"Individually Based?" Topic

What percentage of your painted figures are individually based?

About half

80%

Maybe 5%, most are based in twos or more.

Everything except a most artillery and crews and heavy machine guns (Gatling guns, etc.) and crews. I always use magnetic bases, so if the need arises I have movement bases to which I can attach my infantry and cavalry.

Kevin

@ 20%. Single bases are for games with @ 10-20 figures per player. My games are generally a couple hundred per player

50-60%

Less than 5%

Probably 80%. The majority remains to be Warhammer / 40K minis painted in years past, along with many skirmish-based historicals in more recent years.

I'm really more into sabot-basing than "fixed" base elements.

30%

All.

100%

Thousands! 50% at least.

Almost all my recent 28mm stuff is on pennies and magnetic sabots and I have older stuff 10mm on home made individual bases 10mm square and grouped 8 to a magnetic sabot base.

100%.

Probably half.

All of mine. I have 28mm ACW and Dark Ages based for skirmishing type games and I also use them to set up battle scenes on my soldier table.

99% for me. SAGA!

75%

15% at most.

Less than 5%.

About half – mostly skirmish-type game figures, TSATF,
some ACW and Napoleonic for a skirmish system I've been
messing with for a couple of years, some WWII Pacific.

A high percentage as I play WAB like 28mm ancients and our group napoleonic rules requires miniature removal so…. say 85%. Only my 20mm WWII and WWI collection have multi-miniature team basing (FOW).

Different era collections number over 40,000 paint 25/28mm miniatures. The 20mm collections number about 5500 panted miniatures and vehicles.

Maybe half. But I'm in the process of re-basing to a 1-2-3 system for my various Daniel Mersey inspired projects. Fewer single figures falling down and much less time for set up and take down.

<15%. Mainly WW2 20mm, 28mm VBCW, some 28mm ECW (for Pikemans Lament) and about half of my 28mm late Saxons. When you are playing games with 1000+ figures, last thing you want is individual bases to move around; added yo which alot of my armiesxare in the 15mm and 10mm sizes and individual bases get very fidfly with smaller scales.

65% or so

All of my 3,000+ 40mm figures are single based on washers. I do have magnetic movement bases for when I do a large game so I can move numbers at a time.

Figures I use regularly, about 75%
All in my collection, about 40%

Probably 95% or more are individually based.

I have about 100 6mm figures that are based in fireteams of four for use in Striker.

All of my 25mm, 15mm, and 1/72 are individually based.

My two active projects are:
Flames of War:……..Gee. Do you count tanks as "individually based"?

American Revolution: about 50%

Dormant, but itching to play, TSATF NW Frontier, 100%

0% (none) of my painted models are individually based. If someday I decide to add bolt shooters or chariots to any of my armies, those would be individually based, and they might comprise up to 10% of my models.

99%

I have some `15mm multiple based figs and some single bases with two or three dogs, some dog handlers with dogs, and one prospector/mule combo on a single base combo. Maybe a couple others.

Maybe 97-96% if a vehicle and its draft animals counts as multiple basing figures.

95%

Since I play only 6mm … Very few of my troops are singly based. Only a very few, and those are fairly "special" types.

85% since I sold up my 6mm guys and did some rebasing .

O.5%

10% or so. Units of 20-24 have at least 2, as do units of 12.

I am currently trying to work out how to base some Sea People, originally intended as a skirmish set but slowly growing into an Egyptian army. Washers and magnets on bases ?

All the 54mm and 28mm. All the 1/72. Maybe 100+ of the 15mm. None of the 30mm, 10mm or 5mm, and the multiple-casting based 15mm outnumbers toe individually-based on the order of 10:1. Probably 20:1.

Percentages?? Do I compare 28mm and 5mm by individual castings, area or volume?

I'm moving towards 100%, for basing figures individually. I play RPG's, as well as skirmish, and mass battles games. I use the same figures for all three, in fantasy 25-28mm figures and games. I am using movement trays I make myself, to move sets of figures in a unit.

I play 54mm Army Men games, which are skirmish. They are all based on 2" squares, mounted individually, of course. For these games, we tend to play with 50-100+ figures for each side, or player. There are no formations, no units, so no movement trays.

The fantasy figures pull triple duty: RPG, skirmish, and mass battles. When I want a large group of Orcs, or Bugbears, or whatever monster, for the RPG, it really sucks raw eggs if they are mounted on a stand of three! The movement trays allow the best of both worlds, so that is what I am migrating to, in order that I can use the same figures for all three game types.

My movement trays are made from vinyl, peel-n-stick, floor tiles: 12"-square, 2mm thick, around $0.39 USD/tile. I cut them using utility scissors, into whatever shape and size I need. I cut craft foam to size, and stick that on the glue side of the tile. No muss, no fuss. Cheers!

About 1/3 are individually based. All my 25/28mm's are based this way for skirmish gaming, while my 15mm's are all on group bases.

10%

Darn few of the human-ish figures-- only those for RPG or skirmish. Since I mainly play large battles, everything else is on multi- figure bases.