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I wondered if this was better in You Make Te Call, as it is a rule mechanic, technically, but as it has no effect whatsoever on play I thought I should share it here instead.


What, roughly is the figure scale of Warhammer. I don't expect anyone to know for sure, unless they have a document from GW to indicate, but everyone should have some form of guess. By figure scale I mean how many actual fighters does one miniature represent. I do expect this figure to be flexible, it is in historical wargaming too. In most ancients warqaming one figure represents twenty men, or fifty if they are bulk militia. One elephant however represents about four elephants, with the scale being compressed as you add more elephants.

So one Bloodthirster likely means one Bloodthirster, one ogre might mean a few more, how many fighters does a line orc or human figure represent. remembering that your 5x4 block is called a 'regiment'.

Also what about characters, are they single persons, or one person plus the normal number of line troops. By my guess if we accept a figure scale of 20:1 the musician champion and standard bearer are nineteen average joes and the character. though you may well have several horn blowers in the unit and the champion could consist of a cadre of above average fighters.

IMHO its probably safe to say that a hero or mage is unique, in fact with a figure scale even as low as one in five they now appear as heroic as they ought to be.

Ok, lets open the discussion on this one. just one caveat Warhammer is a scale game so a figure scale is built in, maybe, however its our own guess what the scale is if you have even thought about it at all. So noone elses guess is definitively 'wrong' just different degrees of unlikely. Please remember this when you post.

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Warhammmer dosnt work like that sbye 40k but not fantasy....
It is quite literrally 1 man 1 man thats what the point system is for!

Warhammer Ancients runs any were from 4 men per figure to 16 men per figure. A classic Greek phalanx is 256 men which plays well on the table at 16 figures. Some where around 10-1 seems to work well for Romans.

As for Heroes, I like to think of them as representing both the general/wizard/standard + body guard. Goes a long ways to understanding why they have more attacks, wounds and better armor than the rest of the soldiers.