Mike, I hate to mix 25mm and 28mm, even older Future Wars which are somewhat less than 28mm today and more than GZG 25mm.
With FT ships, this is okay. The ship model scale is *sooo* out of scale to the ground scale, you can just tell yourself 'all I'm seeing is a tactical table view anyway'. In that case, blips would be exaggerated in size and perhaps not even in scale to one another. OTOH, in 25mm skirmish, if you're playing WYSIWYG for cover and such, the difference between a 28-30mm and a true 25mm is significant both visually *and* in game impact (you can't hide behind the same cover!). More generally, it is unaesthetic to have figures that are close to WYSIWYG with the vehicles and then have some other outscale figure ruin the aesthetic. If you spend a lot of time selecting, scratchbuilding, painting vehicles and figures, then you want the aesthetic side to work too. When your figures disproportionate, it just doesn't look good for games where you image what you are seeing is the actual thing, not an abstract electronic representation. That's why it doesn't work for me in 25mm SG/FMAS but doesn't bother me much in FT. (As for proportion changes - take some of the wimpiest Old NAC 25mm figs and some of the newer 'heftier' New NAC 25mm figures - height might have stayed the same, but bulk didn't... I forgive this one as some of the original NAC are prone to leg breakage if they get subjected to an accidental standing upon... the new ones not so much....) When I asked Mike Broadbent to sculpt the original Gurkha figs for the GZGverse, I made the point that nepalese were often smaller (height wise). You can actually see that if you put the figures up next to most other GZG lines. It is subtle, but I enjoyed that little detail. TomB -- "Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine Thomas Paine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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