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Post by admiralgrafspee on Aug 6, 2011 10:52:33 GMT -5
It would be silly to make it for one scale as FoW and Bolt Action are putting out tanks and such at an increasing rate. However both of those are pretty expensive options for picking up a force of tanks, so I wouldn't make it a driving factor, but definitely a consideration. I guess it also depends on how many tanks would be used in a regular sized game and how realistic the gun ranges will be. I think most of the hard-core simulation tank rules use 6mm so that you can use realistic gun ranges on a regular sized gaming table. This doesn't necessarily make for the "best game", but they do model the physics well. With 6mm you can also field a lot of tanks on a table and it doesn't cost too much either - but its not visually as impressive as larger scales and 6mm isn't my favourite to paint by a long shot. I'd pick the base scale on whatever works best for the gun ranges you want to go. It is easy to just scale to others, but table size could be a limiting factor. I certainly don't think any scale would need to be "left out" but the larger models might be a bit difficult to manage in a game that focuses on armour.
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Post by sharkbait on Aug 6, 2011 15:34:41 GMT -5
To me, the scale doesn't really matter. I'll adjust ranges/movement to match whatever scale minis I have.
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Post by admiralgrafspee on Sept 14, 2011 13:11:14 GMT -5
I'm starting to realize how much 15mm stuff is out there both for WWII and sci-fi. Wow.
It would be cool to actually have 3 games out of this:
1) WWII (focus on tanks) 2) Sci-fi (focus on mechs) 3) Weird War - Somewhere in between 1 and 2 but add more crazy stuff
If you wrote it with 15mm in mind it would be very accessible to people (15mm indie stuff is relatively cheap - and lots of folks have FoW) and it would also lend itself well to scale up or down.
I personally have lots of 28mm stuff. AT-43, Dust, Star wars - but 15mm is looking like the market that is just going to grow and grow, and from what I know there doesn't appear to be any dominant set of rules.
-Tim
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