I had listened to an interview about the Skirmish Sangin game on the Meeples & Miniatures podcast and now I see they have a kickstarter for the Maalintii Rangers rules and figures dealing with Somalia.
The rules seem like they would be interesting (if maybe a bit high on the complexity scale for what I want at the moment) and the figures that they have in the kickstarter look pretty good. The figures on the website for the main game are still ok but maybe not really worth the 4 for 7 pounds plus shipping cost.
The big question for me is do I really want to go to 28mm for Moderns and I think the answer is a qualified no. I have enough 28mm terrain for generic industrial buildings now that terrain is no longer the all purpose excuse that it once was for me to go to 28mm but I think I still like the scope that 15mm allows. With the Cold War gone Hot stuff from Flames of War arriving in the not too distant future, I will likely be buying more 15mm for that and I think 15mm is the right scale for what I want to do for Vietnam (even if the progress towards that can best be described as glacial).
Force on Force / Ambush Alley is likely to remain my go to small scale modern game and as a unit based game, I think it works well at 15mm -- I remember having a discussion with Stan a few years ago about this and I still think 15mm is the best scale for the game, though I think it would work with 28mm as well.
I think I will give the kickstarter a miss but I will pick up the PDF of the basic rules and see what I think.
(Added September 27) Here is a link to a picture of a game played in 15mm (from the comments below), it looks fun.
Their models look good at least. The kick starter is funded already so hopefully we will see some more stuff from them. I think the issue for me with 28mm for stuff like that is you ultimately want to include a bunch of vehicles and it's just so much easier and cheaper to do in 15mm. So it would be good for smaller scenarios then even Force on Force with like 10 guys per side or something like that.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that tanks and helicopters make much less sense in 28mm --- even for WWII.
ReplyDeleteIt would be fun to play some really close quarters games at some point in 28mm, and it is probably worth giving their rules a spin using 15s as well just to see what they are like.
Yes could be fun to try them in 15 ust to see how it is. The only issue I think might be that it's allot harder to have good scatter terrain in 15mm I think so if vocer becomes super important which I imagine it would in those games it can be tough.
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Mike
http://skirmishsangin.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2015-04-26T12:51:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=11&by-date=false
ReplyDeleteCheck out skirmish Sangin played in 15mm here. The game is played in 28mm, 20mm and 15mm and only the ground scales chnages at 20mm and 15mm use cms instead of inches and it works perfectly well.
http://skirmishsangin.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2015-04-26T12:51:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=11&by-date=false
ReplyDeleteCheck out skirmish Sangin played in 15mm here. The game is played in 28mm, 20mm and 15mm and only the ground scales chnages at 20mm and 15mm use cms instead of inches and it works perfectly well.
Thanks for the link. That scenario looks quite interesting. I do hope to try out a game in 15mm before the year is out.
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