The Biggest Smallest Wargaming Project EVER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2025
- In this video we're taking a look through all the small scale wargaming projects we've got waiting for us! If you've ever wanted to get into small scale wargaming, this video is a great place to start.
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Oh hey I sculpted those 2d6 tanks. Hope you have fun sculpting them! Great to see you chaps covering the smaller scales, absolutely my favorite way to play any setting these days.
Small scale FTW! Get those massive battles going and makes for awesome looking tables
Pls pls plsssss make some terrain videos for 6/10mm terrain, it's honestly shocking how few videos u can find for it online and i would like to see your approach on maybe building Forrests hills cities or whole tables for these😊 cheers
Yep, I’ll second that. There’s a complete absence of terrain building tutorials for small scales.
I’ll third this too. More terrain tutorials needed for 10mm/6mm please!
I'm currently very into Fantastic Battles. It's a very fun system with easy to learn rules.
So happy to see Fantastic Battles on your table there!
Another company that does old school minis in both historical and fantasy called Alternative Armies based in Gorman Scotland. Well worth checking out! Great vid, can’t wait to see the next one!
Josh's hair is beyond amazing. 100% rockstar barnet 👌
Those are some kind words indeed haha
Fantastic Battles is a vastly underrated system. Looking forward to seeing it.
After a 20 year absence from the hobby.I was looking for a fantasy rule system (which allowed my 20 year younger imagination and huge unpainted pile of shame,fantasy and historicals in 15mm, to 'work' together).
I chose Fantastic Battles as well,the army builder is such a clever clever system you could even use your 6mm fantasy armies to fight your 6mm Roman/Ancient Britons(with or without fantasy elements).
Very excited to see what you guys make of Dropzone Commander
We love the Dropzone Commander universe games and look forward to seeing what you do with DZC. PHR is my favorite army so I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with that as well. Hope you enjoy all the small scale gaming guys!
Lovely vid! I was a bit surprised to see you say you'd not run across 18mm before; it's been replacing 15mm for a while now. That said, there's also 10mm (e.g. Pendraken) and 12mm (Victrix) and Warlord have a proprietary scale that's something like 13.5mm. They've got starter sets for Napoleonic and ACW gaming. Not my bag as I'm too heavily invested in those periods in other scales. Love Baccus 6mm. They are just grand. :)
Still knocking out some of the best miniature wargaming content on the youtubes. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Cheers guys.
I bought the ACW starter set by Baccus a while back- a really great way to break into that scale, I also really enjoyed painting 6mm models after initially being daunted.
Can’t tell you how pleased I am to see you posting these videos. I’m currently making a system and one of my biggest worries is lack of interest stopping it from being economically viable.
Am currently doing Flames of War with WW2 minis from 2D6 Wargaming and filling the gaps with GHQ. Plays great!
I hope you follow this up, you've got my attention and I'd love to see more
" mine's a style choice , yours is just lazy "
nowt left after that , just a smoking hole in the ground
hahahahahaha
sweet project! nice to see the "warband" and "fantastic battles" get some recognition. i've tried and much enjoyed both systems. Ended up with 40×40mm wide bases at 10mm scale and 40x20 with 6mm scale minis.
i think square bases are best so that monsters and warmachines can fit. rectangular only really works for infantry and cavalry
Oh wow, I did not know there were so many other small-scale figure companies. We need more of these companies easily available in the States. LGS here basically just carries GW because those are the movers.
This isn't even half of them: Irregular, Heroics and Ros, Scotia and Grendel, Rapier, Grumbler and more, without including the 3D printing side, and that's only companies that do historics (though several of them also do fantasy and/or sci-fi, there are a fair few that only do those genres and no historics). Oh, and those are only the ones that do 6mm, not those that only do 2/3mm, 10/12mm, or anything else you might count as small-scale (the inclusion of 18mm in this video would suggest 15mm would count too, and there are a fair few suppliers of that).
@@lukehawksbee Thank you for the names of some others.
My experience is 6 & 10mm all have to be bought online, but there are US based makers out there like MicroWorld.
I'd recommend going to a wargames show there's thousands.
Frankly its not even a 1/10th of it all maybe not even 1/20th :D
Because small scale can mean a lot from 1/72 infantry to 1/6000 Spaceships. So there are a lot of shops our there producing awesome models and games.
Really looking forward to this series. Never played a small scale mini wargame. Back in the 90's me and some mates almost jumped in to Space Marine but went with Warhammer Fantasy instead. Always wondered what the small scale games would feel like as the ranges seem to makes more sense.
I've got a big box of Space Marine plus extra expansions from the 90s, been sat in an attic for 30 years. Played it again and it's still really good fun - nothing can beat filling a huge table with two massive armies
Spellcrow! I love their models. Sadly they don't get anywhere near enough love
Alternative Armies produce a fantastic range of stuff in 6mm, 15mm (18mm to top of head) and 28mm including fantasy, sci fi and historical. They also do starter packs with armies, vehicles and rules books. They’ve been around for decades, I remember our local model shop in the late 1980’s had as much space given over to the Alternative Armies Ion Age sci fi range as they did to GW stuff.
