At 5:25 PM -0500 10/17/08, Allan Goodall wrote: >However, for some reason the difference isn't as big a deal on board >game/miniature hybrids, such as Memoir '44. In Memoir 44 an infantry >unit is made up of 4 figures of roughly 20mm scale while an armoured >unit is made up of 3 tanks of roughly 6mm scale. Yes, it's wonky, but >it never really bothers me. Perhaps it's because of the hexes. Not >arguing your point, of course, just pointing out an interesting >feature of human psychology.
I've always hated anything but 1:1 for miniature gaming purposes. If you're going to go with scale, just go with chits or an ersatz marker that you can increment the size of the unit with a dial or different base? Not unlike how the Avalon hill games add a slash to the chit to indicate company strength vs a battalion as normal. Oh, and it is interesting that this came up. I finally pulled some stops out and re-paintd my SunRoom in my house. I can finally do proper games there again and I pulled all my figures and such out and indexed them on shelves and even put my NAC 25mm infantry in a place of honor on the 3 shelves with figures on them. I think I'm hating the idea of having to re-paint a whole new set of NAC infantry, PA and Gurkhas. Luckily I only have 2 25mm vehices from the Stargrunt range. It's sad really though, I used to dream about having a dedicated gaming room and now that I have had a house for 7 years, I still haven't really set one up in it. The basement is too small to make a rapid conversion so it's one of the rooms of the house. -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Center Operations Group - - http://web.turner.com/data_center/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Ryan Montieth Gill One CNN Center SE0813 E - - Internet Technologies -- Data Center Operations - - Hours 9:30am - 5:30pm Mon - Fri (8Sdc, 10Sdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - - Cellular: 404-545-6205 ( Suwanee and Manassas DCs) - - Office: 404-588-6191 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Emergency Power-off != Door release! - ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
