Post by ooiittee on Dec 17, 2015 5:45:23 GMT
This post is 6mm related but not entirely, so please feel free to read every second word to filter out the purity.
As regulars to this forum will know I have been working on terrain boards for some time now. While I love playing my 6mm battles on these boards I still play 28mm on a big table which doesn't allow the scale my 6mm boards give me.
My partner in crime in the 6mm terrain work recently joined my 28mm group which meets weekly for battles, which we are currently playing an alternate 1815 invasion of France where Belgium was not invaded by the French. After a couple of weeks of playing on a frustrating 12 foot by 6 foot table in a 28mm scale with 2 Prussian corps and no real room to manoeuvre with no understanding of anything happening off the table edge.
At this time he suggested that we use the 6mm terrain boards which can be arranged in several layout to provide variety. This gives us the the ability to fight with a boarder vision of the armies and their relative positions within the world and identify potential opportunities for interesting scenarios for our 28mm battles.
It is a work in progress but looks to work like this.
We use the 6mm board to play out the screening actions, order dispatches and delivery through to fighting withdrawals and after action combat.
The way we are working this is almost a gentlemen agreement with the view to bring battles to the 28mm table commanders to resolve which will lead to interesting battles. A fight is declared when we can place a template (which represent the 28mm table on the 6mm boards) over a segment of the boards that covers 2 battle groups that are so ordered that an engagement will take place. From there we look at the surrounding area and troops likely to be able to affect the battle in the coming hours. From here we pull together an Allied and French intelligence briefing provide to the table commanders and track the 28mm timeline almost like a scenario referee. There may be screen battles on the flanks, these are resolved and intel feed into the 28mm battle each hour. This can allow for flanking actions, cutting communication lines and cutting off retreats.
We are working with blocks to represent unconfirmed troop numbers, and are replaced with 6mm figures once recon is successful on them.
I am happy to post up my findings on this post if there is interest in them. Below shot shows the first battle to test this, the French III and IV Corp is crossing the Somme to engage the British I, II Corp and Reserve. (Yes the blocks are black and careful viewing will show Prussian flags on them. The red ones are drying now).
As regulars to this forum will know I have been working on terrain boards for some time now. While I love playing my 6mm battles on these boards I still play 28mm on a big table which doesn't allow the scale my 6mm boards give me.
My partner in crime in the 6mm terrain work recently joined my 28mm group which meets weekly for battles, which we are currently playing an alternate 1815 invasion of France where Belgium was not invaded by the French. After a couple of weeks of playing on a frustrating 12 foot by 6 foot table in a 28mm scale with 2 Prussian corps and no real room to manoeuvre with no understanding of anything happening off the table edge.
At this time he suggested that we use the 6mm terrain boards which can be arranged in several layout to provide variety. This gives us the the ability to fight with a boarder vision of the armies and their relative positions within the world and identify potential opportunities for interesting scenarios for our 28mm battles.
It is a work in progress but looks to work like this.
We use the 6mm board to play out the screening actions, order dispatches and delivery through to fighting withdrawals and after action combat.
The way we are working this is almost a gentlemen agreement with the view to bring battles to the 28mm table commanders to resolve which will lead to interesting battles. A fight is declared when we can place a template (which represent the 28mm table on the 6mm boards) over a segment of the boards that covers 2 battle groups that are so ordered that an engagement will take place. From there we look at the surrounding area and troops likely to be able to affect the battle in the coming hours. From here we pull together an Allied and French intelligence briefing provide to the table commanders and track the 28mm timeline almost like a scenario referee. There may be screen battles on the flanks, these are resolved and intel feed into the 28mm battle each hour. This can allow for flanking actions, cutting communication lines and cutting off retreats.
We are working with blocks to represent unconfirmed troop numbers, and are replaced with 6mm figures once recon is successful on them.
I am happy to post up my findings on this post if there is interest in them. Below shot shows the first battle to test this, the French III and IV Corp is crossing the Somme to engage the British I, II Corp and Reserve. (Yes the blocks are black and careful viewing will show Prussian flags on them. The red ones are drying now).