When I first bought 2mm figures I had never seen (and still haven't) anyone else using 2mm figures (which is quite surprising as Irregular tell me that they continue to sell very well). I was fascinated by them; whole armies in the palm of your hand, 'real' looking bodies of troops instead of a few representative figures and a tiny storage space needed.

I started with buying a lot of ACW stuff and a few samples from other ranges, the ACW never came to much as I got bogged down developing Corps level rules to go with them but the Ancient/Medieval seemed to offer some scope. I was beginning to get back into DBA with some 15mm 'Dark Ages' armies and didn't fancy DBM but a local group were experimenting with a 'big battle' version of DBA and I wanted to try out their ideas (plus a few of my own) but had nowhere near enough figures. The 2mm blocks seemed a likely answer so I started thinking, always a bad move for me, and ended up with hundreds of the little buggers.

Since then I have done more gaming in other scales and still not found any opponents for my 2mm. Comments I get aplenty, some of them quite appreciative, but no-one wants to play. They unfortunately remain a personal & private passion but still give me a lot of pleasure. Maybe with Big Battle DBA I can convince people more easily when I can pull out any 3 armies I fancy from a box a foot square.

There are two basic approaches when downscaling an existing rule set to 2mm. Rules rarely give any specific basing or scale options for 2mm so you have to decide between reducing the scales (usually to base sizes of about 17-25mm frontage - that's 3/4 to 1 inch to the imperialists) or packing in a number of blocks on a 15mm sized base.

I originally went for the first option because that is why I started with 2mm: small bases, less space and more elements for the same amount of painting time. I was not entirely convinced that the other option worked that well anyway, lots of figures on a base look great in 6mm but 2mm elements still look like a lot of blocks, not an homogenous unit. Still, each to their own, the second option has its supporters and they do have the advantages of being easier to handle and requiring no rule changes. I haven't really changed my opinion on this but, because most others seem to be doing it, I am in the process of  re-basing my DBA elements onto 15mm scale bases (40mm frontage).

Distances can be a bit more awkward when adapting rules to 2mm, they do tend to be rather small. I reduced from 100paces=25mm to 100paces=15mm and made the playing area a bit larger in relation to the base sizes than the 15mm version. In DBA 1.1 this did make a difference with some maneuvers but the differences in DBA 2 will be less due to some of the rule changes/clarifications. I think that this is needed to stop move distances becoming too 'fiddly'.