Slitherine

I just recieved my copy of the FoG rulebook today and I am thinking about my first army. What size are the great looking figures used in the photographs in the book?

They're 28mm. 28mm do look better individually and close up, but are more expensive than 15mm, take longer to paint (and you need to be a better painter to do justice to them), and don't look as much like an army (well that is unless you play large games on large tables, but this is typically too expensive for most people, so the tendency is to play lower points in 28mm games).

In most places 15mm is the most popular scale. The cost of armies and the availability of painted figures on ebay means you can build a collection of many different armies in this scale, whereas 28mm players tend to have a much smaller number of armies, so get less variety in their games.

Not all the armies pictured in the book are 25/8mm I think that the Egyptians on P125 for example are 15mm.

Have a look at some of the photos linked in this forum, they will normally state the scale of the figures.

Thanks, I believe I will start with some Essex 15mm middle ages types.

Good Gaming,
John

Uff, 28 mm, Thanks god. I thought I was just a bad painter.

Suul wrote:Thanks, I believe I will start with some Essex 15mm middle ages types.

Good Gaming,
John

Early medieval is probably a good period to start. With minimal effort you can morph into a plethora of armies.

I'm doing 'similar' with my concept of Roman/Hellenistics:

Late Romans/Palmyran=>use Cataphracts/Light Horse for Bactrian Greek=>use Pike for Ptolemaic=>use earlier period Romans for Romans

I like the idea of being able to use figures for multiple armies. So, when I start the Bactrians, I've already got half of the army painted. Inspires painting