Very well done. As a person who has been playing historical miniatures since the late ’70s, I must say you've done a great job on this video. Bonus points for the excellent explanation of scale. It's a tough subject, especially when you consider abstract scale that quite frankly has to exist for wargaming rules and playability to work.
mich wundert das bei euch der Maßstab 1/72 bzw 20mm bei den Figuren total unter den Tisch fällt... und direkt von 28mm auf 15mm gesprungen wird gerade dieser 1/72 Maßstab hat haufenweise Figuren und Sets zu diversen Epochen und ist durch namenhafte Hersteller wie Zvezda, Italeri, Hät, IMEX, Pegasus, Mars, Revell, Orion, Strelets, House of Campaign, Airfix usw vertreten
Agree entirely. 1/72 (aka 20mm) is easily available, has a huge range in a variety of periods, and is very versatile. I used it as entry level scale, firstly buying cheap plastics (Airfix, Italeri, Zvezda, HaT etc) to assemble starter armies, then expanding with metal specialist ranges (AB, EWM) I play both 1:1 platoon skirmishes (chain of command) and 1:3 battalion battles (o group) using this scale.
The most popular figure scale is 25mm, 1/72. these two scales come in styrene plastic or various types of plastic & cover almost all periods of history. Most of these figures can be purchased fairly cheaply at your local hobby shop. 28mm & 15mm especially 15mm have to be purchased on line or though special figure manufacturers. Most ww2 armour vehicles can be purchased at your hobby shop. These vehicles usually have to be assembled. Although there is now a lot of vehicles being produced as quick builds which contain usually less than 20 parts so assembly is fairly quick. A lot of the plastic armoured vehicles come in 2 or 3 to a box. So if you see a large price tag check the number of vehicles in the box, it might not be as expensive as first thought. As you can see the authour of this video has a bias toward 15mm & 28mm. Myself I have a bias towards 25mm & 1/72. I find that the rules nowadays are a hefty price ranging up to $50 & sometimes well over & don't give you hard copy.
Watched 25 guys on 8 tables play out Borodino in 15mm. After 7hrs Fri, 15hrs Sat, & 10hrs Sun. They'd played out the first 5 hours of the historical battle. Aside from being out of time, it was obvious that the French were toast, (The Old Guard had been defeated) and the Russian had but to roll them up. Over 2500 total figs. *DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME KIDS!* These men were old and fat, but no amount of youthful exuberance is going to get you through this game.
Very well done. As a person who has been playing historical miniatures since the late ’70s, I must say you've done a great job on this video. Bonus points for the excellent explanation of scale. It's a tough subject, especially when you consider abstract scale that quite frankly has to exist for wargaming rules and playability to work.
awesome video!
mich wundert das bei euch der Maßstab 1/72 bzw 20mm bei den Figuren total unter den Tisch fällt...
und direkt von 28mm auf 15mm gesprungen wird
gerade dieser 1/72 Maßstab hat haufenweise Figuren und Sets zu diversen Epochen und ist durch namenhafte Hersteller wie Zvezda, Italeri, Hät, IMEX, Pegasus, Mars, Revell, Orion, Strelets, House of Campaign, Airfix usw vertreten
Agree entirely.
1/72 (aka 20mm) is easily available, has a huge range in a variety of periods, and is very versatile.
I used it as entry level scale, firstly buying cheap plastics (Airfix, Italeri, Zvezda, HaT etc) to assemble starter armies, then expanding with metal specialist ranges (AB, EWM)
I play both 1:1 platoon skirmishes (chain of command) and 1:3 battalion battles (o group) using this scale.
Planning on mexican revolution wargaming (revolucionarios vs federal army) using blood and valor rules.
I think that sounds great. I may be wrong, but I think that's something the authors are considering.
Great work ♥️
The most popular figure scale is 25mm, 1/72. these two scales come in styrene plastic or various types of plastic & cover almost all periods of history. Most of these figures can be purchased fairly cheaply at your local hobby shop. 28mm & 15mm especially 15mm have to be purchased on line or though special figure manufacturers. Most ww2 armour vehicles can be purchased at your hobby shop. These vehicles usually have to be assembled. Although there is now a lot of vehicles being produced as quick builds which contain usually less than 20 parts so assembly is fairly quick. A lot of the plastic armoured vehicles come in 2 or 3 to a box. So if you see a large price tag check the number of vehicles in the box, it might not be as expensive as first thought.
As you can see the authour of this video has a bias toward 15mm & 28mm. Myself I have a bias towards 25mm & 1/72.
I find that the rules nowadays are a hefty price ranging up to $50 & sometimes well over & don't give you hard copy.
Watched 25 guys on 8 tables play out Borodino in 15mm. After 7hrs Fri, 15hrs Sat, & 10hrs Sun. They'd played out the first 5 hours of the historical battle. Aside from being out of time, it was obvious that the French were toast, (The Old Guard had been defeated) and the Russian had but to roll them up. Over 2500 total figs.
*DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME KIDS!*
These men were old and fat, but no amount of youthful exuberance is going to get you through this game.