What size gaming area do you use to play. [Archive]

Setarius

09-10-2009, 19:29

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.:):D;)
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.

kaufschtick

09-10-2009, 20:23

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!:D

Oberst Hajj

09-10-2009, 23:08

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 hobby :( I think I would prefer the square table format as well.

rapier1642

09-14-2009, 06:47

We tend to use a 4x4 for up to 5 or 6 players.

6+ we use a 4 x 8

Zeppelin

09-18-2009, 12:54

I game on a 5 x 3 table.

aarondpjames

09-19-2009, 05:52

We generally us a 4 X 4 table at our club, gives us enough space for 6 planes to fly around in.

Angiolillo

09-22-2009, 14:46

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.

kaufschtick

09-22-2009, 20:10

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!:eek:

Are we to understand this correctly.:eek:

Are you suggesting that you; dare I say...drink and fly!!:eek::D

aarondpjames

09-26-2009, 12:13

Are you suggesting that you; dare I say...drink and fly!!:eek::D

Outragous!!! This pilot Must be grounded pending a medical board review!!!!:D

kaufschtick

09-27-2009, 09:45

Outragous!!! This pilot Must be grounded pending a medical board review!!!!:D

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!

Yeah, that's the ticket! :D

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)! :D

Greywolf

10-09-2009, 20:48

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

Sofia Lopes

10-17-2009, 02:35

Hello,

I some times use a 4'x6' with 4 players and 8 airplanes.

krolik

10-18-2009, 22:41

We regularly fly in the pub. An Irish one to boot.:D

Roger Wilco

10-19-2009, 05:43

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

mosstrooper

10-26-2009, 11:03

4'x4' table size for me

cyteen02

10-26-2009, 13:43

mosstrooper

10-27-2009, 10:33

I use a old green felt cloth , on which I am slowly drawing a WW1 landscape using coloured pens and spray paint.

krolik

10-27-2009, 13:50

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.

mosstrooper

10-28-2009, 10:47

Am very tempted with the official maps -but- a bit expensive

aarondpjames

11-02-2009, 03:08

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

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.

Eliminator

11-02-2009, 17:53

we play at the local mcdonald's on a 3x3 circular table (usually there is only 4 of us)

Rick Tofen

11-15-2009, 14:29

We fly on a 4' X 6' Table with Sky Blue felt
8 players 2 planes ea. just about right.

Eserchie

11-20-2009, 22:44

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.

Greywolf

12-01-2009, 22:16

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

Jäger

12-22-2009, 22:00

I usually play with a 3'x4' table, four planes can easily maneuver on it.

Dimetri1

01-03-2010, 17:04

3x3

Papavader

01-22-2010, 02:41

At the moment we use 3 x3 , 105 cm x 105 cm....

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=119&pictureid=2580

Greet's
Andreas

phililphall

01-22-2010, 08:28

Andreas, looks like a SPAD in trouble!

Papavader

01-22-2010, 09:08

Yes you are right,..."The Baron" Take me and Rickenbacker down,...:(

But it was fun at all!!! ;)

Greet's

Andreas

sparty

02-16-2010, 19:17

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.

rcboater

02-16-2010, 20:28

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.

Kodiak

02-25-2010, 15:33

We usually use a 5' round one for 2 - 6 of us. Just family at home.

Ookami

03-31-2010, 22:28

We use a 3x5 plate to play on, it can be easyly stored behind a couch when not needed. ;)

BrunoStachel

04-01-2010, 05:33

Dammit inches? whats that? something to eat? We have centimeters here. So my battleground is 80cm x 100cm. Photos are in my album.

Kodiak

04-01-2010, 13:38

1' = 12" 1" = 25mm

Flying Officer Kyte

04-06-2010, 05:49

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!

Willi Von Klugermann

04-06-2010, 15:54

Dammit inches? whats that? something to eat? We have centimeters here. So my battleground is 80cm x 100cm. Photos are in my album.

