Shardik | 01 Apr 2013 3:14 a.m. PST |
In 28mm, my Pike blocks are 16 figs, on 4 40mm x 40mm bases. My musketeers are 8 figs on 2 40mm square bases, although I have a couple of small units of 6 figures each. Cavalry and dragoons are 8 figs on 4 50mm square bases. I'm thinking of getting duplicate dismounted dragoons, probably 8 figs on 4 50mm x 25mm bases. By the way, can someone confirm that ECW dragoons are always in skirmish order? For commanded shot and storming party, I'm going to go for 12 figs on 3 40mm square bases. Artillery is on 60mm x 90mm bases. |
Blake Walker | 01 Apr 2013 3:24 a.m. PST |
My pike blocks are 16 man units based on 4 50mm x 50mm bases. Musketeers are based 4 figures on a 50mm x 50mm base. I have 32 man figure units for my infantry regiments (16 musket/16 pike). Cavalry is two mounted figures on a 50mm x 50mm base. 12 cavalry figures to a cavalry regiment. Artillery and Army Generals are individually mounted on either 25mm x 25mm or 25mm x 50mm bases. Hope that helps. |
Shardik | 01 Apr 2013 3:45 a.m. PST |
Well I was asking more out of curiosity than asking for help :-), but thanks for the info. Looks like our foot regiments are the same numerically (16 pike, 8 & 8 musketeers.) I bet your 12 man cavalry regiments are an impressive sight! |
Feet up now | 01 Apr 2013 5:04 a.m. PST |
Well the missus said that
. Oh sorry wrong pike n shotte..oops |
bruntonboy | 01 Apr 2013 5:30 a.m. PST |
50/50 pike ratio looks a bit too high IMHO. My units are 8 pike and two sleeves of 8 shot. I also keep the command figures desperate on an additional round base. These would add another 3 or 4 to the unit count. |
Redlancer38 | 01 Apr 2013 5:53 a.m. PST |
2 x Sleeves of 12 Shotte and 1 x block of 12 or 16 pike for normal sized units. This is a 2/1 ratio of shotte to pike. Late armies I think would have more shotte and earlier more pike. I've read estimates of 1/1 in the Royalist army and 2/3 in the Parliamentarian army, at Edgehill for example. |
Pictors Studio | 01 Apr 2013 6:15 a.m. PST |
My 28mm Pike units are 2 stands of pike plus 1 stand of command while the shot are two sleeves of 3 stands each. Each stand is 4 figures per stand. My 10mm P&S units are 14 man pike stands and between 8 and 14 man shot stands with one base of the former and two bases of shot. These are average units, there are variances for specific units.
I believe that ECW dragoons did not really skirmish and formed lines when dismounted often. They would not have fought much differently from musketeers in most circumstances. |
Lord Raglan | 01 Apr 2013 6:22 a.m. PST |
I use 18 figures in total, based with 6 figures on a 50mm by 50mm base – 6 pike/command and then 2 sleeves of 6 shot. Its all well and good having large pike/shot units, however they get pretty cramped and hard to move even on a fairly large table, as a result the game can become a rather static affair. Raglan |
Timmo uk | 01 Apr 2013 7:02 a.m. PST |
Most of my units are 24 – 28 figures. However, I've decided to add a third row of pike (typically another 4 or 6 figures) to make them look better plus some individual command groups as vignette pieces. I think you need three or four ranks of pikes to make them look good. The rules I use have P:M ratio built in but don't require the exact numbers of pike or musket figures. I think units look fine with 1:1 pike to musket. Too few pikes and they don't seem to have enough mass to me. I wish I had based mine a bit tighter but having rebased 204 cavalry I'm not messing about with the foot. |
Pijlie | 01 Apr 2013 7:46 a.m. PST |
I play in 10mm. A unit is a 24-men pike block with between 24 and 36 musketeers. This would be impractical in 28mm of course. |
MajorB | 01 Apr 2013 8:19 a.m. PST |
In 15mm, I use 12 figure units. |
fogsoldiers | 01 Apr 2013 10:34 a.m. PST |
Same as Margard but in 28mm |
kallman | 01 Apr 2013 11:50 a.m. PST |
My figures are based individually on metal bases and then placed onto magnetized movement trays. Most of my units are about 14 to 15 pike including command with two sleeves of shot numbering about 14 to 15 each. So my units tend to have up to 45 figures. My horse units tend to number 10 to 12 with command. |
companycmd | 22 Oct 2013 11:28 a.m. PST |
we have 3 man pike units and 6-7 man musket units. 28mm so we get like a division of infantry in each Battalia box |
companycmd | 22 Oct 2013 12:29 p.m. PST |
And with 3 men per cavalry squadron we get like 8 units of cav in the same box. |