"What size bases are your Napoleonic minis on?" Topic
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| Napoleon of the West | 19 Jun 2024 10:42 a.m. PST |
A buddy of mine is working on a grand tactical set of Napoleonic rules where 1 base will be a brigade and units will be divisions. We got into a lively debate about what the most common basing is for big battle Napoleonics, so I figured I'd poll y'all. |
Tortorella  | 19 Jun 2024 10:52 a.m. PST |
1 inch square, H&R 6mm in three ranks of five figures each with room for a magnetic label. |
| Eumelus | 19 Jun 2024 11:07 a.m. PST |
I believe both "Volley & Bayonet" and "Blucher" use 3" wide bases for brigades (although "Blucher" measures everything in "base widths" so really your bases can be whatever size you want). A ground scale of 1" to 100 yards(meters) is easy to remember and visualize and allows most Napoleonic battlefields to fit on a tabletop, and 300 yards is a fairly representative frontage for an infantry formation of three or four battalions in two echelons. |
| robert piepenbrink | 19 Jun 2024 2:11 p.m. PST |
I use mostly 2" wide 1" deep bases, but I'm also using H&R 6mm figures. I think Eumelus' advise is sound, and a 3" wide base would be more pleasing with larger figures. |
| Cavcmdr | 20 Jun 2024 7:00 a.m. PST |
15mm are 40x30mm. 3 cav or 8 inf. 2 or 4 stands to a unit. 6mm are 40x20mm. More figures but stands as above. Artillery are 2 or 3 three 40x40mm stands plus limbers and caggage. It should not be easy to interpenetrate and damn near impossible to charge through. Have fun. |
| freecloud | 20 Jul 2024 6:18 p.m. PST |
4 stands per unit in both cases:
- 15mm stands are 40 x 20 mm inf (4 figs), 40 x 30 Cav (3 figs) (DBx basing)
- 6mm stands are 30 x 15/20mm inf (12 figs), 30 x 30 cavalry (4 – 8 figs Cossacks – Cuirassiers) Artillery 1 stand per unit, 1 gun, limbers same frontage and length to fit limber: - 40 x 40mm for 15mm,
- 30 x 30mm for 6mm, We have had c 150 battalions and 50 cavavlry regimnents per side in 6mm. |
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