Suggestion, I've had fun playing games like Lion Rampant and Pikemans Lament in smaller scales. Using a box of Epic Napoleonics from Warlord with Pikemans Lament gives really tactical gameplay. Requires a little flexibility but it works well.
Fantastic Battles is a great system that has quite a few players at our club, the fact that you can customise your armies and has been very fun to play. Its also very easy to play historicals using it
I'm looking forward to the drop zone section.
I do have an old warmaster army so I'm interested in the other fantasy rules.
There is so much really good small scale terrain to cover also, like Battlescale Wargame Buildings and their 6mm line of buildings. Good luck, I am really excited about this series.
Recently been getting into 6th Edition WHFB using 15mm models, there's some amazing options out there especially if you look at 3D prints and brings back so many fond memories
Ground zero games makes great scifi minis. Robin Fitton on Rottenlead channel makes the Gruntz game, maybe you should have a chat with him!
Two other companies that I know of is ghq they have modern and wwII models in 1/285 they also have a rule set. I haven't played the rules for ghq so I don't know how good it is. The other one is battletech, it's also ruffly in 1/285 scale and as a sci-fi game with giant robots it's pretty fun.
Really excited for this video series. Well done for covering the topic and spreading the word. Kudos guys.
Really looking forward to seeing what you do with DZC. Loved that game and would be great to see it take off again.
Looking forward to see what kind of terrain you guys come up with for this scale!
Huzzah! Looking forward to watching all these projects come together.
I love Kallistra and the hordes and heroes system, rules are free and it's hex based nature means that you cut down time without the need for measuring distances
As a big fan of everything smaller 15mm i am super hyped about this series. There is not enough coverage of a real indie space on you tube.
I also have the pleasure of sometimes working with microworld games. He is 100% passion for the hobby and a real good person. If you interetested in 6mm and 3mm Fantasy or Science Fiction go and have a look. Huge amount of factions to choose from.
For 10mm historical have a look at Lancer Miniatures as well
Good video chaps, it's always good to see more attention being given to the smaller scales.
I fell in love with small scale gaming and I don't think I'll go back. One day I'm planning on converting 40k, Warmaster, KoW, FoW, Bolt Action, Hail Caesar etc to 6mm and even 3mm! But I'll get to it one day
My favorite is Hordes of the Things. Mini agnostic, variable scales, you play on a 3x3 foot (92x92cm ) board. Best of all, I can play any genre: I have ancient historicals, 50s sci-fi, and fantasy armies for this game.
Excited to watch more on smaller scale
Very keen on this list, thank you!
Interesting, cool to see Fantastic Battles there. Surprised you didn’t include Kings of War as you have previously for small scale stuff. Fantastic Battles a better game?
@@GeekGamingScenics that's awesome. Fantastic Battles looks really promising!
My number one recommendation for small scale sci-fi would be Gruntz 15mm (you can play in other scales, its just part of the name). Its a great, easy mini-agnostic sci-fi game with a great activation system, particularly if you use the proprietary cards (which isn't necessary). There is even an app to design/print unit cards.
|'ve also been playing Bolt-Action at 15mm since I started playing, and it works really well at that scale, the movement and weapon ranges feel great at 15mm with no changes from the book/rules.
Really looking forward to this series dudes! Love love love
Hope to see more progress on this project. It seems like and interesting adventure
I'm so happy to see you making videos like this, looking at the world of tabletop gaming. I have my first 3D printer on it's way and I'm sooo excited to try printing off a bunch of small scale armies.
Very keen for this series!
Perfect idea -you really hit the nail on the head here.
Great stuff as always.
really fantastic, great to see such a massive range of stuff!
4:31 Work that hair, Josh.
I'll be looking forward to more in this series, and not just because of the out takes.
hahaha
I'm always down for videos exploring the less well known systems and companies. Keep it up!
I was wondering if you guys were going to touch on DBA when getting through historics... That has been my fav game to play where I've had it at 6mm on a 30cm square board to 15mm on a 60mm square board and it just scales from there going larger...
Glad to see more youtube on Fantastic Battles, cracking system.
As someone who just got into epic 40k: “ I will watch your career with great interest”
One company that I plan to try out are the Trolls under the bridge aka Trolls cz.
They make a lot of minies including 6mm proxies and it all looks very good. I’ve been hearing good things about them.
Looking forward to this series as I am loving 6mm due to small space it required
Great to see small scales covered as I’ve used 6mm and smaller (spaceships / ships) for over 40 years now. I am surprised at the inclusion of 18mm? 15mm used to be the ‘standard’ so I’ve never considered it small (10mm is the start of small scale for me). I get that you are trying to cover ‘systems’ like dropzone but I think you might miss a trick (especially with scifi / fantasy) and many of of the rulesets are miniature agnostic, and many of the most extensive and awesome manufacturers like GZG and Brigade have really lovely, reasonable and far more extensive miniature ranges that can cater to almost any game
Matey went to the same hairdressers as Lion-O.
Amazing video. Seriously looking forward to more!
