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I'm just wondering what armies are being played most here?

I'm glad you can pick multiples, because I think I ended up picking most of them!

EDIT: Damn, just realised I missed one too...

I play 12th SS Panzer (German), WW2 USMC, Red Army and the Romans.

You missed Seven Years War and AWI, two of the biggest traditional historical periods, after WW2 and Naps.

Perhaps a better poll would have been to split by historical period as these aint really nationalities.

I can't vote again but chalk up another for AWI and WW2 Russian.



This poll is telling me I have too many armies!

My Historical projects at the moment are WWI BEF and Germans (10mm) and ancient Dacians (28/10mm)

Crusaders & Saracens; Romans & Carthaginians, WW2 Soviets

Well went through my historical stuff last night to see what I really have...


28mm British SYW
28mm French SYW
28mm British/Loyalist AWI
28mm American AWI
28mm Confederates ACW
28mm 2nd Afghan War British
28mm 2nd Afghan War Afghans
28mm Wild West Gunfighters
28mm British 1938 NWF

20mm WW1 1914 German
20mm WW1 1914 British

20mm WW2 BEF 1940
20mm WW2 Poles 1939
20mm WW2 Germans 1939-41
20mm WW2 Russians 1939-41
20mm WW2 British Desert 1941
20mm WW2 German Desert 1941
20mm WW2 Italian Desert 1941
20mm WW2 British 1944-45
20mm WW2 US Army 1944-45
20mm WW2 Russians 1944-45
20mm WW2 British Airborne 1943-45
20mm WW2 US Airborne 1944
20mm WW2 German 1944-45
20mm WW2 Fallschirmjäger 1944-45

Big P wrote:You missed Seven Years War and AWI, two of the biggest traditional historical periods, after WW2 and Naps.

Ok whilst I did miss a semi-popular period in AWI [that is now included], but SYW a big historical period really? I've only heard that war being mentioned in a gaming context [both by players and manufacturers] a few times since I first got here.

Tibbsy wrote:
This poll is telling me I still don't have enough armies!

I think this is what you were trying to say

I have a few different things but I've not painted half of them.

28mm Teutonic Knights
6mm Samurai
28mm Samurai (painting)
15mm WW2 Germans (painted), British and Soviets
28mm WW2 Japanese (painted)

If I include the stuff that is popular at my club then we have everything on the poll and more.

28mm Knights Templar
28mm Normans
28mm Anglo-Danes
28mm Vikings
28mm Samurai
28mm Sohei
28mm AWI Colonials
28mm WW2 US Airborne
15mm Romans
15mm WW2 USMC
10mm Teutonic Knights
1/144 WW1 British, American, French, German aircraft
1/200 WW2 British, American, German, Japanese aircraft

28mm Celts
28mm Dark Ages (Normans, Gaelic Irish and Vikings)
28mm Early Medieval (not much yet, but getting there)
28mm English Civil War (Just one regiment and the rules so far)
28mm 30 Years War (the models are pretty much interchangeable, so I'm including both!)

SYW is really the period that started it all with Grant and Featherstone and Spencer Smith figures.

Yes, its very popular with the oldies.

 sing your life wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:
This poll is telling me I still don't have enough armies!

I think this is what you were trying to say

Too bloody true!

Well I suppose I should list them...

I have, all in 15mm and in varying stages of incomplete;

FoW
WW2 British Armour (Normandy '44) - 3RTR with support, plans to expand to cover various supporting units from 11th Armoured
WW2 German Infantry (Normandy '44) - Reasonably generic Grenadierkompanie
WW2 German 21st Panzer Panzerspahkompanie (Normandy '44) - Plans to expand this with an Aufklarungsschwadron
WW2 Soviet Strelkovy (Stalingrad '42/'43)
Vietnam PAVN, with enough Local Force to probably run a company of them too. (Plans to base some individually for Ambush Valley but not done that yet)

Bolt Action
WW2 German (Normandy '44)
WW2 British (Normandy '44)

Saga
Viking warband (9 pts)

FoG
Marian/Caesaren Romans
Gauls
Early Hundred Years War English
Third Crusade Franks

FoGR
English Civil War Royalists

AWI British/Loyalist


That's not even counting the company of StuGs I can't find anymore, the WW1 stuff I got for an also unfinished diorama and plan to expand into armies (British and German for the diorama, but I really want to do an army of late-war French), plans to do counterpart armies (Mid-war Stalingrad Germans, Saracens, Vietnam US, maybe another SAGA warband....)

Let's just say that my project list is never empty!

