William's Wargames

I generally find that 10mm provides a good balance between size and scope for wargaming. 2mm is a little better for massed battles, and 15mm is better for skirmish – but 10mm is a happy medium for your standard rank and flank.

Terrain is quite easy to build and I wanted to show some examples here in the blog.

Hills are usual 10mm extruded polystyrene painted and flocked, which don’t really differ from any other scale other than looking a bit more impressive.

By contrast, similar hills in 28mm look a bit underwhelming by comparison:

Fields and hedgerows are great and don’t take up much space. These are just carpet samples with some flock, and some bits of hardboard with flock and foliage clusters:

There is a veritable mountain of 3D printed terrain options available, such as these sci-fi buildings:

And these in a fantasy style:

Sometimes it’s just more straightforward to buy commercial items, and luckily for 10mm there are traditional resin-cast buildings also available:

The great thing about terrain in 10mm is that it has some verticality and size, but fits easily into a Really Useful Box and can easily fill out a medium sized table.

A full size star fort is also within realms of possibility, although this one ended up a bit unwieldy as a terrain piece:

There is a challenge of course, that when you start to partake in smaller scales that your views on ‘scale scenery’ mean you end up paradoxically with bigger terrain pieces than you might if you scaled down ‘symbolic’ 28mm terrain directly.

Here are some dark ages scenery pieces printed in 10mm to represent farms, walls, beehives and a ruined tower in various permutations: