Reply To: Why is it that Skirmish Games Dominate the Gaming Scene?

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Well its a bit of a subjective question as 20+ years ago and for a fair while, 40K was considered a skirmish game. Anything less then 100+ figures a side – skirmish game!

So its a variable scale, also roll out with a naval game with only 2 or 3 ships a side and thats a wargame, same with aircraft fighter games. They don’t get pitched as a skirmish.

 

As regards ‘hard’ data then a few years ago this was quite a bit of discussion albet in a limited context with a review of GW starters from 40k to Kill Team and asked which is there favourite, and amongst the BoW Team skirmish games got the most votes.

When asked the community within the GW starter criteria, also voted for skirmish games:

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I think the prefered scale range of 25-30mm tends itself to fun games being capped at reinforced platoon level or smaller.

Smaller scale, generally counts as a larger size.

Just to caveat, these are generalisations and exceptions can occur, so appreciate there’s an element of it depends on the context of the observer.