Last Hussar | 30 Jun 2024 1:35 a.m. PST |
What do you consider to be a good figure frontage for ACW? That is, for figures x high, on a base 3x wide, how many figures? Looks like I will need to rebase my ACW, 10mm, the bases will be 30mm square. At the moment they are 3-4 figures wide, with a 2nd rank of 3, sometimes 4. Some figures are marching, some firing, some 'charging'/running. |
martin goddard ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 30 Jun 2024 2:24 a.m. PST |
The two opposing thoughts are 1. Can you afford the figures needed? and 2 . What looks nice. Just a personal note. We use 3x3 cm bases for infantry. 15mm = 4 figures per base. 10mm = 8 per base. Your thought sounds good. the 3 x3 allows figures with bayonets forward, to be within the base and not protruding (for all the problems that causes). Enjoy the basing. martin |
Last Hussar | 30 Jun 2024 2:59 a.m. PST |
Cheers Martin. I'm just canvassing opinion, as they are already based 6-8 on 30mm squares – checking if others thought this was reasonable. |
Dye4minis ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 30 Jun 2024 8:29 a.m. PST |
Sounds reasonable to me. I have switched to 30 by 30mm bases with 3 front and 2-3 back for infantry in my 10mm Horse and musket periods. The rules I use calls for 3 bases per unit- NOT figure based. Units go on the table as a unit and come off as a unit as well. Seems 30 by 30 has the potential to be the standard for 10mm. (Like 40mm frontages in WRG rules started that for ancients.) |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 30 Jun 2024 8:57 a.m. PST |
I'd have said 3-4 10mm figures was maybe a little loose, but workable. Generally the frontage of a formed infantry miniature is about half his height--"order" rather than "close order" if I remember correctly. To get them as tight as 18th or 19th Century drill books sometimes called for, the miniatures would have to be cast in blocks, which is rarely done. |
Martin Rapier | 30 Jun 2024 9:19 a.m. PST |
I use 30x20 with eight "6mm" Baccus figures (more like 9mm) in two ranks for infantry. The Bloody Big Battles standard is one inch x one inch, but I prefer oblong bases for nineteenth century games. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 01 Jul 2024 1:29 a.m. PST |
Whatever the rules suggest. Unless they are already based, nobody likes to re-base. |
Mserafin ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 01 Jul 2024 9:58 a.m. PST |
I don't think what the rules suggest is as important as having a hem all based consistently, though unless there's a huge difference between what they say and what you have. |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 01 Jul 2024 3:00 p.m. PST |
And I remembered that my last 10mm armies (ACW) are based 2x2 on a 20mm square stand, so I'm looser than my own recommendation. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 02 Jul 2024 9:13 p.m. PST |
If you're getting into the ACW for the first time. I recommend finding a rules set first and then basing your new figures according to those rules. If you change rules, I wouldn't re-base for a new set of rules as long as they are all based the same. |
Last Hussar | 03 Jul 2024 10:49 a.m. PST |
No, I'm just going to renew failing bases, will probably get them from Pendraken, so wondering do I keep the same density. I think to keep the look right, figures should be based 1:1 horizontal:vertical, hence my original opening x size figures on 3x frontage. |
colkitto | 07 Jul 2024 1:23 p.m. PST |
I don't know enough about frontages in the ACW to commment, but 1:1 sounds like a handy way to remember something. I sometimes see Napoleonic figures that look just too far apart to me; I have settled on 4 1/72 figs on a 2-inch frontage, which is probably still far too loose but quite often the figures need the room. |