| surdu2005 | 05 Feb 2012 5:33 a.m. PST |
What are the base sizes for popular Napoleonic rules? It doesn't really matter what a base is meant to represent. For instance, I think that for Napoleon at War a base is a 40mm square, and five bases represents a regiment. I don't remember the base size, but as I recall a base for Nepoleon's Battles represented a brigade. What are the base sizes for Lasalle, Grande Armee, Napoleon's Battles, Regimental Fire and Fury, and others? I'm just trying to get a feel for what base size is "most common." Buck |
| MajorB | 05 Feb 2012 5:41 a.m. PST |
Grande Armee is 3" by 3". |
| Connard Sage | 05 Feb 2012 6:20 a.m. PST |
Lasalle base sizes PDF link It's a PDF from Sam's site. Click on it, it won't kill your computer. |
| RobH | 05 Feb 2012 7:45 a.m. PST |
Grande Armee and Volley & Bayonet use 3" square as standard with some 3"x1.5" specifics. But 2/3 scale is common for a lot of players using 2" or 50mm squares (Brigades or full size Regiments depending on army) |
| dBerczerk | 05 Feb 2012 8:01 a.m. PST |
I like the look of 1" by 1" individually-based 25mm figures for use with "Wellington Rules." |
| Scale Creep Miniatures | 05 Feb 2012 8:09 a.m. PST |
You can check out my Rules Directory here which lists lots of rules with basing: link But there's no real standard for the period. I do all my horse and musket on 20x15mm steel bases. This makes it very easy to just cut sheet magnet sabots for whatever basing a set of rules calls for. |
 Saber6   | 05 Feb 2012 9:04 a.m. PST |
More imprtant will the rules work with the bases I have now? Napoleon's Battles, Age of Eagles and Shako all use similar size bases for 15mm (.75x 1 for Infantry and 1x1 for Cavalry) of course I use sabots fot VnB, etc |
| raylev3 | 05 Feb 2012 2:40 p.m. PST |
I gave up on trying to satisfy all the rules sets, especially since the majority of rules today allow you to use any base size as long as it's consistent. I settled on 30mm frontage by 40mm depth for my infantry (28mm) stands. It works well for NB, AoE, Shako, Die Fighting, and, with two stands representing "one", LaSalle. At first I was going to go with 40mm x 40mm but I didn't think it represented the "close order" nature of the period's formations -- 30mm x 40mm keeps a tight formation. (Having said that, I do use 40mm x 40mm for my ACW. I believe the formations were a little looser. |
| surdu2005 | 05 Feb 2012 7:44 p.m. PST |
dBerczerk: It's nice to hear about people playing Wellington Rules! All of my 25/28mm figures are mounted that way as well. In this case, however, I'm looking to put together a bunch of 10mm figures for larger fights, since Wellington Rules is designed for smaller actions. I'm trying to determine the most flexible mounting size. Buck Surdu
(author of Wellington Rules) |
| pbishop12 | 05 Feb 2012 9:46 p.m. PST |
As I'm playing GdBde and when I return from my overseas job I intend to play Black Powder. I also have a copy of Wellington Rules back home which is a fun set. That said, I base my units 45mm x 40mm, 6 to a stand. For smaller uhits, 4 to a stand 30mmx40mm. For Brits, slightly larger to represent the 2 ranks vs. Continental 3 ranks. Frankly, I don't get hung up too much as long as all the units on the table are close enough on the measurements. And Buck.. what attracted me to Wellington Rules was the concept of stragglers. |
| surdu2005 | 07 Feb 2012 7:13 p.m. PST |
Thanks all for the help on base sizes. pbishop12, I'm glad you enjoy the stragglers concept. Buck |
