http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=345096
I don't believe my own eyes.
Now that's a phalanx and no mistake! When you see it like that it makes you wonder how the hell they moved the bl**dy thing and kept any kind of cohesion. A little overkill but you gotta love 6mm for impressive representation.
Reminds of a group a few years ago that did the rounds putting on a one to one 6mm ECW game. The table was about 25' long! Each regiment was at least 2' wide. Certainly brought the mechanics of movement and general logistics to the fore.
:o :o
OFMG! Brilliant.
Stroll on ! 8)
Maybe it's CGI ? ;)......
Cheers - Phil.
Could do it with 6mm tanks.
ianS
:o :o :o :o :o. Well I don't really know what to say to that. Inspired or sheer madness... :-\
I presume you use 1 movement tray :)
Quote from: Norm on 05 May 2014, 11:38:06 AM
I presume you use 1 movement tray :)
Only with a hoist I suspect.
IanS
Wheels?
NO !....Not wheels.
Why not one of those 'ice hockey' tables that were about decades ago...The ones where you smacked the 'puck' around on a cushion of air ?
A whole new concept in table top gaming..... where you push a group of your own figures into your opponent's to 'bounce' them from the playing area
I'm copyrighting that now.....It's a winner !....I'm surprised fsn hasn't come up with that one. :D
(No. 739 in a series of cosmically awful ideas by Techno.) ;)
Cheers - Phil
55555555!
Saw in a recent Wargames Illustrated that some keen guy has done the forces for Waterloo in 6mm at a figure ratio of ...
1:1 :o :o :o
Apparently started in 1986 and will finish later this year
Chap down our club has done an ECW infantry regiment in 1:1 - 800 6mm figures. He uses it to explain to Joe Public why wargames units are relatively small.
In my schooldays a friend and I went to the other extreme and did WWII at a scale of 1 figure = total axis forces, 1 figure = total allied forces. I forget who won, but it was about as interesting as most modern games are anyway.
;D ;D ;D - Yep, I just can't get into post-1930.
I suspect Pharsalus would be as boring on the same basis.
It would. The thing is, there are ways to make Pharsalus interesting.
There are ways to make blitzkrieg interesting too.
Sounds like the Chinese curse!
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 08 May 2014, 08:26:24 PM
Chap down our club has done an ECW infantry regiment in 1:1 - 800 6mm figures. He uses it to explain to Joe Public why wargames units are relatively small.
Eh... I have Spanish Tercio of about 600 men painted up in 20mm... what does that make me? :(
Cheers,
Rob
Sad, Tired..........
IanS
Bankrupt. But a True Believer. :)
So, you haven't seen this one?
http://britisharmywaterloo.blogspot.co.uk/
Quote from: JimLeCat on 09 May 2014, 10:40:12 PM
So, you haven't seen this one?
http://britisharmywaterloo.blogspot.co.uk/
I have data (e.g. enlistment dates, wounds, physical description, birthplace, profession, literacy, height, etc) for 23,000 of those present. :o :o :o :o :o :o
I want to label the base of each man when they are all done. Four more years to complete the rest.
All I can say is why :-\ But it wouldn't be a hobby if there had to be a reason ;)
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 09 May 2014, 12:54:33 PM
Eh... I have Spanish Tercio of about 600 men painted up in 20mm... what does that make me? :(
Cheers,
Rob
Dim of sight and bent of back?
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 May 2014, 08:59:37 PM
Dim of sight and bent of back?
Still not I'm happy to report! Actually; as soon as I can lay my hand on some more pikemen I'll probably start expanding the Tercio again :D
Cheers,
Rob
Well, I can't but admire that sort of single-mindedness. But how on earth do you manoeuvre it? On a very large movement tray? And who do you get to oppose it? :o
Quote from: Hertsblue on 12 May 2014, 07:50:18 AM
Well, I can't but admire that sort of single-mindedness. But how on earth do you manoeuvre it? On a very large movement tray? And who do you get to oppose it? :o
TMP seems to be down at the moment so I can't check, but from memory isn't it both sides and aren't movement trays visible?
This is ECW 1:1 scale
(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/tttfoot1.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/tttfoot1.jpg.html)
Fenton, that looks awesome!
I wonder if Oddzial Ozmy do ECW... I don't have any Pico scale stuff, and an excuse to get into yet another period on yet another scale is needed. Argh, no, argh, help me, my time and wallet cannae take no more!
No ECW from Odzil Ozmy at the moment just Napoleonics and ACW. I do have a lot of WW2 which is nice but I just cant seem to get into painting their Napoleonic figures
I'd have to restrain myself from trying to paint *to much* detail, and try to set back with a view to the overall effect... it should be easy, but I get narked at 6mm in that sort of vein, so think I'd just combust on 3mm!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 12 May 2014, 08:49:39 AM
Fenton, that looks awesome!
I wonder if Oddzial Ozmy do ECW... I don't have any Pico scale stuff, and an excuse to get into yet another period on yet another scale is needed. Argh, no, argh, help me, my time and wallet cannae take no more!
Irregular do 2mm. Steve J has ECW armies, there're piccies here: http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/indexes/2mmindex.htm (http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/indexes/2mmindex.htm)
:D
Cheers!
Meirion
Yeah, I just looked at the Irregular ones when the comment came up; they're nice enough but I'd want much bigger blocks - 2mm should be about massive numbers of "figures" per unit IMO, so an inch wide "40 figure" block incl both pike and musket feels wrong. It should be a six inch wide block with 400 figure equivalents :)
Hmm, although their Ancients pikes might be usable, now I dig deeper...