Set my eyes on ths pre order today:
https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_62&products_id=3637&osCsid=k0qhuic0dtmrd3dg11eid0hpt2
Went looking for some pics and found these:
http://wargameterrain.blogspot.be/2017/03/perry-miniatures-travel-battle.html
Although i dislike the scale, being 8 mm it sits right in between two popular scales, the terrain boards do look nice. Would like to know what you guys think, would these be usable for 10mm?
Have been looking around trying to find more details (like the base sizes in the box), but can't find a lot.
really unsure what to do, would like to preorder, but wondering if they will make the terrain boards available separately. They said on facebook that they will be doing more separate miniatures for this as well, so maybe they will offer the tiles separately in the future and it could be wiser to sit this one out untill they do.
One thing that immediately grabs my attention though, is that the houses look small next to the cavalry figures, so they will look even smaller against 10mm:
(https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/17191119_1124379631017475_496268574886147877_n.jpg?oh=f330f127347eb69f80912362b1b6f15c&oe=596E8AF7)
Perhaps 6mm houses?
Also, Norm, this seems to be right up your alley :D
Actually Just realized that the grid had 1" squares, so that rules out My 40x20 bases :'(
I was interested until I saw the 8mm bit
Apparently they "toyed with 6mm but found them too small and 10mm were too big to fit with the terrain and scenery so plumped for something in the middle"
I'll keep my £50 for Pendraken's WW1 Irregular Arab cavalry
That £50 will get you a hell of a lot of WW1 Irregular Arab cavalry ;)
Yes, a fascinating idea and at £50, worth a punt. A few things come out of this for me.
Firstly the Perry's are very innovative and apparently well resourced, against the odds the predictions of many, they brought 28mm plastic into mainstream use, the prospect that they can do this at the smaller scale is quite exciting, as is the talk even at this stage of expansion plans.
It is a true travel set, each board is 10" square, so I can see this doing exactly what it says on the tin and being used as a vacation game, I don't think there is another mass battle figures game that you can conveniently do that with.
The space / time strapped gamer is going to love this.
The fact that we are seeing Plastic Soldier Company and now the Perry's, both mainstream plastic producers starting to embrace grided games in a commercial way shows this emerging market as being quite exciting. It does seem to hold the potential in being the first single step in a word that could truly go in any direction, including the prospect of just plastic armies in boxes and gamers designing their own boards and sets.
I am pretty sure that in the future, this moment will be looked back upon as being significant in te same way as the Perrys ACW1 Generic 28mm plastic figures were.
Peter - get your pre-order in and be at the front of curve :-)
EDIT .... I am also thinking, plastics NO assembly and paint on the sprue advantages, no blue and red for me!
An interesting concept to be sure. Not one for me as when I'm on holiday, I just want to unwind with a good book, get in plenty of swimming etc.
The squares are 1"
Is it a coincidence that GW are going to be doing 8mm soon. No idea of the process but I think I read the Perry's still use some of GW's facilities and wondered if they were using some of the machinery and tooling needed for a new size of figure
There are soms pictures on the net of the tooling, and they claim renedra did It. So don't know about GW influence.
Seeing that GW is doing epic in 8mm, wich is totally uncompatible with napoleonics, i doubt it is little more than a coincidence.
I just wondered if special expensive tooling etc needed to be used
Quote from: paulr on 12 March 2017, 12:03:33 AM
That £50 will get you a hell of a lot of WW1 Irregular Arab cavalry ;)
So true
I was quite keen on this initially, but less so now. Probably as I don't really have any need of a travel game.
It does look very board game like with the figures being much bigger than the terrain.
Travel Grounds For Divorce!
