Ground scale

[bunwin63]

What's the ground scale for 15mm? Eg, Kn can move 200p, what is that in mm, inches or base widths?

Bryan

[toby]

10cm I think.

[DaveMather]

Bryan

Its based around troop element widths which for 15mm is 40mm which represents 80p

The easy way to work out table top distance versus paces (that i have found) is to half the paces and knock off the 0 so your 200 paces for the Knights becomes 10cms

Regards

David Mather

[bunwin63]

Thanks. Shame they didn't keep it simple by either keeping it at whole inches or making the movement rates whole multiples of a base width, but I'm sure I'll survive
Bryan

[vexillia]

Interesting.

From my reading the 15mm moves are indeed best worked out by halving the distance in paces for mm and dividing by ten for cm:

200 p becomes 100 mm = 10 cm
320 p becomes 160 mm = 16 cm
etc etc

What struck me was the practical need for measuring sticks divided into 20 mm sections.

I was also struck how this didn't quite mesh with this from page 3 of the rules "Distances specified ... are multiples of .. element widths (... 40 mm for 15 mm ...) each representing 80 paces.  There are loads of moves, in paces, that don't divide by 80.

[Aloysius the Gaul]

but they are all still multiples of base widths - it didnt' say they are all WHOLE multiples!!

some measurements include 1/2 basewidth distances - eg 200p = 2 1/2 basewidths.

Not too hard for most literate people to figure out I hope!