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Shardik23 Oct 2016 4:28 a.m. PST

My colonial troops are 15mm, based 3 to a base. Is this suitable for TMWWBK, or are the rules designed for individually based figures?

Vigilant23 Oct 2016 4:52 a.m. PST

You can use these. You will need to mark individual casualties but otherwise the rules should work.

Oh Bugger23 Oct 2016 8:19 a.m. PST

What Vigilant said and should you wish there are nice casualty figures out there- or just use counters.

advocate23 Oct 2016 10:46 a.m. PST

Or you could use a base of three models as a single 'figure' and have, for example, 12 bases (36 figures) in a regular infantry unit. Depends on how many figures you have.
To give you an idea of army totals, in a 24 point force you might have up four regular infantry units, or as many as 8 tribal units (at 16 per unit).

Shardik23 Oct 2016 12:59 p.m. PST

So, regular units are normally 12 strong and tribals are 16? And the normal way to play would be to remove individual figures as casualties?

Personal logo Wolfshanza Supporting Member of TMP23 Oct 2016 10:42 p.m. PST

reg and Irr infantry are 12 figs. Tribal infantry are 16 figs. Reg and Irreg cav are 8 figs. Tribal cav are 10 figs. Single fig removal for casualties.

Shardik23 Oct 2016 11:31 p.m. PST

thanks guys

sjwalker3824 Oct 2016 6:57 a.m. PST

And, just for completeness, all crewed weapons (field guns, machine guns etc) typically have 4 crew figures according to the rules, though I've seen some games where heavier pieces had 6, for extra impact.

Dexter Ward24 Oct 2016 9:12 a.m. PST

My Zulus are multi-based (4 to a base).
I either remove a base and replace with single figures when casualties are taken, or use as 1/2/3 wound marker.
Either works

coopman24 Oct 2016 4:18 p.m. PST

And those are the recommended unit sizes. You can use lesser figs. if you wish.

Shardik25 Oct 2016 1:05 p.m. PST

Copy ordered!

sjwalker3825 Oct 2016 1:59 p.m. PST

You won't regret it.

Phil Hancock29 Oct 2016 3:46 p.m. PST

Has anyone tried using larger units. I.e. A British section of 20-25 men lead by a Sgt, presumably with Zulu units proportionally larger?

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