I'm just wondering what size table/surface do you guys play on? If your size is not on the poll, just post it up in this thread!
3'x3' (1m x 1m)
4'x4'
4'x6'
4'x8'
3'x4'
3'x5'
What size gaming area do you use to play.
I'm just wondering what size table/surface do you guys play on? If your size is not on the poll, just post it up in this thread!
5'x7' with six or more players,
4'x6' with fewer than six players.
Usually my kitchen table which is about 3x5. I do have a 4x6 in my basement for other games but haven't used it for WoW.
We use a 3 x 5 table...but I have a 3 x 3 green cloth we can use on it as well for closer games. The we is myself, my kids and occassionally my bride!
Space as needed
In the games I have played so far, there has never been a really defined common sized space. I use whatever is available at the time.
In games against my son we have used the dining room table and the living room floor. Against Jeff, a friend of mine in Paducah, we have used his bar in the kitchen, approx 2ftx4ft. In Clarksville we had a table approx 4ftx8ft.
I used to use the 3x5 kitchen table, but have now gone to a 52x52 inch table. I much prefer the sqaure playing area over the rectangular.
So about 5 or 6 months ago, I said to my wife, "You know, we really need a new, larger kitchen table for the family at dinner time." She said, "Really...I've been wanting that for some time now. When can we go looking!?!"
So when we did go looking, and I didn't let on to her this then, but she was looking for a new family kitchen dinner table, and I was looking for a new WoW table!
Turned out to be a win-win for both of us!
Last edited by kaufschtick; 09-11-2009 at 08:51.
I only get to play at the game store and they have 4x6 tables. I do have a 52"x52" table at the house, but it belongs to the wife's scrapbooking hobbyI think I would prefer the square table format as well.
We tend to use a 4x4 for up to 5 or 6 players.
6+ we use a 4 x 8
I game on a 5 x 3 table.
We generally us a 4 X 4 table at our club, gives us enough space for 6 planes to fly around in.
The reason why Nexus choosed a smaller card size than poker or Magic is to allow gaming on small tables - the spaces that can be usually found in a normal flat. I usually play in 4 on 3' x 3', or even in 2' 4" x 2' 4" (70 cm) if I am in a pub or with a small table anyway.
Andrea...I'm shocked!Originally Posted by Angiolillo
Are we to understand this correctly.
Are you suggesting that you; dare I say...drink and fly!!
Last edited by kaufschtick; 09-24-2009 at 01:06.
Outragous!!! This pilot Must be grounded pending a medical board review!!!!Are you suggesting that you; dare I say...drink and fly!!
Yes, and part of the penalty will be...ah...hmm...confinement... with, ah...let's see here...um, model making people...to... ah... yeah, um... make many more miniatures!Outragous!!! This pilot Must be grounded pending a medical board review!!!!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
He'll have to do nothing but direct the production of more miniatures until such a time as he can be declared fit for a return to society!
(or until there are no more miniatures to be made, whichever comes first; as long as all the miniatures are done)!
Last edited by kaufschtick; 09-27-2009 at 10:04.
4'x6' is what I am used to playing on. So I'll just keep on using the same size table.
and playing WoW at a pub sounds like a great idea.
mmmm or maybe playing out in the man shed with a few cold ones...
Cheers
GW
Hello,
I some times use a 4'x6' with 4 players and 8 airplanes.
We regularly fly in the pub. An Irish one to boot.
I like to play on a 6'x4' but space at the moment restricts us to half of it at 3'x4' and if we are short on time then its straight on the dining table which is hexagon shaped with 2' sides and is brilliant for 3 and 6 player games
4'x4' table size for me
Do you guys use a mat to play on or just straight on the table? We play with the cards so far, and they tend to slide around a little on the table - was wondering if a green or blue cloth would be a better surface to play on.
Cheers
Paul
I use a old green felt cloth , on which I am slowly drawing a WW1 landscape using coloured pens and spray paint.
We were doing this, but then one of the players scored the two WoW mats on sale at a game shop that was going out of business, so now we use them.
When we play at my house, in the War Room, we use a 6' x 8' table.
Am very tempted with the official maps -but- a bit expensive
We use big coloured felt cloths for our table top covers. Although we have'nt gone into making any scenic table cloths yet, we're still looking at the possibility in the future.
