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WW2 US army and WW2 Germans. Plan on picking up some British and Japan forces in the future

Is this survey for land forces only?

To be picky, some of the more ancient Ancient armies are pre-Bronze age.

I didn't include my Wings of Glory and Sails of Glory stuff because ... well, less because I reckoned the poll was land-based only and more because those games don't feel like "historicals" for whatever reason.

Why don't those games feel like historicals to you Manchu?

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Is this survey for land forces only?

It can be land-only if you want it to be

To be picky, some of the more ancient Ancient armies are pre-Bronze age.

I've never heard of prehistoric wargaming, so the stone age has been included in "other".

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 sing your life wrote:
Why don't those games feel like historicals to you Manchu?

Baseless prejudice, honestly, from which I didn't realize I suffered until responding to KK. It probably has something to do with the board game-style production values.

There are some AWESOME Naval and Aerial games, though.

One of the very first miniature games I ever saw was WWII Naval, and Napoleonic Naval (followed closely by Civil War naval).

And one of my favorite games was a WWI Aerial Game where we eventually got miniatures (Blue Max).

MB

Honestly, I think the WW1 Wings of Glory is a pretty flawless air combat game. It is as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

WW2 is pretty good as well, but needs tweaks.

In the late-1970's and early-1980's, we used to play an Air-Combat game called Advanced Fighter Combat by Lou Zocchi.

Lou, when he would run the game at conventions, was the first person to use 1/72 scale model airplanes, mounted on sticks (like the military used in WWII to teach air combat), and then the sticks coming out of the back of the aircraft would be mounted on altitude sticks with clothes-pins.

You got a real sense of dogfighting with that game (It had a simultaneous movement system that allowed you to "tail" an enemy aircraft).

I have not seen the WWII version of Wings of Glory.

I will need to look for it.

In the meantime... Back to Middle-earth.

MB

15mm Napoleonic Prussians 1806-1807
15mm WWII Hungarians '42-'45

28mm WWII US Army - Europe '44-'45

Japanese Samurai for me. Also WW2 British.

10mm Trojans
10mm Acheans

28mm Saxons
28mm Vikings

10mm 16th century English

15mm English Civil War Royalists
15mm English Civil War Palimentarians

28mm American War of Independence British and Allied Natives
28mm American War of Independence American Militia

28mm Confederates
28mm Union

20mm British Civil War Communists
20mm British Civil War Fascists

15mm Chinese Civil War Communists
15mm Chinese Civil War Nationalists

20mm WW2 Soviets (1941-1945)
20mm WW2 German(1941 - 1945)
20mm WW2 American (1942 - 1945)
20mm WW2 Japanese (1942 - 1945)
20mm WW2 British (1943)
20mm WW2 Italian (1943)

15mm:
Greeks (Spartans)
Persians (2nd Greek Invasion)

WW1 British
WW1 German

US Armoured Rifles/ Paratroop company

28mm:
WW2 Soviets
WOTR Lancastrian

And no doubt something else. After reading the other replies I don't feel so guilty

Figure I would do a full list like others are doing.

28mm

Japanese Samurai - Sengoku
Koreans - Joseon
Japanese Samurai - Gempei
Japanese Shogunate - Boshin war
Modern Police
Modern Yakuza

15mm

WW2 - British