Kings of War 15mm Modifications

Space and Scale

The main objective of scaling down the miniatures is to scale up the battle. As you are using approximately half the height the footprint on the board is approximately a quarter of the size. I personally found this exciting as your Orc Legion (60 troops) in 15mm is now the same unit base size and a Regiment unit base in 28mm. To me this was an obvious advantage to give the feel of a proper epic sized battle with hundreds or even thousands of troops that can be fit on to a reasonably sized battlefield.

Proposed Modifications

Base Sizes:

As mentioned above this should basically be half all the dimensions (one quarter of the squared size). A 20mm base is represented by a 10mm.  As the 15mm miniatures will be based as entire units which gives an approximate of the following for unit base sizes.

Unit Type	Troop (mm)	Regiment (mm)	Horde (mm)	Legion (mm)
Infantry	50 x 20	50 x 40	100 x 40	100 x 60
Infantry (Orcs, etc.)	60 x 25	60 x 50	125 x 50	125 x 75
Large Infantry	-	60 x 20	60 x 40	120 x 40
Cavalry	60 x 25	60 x 50	125 x 50	-
Large Cavalry	-	75 x 25	75 x 50	150 x 50

Monsters & War Engines: 25 x 25 mm

Movement:

I call for imperial to metric in all areas, viva la resistance!

I thought the easiest solution for all distances was to replace inches for cm. This avoids the simple but annoying calculation of halving the speed value and giving result in inches. There will be a loss in speed but I don’t think in play this will cause a major issue (there is loss of movement of about a 20%).

Heights:

Keep unit heights values the same:

Unit Type	Height
Infantry	1
Large Infantry	2
Cavalry	5
Large Cavalry	6
Monsters	7
War Engines	1

Calculate terrain height differently:

Heights are and Issue with the inch to cm rule since an infantry unit of ~15mm is a height of 1 meaning terrain of 10mm would block line of site. Therefore I applied terrain height as its height in cm plus one.

Ranged Attack:

For ranged attacks I wanted to apply the same as movement so the loss of speed didn't impact increase in ranged benefit, therefore either work with inch to cm. This would give the following:

Weapon	Range (cm)
Long rifles, heavy crossbows	36
Bows, crossbows, rifles	24
Harpoon guns, carbines & fire bolts	18
Pistols, javelins, thrown weapons	12