Did you ever play a wargame in 6mm and long to replay it in 10mm ?

I have had the longing lately with my adventures in 6mm early WW2 Middle East.  Yes, 6mm are easy to paint and cheap.  But you get that longing to have more detail.

Does anyone else ever have this urge ? 

Used to have over 100 6mm; most of them have been replace in 10mm (and all the little guys sold). As you say, one wants decoration on the shields, tartan on the kilts, writing on the banners, edging on the tricornes.

Well, you didn't really say that as such, but I hope the translation was at least true to the spirit of the original.

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Just ordered a shed load of 6mm today because this particular game will play better in 6mm than 10mm - 1871's Poupry. However 1871's Villers Brettoneux will work well in 10mm. In another area I have upscaled from 10mm to 15mm because this particular game is at company level and different base size to my 10mm game in the same period. Sometimes I want to depict the intricacies of a relatively confined  built up area and at others I want swathes of rolling countryside. I very rarely sell armies as different strokes works for me. I'd rather have my armies than a car or foreign holidays.

What Leman said. Some games are better in 6mm due to the size of the action others better in 10mm because of the detail. Both scales transport well and for me they have replaced 15mm and 25mm gaming. I still like foreign holidays and recently returning from Turkey I'm ready for a 6mm 19th Century Ottoman Army.

Can't afford both Dave, which is ironic as I'm in favour of the EU. Doubtless the other mob will continue to descend on Spain and ruin its beaches.

Over the years I've also replaced 25mm with 15mm and, increasingly from the mid-1980s, with 10mm.  Almost all my previous stuff was either sold, given away or thrown away, though there are still some old 15mm Napoleonic figures in a box in my loft, I think.  I find that 10mm is the ideal compromise in every respect, from WW2, SCW and WW1 at 1:1 - essentially skirmishing on a large scale - to everything else at 1:10/1:20.  I have never had the urge to upscale from 10mm though downscaling has its attractions and a few years ago I considered briefly Adler and Baccus 6mm Napoleonics, but the prospect of two lots of terrain to suit two different scales quickly put that idea out of my head.     

Started serious gaming with 6mm, but am much more satisfied with 10mm, from Minoan Greek to Western Desert.

Quote from: John Cook on 05 September 2019, 01:40:52 AM
Over the years I've also replaced 25mm with 15mm and, increasingly from the mid-1980s, with 10mm.  Almost all my previous stuff was either sold, given away or thrown away, though there are still some old 15mm Napoleonic figures in a box in my loft, I think.  I find that 10mm is the ideal compromise in every respect, from WW2, SCW and WW1 at 1:1 - essentially skirmishing on a large scale - to everything else at 1:10/1:20.  I have never had the urge to upscale from 10mm though downscaling has its attractions and a few years ago I considered briefly Adler and Baccus 6mm Napoleonics, but the prospect of two lots of terrain to suit two different scales quickly put that idea out of my head.     

Absolutely. I moved from 20mm and 15mm to 10mm and haven't regretted it. It allows StuG vs Sherman without the visual absurdity of barrels touching, and for masses to look like masses. My Flodden Scots pikes are units of 64 and they look pretty chunky ... but there is still room on the table to manouver. I could be tempted smaller for armoured warfare, but ten I'd have to have two sets of scenery and I can't be bothered.

Life is, after all, one long series of compromises.

I started with 25/28mm and then downscaled to 15mm as they gained in popularity. I tried 6mm but was never able to paint them satisfactorily. Having long had an interest in the 19C period I switched to 10mm when Pendraken brought their range out. However, as I got older painting 10mm has become more difficult. Over the past 2 years I have upscaled with 15mm French Revolutionary figures and started to reduce the number of unpainted 28mm Napoleonics I have. Having said that, I intend to return to 10mm to finish some of my 19C projects, namely 1859 and 1866 Western Theatre. I think upscaling helped to increase my painting confidence again to return to downscale again to 10mm.