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Post by BilliamBabble Inked Adventures on Oct 18, 2014 16:45:17 GMT -9
Is there a standard unit of measurement or accepted distance ratio in 15mm wargames? Or does it vary from game to game? I ask the question primarily because I often design dungeon and overland maps for 25/28mm minis using 1inch=5ft grids, but I get requests for 15mm plans. I've already posed this question on the Lost and the Damned forum, but we just sort of came up with some estimates (being English, I often default to millimetres, but D&D has brainwashed me into switching back to inches and units of 5 or 10 ft)
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 18, 2014 18:15:01 GMT -9
For myself I tend to assume 15mm=5feet but then I tend to print anything which has a 25mm grid scaled so it now has a 15mm grid and then print any miniatures so they are about 18mm tall (approximately 6 feet). If I'm playing gridless I'll markup a tape or ruler with 15mm divisions for easy reading (.6 of an inch or 19/32)? But I suspect I'm weird in the above respect as I think most people just convert 10mm = 5 feet but its pretty rubbery at 15mm so you could do something simple like .5 inch = 5 feet and it wouldn't have to much impact. Not sure how helpful the above is re-reading it - good luck
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Post by wyvern on Oct 19, 2014 4:12:11 GMT -9
There are actually two different questions here, because ground scales for wargames and ground scales for RPGs aren't necessarily the same things.
With wargames, the miniatures are often simply cyphers grouped onto a base to represent a unit, and it's actually the size of the unit's base in conjunction with the ground scale that matters (that is, the unit base size may stay the same regardless of what scale miniatures you're using, but the number of miniatures per base may change, partly dependent on how many can be physically fitted onto it).
With RPGs and skirmish-level wargames, where one miniature commonly represents one combatant, the ground scale relative to the figures and scenery is more critical, and is usually closer to being the same. From my experience, there doesn't seem to be a specific preferred standard ground scale for 15mm skirmish games beyond this "approximately equal" level. As someone who tends to rescale paper models and minis anyway, and much as Sirrob said, providing the scale and the artwork resolution works for 25mm/28mm/30mm/32mm models/minis (the joys of scale-creep...), it should rescale using the usual percentages to smaller levels down to circa 10mm-scale OK.
It may be helpful to add a table converting the necessary percentage reductions to particular scales on any instructions page, as some paper model manufacturers already do, but beyond that - and based on my own experiments with some of your Inked Adventures products previously - I'd say there wouldn't be a huge need to specifically design your products in smaller scales, unless you're wanting to produce true-scale models or floorplans, such as is already done for railway-scale or architectural models, for instance.
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