"BKC II basing for 10mm figures?" Topic

I see that there are no basing conventions. I wonder what other people are doing for basing their 10mm figures.

From the rules "One centimeter on the tabletop represents either ten or twenty meters in real life, depending on the level of command you choose."

The designer has switched to using these bases sizes:

25 x 25mm for inf support, and HQs,
50 x 25mm for inf,
40 x 40mm for COs.

So these bases represent quite an area in the game.

Has anyone looked at how many 10mm figures look good in that sort of area? I'd make a diorama for the command bases.

general consensus is 5 figs for an inf base. 3+ support weapon and 3 + vehicle for command.

I have used 50x30mm bases (mainly so that I can use the same size bases for infantry and vehicles, which makes the logistics of buying bases a bit simpler). I tend to have 5 or 6 infantry to a base

British Infantry (50x30mm base, 6 Pithead figures)

British Paras (50x30mm base, 5 figures, Pithead, Pendraken and Minifigs)

British Infantry (50x30mm base, 6 Pendraken figures)

German Infantry (50x25mm base, 5x Minifigs figures)

Command Bases 40x40 is good for dioramas, but is big when playing

DAK, a gun and a Command stand

British Infantry (All Pithead)

British Armour (Pendraken Sherman, Minifigs Dispatch Rider)

British Paras (Mainly Pendraken)

I have done CO stands on 50x50, but these are very big on the table

Wow! Lots of inspiration.

For those big stands I suppose it would always be possible to have a small, round, insert in the big base. The insert, with a General on it, could be taken out and used when the larger base was a problem.

I use 40x20mm bases for infantry and use a 2:1 figure scale for infantry (for example an early war British squad is eight men so I put four on the base where as an early war French squad is twelve men so six go on the base).

Mick

I've just started rebasing onto 40x30 with 5 of 6 infantry on them – sort of like scaled down FOW basing – before that they were on 30x30 with 4 infantry per base.

No real difference, just aesthetics as getting 5 infantry on a base means I can get the 2-man Pendraken prone German LMG team + 3 infantry on one base. The 3x3's were also used for PBI, so I had separate LMG and weapons bases and 4 infantry on a 3x3.

The only time at which basing "sort-of" matters in the rules I can think of is when it comes to trenches, barbed wire and minefields, which are costed per 5cm width, and which (in the case of minefields and wire) are destroyed in 5cm widths as well. I guess that would make anything wider than 5cm occasionally a touch inconvenient – but anything smaller is fine.