Home › Forums › Nordic Weasel Games › Historical › A 54mm (1/32 scale) 5 men at Kursk game.
- This topic has 9 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 4 months ago by
Ivan Sorensen.
-
AuthorPosts
-
29/04/2018 at 20:13 #89626
E.S Taylor
Participanthttp://grenzerjohn.blogspot.ca/2018/04/5-men-at-kursk-54mm-experiment.html
A game we did at our local gaming club using some old school airfix 54mm miniatures and the five men at Kursk rules.
29/04/2018 at 20:37 #89627Mike
Keymaster29/04/2018 at 22:07 #89631E.S Taylor
ParticipantThe owner of the figures has for the longest time been looking for a game system to use his 54’s in. For anything 20th century you need small numbers since your troops are spread out, five core fits this perfectly. We doubled the ranges of everything (technically speaking we should do 4x) but found it gave the game that band of brothers or saving private Ryan feel.
54’s are currently more affordable than 28’s and you can more easily customize your figures with various weapons and equipment.
29/04/2018 at 22:24 #89632Ivan Sorensen
ParticipantFirst, glad to see you guys got some games in.
I hope the rules flowed for you!Second, this is funny. I was just checking out the local hobby store and they have very little 1/72 scale (What I was after) but a HUGE selection of 1/35 WW2 plastics and I was pondering whether I should get some.
They do have a lot of visual appeal to them, don’t they?
29/04/2018 at 22:33 #89633John D Salt
ParticipantAnd the answer is:
Mike wrote:
old school airfix 54mm miniatures
Quite right. These were some of the nicest figures ever sculpted, and cheap as chips, too. It’s a crying shame that more of them weren’t pantographed down to 25mm, as was done with some sets.
All the best,
John.
30/04/2018 at 04:28 #89640Gone Fishing
ParticipantI love 54mm. It is by far the most appealing scale (size) to game in. There is something about the larger figures that has an electrifying effect on players – especially those who don’t generally go in for fiddling about with toy soldiers. Thanks very much for sharing!
30/04/2018 at 13:57 #89661Harry Faversham
BlockedHere we go again!!!
Just read this and bought the rules… damn ye!!!
I’ve got some superb 54mm Conte British Paratroopers that have been wanting some warpaint for the last twenty years or so…. Arnhem Bridge end, here we come!
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"
"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
01/05/2018 at 21:41 #89769Cerdic
ParticipantAhhh, the old Airfix ruined farmhouse! The amount of use that got when I were a lad….
02/05/2018 at 05:56 #89782E.S Taylor
ParticipantThere are also plenty of black powder era figures available in this scale as well. A shootout at the O.K corral or a woodlands skirmish during the french and Indian wars would be interesting to see at this scale.
03/05/2018 at 03:49 #89845Ivan Sorensen
ParticipantI’ve kicked around whether a FiveCore black powder skirmish would be something people were into, but never quite decided.
I think it’d work great but I get worried that the “Sharpe” niche is too crowded already.I mean.. a “true fivecore” with 5-6 guys on each side. We did just release Acrid Smell of powder but that’s for “mass skirmishing” instead.
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.