You're moving up fast Stachel

Kashirigi

05-18-2010, 08:01

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.

Rollout

05-18-2010, 21:20

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.

Wingman Fran

05-22-2010, 06:14

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.

FLt Brown

07-04-2010, 08:20

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 6’x4’ one for each carrier and one for CAP this made movement easy and allowed the use of some large carrier printouts (4’x10’’) 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.;)

Algynon

07-04-2010, 08:47

6x4 with a Hotz Mat green field covering.

Olt^Jones

07-14-2010, 15:20

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?

Attila57

07-14-2010, 23:23

3'x3' or 4'x4' (4 people). Our standard battlefield (4 people) is the dinner or kitchen table.

A.

Galland

07-19-2010, 08:07

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!!:p

hermes

07-29-2010, 22:36

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).

missaak

07-30-2010, 00:01

1100 x 800 px :-p
but I can switch it in smaller or bigger version by simple click

RJB

01-02-2011, 14:42

Only played 2 games so far (on 6' x 4') but at the club we can have any combination of 6' by 4'.

Richard

The Cowman

01-02-2011, 21:37

My FLGS has 4x8 tables covered with a very short, tightly knit, green carpet... perfect for gaming and they have held up well over the last few years!

MayorJim

02-05-2011, 18:23

Well, for about 2 years we played on the kitchen island. It was about 4' by 3' and was granite...the cards and planes would slide all over the place. The Lt. Col. SWMBO then placed an old table cloth over the counter...that worked great; except for the fact that it was kind of pink in color...after about three or four games with old "pinkie" she bought an olive colored cloth to use. We also then moved to the main dining table. That worked out ok except that the dining table was actually a bit too large for playing on. You would take two to three turns just to begin to close in. Went back to the kitchen island and the olive cover. We then downsized homes, moved, and I broke down and bought the "official" WoW play mats. They work great in that the cards and planes don't slide around as much and you visually have some terrain depicted. Downside, for me, is that the graphics on the WoW mats seem a bit "cartoonish" (is that a word?) to me. Plus side, is that the mats roll up nicely for storage...we also now have an old sewing table that folds out to 3' by 5' which holds the playing mats nicely (they overhang about an inch per side) and we can set up or take down fairly easily since space in the new home is a little limited. Eventually, I'd like to try making my own playing surface using some aerial photos transferred to a playing surface. (there's a number of these available from other sites). Just haven't had the time to pursue that option. We usually can get 3 planes per side (total of 6) into that area with no problems at all. Adding a balloon and some AA etc. should not be a problem in that size either. Hope that helps!

Warhorse47

02-05-2011, 19:09

A regular folding table, roughly 3' x 8'. Or a circular 4' folding table.

vacca rabite

02-05-2011, 19:49

I used to have a 4x8 game table I made up in my attic, but it was sacrificed to create two 2x8 work benches for the garage.

Lately I have been playing on 4x6 tables at a freinds place, or 4x4 tables at another friends place, or once a 2x2 table at my place.

2x2 is small for minis.

Zach

mr7q

02-06-2011, 09:00

Yet another 4'x6'er here! Folds up into a closet as well when I'd prefer to use the space for something else (two pieces of 3'x4' plywood, two 5' 2x4s, and two sawhorses, covered with interlocking foam terrain squares). Works out well enough!

Aero825

02-07-2011, 16:38

My dad and I use the mats and that's it. We used to use sizes that varied by the mission though.

grumpybear

02-08-2011, 05:54

I like 4x8 use it for all war games. It gives lots of room to maneuver.

STICK

02-08-2011, 06:21

We started out with an old green bath towel which worked and was better than a bare table but the threads kept moving the planes. Now we use the two WoW playmats almost exclusively and have incorporated them into our campaign. We have played all over the place though. A 3 1/2 foot round table was one of the most fun.

jbmacek

02-08-2011, 08:54

We've been using two 2.5'x6' tables side by side. There's plenty of space to fly in, with room around the periphery for status boards and things.

