Re: [GZG] New Mini's Coming?

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- MY!

If we're going to get into that "old time religion", one could well
argue that our miniatures descend from toy soldiers. Even before their
incarnation in-the-round ala Britains, they were tin flats made from
molds lovingly etched in slate. Flats standardized on a 30mm scale back
in the 19th century. 30mm is also a scale adopted and promoted by Jack
Scruby, one of the early leaders in popularizing miniatures gaming in
the US.

One could well argue that scale creep moving us from 25mm to 30mm is
actually just a return to our roots. Tradition! Family Values! A Chicken
in Every Pot!

I have chosen to focus on 15mm, as I am half the man these giants in the
miniature industry were! B-)

Martin

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom B 
  To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu 
  Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [GZG] New Mini's Coming?

  You lot discussing the ridiculous government sponsored plan to
encourage a change of scale are all Scalist Heretics(TM). The followers
ot the One True Scale(TM) shall soon rise up in righteous wrath! 

  And when we resolve the combat, we'll get upshifts on movement,
damage, range, and how many hits we can take due to superior scale. 

  Of course, the downshift in cover and signature dice and the numerical
advantage are clearly on the Heretics side. But ultimately, truth,
beauty, and paintjobs that normal mortals can make look good (note I
particularly exclude anyone with the initials S.T.U.A.R.T M.U.R.R.A.Y.
in this category) shall triumph. 

  You 15mm pansies shall be our lantern bearers, cabana boys, and garden
gnomes. 

  The 6mm crowd? They'll be action figures for the younglings or make
cartoons after we dip them all in blue paint and stick funny conical
white hats on them. 

  The only people we moderately fear are the 30mm-ites. On the good
side, they're all stuck in an alternative universe (codenamed Gamma
Whattheheckweretheythinking by our scientists) that has exceedingly
impermeable borders which they will be unlikely to escape and which
apparently prevent entry of forces not originating in that universe. So
we're fairly safe from the great majority of those bruisers. 

  25mm is THE ONE TRUE SCALE. Scalist Heretics, your day draws nigh. We
shall triumph!

  T. 

  PS - Remember, Flouridation, Telecommunications Monopolies, and The
National Surveillance Agency were all similar government initiatives and
we know how those turned out! Learn from the past! 

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  "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine 

  "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of
liberty quits the horizon." -- Thomas Paine 

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