"How Many Armies Have You Rebased?" Topic

Several? I can't remember, but far fewer than one per year. Thinking about it, might be one per decade.

I don't know. I tend to think in units/tribes rather than armies. It's not zero, I have rebased for competitions when I used to take part in them and I do rebase units/tribes some times to fit into different armies.

Just don't know.

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Did it once, that was enough!

(Almost) All of my figures are individually based.

I re-based my original generic 2mm Ancient armies from 20mm to 40mm frontages when I expanded them – that's about 200 bases. Did the same to the Renaissance 2mm but from 40mm to 60mm frontages – another 150-200.
I'm currently re-working and expanding my 15mm early medieval British armies from older versions to DBA3. Some re-basing involved but just as much re-working old basing styles to my newer look. In theory that's about 12 'armies' but still only a few hundred figures.

If it makes an army more useful and the effort isn't too great then do it, much quicker than painting a whole new army.

When I did WRG Ancients, The earlier editions were quite flexible. Pikes could have 12.5-15mm frontage. Later, they became standardized at 15mm. First rebasing.
"Element" basing was only for convenience. Figures could be individually based. Then along came …..5th? 6th ed? Element basing became mandatory. Second generation of massive re-basing At least 6 armies involved.
Let's not forget the "Regular LMI can now be closer order than irregular." Thats "auxilia" for you DBX people.

My AWI rebasing was not due to rules, but the growth in figure size. My first rules were 1776, and the basing was quite tight, for "true 25mm" figures. Hinchliffe were even difficult to base. Along came other rules that "required" wider bases. So I simply glued the 1776 based figures to sabot based. But they looked lumpy.
Then I dropped out of wargaming for about 10 years. When I came back, well, Old Glory and Front Rank were the new kids on the block. Never would these fit on my old basing scheme.
So, came the Great Purge. I sold off all my "tiny 25mm" figures, and rebased EVERYTHING ELSE on 2" x 1" elements. I'm done now. No. Not really. I've also rebased on 3/4" OD washers for skirmish gaming.

That easily put me over the 12 armies option.

My thumb has recovered fine, thank you very much.

Now, I have a very simple method. Simply stand the figures up in a dish. Pour VERY HOT WATER up to the waist of the figures and let it stand. Try to pop it off the base. If it doesn't work, put the figures in the freezer, then repeat.

Same pair of Napoleonic armies twice. First from Empire to Napoleon's Battles for improved figure safety. But NB basing still results in damaged/broken bayonets, so rebased onto my own personal brigade ones for complete bayonet safety and there they will live.

Did it once and won't do it again. I rather paint an new army just for those rules instead of rebasing.

My Airfix plastic Ancient Brits were rebased once, mainly onto 60x60 mm bases of 6 figures. About to be rebased a second time on thicker material to boost them up to 25mm height to match the metal ones as far as possible. I might just glue the existing bases on top of thicker ones.

Otherwise only units, between WRG 5th and 6th, Regular LMI to a smaller frontage, then back again to their original frontage.

I don't like rebasing, though I know a fellow thinks rebasing IS the hobby. That said, I have a few armies to re-base and I'm not looking forward to it.

Once based, they remain based in that fashion. If they won't work with a new rules set, I skip the rules. I don't have enough time to paint and play with all my toys as it is. I cannot afford to waste time rebasing something I already thought was done.

I'm not sure "an army's worth" is a unit of issue, as my supply sergeants used to tell me. But at the least, early i retirement I rebased all 28mm medieval, Renaisance and fantasy on individual mounts and put all the 15mm of the same on DBA "Large" bases. The interoperability is worth the effort.

I had a rather nice, complete Renaissance Polish Army, based for WRG Gush. If it was in the army list, I had it.
I played a grand total of 4 Games with it. Three were Renaissance, one was as a Warhammer Empire Kislev army.
Nobody locally wanted to do any Renaissance Gaming, particularly as Turks or any other logical army.
Then DBR came out, and I figured I would have a better shot at gaming with it if I rebased to DBR.
No luck again.
Then Warhammer ECW came out, which used Gush basing almost 100%.
I gave up and sold the army. I hear that Phil really enjoys it.

Four times

Ancients to Hail Caesar (i.e. to unit bases from individual figs)

ACW to Fire and Fury (from home grown rules to F & F)

Napoleonics to Age of Eagles (from home grown rules to AoE)

SYW to Black Powder (also to unit bases from individual figs)

Napoleonics several times due to rule changes. Others I settled on 1" bases and have stuck with it