Microworld Games Preview Their TINY 3mm Fantasy Range
March 26, 2020 by brennon
We've heard of 28mm, 15mm, 10mm and even 6mm but I'd never heard of gaming at the tiny scale of 3mm! Well, Microworld Games enlightened me recently with this peek at their very, very, very small Fantasy range which is going to be releasing in the near future.
You might not be able to tell but that is a little Orc General and Elf General mounted upon their respective creatures. Once you get a little hint as to what they might be you start to notice the details and I like that the weapons are all massively overdone so that you get that impression of everything being heroic.
As it stands it seems like Orcs and Elves are going to be at the forefront of the first wave and there are lots of little options in the mix. We've seen them show off the Command Strip above for the Elves but also some Infantry and the like too in this 3mm scale. Here are the Orc Warriors for example.
One benefit of having these smaller scale armies is that it allows you to play absolutely monumental battles out on the tabletop which feature what amounts to thousands and thousands of soldiers. You could also extrapolate it a bit and fight it from a different viewpoint where instead of individual battles you're instead plotting out an entire war front.
I also like the idea that you could use these models to represent your force in the midst of a campaign too, marching across the land to try and secure their borders. You could use both these tiny 3mm figures and your regular 28mm ones to play out a variety of different games which all tie into one another in some way.
This is just a little snapshot of the 3mm Fantasy goodies Microworld has been showing off but we'd love to know if you've ever gamed in this scale.
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oooooh 3mm fantasy sweet
Lovely stuff
Really love these. Been tempted to try my hand at 2mm for some time so these go in my bookmarks! I am excited about the idea of epic fantasy battles.
3mm. OTT have finally seen the light 🙂
These really are tiny “Tiny Fighting Men” oO How is anybody me age and eyesight supposed to paint these?!
Inks
“dip & done”?
Bit more subtle than that
Brown undercoat, put different colored “dots” on. At that scale you really don’t need much to create the illusion.
As in fleshy dot for the face, silver dot on the helmet, blue dot on the chest….
They remind me of those ranges of metal miniatures of dragons and fairies and mythical figures and the like. They always had glass ‘gems’ integrated into them somehow. Are they still around?
I’d completely forgotten about those! I know exactly what you mean. When I was a little kid, before I knew anything of wargames and the like, a neighbour of mine used to collect them and I thought they were the coolest thing ever.
Does anyone remember what they were called?
Ooh can’t wait to do their eyes if I got some of them Ha.
Vanguard miniatures have been doing 3mm sci-fi since 2017, there are even a set of rules on there site, a lot of players use the range for Epic: Armageddon in 3mm.
Holy crap. They are TINY !
Hmm, I would love to see how much of a challenge these are to paint. If anything, it would be a great learning experince on what works technique wise and how good one can make them.
More 3mm stuff is always welcome. I’ve got some of the Magister Militum historical ancients which in this scale will do double duty in fantasy settings very easily.
Time to dust off the AD&D Battlesystem rule book, don some very strong glasses so I can see everything, and I’ll be ready to go.
not at all my scale but cool to have the option around.
This was a dangerous article…
Stuck in quarantine, lots of time to convince myself things are good ideas…
Well, now I’ve printed and bound the old Warmaster rulebook, and me and two buddie have each purchased a 6mm MicroWorld army to finally give that game a whirl.
Being stuck indoors for a while longer might just give me time to get them painted, too!