Circular table

[Gran76]

Just a thought, has anyone had a game on a circle table instead of the normal rectangle and square tables. Obviously difficult to store and own baselines etc was wondering if it created a sense of a part of a larger battle sort of zoomed in...

[Fenton]

I have seen it done at a couple of shows in the past...looks fine ,no real difference in playing terms

[Zippee]

Quite often for naval and air games - it sort of eliminates false senses of direction and alignment, feels like a spotlight on a section of ocean.

Not used for land based games - but no reason not too, most games are objective based so that and terrain tends to align the table anyway

[Ithoriel]

Some years ago now but we used small circular pub tables for what we called "pizza base" 20mm WW2 skirmish games. Urban combat with infantry and the odd heavy weapon using Crossfire rules. Dense terrain and a rule that reinforcements could enter at any point on the table edge not visible to the enemy made for entertaining games.

Those tables were only a couple of feet across. At more than 4' - 5' across you might have problems moving troops in the middle of the table.

No reason it shouldn't work for other scales/ rules/ periods too that I can think of. Might need to tinker with deployment rules to stop armies beginning the game on top of one another though.

[Hertsblue]

Seems like one of those "easy to do, but why would you?" things. 

[Zippee]

Seems like one of those "easy to do, but why would you?" things. 

Well no corners to jab you in the jolly bits whilst leaning into the table. . .

As I said above for naval and air (and I can see the same argument for land skirmish) it prevents an artificial alignment of 'my side - your side' of the table 

[sebigboss79]

I play my 28mm on a circular table at times. Table and terraina re no excuse for poor strategy.