WAS Re: PA carried DFFGs? ADD Scales (oh no!) Gears etc

> adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:

> let me go on record correcting you here. 25mm is *the best* scale for

Unfortunately, for some of us, economy is more important than pure aesthetics.

BrCB

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

And I wade in unprotected...

> >IIRC (no guarantee!), HO is 1/87

if you beat that drum any more, you're going to hurt your drum. or your ears.
or something.

let me go on record correcting you here. 25mm is *the best* scale for SG. It
looks better, pure and simple...

yes, 15mm gets you a much closer figure-scale:ground-scale, yes 6mm is
easier to build armies (for those who are paint challenged), and you get lots
of stuff on the table.

blah blah blah.

25mm looks the best.

so there.

;)

> From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>

Depends on what you want to use them for. I use the HO scale Heavy Gear
*gears* as size 1 and 2 combat walkers in SG.

If you're playing 15mm SG you could use them for the same sort of role, though
they'd clearly be larger sizes.

Either way, they're worth getting if you play SG (unless you play in the 6mm
scale, though why *anyone* would want to play 6mm SG I have no
idea...)<g>

Now, the *infantry* is a different story.  Again, they're 1/87 scale (HO
scale) which translates to? in mm. I'm not sure that it matches *any* of the
"mm" based figure scales.

The new Geir Krieg stuff is NOT HO scale, it's in "15mm" (done that way so
people can use the various 15mm WWII suppliers for all the stuff that DP9
doesn't make). And the new HG scale is smaller still. I believe that they're
producing the new HG stuff to match up with "N" scale railroad products....?
Possibly 10mm...

Confusing, no?

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> adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:

> let me go on record correcting you here. 25mm is *the best* scale for

But hopelessly too big:)

> blah blah blah.

I'm glad we all agree on the view of 25mm being the best.;)

> Brian Bilderback wrote:

For low figure count games, such as FMA, my preference would be for 25mm.
Collectible figures are more attractive in 25mm/28mm, of course. The
FMA ground scale leans toward 25mm usage also.

Stuart's Friday Night Firefight (SG) in 15mm was a very attractive gaming
event this year. Of course, Stuart can make a 15mm figure as gorgeous as a
25mm figure.

Unfortunately, I could take a full sized replica, have it pre-numbered
with which paints go where, and it would still end up looking like crap. Less
detail is just fine with me. 15mm sounds just right.

BrCB

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Jon Davis <davisje@nycap.rr.com>

> Brian Bilderback wrote:
Less
> detail is just fine with me. 15mm sounds just right.

True. 15mm scale can be very forgiving when you aren't concerned with figure
detail and painting accuracy.

Let's see....

Brown for the uniform Flesh for the face and hands Black for the weapon

From: <adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca>
> if you beat that drum any more, you're going to hurt your drum. or

Tom's ears.

> let me go on record correcting you here. 25mm is *the best* scale

For a roleplaying game, where you're going to be focusing on a few characters
over a long time, I'd pick out half a dozen 25mm figs and put in the time to
paint them right. In fact I do have a few figs like that. However, once you
start using ranged weapons, the fig
scale-to-ground scale starts looking rather odd; and when you have
sixty to eighty figs on the table, then the ground scale is even farther out
of whack and you're talking about some investment in time and money. And if
next week you cry "what? NSL vs FSE *again*? How
about PAU vs OU? NAC vs ESU?  IF vs NI?"--then your price tag just
quadrupled and your painting time extends out to "later in life". I like the
figs, the figs are great, okay, but the point is, let's go