Might be starting 10mm Kings of War

Kings of War Kings of War 10mm
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I live in a small town so I’m lucky that I’ve managed to wrangle a few friends into playing KoW and it’s the main game we play.

As part of scheme to get another player to join us there is now talk of also playing in 10mm. I have a small scale “travel” set for KoW in 10mm but honestly movement is fiddly enough in this game that making micro moves just isn’t as fun or relaxing so we are thinking of going full sized bases with a bunch of minis for that mass battle feel.

But not quite. The thinking is to go with Warmaster bases and then put those on sabots. Here is a protoype I 3D printed. The idea being we can use thin bases but hot have to handle the minis themselves.

Warmaster sabot proto
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Now I have a bunch of unpainted 10mm figs but they are really LotR based. I have orc, high and wood elves, rohan and dunlendings. Maybe I could make some kind of Northern Alliance proxy army? I have a lot of orcs but they are my next 28mm project so I don’t really want to do them. In theory I should resist buying a bunch of Pendraken late Roman and Byzantine figs and then making a Basilian army…

Anyhow feel free to share your 10mm adventures and any advice. Personally I think that unit basing would look quite a bit better than the Warmaster basing but KoWs base sizes are such a mess that it would be hard to then use them for other games.

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Would recommend using “half size” kow base sizes like they sell on warbases.co.uk, instead of the outdated warmaster format. so a infantry regiment would be 50x40mm instead of 100x80.

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Wargames atlantic are in the process of bringing out a range of 10mm plastics - samurai, orcs and dwarfs so far with skeletons, elves, landsknecht ogres, ‘not rohirrim’ and a bunch of Azincourt sets.

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What are these other games that use the old warmaster sizes as a standard? it’s been mentioned twice to have the minis on the warmaster bases to be able to use them in other games?

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Think warmaster revolution, hordes of the things (fantasy dba) and fantastic battles all use basically the same basing sizes.

The rule set WGA are bringing out is using 40×20 bases for infantry (and 20x40 cav?) that are combined into to regiments etc.

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Warlord uses the Black Powder base sizes (24cm wide line formation as standard sized unit) with 60mm wide bases for Epic and 40mm wide for 28mm (so 4 bases in Epic and 6 bases in 28mm for the standard sized unit)

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