I love watching for new rule systems. I’m too old for anything less than 15mm, but I see the attraction
Hey guy's great video. Take a look at Brigade Models. They do some fantastic small scale range. I'd love to see you do an Imperial skies/aeronef board, a cross channel attack using their small scale scenics ranges. It would look awesome man. Those fantasy battleships from the imperial skies range are mint.
Imperial Skies is a great fun rule system and the brigade Nef’s are lovely
I’ve been going through a similar exploration of smaller scales lately myself, but have stuck with 10mm now. Loads of great, unsung systems out there and no reason why you can’t scale down other games either. Interested to see where this goes. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Excited to see this series start after chatting to you about it at Chillcon. Really interested in taking my wargaming to a smaller scale, as it means I can fit it in my house 🤣
Good content. Been getting in to warmaster mainly due to your smaller scale videos
Excited about the next vids for these. Working on a 15mm skirmish and love seeing what systems are out there. Your channel is always helpful.
Excited already!
I’m very much looking forward to this as I don’t game anything over 15/18mm. I play Kings of War in this scale and it’s great.
Very nice, can't wait to see your builds
Looking forward to seeing these.
Looking forward to see how this proceeds! Thumbs up the historical stuff! :)
Excited about future videos about these 😃
Looking forward to this series. I almost did warmaster, and almost did flames of war, but that's it for small scale and I've been wargaming since 97.
One thing to mention, especially with scifi and fantasy is that things like dropzone can work in multiple scales
Ow wow void scar looks great! Love the vehicles!
I’m hoping you guys are going to cover terrain as I’ve a 10mm project I’ve put off as I’m not sure what products would work
Looking forwards to this series- small scale stuff is my wheelhouse and rarely get the love it deserves. More interested in the fantasy and historical flavours than the sci-fi. While I understand the premise, as you know from past videos, any rules set can be scale agnostic if you want. I‘ve done warlords of erehwon in 10mm and it’s been great. Interested in your views on the polmos rules from Baccus - I’ve had a couple of their sets over the years and havnt really fallen in love with them but maybe am missing something. Love love, am off to walk the dog
The historics was interesting was a good in site to scales and figures I have never seen👍
Don't be criticizing that hair. My man looks like a majestic lion.
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Looking forward to this series. Curious what products you’d recommend for basing at smaller scales
I sense allot of 6mm terrain in the future.
Those Voidscar minis look sweet.
I think there are some civilizations on remote islands that worship Joshs hair for the eldritch god that it is.
Should I be getting royalties paid to me?
@@ThePickleJar no, but some stats bout the sacrifices in your name should be justified
Argatoria FTW!!
Very nice game with a little oldhammer vibe!
love the bloopers 😄
Luke needs to grow his hair out like Josh and become the Hairy Wargamers
Shame you two aren't working together on this scale. It looks great on the table. Just got into 2D6 WW2 range.
Really looking forward to watching this series. One observation though, why have you gone for ancients and WW2 for the historicals? Baccus have a huge range of historical starter sets across all of history. Big battle ancients is not to dissimilar to fantasy and likewise WW2 to Sci-fi. Historical periods between the English Civil War and WW1 would have provided a greater contrast to fantasy and sci-fi.
Can’t wait 🎉👍🙌
if want some 15-18mm figures look for ground zero games, brigades models and alternative armies. All done infantry and vehicles.
I'm sure everyone and their dog has said it below but . . . Vanguard Miniatures for epic size sci-fi/40K stuff and GroundZero for 15mm. No brainer. Two Joh(n)s. Very talented chaps.
Looking forward to this. Been thinking of finding a fantasy small scale game, wish I’d kept my Warmaster books. On the Historical side did you look into Mortem et Gloriam, PSC carry it & I do believe you can use the Baccus models for it too.
Had DZC when it came out, but it ran out of steam with our group.
Not many people know this.
But this is the first video hosted by Luke and Aslan.
BEHOLD his flowing mane!
TREMBLE at his mighty roar!
ASLAN IS ON THE MOVE!
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@@ThePickleJar aaaaah a Lion!
Been looking at that void scar game. Curious to see how you like it.
I love void scar! I've bought a bunch of their models
Looking forward to the scifi video :)
I cannot recommend the WW2 systems from TooFatLardies enough. Chain of Command for platoon size, I Ain't Been Shot Mum for company size, and O Group for battallion size all have amazing play experiences, and I think mainly due to emulating friction. It's not everybody's cuppa, but they make decisions in the heat of battle actually matter, and your army list/composition is less relevant. They make systems for a lot of eras that are also bopping, such as Infamy, Infamy for Roman antiquity. My current fav non-historic small scale game is Warmaster Revolutions. It has a small amount of friction while still being IGOUGO. It suffers a little bit from being basically fan-created, fan-curated and fan-developed in a committee as it means a small number of people have a lot of influence on the design even though some of the choices might be split down the middle in the community. It's a niche of a niche of a niche so I guess I'm happy it exists at all. And don't forget about all the great modellers that do STLs for 10mm and down!
2D6 Wargaming army!
Clear Horizon Minis does 18mm. He is having trouble with Euro shipping lately, if you are in the US give them a try.
really new small mini game Full Spectrum Dominance also maybe heavy gear blitz. Got Argatoria really fun spellcrow are lovely.