discovered 6mm, and its blown my mind

[MustPlayThat]

Well, I recently had less room to play a tabletop minis game, so i decided to convert to 6mm, and here is what happened.

I found the games were more complex and big like war, what it did was improve gameplay, 28mm was limited to small battles.

Next I found the terrain and figs were cheap, very cheap,

then I found you can get much more terrain, again improving gameplay,

i got battles going, from scratch, by buying figs and terrain, cheap, I found I had multi armies and eras instead of concentrating on building a battle, it was so cheap, I had every dream forfilled.

i never had a finished setup in 28mm, but 6mm you get everthing.

[Mike]

Yes!!

And there is a butt-tonne of choice too.

[Grimheart]

Yeah…..but but but what do I buy next!   🤔

Interest include 6mm WW2, 6mm SciFi, 30mm Old West, DropFleet, Warlords Exterminate and others!

[Mike Headden]

Grimheart wrote:

Yeah…..but but but what do I buy next! 🤔

Well … Duh! 3mm 😀

There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

[Deleted User]

Welcome to the brotherhood.
Like Mike Headden said, convert to 3mm and you can fight a whole war on a budget. More seriously though 6mm is a nice scale, I’m glad more people are choosing this option.

[Andrew Beasley]

I find this type of move strangely comforting  as I started (historical) in 6mm and then as I grew, so did the figures! Now my eyesight is getting worse I’m strangely attracted to smaller figures again 🙂

[McKinstry]

Welcome into the light! In the immortal words of Peter Berry “God’s One True Scale.”

The tree of Life is self pruning.

[Jim Webster]

6mm has an awful lot going for it 🙂

https://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/

[Mr. Average]

I swear by both 6mm and 3mm scale. You have chosen wisely!

[MustPlayThat]

and it all fits into small storage too,

[Mr. Average]

Just wait til you try storing 3mm scale armies.

[Guy Farrish]

3mm? Giants – try 2mm.

Glad you found and enjoy 6mm gamegonegood but be advised; I can fail to finish set ups in 6mm just as easily as in any other size/scale. This may be the honeymoon period!

[MustPlayThat]

I hear you guy

nice 3mm pic, my next scale 🙂

 

[ian pillay]

That’s your budget blown! 6mm and smaller is very addictive, due to all the cost and space benefits….but the choice is huge. Have fun!

Tally-Ho! Check out my blog at…..
http://steelcitywargaming.wordpress.com/

[Chris Pringle]

Great choice. I absolutely agree – 6mm is great for being relatively cheap, quick to create armies, easy to store and transport. But most of all, great for getting an entire battle on the table and still having room to manoeuvre, getting a mass battle visual effect, and still fighting the whole thing in an evening.

What periods or wars are you finding particularly interesting to refight?

Chris

[Thuseld]

I switched to 6mm for Sci Fi skirmishing. Individually based. Then I moved to a few figures per base. Then I dipped my toe into WW2 and fell in love. I found that I didn’t need to change ground scale with Battlegroup. Then I did change ground scale. Playing a battle in like a 3×3 area, and having a couple of platoons of figures is liberating.

Experiments here: http://inexperiencedmodelmaker.blogspot.co.uk/

Tranquil Stars updates: https://tranquilstars.wordpress.com

[MustPlayThat]

Chriss ,,, at the moment a ww2 6mm game at the moment, but still colecting, got the trees and hills , got a beach and am looking at some buildings, i will drop a pic when im underway

i have a viking army and saga rules.

i have a load of blackpowder buildings

just got a castle, and a nopleonic fort

so im really getting into 6mm

[Chris Pringle]

All sounds great. Good luck and happy gaming!

Chris

[MustPlayThat]

ok just getting setup for a ww2 skirmish, I am useing airfix battles force cards as a modded system to battle with, I am assigning a number of units to one card so the visuals look better. I am creating plastic numbered chits myself so i can have hundreds of units in a battle.

[Andrew Beasley]

Sounds fun – I’ve never seen the Airfix rules used so looking forward to the game report 🙂

 

[MustPlayThat]

I am using the airfix battles cards , and I am going to substitute units in other historical times, like shooting a rifle will be a sword attack but range would be zero, horses as tanks, I really love the cards for play as im going solo, i think you have to find what works,

[MustPlayThat]

just got my ww2 sourcebook, so planning happening, im busy for about 2 weeks then im into the battle 🙂

 

 

[Andrew Beasley]

Just come across the post on what is left of Reddit:

New Trees [Reddit]

That’s a nice village!

Going by the user posts (here [Reddit user]) his boards look a dream to play on…

 

[Guy Farrish]

He posts some of them on here under another name. You are probably aware of his amazing Japanese armies and villages. His work on how ‘Renaissance’ Japanese armies were organised and work is fascinating and challenges the way we wargame a lot of this type of warfare. I suspect we do much the same with medieval European warfare.

The whole thing looks immensely pretty and sounds as if it plays very well into the bargain.

[Mike]

https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/forums/users/usagitsuki/topics/

[6mmwargaming]

Yeah I’m a bit of a 6mm fan. I think everyone’s covered off the main benefits of the scale, so welcome to the 6mm cult! I’ve got a 6mm site (which I havent updated in a couple of years 🙁 ) which may interest.

https://6mm.wargaming.info/

My 6mm Wargaming site https://6mm.wargaming.info

[MustPlayThat]

hey thanks

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