"Rebasing Projects" Topic

I have rebased two armies in my life, and after each time I vow never to do it again. The first one I did was my 15mm FOW Germans in 2008. This year I rebased all of my 28mm Napoleonic Prussian Infantry.

Now I am tossing around rebasing all four of my 28mm WWII armies!

Is there anything else in this hobby that is as annoying as rebasing? What is wrong with me!? haha

Well, rebasing is probably the most time-consuming activity which doesn't actually put more stuff on the table, but at least it looks better when you're done--unless you just rebased to accommodate a different set of rules.

But for Most Annoying, my nominee is the modern multi-volume rule book/army book(codex)/setting book combination, which means you need at least four volumes to play a game, and the odds are really good you can never get all four in the same edition anyway. Any other nominees?

I generally don't do it for my own stuff.

I've never rebased my own stuff. I do rebase almost everything I buy already painted though and find it satisfying since it is completing new troops rather quickly compared to painting from scratch.

I never rebase. I now pick a basing scheme I like and then look at selecting rules. I prefer big, single base units, makes play a lot faster with casualty figures.

I second the nomination for multi-volume rules sets.

Rebasing. The practical alternative to painting a new army.

I'm in the process of rebasing my 1859 French and Austrian armies for Bloody Big Battles

I've gone from 10 figures on a 40x30mm base to 6 figures on a 1" square base. so I get 5 bases from 3 bases

I've now got enough bases to do every Austrian & French force for the 1859, 1866 and 1870 BB scenarios

I'm trying to motivate myself to start on the Prussians and, when Pendraken revamp them, Italians

Shedman, why are you doing this? I am seriously asking this to know. Is it really not possible to play the game otherwise? I just can't imagine that being true.

Good question

Originally the figures were based for Bruce Weigle's 1859 which is at battalion level. So ,for instance, for the French Imperial Guard I had 2 bases of Zouaves, 9 bases of Grenadiers and 12 bases of Voltigeurs and a base of Chasseurs a Pied

When I played the BBB Magenta and Solferino scenarios the large base sizes skewed the battle lines such that the Austrians at Solferino could cover the whole front on the Medole plain

See link

Admittedly I could have used the troops as they were based and count them as 2 bases in BBB

However if i continued to use Weigle's basing I needed to paint another 180 Austrian infantry. I had enough painted but unbased Prussians to cover the BBB FPW & Seven Weeks War scenarios so I thought bite the bullet and rebased the lot

As it stands I will be able to do all of the BBB scenarios with a few French Imperial Guard Grenadiers and Austrian Gun crews heading for ebay at some point

So that's why I'm doing it

And yes it is possible to play BBB with the large bases

Sorry for the ramble

Why re-base? I just finished re-basing almost 1500 15mm ACW. The original bases looked very dated, from when I did them 25 years ago – green flock with a little gravel.

And there were just too many of them, 4 men per 1" X 1" base. I realized that I just don't have time to re-fight Gettysburg with Fire and Fury ever again.

So I remounted all of them, 14 men per 3" X 1.5" stand, with modern basing gravel, and Scenuc Effects grass clumps. They look fantastic, and I can use them for large-scale battles without spending hours moving brigades composed of 8 bases each. Now my brigades are 1 base.

Lucius, SWMBO and I did the same sort of thing for our 28mm ACW ages ago and never looked back.

I have done this in the past and have to now that I am on disability and can't use stairs. Now, instead of playing on a 4' x 6' table, I can play on a small round kitchen table. Wanted to be able to have more than a few troops of my ACW figures.

I have actually lost five SYW armies--well, they're 5mm--and when they turn up, they'll be rebased to match their replacements on 1"x 2" stands. The ground scale is unchanged at 1"=150 yards, but now the infantry stands are regiments rather than battalions. The original 1" x 1/2" stands were just too finicky, and serve as a lesson to me to pay less attention to my wargaming theories and more to human anatomy.