POLL: Larger Bases for Ancients?

216 votes were cast.

Stoodley writes:

I've tended to adopt a standardised basing system for every period I wargame. Basing is not as big an issue as some people seem to make out. If you're consistent with the basing, both sides with the same basing system, then what's the problem?
In the past I used to base according to sets of rules, but when I tired of the set I had to rip them off the bases, take the ankle break casualties and rebase again, only to do again in a few years. What a pointless waste of time. Now I ignore the basing conventions of rule sets and if the rules don't work with my basing system I convert them to make sure they do, or ditch the rules.
Most of my figures are now on either 2p coins, I can use mass movement trays if I want to, or they are based in the style of Peter Gilder's Grand Manner, five or six on a single rectangular base.
I guess slaves to competition gaming are stuffed, but since I grew out of this thirty years ago, it doesn't bother me in the least.

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
yes - the future is larger bases	56	26%
no - larger bases are not the future	86	40%
no opinion	46	21%
not an Ancients gamer	28	13%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION

According to Wargames Soldiers & Strategy magazine, one of the keys to the success of the Impetus Ancients ruleset is their use of larger bases:

...one of the most revolutionary items of Impetus is its original system of bases. In short, the bases are large, each one equivalent to four FoG bases in two lines. This provides us with many possibilities... our figures will no longer have to be perfectly aligned (and confronted) like chess pawns, but can be placed according to the others, officers on horse can be included in infantry units and... real dioramas can be created with each deployment.

The magazine also points out that, since there is no required number of figures per base with Impetus, players can use less figures for their armies, saving money and painting time.

Do you believe that larger bases are the future for Ancients?