanks

[Gennorm]

I can't understand the notion that a set of rules is for a particular scale. If you like the rules play them with the scale you like. I find it rediculous to search for, or want to develop, a '10mm set'.

[Fenton]

I can't understand the notion that a set of rules is for a particular scale. If you like the rules play them with the scale you like. I find it rediculous to search for, or want to develop, a '10mm set'.

Right with you on that one

[GordonY]

Ermm, nah, some rules scream out for a bigger scale, some for a smaller scale.

Secrets of the Third Reich for instance, while you could do it in 10mm (or smaller) wouldnt really work that well, similarly while you could do BKC in 28mm, why would you want to? SoTR is a single figure centric skirmish came, and BKC is more about the broad sweeps of your troops and in 10mm a 6ft x 4ft table holds a lot of troops and gives them a fair area to maneouvere in. In 28mm youd be lucky to field 4 or 5 tanks plus infantry in that space and the shooting ranges would look ridiculous, almost as bad as 40k where a pistol cant fire the length of a tank. Wanna play 40k, play Epic or FWC, it all looks good at that scale.

[Bishop Lord]

To be honest I have to disagree with those who say 'just play any game you like in 10mm it will be okay' Ive played many rules sets in 10mm(and 6mm) over the years and there are only some games where a 28mm (or other scale) game can be played with 10mm.
Use 10mm for your DBx ,Hail Caesar, Impetus type games(im sure there are others) and they work great,I played all my DBx and Impetus in 10mm and 6mm. But to say you can play the likes of WAB ,CoE or Saga,ive tried    just doesn't look or feel right  and to make it work you generally always have to jig the rules set, I don't go with this 'just change inches to cm's or use half distances' comment.  Look what Warmaster did for the scale, more 10mm manufactures, more ranges becoming available from existing manufactures etc etc(and yes I was using 10mm long before WM came out). So what is wrong with wanting a set made for just the 10mm scale???

Jason.

[Fenton]

What I mean by any rules for any scale is that is is just the foot print that your using, so in WAB for example, you would still use the 20x20 base and just put more figures on it, same as you would for DBM , Impetus etc

[Gennorm]

There are cases - mainly the extremes - where rules don't really work in a particular scale, but most rules will work in most scales. I've played the '28mm' Black Powder in 6mm, 10mm, 15mm and 40mm - in fact nearly every scale except that of the figures whose sales it's supposed to encourage. That's a marketing ploy that didn't work! There's nothing wrong with someone developing a set specifically for 10mm, but the test for many of us is whether it's any good and then if it is we'll use it for 15mm, 6mm or whatever scales we happen to have in that period already.