Gentlemen
I have played a Black Powder with my 10mm goodness. I was a fictious Anglo-Russian clash in Crimea. I wrote a battle report with pictures and also a review of Black Powder. You can find it here http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com.tr/2014/12/the-fight-for-two-hillsblack-powder.html (http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com.tr/2014/12/the-fight-for-two-hillsblack-powder.html)
Enjoy!
K.Travlos
I'm looking for basing answers for 10mm. If you say inches are centimeters, I think that bases can be 2cm*2cm for foot and 2.5 cm*2.5cm for horses and guns ?
I'm right ?
Good work and good game !
I would not worry too much about bases. My infantry bases are all 20mm squares (3-4 infantry miniatures) and my guns and cavalry are 25mm squares (1 gun and three crew, or 2 cavalry miniatures). That is it. Do not worry too much about exact equivalency. The important thing is that you build your units in a way that permits them to show the formations they have. That is all.
Nice looking little game 8).
We use 60mm by 30mm for Pike & Shotte for Marlburians and use centimetres instead of inches - works nicely!
Sounds like a fun game - went down very close from the look of it!
I am a big advocate of translating inches games to centimeters as long as your are using 15mm and below scales. The scale looks good and you radically expand the space of the game, or can fit a big battle on a smaller table. For a game like Black Powder were a unit could move up to three times in one turn, it is a must for a good battle if you do not have a huge table.
Thanks for your answers, guys !
Sometimes rules authors are a bit blinkered when it comes to other scales. Not only that, because my dining room table is only 3 feet wide, I usually have to downscale measurements also. Here are my 'solutions' for my 3 most used rules.
For me, converting inches to centimetres, whilst convenient for my measuring tape, is just a step too far for my poor old, short-sighted eyes!
Having read that many Black Powder players use 2/3rds scale or half scale Quick Reference Sheets, I therefore made up my own. Great! Because I can vary the measurements to suit the amount figures on the table.
I also play Field of Battle rules. Possibly because the author's collection is 28 mm, these are not so easy to down scale. But, where there's a will, there's a way. My first 'solution' was to make my own measuring sticks - and that has worked fine. I have also made up my own 2/3rds scale QRS and whilst that has involved one or two 'adjustments' shall we say, that also works fine.
Finally, I use Maurice. Sam Mustafa is one of these authors who uses 'base widths' - very helpful (first saw that in Pete Berry's Polemos rules). As my 10mm troops are based on 1 inch wide bases, Maurice is a dawdle.