"Light Mortar Base Size" Topic
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 Extra Crispy  | 24 Jul 2016 9:17 a.m. PST |
For light mortars, are they based on small or medium stands? |
 Doms Decals | 24 Jul 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
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| Miniaturerealm | 24 Jul 2016 9:50 a.m. PST |
medium bases believe, My US Paras certainly are. |
| BuckeyeBob | 24 Jul 2016 10:10 a.m. PST |
The light 50mm to 60mm mortars are based on a small stand.
The 80-81mm mortars are based on a medium stand. Per the FOW web site |
| Doms Decals | 24 Jul 2016 11:39 a.m. PST |
60mm are oddities as they're treated more like "baby mediums" than light mortars. The US sets come with medium bases for them, but British, German, Russian and Japanese 50mm are all small bases. |
| Doms Decals | 24 Jul 2016 11:45 a.m. PST |
(Oddly the Italian 45mm Brixia teams are medium bases though. I can only assume that's because they have 3 crew and the small base was too crowded….) |
| Winston Smith | 24 Jul 2016 12:09 p.m. PST |
It really depends on how the particular army list classifies them. Most of mine (if not all) go on light bases. But then… |
| Leadgend | 24 Jul 2016 10:59 p.m. PST |
If the light mortar can bombard (Italian 45mm Brixia and US/French/Romanian 60mm) then it goes on a medium base facing the long edge just like 8cm mortars. If the mortar is direct fire only (Brit 2", German/Soviet/etc 50mm) then it goes on a small base facing the long edge. |
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