Happy

02-11-2011, 03:41

We typically play on a 4x4 board, but as we have 2x2 modular terrain boards we can easily increase the size if we have more aircraft than normal in play

Madboyo

04-26-2011, 00:14

I picked up a pair cheap (and large) tables. both the same size at 900x1800mm (just under 3x6). Was thinking they would make a good bombing run of 3.6m.

I'm struggling on how to create a perfect mat for them.......

Ginarley

04-26-2011, 00:37

My gaming set-up consists of both WoW mats, a piece of 25mm mdf cut to fit the two mats, and a cheap folding table which the mdf sits on top of. Works really well. My next mission is to create movable stands for the movement and damage decks and other accessories to get them off the playing surface.

Our rule of thumb is 2-6 planes on one mat, all other games using both mats.

Flying Officer Kyte

04-26-2011, 01:23

This may help re the Damage decks Ian.
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?4047-Damage-card-box.
Rob.

Ginarley

04-26-2011, 03:04

This may help re the Damage decks Ian.
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?4047-Damage-card-box.
Rob.

I saw those although it hadn't occurred to me that I could build something like into my design. My (lofty and not entirely thought out) ambition is a few custom built stand-alone/free-standing tables for the movement and damage decks which can be moved around the main table as the action shifts.

Ginarley

04-26-2011, 03:04

gully_raker

04-26-2011, 17:25

We use the 2 WOW Mats together at out Games Club but I have a slightly smaller home made one for home use.

Wombat

08-14-2011, 03:03

I use one out of two mats that are a little bigger than 3'x4', they are about 1 x 1,3 meter each. I made them myself, and you can see it in >>this thread<< (http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?5114-Hand-painted-mat-map.&highlight=carpet).

/Jörgen

Watchdog

08-14-2011, 03:28

When at home, I have a 6'x4' table with Games Workshop battlemat. We use either full table or a half, making it 2'x3'.

When in the capital, where I serve, we use either one or two WoW gaming mats, the tables in the gaming clubs, varying in sizes (from small card game tables to 4'x6'), or various pub tables, square, round or rectangular ones.

Archidamus

08-14-2011, 05:32

We play 6x4 on an 8x4 games table at the club - leaves a bit of room for the decks etc.

dancingdanslc

02-28-2012, 21:58

I'm new to the game. So far only played a handfull of scenarios. I quickly realized that the posted size on the scenario has a huge impact on the gaming experience. So I went through all my manuals, searched pdf files on-line for the scenario information that i did not have. I wrote down all the suggested size for all the scenarios that I could find. Then I rounded them up slightly to fit the closest inch. I found that the scenarios are 28inx28in, 32inx32in, 36inx36in, 40inx28in, 40inx40in, 48inx36in, 48inx48in, 54inx40in, 60inx40in. A friend and I are going to cut 1/8in board and cover them with Green and Brown felt and use the appropriate size for the scenario we are playing. Currently gaming on a 3ftx5ft table. Some of the boards will overlap the table a bit. Most boards will fit real nice. We are both excited about playing on the boards and will invite others to join us soon. We would like to create our own scenarios and get some really amazing battles going.

Chris Maes

02-28-2012, 23:28

Our gaming table is 4' x 6'. Actually, it is two 30" x 6' wooden folding tables with a green army blanket over the top. We mark off a 4' x 6' play area, giving some space along the table sides for player's control sheets. I typically have 2-8 players at any game session.

Chris Maes

john snelling

03-02-2012, 05:46

Two WoW mats for me. I will be increasing the size when I get around to it.

Rat of Vengence

03-03-2012, 03:24

4'x4' at the school club (2 desks pushed together) handles 4 to 6 players, but doesn't leave much room for the cards on the sides. At home 3'x3' is about half the dining table, but most I have had there so far is 3 of us. I have just finished a 4'x4' tabletop with an additional 4'x3' extension; they both fit onto a folding plastic trestle table. Haven't used them yet as I need to get some cloth to keep the cards good on the surface.

Dave