"How many figures should a Battalion or Regiment have?" Topic
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| 4th Cuirassier | 29 Jul 2017 9:49 a.m. PST |
With a British ten-company battalion, how many figures would you have for your light and grenadier companies in a 36-figure battalion? |
TKindred  | 29 Jul 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
4th Cuirassier wrote: With a British ten-company battalion, how many figures would you have for your light and grenadier companies in a 36-figure battalion? However many look good to you. In our club's case, we used 4 stands of "line"infantry, plus 1 stand each of Grenadier & Lights. 6 minis/stand, 6 stands/battalion. Since the game and minis are just abstractions anyway, we went for what looks "right"or "good" on the table,vice being anally retentive about minis/stand and stands/battalion,etc. After all, 200 years on and it's rather hard to find absolute numbers/battalion for,say, May 12th, 1809, or June 15,1812, etc. We put the emphasis on the "game" part of "wargame" and went from there. had great fun, and gobs of wonderful time spent painting and collecting, etc. |
| John Miller | 29 Jul 2017 1:06 p.m. PST |
Only an opinion but, if I was starting over I would have a very good idea what rule set I was going to use before I mounted any figures, (with some its an issue). I always found rebasing hundreds of figures to be a royal pain. John Miller |
| 14Bore | 29 Jul 2017 1:10 p.m. PST |
One thing I noticed was converting OOB of Gettysburg was in the ACW brigades were usually 2 Napolianic battalions often made up a brigade sometimes it took only 1. |
| TKindred | 29 Jul 2017 3:54 p.m. PST |
In the ACW the rule of thumb is "2, or more." As in, 2, or more, battalions make up a brigade. 2, or more, brigades make up a division. 2, or more, divisions make up a corps. 2, or more, Corps make up an Army. V/R |
| dbf1676 | 29 Jul 2017 6:21 p.m. PST |
In answer to the original question: 24. Why? Because whatever I start out with, I always end up with 24. Usually four stands of six. |
| Bowman | 30 Jul 2017 8:11 a.m. PST |
In answer to the original question: 24. Why? Because whatever I start out with, I always end up with 24. Usually four stands of six. That's what I started out to do. Then I noticed that the colours were not centered in the unit. So my OCD told me 28 figures look the best. In my case, seven stands of four. The answer is whatever looks good to you…..it's your army. |
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