As for colours, we used to change them depending on which campaine mission we were playing. We used Green for over land, dark blue for over the see and light blue for high in the sky. Not very original I know, but thats the only colours we have available to hand.............hence the idea of making a fixed battle field covering.
we play at the local mcdonald's on a 3x3 circular table (usually there is only 4 of us)
We fly on a 4' X 6' Table with Sky Blue felt
8 players 2 planes ea. just about right.
Whatever table, bench, floor, other surface or subsection thereof is handy or deemed 'the right size' for a given game. generally about 4'x4'. larger with more planes, or a bombing mission, smaller for a 1 on 1 duel. usually use Markosharks pool table.
getting my trestle table tomorrow 6' x 4'
it folds in half length way. so easy storage. will be breaking it in Friday night against my brother in law.
Cheers
GW
I usually play with a 3'x4' table, four planes can easily maneuver on it.
3x3
At the moment we use 3 x3 , 105 cm x 105 cm....
Greet's
Andreas
Andreas, looks like a SPAD in trouble!
Yes you are right,..."The Baron" Take me and Rickenbacker down,...
But it was fun at all!!!
Greet's
Andreas
My local store has a 4' x 6' table. The other place I play is just shy of 2' x 6'.
The beauty of the game is that it works great in both settings.
I made my own play mat, based on one I saw at a convention. I went to the fabric store and bought the largest piece of tan wrinkle-free fabric I could find on sale.
As a result, my play mat covers and area almost as big as two standard 8 foot folding tables- it is abotu 4 feet wide and about 7.25 feet long.
We usually use a 5' round one for 2 - 6 of us. Just family at home.
We use a 3x5 plate to play on, it can be easyly stored behind a couch when not needed.
Dammit inches? whats that? something to eat? We have centimeters here. So my battleground is 80cm x 100cm. Photos are in my album.
1' = 12" 1" = 25mm
Usually on the table which is 3' by 5' but when it is free on the war games table which is 5' by 6'. I had to cut it down from 6' by 8' when we moved house. Bad planning or what!
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
You're moving up fast Stachel
One of the things that drew me in to Wings of War was a smaller playing area. I live in an apartment, so even 4x6 can be a stretch at times.
I've got a couple of the mats, though. I usually play on one, because most of the games I have played to this point have been fairly small.
Definitely, the bigger the better. I try to allocate 4 sq/ft per player with either 2 single-seaters or one twin-seater per player. So a 6'x4' table will accommodate 6 players and up to a dozen aircraft.
I don't necessarily play on a standard table size. It varies per amount of players/planes. That's one thing that I like about this game. YOu don't really need a "standard size" table if oyu don't have one or a table at all for that matter, just mark out a section of floor. That's what attracted me to the game initially the quick setup and play time. Even with all the optional rules it still goes quick playing a 2v2 or 3v3.
The size of table is determined by the game the last WW1 we used the standard game mat x 2 (4 sheets) but for WW2 we used 3 No 6x4 one for each carrier and one for CAP this made movement easy and allowed the use of some large carrier printouts (4x10) so the gunners could be effective, but the Jap pilots just crashed on the decks and avoided the flight back to rearm nothing new there but it was a good afternoons excitement.
6x4 with a Hotz Mat green field covering.
hi all!
usually i play wow on a table which is for 8 people, i dont know the exact measures of it.what measure would it have?
3'x3' or 4'x4' (4 people). Our standard battlefield (4 people) is the dinner or kitchen table.
A.
We use to play with a 4'x4' table for 4 players, it has a nice withe matt painted with greens and browns spots..
We use our green wargame table of 4'x6' for 6 or more players when we play in the club..
And a lot of fuel, the black one!!
I received one of the playing mats for Christmas and just picked up the other one to complete the set. Sadly, my basement table (our official gaming table) was almost exactly the right length, but was about 10 cm too narrow. My solution? I went out to Home Depot and had them custom cut a piece of pre-sanded plywood to my exact specifications, which just happen to be the exact dimensions of the two playing mats together. I might have gone a little bigger, but it just so happened that even a couple of centimeters in any direction and it wouldn't have fit in the back of my car. The plywood is heavy enough that it doesn't shift or move, so it works like a charm.
I must say that the playing mats really raise the feel of the game to new level for us. The game was always fun to play, but now it just looks awesome! And I find that they work really well with the miniatures because the miniatures are heavy enough to have some grip, but the cards slide nicely (making it easy to slip the maneuver cards out from under the miniatures).
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