"Square Bashing in 6mm" Topic

My 6mm figures for WWI are by Irregular Miniatures.

As you probably know, each IM stand is 1" (2.5cm) wide and has 3 figures on it.

Any suggestions as to how many stands for each Square Bashing base?

I presume that losses in each battalion are taken by bases being removed and that the actual number of figures on each base is immaterial?

These Russians are 6mm Irregular based for SB:
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Hi Alan,
As the "square" in the rules is the important mechanism the base sizes are relevantly immaterial. The size really is for asthetics depending on the scale of the figure. You would be quite at home keeping the IM bases "as is" and use each base to represent a Stand. Prince Albert's figures look very good and really it is upto you how you make up your elements.

If you are going to go for the standard bases size probably a base and a half (4 – 5 figures) would be fine. I think Peter Pig answered your 1914 6mm post with the suggestion of upto 10 figs. IMHO probably a bit much. The ideal with 6mm would the effect of the "proper" appearance of formations.

In terms of losses each casualty requires the removal of a half base rather than a full one. I have 30 x 15 HBs for my 10mm forces. But in essence you are correct the number of figs on a base is immaterial

Si Tyler

Thanks for the replies.

I think I might go for 2 stands of 3 figures each per base which should look about right for density. This means I can easily do a number of half-bases with 1 stand.

In SB, are light machine guns such as Lewis guns represented individually or should I put them on a base with some infantry as part of the battalion?

Mine are on some of the bases. I cannot recall (at work so don't have book with me) if Battalions so equipped get an additional 1D6 on Fire Power. It was dicussed during play testing so I have the requiste stands. If it didn't make it in then it doesn't alter the battalion structure and I have even more infantry available

Si

I've played SB with Irregular strips as is, four strips per battalion. As above, the number of figures per base is irrelevant. If you are using SB sized bases (30x30) than you might want to use multiple strips.

As CAG says, LMGs are a unit capability (and you may wish to have seperate LMG stands for other rules in any case) so probably an idea to do seperate LMG stands (which is what I do).

I'm organising my Irregular Mini 1914 BEF & Germans battalion at 8 stands each ie 2 stands per SB Base so it handles 1/2 bases

For HMGs I will use 2 HMG stands

For artillery I will keep to single stands

Hi Shedman,
yep artillery doesn't use half bases it is either full strength or damaged. I haven't worked out yet how to do the "damaged" indicator yet in 10mm

Si

For damaged markers, what about some of the nice blast markers from Litko:

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Alan

For damaged artillery I will probably use limbers

When the artillery is damaged then remove the limber

I've got them for both 6mm 1914 and 10mm RJW