As soon as I saw this I thought now there's a nice little set to be used as the components for Neil Thomas' OHW, painting up the little guys as generic 1850s imaa-nationsa imagi- nationa
It's got a few good things going for it and usually the Perrys produce good stuff. But, overall, I don't think I like it (strangely enough, what tipped my decision was the road/track. Going by the box and the miniatures, it's supposed to be horse & musket but the road/track with its ridge running up the middle can only have been made by modern motor vehicles - in an age of animal drawn transport, more than half of which was drawn by one beast, you would not get a ridge running up the middle. Maybe a modern era game will be released later?). Slightly disappointing. :-q
p.s. Leman. Were you about to sneeze when you compiled your response? :P
I noticed the roads as well :(
I also wondered if they could have made it possible for any of the hills to be woods & vice versa :-\
Quote from: Shedman on 11 March 2017, 10:52:41 PM
I was interested until I saw the 8mm bit
Apparently they "toyed with 6mm but found them too small and 10mm were too big to fit with the terrain and scenery so plumped for something in the middle"
I'll keep my £50 for Pendraken's WW1 Irregular Arab cavalry
Of course a cynic might note that by going 8mm they might be attempting to avoid competition from other manufacturers with more comprehensive ranges... :-\
My computer was misbehaving yesterday (and is only a wee bit better today). The letters on the screen are appearing some time after I type them. When I was correcting things yesterday the computer went into meltdown and started putting the letter a in everywhere, like a bad Italian accent. In the end I had to switch off and reboot. I was not happy, but replying on the forum became impossible.
Anyway, what I had intended to say was that, as I'm not that keen on the Napoleonic period, I thought they would be useful as two imagi-nations based roughly on 1850s Piedmont and Denmark.
I don't know. I'm not entirely sure this is aimed at established wargamers. It's probably more of a generic board game, which they hope wargamers might go for anyway. Or might buy for younger relatives as a birthday/Christmas present?
But then again they are releasing at Salute.
I think It really is Just that, a Travel wargame. The Perry bros are not known for venturing into the boardgame Business. But we can't know for dure before we gave seen the rules though. This wil give the 'feel' to this game, and determine if its more war or board game.
If I took one of these on holiday, my wife of 37 years would finally dump me.
Quote from: John Cook on 05 April 2017, 01:06:59 AM
If I took one of these on holiday, my wife of 37 years would finally dump me.
So are you recommending the game or not ? :)
Quote from: Orcs on 05 April 2017, 07:36:30 AM
So are you recommending the game or not ? :)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Did anyone ever get one of these sets? If so, what did you think?
QuoteI think It really is Just that, a Travel wargame. The Perry bros are not known for venturing into the boardgame Business. But we can't know for dure before we gave seen the rules though. This wil give the 'feel' to this game, and determine if its more war or board game.
I've not bought it. But I can clear up the provenance behind the concept.
Back in the 90's (1990s) I reenacted with Alan & Michael and the Travel Battle idea came out of wanting something to do on a cold wet evening, played by candel/fire-light, along with a lot of drinking, when on an event - often under canvas.
The original travel-battle was made to fit in a large metal biscuit tin - and the figures (6mm I think) were based on magnetic card. It was all very 2D in those days with terrain printed,cut out and stuck to the magna-card.
I cannot remember what period the original was - probably Napoleonics - maybe Wars of the Roses.
So its origins were very much for out-door, on the road gaming.
I spent many a drunken hour being beaten by various members of the White Company, including both of the designers.
Happy Days!
QuoteI spent many a drunken hour being beaten by various members of the White Company, including both of the designers.
WOT? But game designers never win their own games! :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 October 2022, 01:18:50 PMWOT? But game designers never win their own games! :)
Not true with the Perrys - they are fiercely competitive and very good at winning their own games with their own rules.
But Sue Barker is also another exception to your rule - don't ever play her at HOTT (which she wrote) as you
will lose!
Played 6th against Phil (and won) but never played Sue. Did see her in action often enough to know you are right! :)
Played Rick Priestley at Warmaster and won that too. We agreed that he had too many iterations of the game in his head to play successfully, whereas I had only one.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 October 2022, 10:26:52 PMPlayed Rick Priestley at Warmaster and won that too. We agreed that he had too many iterations of the game in his head to play successfully, whereas I had only one.
I know that feeling only too well myself :D :D :D