Victrix Announce Their Upcoming 12mm World War II Game
September 27, 2019 by brennon
Victrix has announced that they are working on a new venture, Victrix Games, which will be kicking things off with the launch of a World War II game in 12mm scale.
The game is scaled to 12mm because they believe that this provides the best match between vehicles and troopers. They also think that it "allows for realistic scale actions even on a small 6ft by 4ft gaming table without the battle looking overcrowded and unrealistic." However, they also said that you should be able to see a correlation between their range and most existing 10mm ranges out there.
The first venture for them will be into World War II and the battles taking place throughout Normandy in 1944. This will include British, German and American forces with a focus on tank and infantry elements as well as an option for aircraft too. They are also looking to expand things to include North Africa and the Eastern Front in the near future.
As well as the new range of models this will all be supported by rules which will get released in late 2020. Before that, you'll be able to snag yourself plenty of the models which will be released towards the front end of 2020.
A lot of models are in the works and you can find the full list of what's coming over on their Facebook Page where they went into more detail with previews and more. I think it's neat to see Victrix expanding their range to include this new scale and exploring gaming rules too.
Make sure to let us know if you're going to be keeping an eye out for what Victrix do with this range. I think more options are always a good thing and if the rules match up then they're going to be fun for people to dive into with their existing collections too.
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"...if the rules match up then they're going to be fun for people to dive into with their existing collections too"
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I think we have said it all in the forums 😉 https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/victrix-12mm-ww2/
In reality, isn’t is just going to work with 10mm and 15mm stuff anyway? It’s not that big of a leap and whilst it might seem odd stylistically I’m sure it will be fine for folks who play both those scales.
It just depends what they are deciding is 12mm. They say fit in with existing ranges and they say the scale I believe is 1/150 or 1/160 which fits in with Pendraken and Pithead who are the only real players in this scale for WW2. Of course they might mean Arrowhead minis which while beautiful models dont have a huge range and are 1/144 which is N gauge or sometimes called 12mm or they mean Takara and Dragon who do 1/144 WW2
And yes the difference between 1/150 and 1/144 is noticeable on the tabletop
12mm wont work with 15mm.
Its different scales… be like using 20mm and 28mm together.
if 15mm equates to 1/100 – that against 1/144 is massive (so to speak)!
Shame they couldn’t align with aother system like FoW – they may have sold some more models, or maybe they thought gamers wouldn;t bother getting theirs is they already had Battlefront/PSC equivalents. It’s not like I’m likely to invest in a 12mm WW2 system and models if I already have 15mm models and multiple WW2 systems.
But it will work well with gundam models.
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A new scale isn’t the answer. A new scale is a question and the answer is “no”.
Isn’t the “12mm” thing just them acknowledging that most 10mm stuff is bigger than that? They say it will fit with other 10mm ranges.
Great looking tanks for 12mmm models
12mm? WTF?
I dont mind the scale at all. Its not like it causes other scales to disappear and there is plenty on offer for 10mmm and others already.
As long as they cover everything I am okay.
It’s not that those other scales won’t dissappear.
It’s that this scale is a niche within a niche …
There’s usually one good reason why there is so little competition : it’s not profitable.
Never mind that they’re only doing Germans, British and Americans. Thereby already ignoring the Soviets.
To say nothing about the lesser factions that barely have any support in the more popular scales/sizes.
@limburger I would think that PSC has seen a drop in sales since Battlefront released V4 and producing more and more plastic kits. So as Battlefront does Team Yankee in 15mm PSC would want to maximise their profit and share of the market by producing models in a different scale to go along with the new Northag rules they are releasing.
If they have seen a drop out is because they haven’t been advertising or people are willing to pay more for quality..
Psc aren’t the best kits out there.
Nothing wrong with PSC kits… their 15mm are very good.
Though the lack of sales is more due to less people playing FoW, especially in the UK.
To be honest I think PSC should do their Cold War AK wielding Soviets in 28mm for fictional actions in the cold war now that Warlord is doing Bolt Action Korea.
Never heard of 12mm before. The minis look good but 12mm?
yeah not a huge fan of this 12mm business myself…. 15mm is already not fully worked out just yet, so why 12? Oh yes I know to be able to sell. kinda a disappointment I must say
Don’t see what the fuss is about 12mm scale. Between Battlefront’s ever-expanding 15mm range and PSCs budget offerings what’s the point of another 15mm range. Plastics in the 10-12mm range adds another options and Victrix’s plans for the first two waves are extensive enough to do something with. Ultimately it depends on pricing. 15mm is my current preferred scale and I won’t be changing that, but I could easily seen myself picking this.