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So, I was at the Jimbocho GW Today, and played my first game with the Metric system.

The first thing that struck me was the following:
Tables are TINY. (Deployment sides are the 90 cm...) 90x120 CM. That's 35.4x47.2 (36x48) Half of what I'm used to D=.

This does NOT bode well for my Mech Eldar at all, as there's really no space to move what so ever. That's another topic for another day.

However, everything in the Japanese GW system is the same as the UK system, except its just multiplied by 2 and put into CM.

Templates and blasts would hit more models due to shorter coherency. Blasts wouldn't scatter as far. This makes ordnance better at shooting at vehicles than before - the 4" wide Chimera is now measured as 10cm, or 5 double cm.

Model bases are still the same size. This might affect vehicle disembarkation and large assaults.

Basically you're looking for any instances in the rules where the actual size of the model matters in an absolute, not relative sense.

There are two things that occur to me here...

1) Space is at a MASSIVE premium in metropolitan areas of Japan. Smaller stores means smaller tables, which means smaller distances between models on the board, which means 2x rather than 2.5x.

2) It would be very patronising of GW to imply that their players cannot cope with multiplying by 2.5. Though I have met plenty of teenagers who cannot multiply by anything reliably, let alone by x.5 (I am a science/maths teachers), those teenagers are not the sort to be playing GW anyway.

Really, it's not that they think multiplying by 2.5 is hard, but perhaps you have noticed that no measurement in the game every goes by half, or quarter inches, yes?

Bookwrack wrote:Really, it's not that they think multiplying by 2.5 is hard, but perhaps you have noticed that no measurement in the game every goes by half, or quarter inches, yes?

If that were the case, a x3 multiplier would be a smaller relative difference from 2.5 than x2 is.

I don't even see were quarter inches comes from in your argument as a 2.5 multiplier of whole will nevr result in this.

A fraction is a fraction.