Since I'm doing my 1/72 scale diorama project and will have plenty of minis left over, is there any game system using such small minis I might look at?

My group use 1/72 for quite a few systems , i'll list below the rules and the period we use

Fire and Fury- ACW
Fire and Fury - Sudan
Command and Colours - Ancients ,
Flames of War - WW2 , WW1
Memoir 44 - WW2
Warhammer Ancients - Ancients and Napoleonics ( oddly enough it works well with Naps )
Disposeable Heroes - WW2
This Very Ground - War of 1812

Some of the above use multiple basing which is great for 1/72 plastics.

Keep in mind 1/72 figures are just as good to use for historical gaming as thier 28mm cousins , sometimes better .

Hope this helps , cheers Tom

I thought Flames of War was even smaller?

In any case it will only be WW1 minis that I have, and I don't figure WW1 exactly is a great setting for a wargame, the whole percieved lack of movement and much use of tactics and all that.

Flames of War works just as well , and looks just as good ( if not better ) in 1/72 .
No-one says you have to play it in 15mm , or use only Battlefront figures and vehicles .
We had so much 1/72 infantry , tanks , terrain all painted up we just used it to play FOW and it works , it was also allot cheaper than 15mm . The base sizes are all the same for the infantry as 15mm .

We've used FOW for games in the Pacific , Eastern Front , Western Front , Japanese occupation of China , WW1 Western Front and even between Russia and Japan in the last stages of WW2

FOW works very well with WW1 too , not all of the WW1 was stuck in the mud and trenches. Early and late in WW1 was a very fluid conflict . Theres also the Middle East campaign in Palestine ( Aussies and Turks ) and even East Africa ( German and Allied ) and there are really good 1/72 figures for that too .

Let me know if you want any more details , there is quite a bit of support online for conflicts outside of WW2 for FOW

cheers Tom

I'm a little late jumping into this thread, but I need to increase my post count so what the hey

You could play any system with 1/72 if you wish, no scale is set in stone on any system, except maybe GW and PP stuff.

1/72 or 20mm is so good. I've just gotten Force on Force, which was designed with 15mm models in mind, but in 20mm its a lot better.

That being said, 1/72 plastics suck compared to 1/72 metals (Duh, but the difference in detail is massive). Some of the stuff companies like Elheim Figures and Liberation miniatures are pumping out is incredible. Much more detailed that anything I've seen for warhammer. For 35$ shipped, I got 18 USMC in 2009 gear, 20 back packs and a medic and engineer. Not as cheap as 1/72 plastics (heh not even nearly as cheap!) But my god the models are nice.

And the good thing about using 20mm is that a 1/72 tank is not that much more than a 1/100 resin tank and the 1/72 will be a lot better (well unless you buy some ugly old kit that does not fit together well ).

Rapid fire is a WWII rule system for 20mm (1/72 and 1/76th scale)

It can also be used for WWI

20th Century wargaming (Australian site)
http://www.worldoptions.com.au/fourpipers/rapid/

WWI and WWII senarios
http://www.worldoptions.com.au/fourpipers/...d/scenario.html