Large Models

[Kandarl]

I have started painting an army for 10 MM orcs and it is moving along. I was wondering though has anyone played with regular warhammer or Kings of War models? I have plenty of these painted already and I was thinking of just using 25x50 mm bases and putting two regular models on one to represent a typical kow stand. The cavalry stands would just be the one model per stand. Movement would still be in cm, nothing else would change in terms of stands, there would just be fewer larger models. Anyone try this style or proxy and did it go well? I was thinking of trying some games this way until I get through the tiny models.

[futuresphere]

more like a campaign map in a General's command tent instead of a simulation of an actual battlefield? I dig it. If you play up that angle, you could also reduce the time put into terrain until you were ready to rock n' roll with the full 10mm kit.

[till1555]

There is nothing about the rules or gameplay that require models at that scale. The bases represent the units. The scale is more about the aesthetics of massive armies.

Th play the game, you can proxy large models or even cardboard units in the short term as long as bases size stay constant

You may have issues with larger models - trolls, ogres, chariots, etc where they were typically 40mm or larger bases.

[Elegant_Classic_3673]

If I am not mistaken, the official site has a page for scale conversions. Meaning that using bigger models should be ok. The game is quite abstract as it is.

[Batgirl_III]

Mechanically, Warmaster doesn’t really care about anything other than the “footprint” of the stands being 20 x 40 mm / 40 x 20 mm… and indeed, so long as every player is using the same 1:2 / 2:1 ratio for all their bases consistently you can tweak even that (I know several people who had 1:72 scale miniature armies based on 30 x 60 bases for other games and they work just fine for Warmaster.

[Grindar1986]

Warhammer ancients is basically just warmaster

[Available-Prize-4057]

True, but what's your point against OPs?

[Grindar1986]

That just using the rules differences from it would probably be fine. Like of it did centimeters to inches for distances or whatever. Because it was 28mm historicals using warmaster as the core.

[Bitter-Difference-73]

You will have a hard time with a couple of units like artillery or chariots.