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1. Captain Chook
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   I had initially been uncertain about Lasalle and was really waiting for Blucher to use with my 6mm figures. However, I am still searching for a rules system I like for my 15mm figures. Reading some of the AARs it seems that Lasalle actually allows you to do some fighting relatively quickly rather than spending hours just moving and then making one or two painfully slow combats.
   My problem is that our group has an extensive collection of figures already based for General de Brigade. There is no chance to rebase these (one player has over 8000 figures!). As you may be aware, some bases will have six figures, some may have 8 or 10 figures. We would like to keep playing with our 6 stands of 6 French figures, 6 stands of 8 Austrians and 4 stands of 10 British for example.
   Is it possible to play Lasalle with this basing and just call the smaller 30 fig British and 36 figure French as 4 base units and nominate the larger 40 fig British and 48 figure Austrians as 6 base units?

   I hope this makes sense.

   Thanks,

   Anthony

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Grinner
   Member

   As I understand it, as long as all the bases are of the same size it doesn't matter how many figures are atop them. I.E. 4 bases equals a small unit and 6 bases equals a large unit, end of story. Thus so long as those Austrian, French, and British units are all on the same size bases, you shouldn't have any problem getting right into Lasalle.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. Captain Chook
   Member

   No, different base sizes. The constant is the frontage per figure. That was why I was thinking about using the different base sizes/base numbers, but making them a nominal 4 or 6 base unit for Lasalle purposes.

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. NTM
   Member

   I would suggest that 36 and 40 figure units as small and the 48's large and increase the 30's to 36 or 40 depending on how they are based. The 40 & 48 fig units would work as is, for the 36 rank them up 3x2 for attack column giving almost the same frontage as the 40's in 2x2.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. Captain Chook
   Member

   Thanks NTM. Might just have to get a copy of the rules then and work through them. I hope our basing will work. We are still on the look for a set of rules that really suits our group.

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. Milt Koger
   Member

   I have French and Russians mounted for GdB. Russian infantry were all mounted on 40mm x 25mm stands (4x2) which match Lasalle. Both French and Russian artillery were mounted on 40mm x 50mm stands which also was a good match. All my cavalry were mounted either 2 figures per 1" x 1 1/4" stands or 3 figures on a 1 1/2" x 1 1/4" stand. The three figure stands work fine. I will remount some of the 2 figure and use a sabot to get the ones I do not rebase to be 1 1/2" wide. The French infantry were mounted 3 x 2 on 30mm x 25mm stands. I have made 40mm x 25mm sabots for two of my three infantry divisions so they now have an equivalent base width.

   The number of figures per stand really is not important. The important thing is getting the base widths to be approximately equal.

   Several of the gamers in my area have their figures mounted for Napoleon's Battles--basically about 20mm x 25mm or 3/4" x 1". For these, we have been using two stands as one Lasalle stand.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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