Miniatures Handbook: Buying?

[cildarith]

Can I get a "Hell, no" from the congregation?

HELL NO!!!!

 

[redkobold]

Doubt it has serious Mass Combat Rules

I know they say it does, but I seriously doubt that it has serious Mass Combat Rules. The term Mass Combat is open to interpretation and I have seen nothing that makes me think these rules or parts of them will be suitable for fighting a couple of hundred combatants against each other.

If they were aiming for mass combat they would be packaging and marketing the figures very differently.

We will see.....

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I know they say it does, but I seriously doubt that it has serious Mass Combat Rules. The term Mass Combat is open to interpretation and I have seen nothing that makes me think these rules or parts of them will be suitable for fighting a couple of hundred combatants against each other.

I agree this is the sort of "mass combat" that looks like a Scrimmage with 5 to 10 people on a side and not the roman legion sized armies that I would want to see.

 

[Olive]

If they were aiming for mass combat they would be packaging and marketing the figures very differently.

They're not 'aiming at mass combat'. They're providing rules for it as an option in the non-essential supplement to the minis game.

Of course you could be right, but given that the skirmish game is in the starter box, for 10 a side battles, I'm guessgin mass combat is more mass than that. 1,000s a side? maybe maybe not, but at least 100s.

 

[NiTessine]

Yeah, I'll be picking it up. I use miniatures a lot, and a fighter character of mine is multiclassing into marshal, soon. I'll also be buying some of the new miniatures, just because you can only paint so many orcs before you get this weird urge to stab your brushes into your eyes.

 

[Green Knight]

Yeah, I'll be picking it up. I use miniatures a lot, and a fighter character of mine is multiclassing into marshal, soon. I'll also be buying some of the new miniatures, just because you can only paint so many orcs before you get this weird urge to stab your brushes into your eyes.

You too, huh?

- Green Knight, who's long since forgotten what his natural eye color is

 

[wizardoftheplains]

So are you going to buy the Miniature's Handbook?

No, especially after seeing the two jpg comparisons. lol.

But seriously, I have enough mass-combat rules that I rarely use anyway. Unless they really break new (system) ground (which I'll find out from my wargaming fanatic buddies) I'll pass.

I'll keep buying Mageknight and Reaper.

gary

 

[Mercule]

Of course you could be right, but given that the skirmish game is in the starter box, for 10 a side battles, I'm guessgin mass combat is more mass than that. 1,000s a side? maybe maybe not, but at least 100s.

IMHO, "mass combat" means that the rules scale well to the point that each figure represents multiple combatants. Y'know, the games where you glue 4-5 figures to a piece of plastic and stats are done up for "units" rather than for individuals (barring the occasional leader type, esp. in fantasy). Anything less than that and calling it "mass combat" is something of a misnomer and misleading.

Not that I'm saying it has to fall into exactly that mold. I'm just trying to relate the scale I consider valid.

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

I agree this is the sort of "mass combat" that looks like a Scrimmage with 5 to 10 people on a side and not the roman legion sized armies that I would want to see.

Of course their mass combat rules will be fewer figures on a side , then the idea of real mass combat,but that is because people are cheap. GW, has been lower the number of miniatures on a side in their rules too. I'll never understand it, as there is nothing more impressive, then about a thousand miniatures on a side in a good miniature Battle, where you go back to using a an *' by 4"table instead of those tiny 6' by 4" or even worse 4'by 4' tables. But still gona buy it and check it out, maybe it will get more people into miniatures.
ken

 

[Kershek]

I voted no. However, if there are good mass combat rules in there for normal 3.5 D&D games, I could change my mind. Otherwise, I have no interest in playing a pure miniatures scrimmage game, especially with random packaging.