In message <200104030513.WAA15989@mail21.bigmailbox.com>, "Eli Arndt" writes:
> Modify some cheap 1/72 plastic kits into hovercraft or gravs or
I've always been wanting to do 54mm modern/near-future skirmish using
some of those wonderful Tamiya/Dragon plastic kits. Has any thought
been given to running FMASk in this scale? There's probably nothing more than
some scale adjustment, but if the (lucky bastard) playtesters would keep it in
mind, I'd appreciate it.
P.S.: Anybody have any recommendations for modern or later skirmishes at this
scale?
> In message <200104031538.KAA15618@okura.cowell.org>, Andy Cowell writes:
I was asking for rules here, sorry.;)
> On Tue, 03 April 2001, Andy Cowell wrote:
> I've always been wanting to do 54mm modern/near-future skirmish using
There has been a fair interest on rec.games.miniatures.historical about
playing 54mm games. They work incredibly well for skirmishes as you don't need
a lot of figures. You can usually do away with "position" markers (i.e. prone,
kneeling, etc.) by having suitable figures available.
FMA Skirmish will workjust fine in 54mm, as long as you are willing to: a)
play on a really big board and change the scale to 1" = 1 metre (and doubling
the range band sizes), or b) live with a different ground scale than 1" = 2
metres.
My very first skirmish game was a World War II game based on rules in
Wargamer's Digest, using 54mm figures. I know that FMA has made some "scale"
consessions that should make it possible to play with 54mm at the standard
game ground scale. It should be far more playable than that old WW2 game I
played.
> There's probably nothing
Not to worry, I am, at the very least!
> On Tue, 03 April 2001, Andy Cowell wrote:
> I've always been wanting to do 54mm modern/near-future skirmish using
There has been a fair interest on rec.games.miniatures.historical about
playing 54mm games. They work incredibly well for skirmishes as you don't need
a lot of figures. You can usually do away with "position" markers (i.e. prone,
kneeling, etc.) by having suitable figures available.
FMA Skirmish will workjust fine in 54mm, as long as you are willing to: a)
play on a really big board and change the scale to 1" = 1 metre (and doubling
the range band sizes), or b) live with a different ground scale than 1" = 2
metres.
My very first skirmish game was a World War II game based on rules in
Wargamer's Digest, using 54mm figures. I know that FMA has made some "scale"
consessions that should make it possible to play with 54mm at the standard
game ground scale. It should be far more playable than that old WW2 game I
played.
> There's probably nothing
Not to worry, I am, at the very least!