Reply To: New from Plastic Soldier Company

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It’s probably more 10mm so that the “area” of the battle you can get on your usual 6X4 table is larger (and this means you can have rules for things you wouldn’t normally see in 28mm). “Traditionally” (before TY was released), moderns was a 6mm (1:300) period so that you could get the large scale games in (or 20mm for a more skirmish game), so 10mm comes in somewhere in the middle (and 6mm is already heavily available anyway).

They do look nice, I guess it’s going to be restricted to Soviet, British and US stuff at first (Piers?) before we see other Nato/Pact stuff, but even so there’s some 10mm (or 1:200) “metals” already available for moderns from other manufacturers.

As for Model Train Terrain, wargamers have always been “poaching” it from hobby stores from the year dot. HO Scale is roughly 20mm scale, so that’s one of the reasons we saw 20mm become one the main scales for WW2/Moderns (well that and the fact many plastic model tank kits were also in HO Scale). It’s only over the last 20 years or so that we’ve seen EVERYTHING become available in 28mm (terrain wise) and this was custom built specifically for the wargame market.

For me the PSC releases is going to be about price, if they are about the cost of GHQ/CinC models in 6mm I’ll probably stick with them. But if they are specifically cheaper, then I might take the plunge 🙂