"What size bases are your Napoleonic minis on?" Topic

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.

1 inch square, H&R 6mm in three ranks of five figures each with room for a magnetic label.

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.

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.

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.

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.