We were mulling over this in our group, trying to settle on the scale for our fantasy mass battles games (I have lots of 30mm fantasy figures, but wanted to go for a more "epic" feel, with lots more models on the table. Plus, I need a project for 2022!).
15mm had one thing going for it - I have access to Battlelore and Joan of Arc Time of Legends (both friends' copies) so if we wanted it, we had a ready-made pile of volunteers for our budding armies!
But 15mm ultimately felt too close to 30mm: you get no significant speed painting bonus, as the models are so detailed that they don't paint up that much faster than their larger brethren. 15mm still has the larger footprint, and as noted above this limits the options for packing them in for a more epic massed-battle look (we also wanted to model ancients-style battles with the minis, with thousands or 10s of thousands of men on the field). I just felt, why use 15mm if I've got a ton of 30mm? I wanted something significantly different. The "strips" of 10mm figures all modeled together make for very nice formations and make painting a little easier. And then I discovered Forest Dragon, who makes figures for Warmaster Revolutions (fan-based revision of Warmaster) and the details on his models are just stunning.
Finally, the storage solution for 10mm seems easier. I'm using steel bases, and will store them on a magnetic sheet. They're light enough that they shouldn't move around much, if at all. So 10mm will store that much easier than 15mm.
So ultimately, it was an easy choice to go with 10mm. I'm in the thick of painting and modeling right now, but what I've done looks really nice!
(My friend has a bunch of 6mm. While in theory, I like the idea of 6mm, they are just too small to see easily and differentiate between the units. My old-man eyes!)
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