Flames of war is a really decent gaming system to play, I have been converted from Warhammer 40K to flames of war, although still interested in 40K and related wargames, flames of war takes wargaming to a whole new level, and whats even better is you can get 15mm models from other companies and put them in the army and use them with the flames of war system. 

I have managed to build a German Company and a Russian Battalion, I do also have a British rifle company all painted and I must say they are well worth the pennies.

Would it be possible to use 1/285 (micro armor) scale instead of the 15mm if both sides were using the same scale minis? I find that I like the micro armor scale myself and already have a few minis. Just curious.

Cant stand FOW personally.

Its as unrealistic as many games but its the whole marketting thing I dislike. I find it rather offensive to suddenly find special characters and the 40K style army lists just dont do it for me.

I do like the painting guides and their production values are excellent. I dont like the huge headed figures and some of the vehicles and guns have bizarre proportions… but then Im a 20mm man not a 15mm person.

Just my 2 cents… But if it gets people into historical gaming it cant be all bad and I am a little strange anyway!

Breltar - 25 September 2007 03:19 PM

Would it be possible to use 1/285 (micro armor) scale instead of the 15mm if both sides were using the same scale minis? I find that I like the micro armor scale myself and already have a few minis. Just curious.

That wouldn’t be a bad idea, I’m sure it would be possible and definately would be rather interesting to see the end result.  I collected the 1/300 scale from Navwar and made a rather large collection. 

Try it see what happens.

I think it would work fine. In fact, I’ve been thinking about the same thing.

Regarding FoW with microarmour: if you use cm everywhere that FoW uses inches, you can play a decent game in a very small area - handy if you’re an apartment dweller. Alternately, if you leave all the ranges etc. as they are, the ground scale suddenly looks a lot more realistic. Otherwise the only issue is with turret facing; I glue my micros together, but you can use the facing rules by making markers (painted matchsticks work fine) to indicate current turret facing.

I know someone who has used 6mm stands and not bothered changing the ranges and they said it worked fine.

They also tried a inch to cm conversion and were happy with that too.