At the moment i have on the go

Hail Caesar
6mm Large late imperial Roman army
6mm Carthaginians

Saga
28mm Viking War band

Lion Rampant
28mm WOTR mixture of Yorkists and mercenaries

Musket and Tomahawks
28mm French Indian War - French force (no option in poll)
28mm AWI mixture of american units used for skirmish games

Battlegroup
15mm WW2 US in (1944-45)
15mm WW2 German (1944-45)
15mm WW2 Soviets (1943-45)

Dark Ages : Vikings and Franks for me
English Civil War : Royalists and Convenanter Scots
30 years war : Royal Swedes and Swiss Mercenaries

Fine. I've rolled AWI and SYW into the Colonial wars option.

"Colonial Wars" generally refers to mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain's conflicts with the indigenous peoples of her empire.

World War 2. All day. Every day.

 Manchu wrote:
"Colonial Wars" generally refers to mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain's conflicts with the indigenous peoples of her empire.

For me the term refers to any war directly associated with the European colonisation of Africa,America etc ,from the Spanish conquest of the Aztec s to the at least the Zulu wars. So there

I'm glad you explained that because no historicals war gamer would expect as much. You might want to put it in the OP.

Romans and Huns.

Early Saxons and Goths.

Goths and Huns.

Romans/Carthaginians/Gauls/Iberians/Numidians

Alexandrian Successors. Greek Hoplite

Cold War (1980s) - used to have a US Mech Infantry Battalion and German Armored Company to take on an entire Soviet Division (which always ended with the Soviets nuking the Americans, starting the Post-Apocalyptic stuff).

Southern Europe WWII (the invasion of Southern France in October '44).

MB

 sing your life wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
"Colonial Wars" generally refers to mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain's conflicts with the indigenous peoples of her empire.

For me the term refers to any war directly associated with the European colonisation of Africa,America etc ,from the Spanish conquest of the Aztec s to the at least the Zulu wars. So there

Better put WW1 and WW2 in there as well then... and Naps, and ECW and 30 years war... after all King Philips War is that period.

Forgot to tick late mediaeval.

I have the following.

28mm Hussites

15mm ECW (Early Parliamentarians)
15mm SCW Republicans
15mm SCW Nationalists
15mm WWII Soviets (1941)
15mm 'Soviet' Czechoslovakians (1944/5)
15mm WWII Germans (1944/5)
15mm WWII Slovaks (1941/2)
15mm 6DW Jordanians

I'm contemplating doing something WWI or RCW based as well as VBCW (not strictly historical). I'm not sure exactly what yet.

It's not that popular but it would be interesting to see who else plays Spanish Civil War.

Big P wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
"Colonial Wars" generally refers to mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain's conflicts with the indigenous peoples of her empire.

For me the term refers to any war directly associated with the European colonisation of Africa,America etc ,from the Spanish conquest of the Aztec s to the at least the Zulu wars. So there

Better put WW1 and WW2 in there as well then... and Naps, and ECW and 30 years war... after all King Philips War is that period.

I said "directly associated". Whilst the Nap and World wars did involve colonies in some way colonising of non-European states and subjugating the indigenous people was far from the main aim of the combatants.

Got anyone more to complain about?

I don't think anyone is complaining, just clarifying that in the historical community certain terms have certain meanings.

15mm WW1 French
28mm WW2 German (FJ, DAK, SS, Grenadiers, etc)
28mm WW2 USA army
28mm WW2 British Red Devils
28mm WW2 Italian Paracadutisti
28mm Early Imperial Romans
28mm Greeks
28mm ECW New Model Army
28mm War of Spanish Succession (all)
28mm Anglo-Danes (Saga)

15mm Mid-Republican Romans
15mm Carthaginians

15mm 15th-century Ottomans

28mm ECW NMA

28mm Normans
28mm Dark Age Irish

28mm Milites Christi
28mm Mutatawwi'a

28mm FIW Rangers
28mm FIW French Wilderness
28mm FIW Indians

28mm AWI Continentals

32mm Pirates and British Marines

28mm La Haye Sainte set (Warlord version)

32mm Bandidos, Cowboys, Apaches

28mm Zulus
28mm Birtish Colonial Redcoats

15mm WW1 British
15mm WW1 Germans

28mm VBCW BUF
28mm VBCW Workers' Militia

28mm WW2 US Army
28mm WW2 USMC
28mm WW2 British Army (incl. Desert Rats)
28mm WW2 British Commandos
28mm WW2 French
28mm WW2 Early War Heer
28mm WW2 Late War Heer
28mm WW2 Italians (AFVs only)
28mm WW2 Japanese
28mm WW2 Soviets

15mm Vietnam-era US Army
15mm PAVN

Ancient Romans and Ancient Germans here.

Winter war and WW2 Finnish 28mm at the moment.