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On 29 Jun 2005 01:52:07 -0700, chris@wargamesworld.com wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
>The problem is one of ground scale, while you are of course very lucky
>to have 14,000 25mm figures and an 80' table to play with them on,
>99.999% of gamers don't.
>
>You can of course make the table wider and wider, but we are limited by
>our anatomy to a depth of around 6'. Our current demo game is
>Austerlitz, as I mentioned
>http://www.wargamesworldforums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=649&PN=1 and
>we have put together some pretty accurate terrain for it. We took the
>actual contour maps and drew them out on our terrain boards to scale to
>get every contour line, river etc. completely accurate. Even at our
>ground scale of 1" = 100 yards we had to make a compromise. The scale
>battlefield should have been 12' wide by 9' wide, as no one could reach
>4 1/2' we had to compress the depth by 80% down to 6'.
>
>If we'd made an 80' wide model of Austerlitz the table depth would have
>needed to be 60'! which would be very difficult to game on. In most
>periods, depth of position and grand strategic manouvers require depth
>as well as width which is why I personally believe that to get a
>realistic game you need to start with the ground scale, use that to
>define the size of your bases and then decorate the bases with figures
>to your personal taste.
>
>Your 18000 figure game does sound like an impressive spectacle, do you
>have some photos of it on a web site somewhere?
>
>Chris Abbey
>Wargames World
>http://www.wargamesworld.com
Chris
I meant no offense to your original comments..........reality vs
playability - one always suffers to interject us humans into a
simulation. We 'generally" try to stick to a 7' wide table for most
games as this is the maximum most normal folks can reach halfway
across.....on larger games we turn tables sideways and run a few long
ways for "wider" parts......
Our local club has been gaming 25's for almost 30 yrs with the "core"
5 players unchanged over that time..........always a good way to build
up alot of figs.......
One of the local game clubs has a web site with a few of the small
game pictures on it [One day mini-cons - so the games are also "mini"]
>http://www.jacksonvillegarrison.com/Gallery/GamesDayPost.html
As for the larger games - I am not a photographer by any means -
lacking both equipment and talent for such a task. I can see if I can
get my hands on some with the most recent game done in Orlando a few
weeks back......
Big Bob Smith
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