We have been using 40mm by 20mm for our 15's. Will this be the standard for 15mm tournaments?
15mm basing
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The rule book states 40mm x 30mm as the nominated standard for basing.
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I took the 40mm x 30mm as been more important than the number of figures on the base. This does give you a shallower flank by a third.
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I went with 40mm x 30mm as it just looked right for 2 ranks deep, I will probably go 40mm x 40mm for cavalry and artillery but depends on what i see once my AB cavalry and artillery arrive.
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We are using 40X30 here. Looks good. Artillery is a little tight but works.
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40x30 for Inf and Cav, 40x40 for Artillery in the main here in Toronto among our group.
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40x25 for inf and cav, 40x40 for artillery. I using AB, Essex and Old Glory 15/18mm figures.
The book lists a single rank at 1.5" x 0.5" and ideally doubled to 1.5" x 1.0"for two ranks which comes out to 38.1mm X 25.4mm so I used the above. The artillery should have the same frontage as your inf/cav and the book looks like they are square so I went with 40x40. The artillery fits nicely on them and don't look crowded on it.
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We'd already based our infantry 30x30 for another system but we play to a 40mm frontage/BW. Steve had a brainwave the other evening - add a couple of skirmisher bases (20x20) to the line when necessary. Much better than leaving gaps or adding a plain base here and there.
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I'm using Battle Honours figures on 40mmx30mm for Inf & Cav, 40mmx40mm for Art and 40mm x 80mm for limbers.
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What's a mm? Kind of like an inch, only smaller?
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mm = millimetre.
cm = centimetre.
25mm = 2.5cm = 1 inch (approx)Posted 2 years ago # -
40x30 for inf/cav .... 40x40 art.... like book suggests.
looks really good BTW...
1 inch = 25.4mm (exactly)
Embrace the metric system..
It's easy, and it's fun ... ;-)Posted 2 years ago # -
Standard is 40mm x 30mm?
I thought the book recommends 40mm x 25mm?
I'm actually contemplating reducing it to 30mm x 25mm with 6 infantry on a base. That will save some money/painting time and still give normal sized infantry units of 24 and large ones of 36.
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How depth is important? I was considering to base 40mm frontage with just 3-4 figures in a single line. Probably not the better choice from a visual point of view, but I have to make an army from start and I have not tons of figs to recycle and 12-16 figs per battallion sounds more reasonable for my pocket.
So I wondered about the depth, as reducing iy would look better.Posted 2 years ago # -
I hear you :)
What some people have talked about doing is using the standard base depth and only put a single line of figures along the front, and as time goes by, paint the "filler" troops for the rear rank.
cheers
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It also makes a lot less flank for your opponent to hit. If you form a column of attack with bases 20mm instead of 30mm deep you go from from 60mm deep to 40mm. around three quarters of an inch I think.
I have the same money problem and I decided to go for 3 men per rank, or 6 infantry to a base. It still looks good.
Regards
Pickton
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6 figures looks very nice!
there is no need to go for 8Posted 2 years ago # -
I have used 6 figures per base and it looks fine, means a battalion is 24 figures which is still a resonable amount.
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Jules,
Are those bases 40mm frontage? They do look nice. Maybe I'll have to cut down my 8 figures to 6 per base.
Thanks for sharing.
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I'm doing the oposite, I have 8 figs on 30x30 base, it looks great, you get 32 figs on just 12 cm frontage, which means more room to move and flank, still not sure what to do about the artillery, I don't think I can get a gun on 30x30 base
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Ken,
Thats on the 40mm frontage, the cavalry and artillery also fit on a 40mm frontage fine as well. I could certainly packed them in tighter but i couldnt find a good enough reason.
A battalion width to depth is so out of whack i decided that the bases are just pretty markers so might as well go with what looks great without too much pain.Posted 2 years ago # -
Jules - six doesn't look bad. Will think hard about what I do... already based two units but still a how bunch of painting to do. How many cav do you use, 2 or 3?
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Here's mine on 8 on 30x30mm base
I still need the figs for the last base, but this is 24 figs on 9cm frontage
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well i looked at cavalry and decided to use 3 per base as i found 8 horses just didnt look like a unit but 12 did.
As for frontages i found 40mm BW was fine to play a game on a 6x4 table which is ideal for club nights as we can use the table that the GW/FoW crowd use.
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Good to see you here Gunfreak.
I know that you have played General de Brigade. Are you rebasing your figures or are you using your current basing.
I am wondering what to do with my French battalions which are organised as 6 companies of 6 (15mm)figures. This allows me to represent each of the elite companies easily.
How are you (or anyone else) basing your French? Particularly the elite units.
To be honest, I haven't bought the rules yet as I don't want to rebase. I do like Sam's rules and have 6mm figures for Grande Armee and hopefully will also play Blucher with these.
Is it possible to play with units of more than 4 bases without unduely affecting the game mechanics?Posted 2 years ago # -
Hey Captain, I'm not going to use my old GdB figs, they don't look to good, so I'm kinds imbarased to put them on my table, even if I'm the only one to see them.
I'm doing completly new units for lasalle, 32 fig units on 4 30x30mm bases.
For the elite companies I just add 4 grendaiers/carabiners on the right side, and 4 vulgtuires on the left, so 4 figs kinda become a company(I know the french sometimes used 6 companies)
So each base(8 figs) would be 2 companies
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