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March 30, 2008

WW2 Conundrum

I have long had problems with the many different scales of ww2 figures that I've collected over the years. Now I have:
- 20mm German/Russians (Old painted airfix and Hasegawa kits from the college days. Some fond memory but haven't really done much with them lately).
- 15mm German/US (Flames of War, build up a matching 1500 pts army so I can play).
- 1/48 German/US (started collecting some cheap Walmark tanks, followed by some recent sales purchase of Corgi 1:50 scale pre-painted metal. Also some Tamiya 1/48 hard plastic US & Ge infantry).
- 12mm N scale Ge/Ru (mostly World Tank Museum mixed in with Minifig infantry and early war tanks). Use them for Blkitzkrieg Commander and Ambush Blitz!, but waiting for a good set of "grand tactical/operational" rules (something in Bat/Div level of command) to use these for.

I am also constantly being bombarded by images from friend's Rapid Fire! games (Freddy has TONS of 20mm built for Arnhem), as well as lot of web site eye candies show casing cool looking 28mm or 20mm figures. Recently with the play of Disposable Heros rules at Historicon, upcoming release of Battlefield Evolution: World at War, and Rules of Engagement out of the UK, my eyes are firmly on the ww2 skirmish scale.

I want a set of rules that's on a simpler end (roll buck of D6 school of gaming is fine by me when it comes to skirmish level ww2). Now the question is with my Skirmish scale (20mm or 1/48), what do I want to do?

20mm PRO/CON
+ They are cheaper
+ I already have some Eastern Front figs and vehicles and wouldn't be hard to expand on them.
+ Lots of pre-painted cheap vehicle to be had
- Lack of "awesome quality" figures (AB is the standard setter, but they don't really have Russians. Their best range is UK/Commonwealth but I don't want to duplicate Freddies' collection). Fantassin comes close so I'll be doing some more research on them.
- Lack of terrain. ALl my buildings are for 12mm/15mm or 25/28mm. Trees & roads is not a problem, but I'll need to startup on HO scale buildings.

1/48
+ I have some figs and tank already
- There's less out there for vehicles.
- They cost more per figure
- The size seems to vary more. My Corgi 1/50 is about a head taller than my Tamiya 1/48, which are close enough to 28mm metals out there.

Current thought is that I can do BOTH scales, but carefully segregate them by period so I do not dup the figures. One obvious setup will be:

1/48 or 28mm scale: Late War Western Front, US Infantry vs Ge Infantry. Future expansion in this area can be Br Paras vs SS. All of these can share 1/48 or 1/50 vehicles.

20mm: Eastern Front with some different Ge variant (maybe Fallshirmjager?) vs Russians of all kinds.

Stilling thinking hard on this...

Posted by msoong at March 30, 2008 02:21 PM

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