Post by PitYak Studios on Aug 4, 2005 10:44:21 GMT 12
Since I'm now collecting an army or two where each figure represents more than one real life combatant, (ancients and acw) I'm starting to wonder about how you work the scale thing.
Take the acw rules i'm using for example; 1 man represents 20 men, 1" represents 25 yards.
4 men go on a base 1" x 3/4" (ie 25yds wide line in the real world)
So you have four figures standing about 20mm high, filling an area representing 25 yds of real space.
Now, supposing I want a farmhouse on my battlefield. Do I make it to scale with the ground or to scale with the figures? If it's the right height, it'll be about 25 times too wide, and vice versa.
or a road? If it's wide enough for four "men" to walk abreast, that makes it twenty five yards wide.
You FOWers; are your vehicles to scale with your figures? What does each model represent? I know your men are not 1:1, but what about vehicles? and what about terrain? Fences, walls, buildings, that sort of thing?
I can see a couple of approaches:
go for terrain that is in scale to the ground, and just doesn't look right with the figures.
or
go for terrain that is in scale with the figures, and make the intellectual leap that hey, in this world there are only four men in a regiment, and distances just don't work out the way they do in our dimension.
What do you do?
Take the acw rules i'm using for example; 1 man represents 20 men, 1" represents 25 yards.
4 men go on a base 1" x 3/4" (ie 25yds wide line in the real world)
So you have four figures standing about 20mm high, filling an area representing 25 yds of real space.
Now, supposing I want a farmhouse on my battlefield. Do I make it to scale with the ground or to scale with the figures? If it's the right height, it'll be about 25 times too wide, and vice versa.
or a road? If it's wide enough for four "men" to walk abreast, that makes it twenty five yards wide.
You FOWers; are your vehicles to scale with your figures? What does each model represent? I know your men are not 1:1, but what about vehicles? and what about terrain? Fences, walls, buildings, that sort of thing?
I can see a couple of approaches:
go for terrain that is in scale to the ground, and just doesn't look right with the figures.
or
go for terrain that is in scale with the figures, and make the intellectual leap that hey, in this world there are only four men in a regiment, and distances just don't work out the way they do in our dimension.
What do you do?
