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Post by zuludon on Feb 2, 2017 0:29:21 GMT
Thank you for reminding me of Steve Winter's rules. I downloaded and printed them out years ago! I also run large skirmish games. I ran Rorke's Drift last September with a similar number of figures. I am looking forward to trying out the new Napoleonic Skirmish rules from Osprey called Chosen Men in a week's time at my club. Figures will probably number around 80 each for the French and the British.
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Post by 79thpa on Feb 2, 2017 2:55:38 GMT
It depends on what I want to portray. Like most wargamers, sometimes I game skirmshes and sometimes I game battles.
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Post by springinsfeld on Feb 22, 2017 19:36:27 GMT
I haven't played any games yet in 54mm , but I like the idea of mass battles with hundreds of figures a side. I generally find Skirmish games a bit samey.
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Post by rjpasha on Jul 28, 2017 0:53:23 GMT
I'm currently assembling the pieces to play TSATF with half sized units. Currently have enough for the Boer wars, soon the Sudan, and eventually the Northwest Frontier. For some reason the Anglo-Zulu war never appealed to me, although a game of Zulu vs Boer "Voortrekkers" is tempting to me. Circle der Wagonnen! My current painted imperial force numbers about 80 combined infantry, camelry, and gunners for all theaters. I also have 2 units of Boer painted with a couple mounted conversions on the bench, and a shiny scratchbuilt pom-pom gun waiting for a crew. The next goal is to assemble and paint about 100 Dervish split into 10 units, with Arabs and Pathans coming in short order.
So my games are shooting for between 50 and 200 figures total.
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Post by macscrooge on Jul 28, 2017 17:33:25 GMT
I've never got on with skirmish games. Most of the games I play use 12-20 figure units to represent battalions or regiments. Little Cold Wars uses 4-figure stands as platoons. The biggest so far? Waterloo in 2015 used 2,000 figures. A Little Cold Wars game the same year fielded two Warpact motor rifle regiments with supports, against a NATO brigade.
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Post by strawberry5 on Nov 20, 2017 21:39:38 GMT
I've been thinking about the 'scale' of battles/wargames 'whatever' that I've had any involvement with over the years,(overwhelmingly with the wonderful bunch of heroes that make up the skirmish wargames group) - I feel the 'best' ones have been the real skirmish games where each figure has a character. The group has put on truly massive events with 54mm figures in their hundreds if not thousands, which look spectacular, but the most satisfying games seem to be with a small squad and a recognised objective (I feel I can still say this despite my, frankly ridiculous, Waterloo offering which, like Topsy, outgrew itself somewhere along the way) Cheers Andy
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Post by bradley71 on Sept 26, 2020 14:16:18 GMT
I plan on using Big Wars by Stuart Asquith. They would work great with Imperial/Dorset or any make really. Best thing about them is they are free and looks like a fun simple wargame.
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Sept 26, 2020 17:48:41 GMT
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Post by acough2001 on Sept 29, 2020 2:51:08 GMT
I recently played a solo game (extreme social distancing?) using the About Bonaparte rules and a One Hour War games scenario. The rules look promising, although a few tweaks are needed. Previously, I used All the King's Men, or the classic Charge! rules. They both work, although my impression is that AB will work better with larger games.
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Post by davel on Sept 29, 2020 7:38:37 GMT
As a follow on from my 2017 post (can't believe how time flies), I'm still in favour of big battles. I now have the following (to back this claim up!!!!)
1 27 Alexandrian units and 36 Persian units (with another 3 on the way) 2 Royalist and Parliamentarian English Civil War with 9 foot units per side, 6 cavalry units per side, 2 artillery pieces per side. Just the Forlorn Hope and Dragoons to finish off 3 French and British Peninsular Forces Only 3 or 4 infantry units and a couple if skirmish units so far. 2 artillery units and a few cavalry units. Now my Ancient and ECW armies are virtually complete, I'll be building up my Napoleonics after Christmas.
So, loads more units done since my 2017 post, and I think the size if the armies still keeps me in the Large Battles category!!!!!
Oh, and I may be starting a Sudan collection next year as Well!!!! (And I have a Seven Years War idea when Expeditionary Force produce them some time in the future, along with Late Romans - hopefully)
So, like all Wargamers, I'll never retire!!!!
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Post by johnl on Aug 12, 2022 7:51:51 GMT
I play company sized WW2 games using a company of infantry as my base force and then attach support weapons. It is not as big as FoW but bigger than Bolt Action using 1 figure equals 1 man.
John
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Post by johnl on Aug 12, 2022 7:52:17 GMT
I play company sized WW2 games using a company of infantry as my base force and then attach support weapons. It is not as big as FoW but bigger than Bolt Action using 1 figure equals 1 man.
John
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 8, 2022 10:31:43 GMT
Every size from 1:1 to thasands of em!!!
Biggest ever was Leipzig at Colours with a couple of 1000nd and multiple players to a literally one figure a side SF game ( but there were creatures too 😉)
All can be fun, but big games need careful planning to avoid having played waiting to long for their turn. We have a clever solution to that problem...
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Post by rossmac on Sept 8, 2022 11:04:31 GMT
I'm not sure I've gone past 1,000 54's but certainly have with 40's occasionally. For large multi-player games with a GM, we use rules allowing multiple players on one side to act at once, with the other reacting, then the other side does the same, with ot without a possible switch of initiative. However, the venerable Charge works really well with large games with players on both sides writing down what their units are going to do that turn and then both sides attemot to carry out those written orders. No need for phony errors, silly moves, frozen units etc, under pressure, players do it to themselves!-Ross (Below: A 2009 replay of CS Grant's Lobositz scenario using the pooled collection of the H.A.W.K.S' 40mm PA homecast figures. Note the traffic jam as various players follow their written turn orders made without consulting other players unless their personal figures were in contact.)
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Post by flw13 on Oct 8, 2022 22:35:40 GMT
I think that one player can comfortably handle 100 - 150 figures in a game - if using basic rules - and 75 - 100 for more complex rules.
A lot depends on the scenario, and some good games can be played using under 50 figures.
Set up time and planning usually take me about a week!
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