Are we serious......?

[FierceKitty]

It's another facet of the heightist bias that abounds in all walks of life. Big is good. Big is honourable. Big is trustworthy. Bah, humbug. 

Vertically Challenged of Cheshunt.

Big is good. As an African, I know what I'm talking about.

[maciek]

28mm does indeed seem to be the popular scale for the 'let's paint a couple of figures and call it an army' wargaming style.

Well said.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I started with 28mm, then went 6mm, too small, then 15/18mm, not enough figures in a unit. So I came down to 10mm, and when you realise that you are buying 30+ figures, with more detail than some 15/28mm, often for the same or less price per 28mm fig...
I love 28mm skirmish (Saga Legends of the Old West etc), but I cannot see them as UNITS! Two of the Shrewsbury gamers, back in the 80s, used to use them for Gush, beautifully painted, but how can they be 3000 men in real life with 15 figures!! 15mm was better, but even POW had only 9-12 fig per unit;  I love the rules, but it never LOOKED right.. Modern rules are better, 18-24 per unit (FoGN, Lesalle), DBMM also allows big assemblies of troops. But every time I get my FPW or AWI the guys at the clubv always say how much like realy regiments they look.
Some of the guys even play with 42mm, one figure per unit, as representational units now...
So, yes I'm serious about 10mm, but I'm not SERIOUS!

Yours
Mr Slightly-taller-than-average-but-slightly-perplexed-of-Leighton-Buzzard

[HPFlashman]

It's another facet of the heightist bias that abounds in all walks of life. Big is good. Big is honourable. Big is trustworthy. Bah, humbug. 

Vertically Challenged of Cheshunt.

From my lofty height of 6`8", I call humbug on your humbug....

[Techno]

What's the weather like up there ?
Cheers - Phil.

[HPFlashman]

Its always sunny here, over the clouds. The air is a bit thin and chilly, though.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ohhh, nice nostrils! 

[Hertsblue]

Some of the guys even play with 42mm, one figure per unit, as representational units now...

One visitor to our club some time ago expressed the opinion that bases were what actually defined units and that the figures were merely handles with which to move them about. Naturally, we burned him at the stake.... 

[nikharwood]

One visitor to our club some time ago expressed the opinion that bases were what actually defined units and that the figures were merely handles with which to move them about. Naturally, we burned him at the stake.... 

[Orcs]

Having twenty-five superbly painted toy soldiers is hardly a convincing or serious simulation of an army, is it?

No its not.  But not all of us play with 25 figure armies. See link below.

https://sites.google.com/site/tringwargames/batreps/fornost

[HPFlashman]

Ohhh, nice nostrils! 

Thanks, I find no need to let the nosehair do a passable imitation of hermit crabs...

[Hertsblue]

No its not.  But not all of us play with 25 figure armies. See link below.

https://sites.google.com/site/tringwargames/batreps/fornost

Yes, I remember well the days of hauling boxes of 25mm figures to club meetings for large-scale battles. It was the beginning of my back problems, I believe.   

[Malbork]

Yes, I remember well the days of hauling boxes of 25mm figures to club meetings for large-scale battles.

When we were at school my mate and I always wanted one of those metal tool boxes to put our figures in (army would be too grand a word for several hundred arbitrarily organised and painted Airfix Naps )

But we never got one

[Hertsblue]

I've still got one. It weighed more than the figures! 

[FierceKitty]

I remember the days when all we could get was an erratic supply of those dreadful Airfix figures, unable to hold paint and in innumerable silly poses. We played determinedly with Grant and Featherstone rules too.
I wonder whether standards have climbed more in rules or in figures?