"A Matter of Basing take II" Topic

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Presented is First Battalions of the 2nd Brigade's two Hungarian Regiments in Lindenau's Division.
-Still trying to figure this out! I apologize for the wash-out of the lighting. The grass field is actually a very nice dark olive green to put into prospective. -
I am also still experimenting on the mounting scheme for the 1:20 tactical play.
Presented here is the ~1807 Austrians regulations with the 3rd rank already formed in two rank. Ideally these would be behind each 4 front rank stand in 2s but, decided against that due to fiddly and logistics. These 3rd rankers can be brought to front as skirmish line as needed. This also presents a retention of the battalion's frontage, as it should be. With this scheme the French and French allies, in the traditional 3 rank, are mounted on 18mm depth stands with 4 in front and two in the rear. This matched up nicely to the cavalry mounted on 26mm frontage stand in twos or 3s on 40mm frontage.
I have the 2nd and 3rd battalion's command stands ready, that will be added to make these into 1:60 full 3 battalion regiments for my grand-tactical play that will be at Historicon2017.

Hope you can see the links and thanks for your reviewing..
MG out!

Why start a new thread?

Well I personally prefer it with the filed ripened as here. I have many a Waterloo figure in ripened corn (a minor miracle for June, just like my Hougoumont orchard apple trees laden with fruit)

It is also so nice to see a decent sized line of infantry. I aim to do Adam's Brigade in 28mm. So far I have 40 skirmishers and not a single firing line figure.

The colour. Any money it was the white balance on the camera set for daylight but using tungsten lighting. Check WB options on your camera settings

I do something similar for 1:20 play. I use two ranks of figures to represent 3 rank formations. Each "company" is a stand. (The stands can have 3,4 or 5 files- all battalions did NOT have the same number of troops in them). So a Prussian battalion might have 8 stands, each of 4 figures/files arranged as:

xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
xxxx xxom foxx xxxx

One style is to have some of the back rank in two file-one rank stands for the purpose of taking off casualties and for using the 2file/1rank stands as deployed skirmishers.

[xx][xx]  [xx][xx] [xxxx]  [xxxx]
 [xxxx]    [xxom]   [foxx] [xxxx]   

or the one company might have two ranks and one file, to allow use in other rule systems

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